Evening journal., 1922-06-12


go forth without a parting work OF
behalf of your university. It may b,
a commonplace saying. but 1t is sing
ularly appropriate at the same time
to say that you stand at the parting
of the ways Your university sends
4 you forth to enter upon the prac-
tice of various professions or to fol
low different industrial or CONNER
cial pursuits. You go forth with the
seal of your university upon you, not
to signify that you are finished and
polished to the point of perfection,
but that the term allotted by com
mon practice and term education or
training, has expired. You are now
called upon 90 acquire the compile
ment of what the university has
given you, practice and experience,
and today we send you forth, hoping
that you will contribute, both by
precept and example, to the forma-
ton of that enlightened public opin-
ion to which the speaker has just re-
ferred. With the Injunction that you
/ do all In your power to contribute
your share toward the advancement
and progress of the great university
which this will one day become. In
love and trust, and with best wishes
for your success, we bid you god
speed"
Mr.. Thompson Congratulated.
Henry Il. Thompson, in an address.
congratulated the graduates. He
said in part:
This is really a cause OF hearty
congratulation, and while would
not want you to think that a di-
ploma is the only key that will open
the door to the road of ultimate sue
cess, still you will always find II an
asset in your life's inventory. The
stamp of the university is a good
thing for you, and for this reason
there is always the sense. in the
mind of any right-minded alumnus,
of a feeling of obligation to his
Alma Mater. There is the feeling
that he must make some return for
what she has given him. and that
knowledge Is apt to be constant
throughout your entire life. and be-
ieYing that you must make good,
you will make good.
II would not want you to feel that
today your education is ended, for,
as a matter Of fact, this Is COM
mencement day. the commencement
OF your education.
There Is one thing that we have
not done for you, and that is not the |
fault of our faculty, nor the fault |
of our curriculum. We have not
made out of you reading men in the |
English and continental universities, !
and in a few of our own leading |
American universities. If we had /
been able 10 assist you in the collat-
eral reading which should go with all /
your studies and had the advisors to
steer you in that reading, we would
be better equipped as scholars than
you are today, and this brings me to
the real subject that I want to pre-
sent TO you today.
president Hullihen presented 10
the board Of trustees last fall,a very
full and clear statement of the need
Of a library with its proper equip
ment for the university While the /
trustees were in accord with his
views. it was felt-due to the finan-
State-that It was inadvisable to go
ahead with this project for the pres
emit. 1t is now proposed to present
)ur program for a new library within
he year, and the responsibility for
our success or failure in carrying I
but this program will rest with the ]
the alumni and with the :
friends at large OF the university.
Il think we are all in accord on {
his proposition; that for the last t.;
'ew years this country has been pass
ng through an era OF social unrest
"a dissatisfaction with things as
hey ara restlessness-not con-
1ned to any one class. Life is not
complete without a Rolls Royce or a
Ford, and we are willing to stretch
BODY and soul to the limit to crafty
his desire for possession. There Is
10 better antidote for the cure of
his disease of materialism than to
cultivate the intellectual life.
Naturally. as a refuge from the
and the stress OF today our
minds drift back to that period in the
history OF the Republic which we
lave been in the habit of speaking ]
# as the period Of low-living and
ligh- thinking
Raps Parlor Bolshevlsts.
''In every community you will ind
ONE soft-headed 'parlor bolshevists'
Who look upon the possession OF
money as a crime. and deny the
'alue of work. Frankly. 1 like the
of a pocketbook and I
elieve in a days work and no SOL
Herring on the Job; 1 would be a
'harisee IL I should say less. Never r
heless. the ultimate object of life c
5 not the pocketbook, and we find ?
nen so starved in their intellectual
lie that we can only feed them &
through their bodies" {
At the luncheon following the
exercises, Henry 3. g
thompson was POSTMASTER and Il
hort addresses were made by D
bishop Philip Cook, Colonel Thomas t,
V. Miller, DIR. II. V. Holloway, Y
tate superintendent of public in E
truction. and John s. Rossell pres Il
lent OF the Security Trust and Safe
deposit Company. Wilmington. The
rincipals OF all the high schools of {,
ne State had been invited to the "
and luncheon and 81
lany OF them attended. a
The commencement will close v
18th the farewell hop TO be held IN :
he Armory tonight. ID
The military department In an or
er issued by Captain G. T. Mac n
anzie announced the following CT
-aduates had been commissioned OF
ap4aparte ", the off1cers' reserve w
,rps and their commissions were j
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