Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-02
j. s. MUST LEAD
IN NATIONS AFFAIRS,
DR.. COX DECLARES

GAINESVILLE, Fla. May So
"Our nation must take the lead in
international affairs" said DR.. Har.
vey w. Cox, president OF Emory
university, Atlanta, and formerly
head of the Teachers college at the
University of Florida in his bac-
calaureate address to the eighty one
graduates and the great audience
gathered at the commencement ex
ercises Of the University of Florida
here Tuesday.
1--WE are an adolescent nation but
in our adolescence, we are the lead
err. We Dragged OF what we could
do in the World war, and we dld
it. We must, however. consider our
national resources. These are as
great as those of any people. But
We must conserve them. Shall we
go the way of vanquished peoples?
Great civilizations have arisen the
complexity of which puzzles scholars
of today, but they have fallen.
Conquest Through Peace
America must look to the preser
walton of her resources and man.
power. Nations that take up the
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for war cuts off manhood at the
top and turns loose all clashes and
isms' at the bottom. Therefore, we
must look toward peace and con-
quest through peace. America must
train her youth with goal in view.
Each individual must set his or her
ideal and work toward that. There
are only four million leaders in our
country and if the percentage is
kept up We must train leaders to
fill their places. Pessimism comes
with law-breaking and the encou"
agement of lawlessness.
In the present state of affairs, In
dividual consciousness is all and ma
tional consciousness is nothing. We
must strike the happy medium. We
must look to the college to develop
our leaders: AS men, you must go
out to face ana solve the problem
and to make America leader Of ma
tons in righteousness, peace and
love.
DIR. Cox HOnored
During the exercises William Jen-
nings Bryan presented the medals
and awards for the annual decla-
nation and oratorical contests, in
stead of J. G. Cooper, Jr., Of the
board of control, as first announced.
He did not address the graduates,
however. The honorary degree of
doctor of laws was conferred on Mr..
Bryan, Judge N. P. Bryan and Dr.
Harvey w. Cox. Advanced degrees
were conferred on several Of the
former graduates. Jeff Chaffin and
Ward Cullin Sumpter received the
degree Of master of science; Henry
Glen Hamilton, that Of master Of
science in agriculture; and Charles
Henry Overman, class of 1911, and
Bryon Earle Bushnell, class of 1920,
received the advanced degree Of civil
engineer.
New Buildings
DR.. A. A. Murpree, president Of the
university, prefaced the address of
DR.. Cox and addressed the gradu-
ates. In his talk, DR.. Murpree said:
Commencement has a forward look
as is implied by the name. What
you are going to do is more impor-
tant than what you have done. We
are now assured that we will have
buildings and equipment on the cam
pus of the university that will be
adequate. Among them a new audi
torium, a new library and a new
student activities building.
I'VE must thank Colonel Bryan for
his II speeches throughout the state
in behalf of this latter enterprise.
New courses in business and phar-
macy will be started next year and
the appropriation provided for an
augmented faculty"
In closing. DR.. Murphree remarked
1.-THE success Of a university is not
to be measured by it's material equip
ment, but by what it does for its
students, or more exactly. by what
it enables them to do for themselves.
The material things are aids in this
goal"