Milford chronicle., 1927-03-04
GRADUATES FROM .'......' .''.....'...
Z" BUSINESS SCHOOL HEAR
REMARKABLE ADDRESS
Or. S. Parkes Cadman And Prof.
Luman Thrill Their Audience In
Philadelphia At Graduation OF
Pierce Business College Class.

sivtv-first graduation exercises OF
the Peirce Business College class OF
the mid-year season, which was oUU
in number, and with their frlenus'
filled that famous old theatre, TO
hear one of the most celebrated OF
the present day public lecturers ana
preachers, address the graduates;
and, they were indeed fortunate 10
be present.
The stage was set as a formal
garden, with a pergola running
around the two sides and across the
rear. and enclosing the seats that
were occupied by the faculty and the
guests of honor.
The curtain rose promptly at S:19
and to the strains of the Srahu
march, National Emblem" the tac-
ulty and guests marched IN, Iakins
their places on the stage. Then lOi-
lowed the members of the gradual
ing class who passed down 10 tne
seats in the parquet which had Deeh
reserved for them.
After prayer by Rev. Alonzo Kay
Pett-E' d, D., pastor of Grace Bap-
tie fTemple, the successor to Dr.
Rnssell II. s Conwell, Mr.. Louis b.
NToffett. director of the school, intro
duced the presiding officer, Dr. JOS
iab II. Penniman, provost OF the Un-
iversity of Pennsylvania. Or. Fenlil-
man in his opening remarks salo:
'"These commencement exercises
mark the completion OF the oISt
wear of the work of this notable
American school, founded nearly TWO
generations ago. 1t has gone on ever
since. doing it's work faithfully anu
well. instructing young men ana
voung women in business, NUNS
them to take the important posltons5
to which many of them asplred, anu
which many of them who have pass
cd from this school have actually
attained"
He then introduced the prlnclpal
sneaker of the evening, DR.. ). Farkes
Fadman. pastor of the Gongregauo1nL- n
Baptist Church. of Brooklyn, n. y
Cadman is one of the most pop
ular preachers in America, his
church in Brooklyn seats 3OOO peo-
nIe. and is filled at every service
He has spOken, in all parts OF lhe
limited States, and is frequently Oh
the radio. He is noted not only De-
1anse oof his encyclopedia intorIaa-
ton and Shakesperian range g W. %
cabulary, but even more p4 ee4ause lE' "
his sanity and fFankness. - :.
In his introductory remarks III
contrasting the teacher with the Vi
ator. DR.. Cadman said: we are
oi+ber cursed or blessed with an
abundance of orators, not only IN tie
noIiticaI field, but also in the pulpit
Some one has said we have orators
IN bnrn and would burn some OF
them. were it not for the odor. ne
told the graduating class that you
have chosen in a very wise and Sig
nificant way that you snall stelnu lrt
unon your own feet. Books cannUC llSu-
Aive YOU an education, but can only
helm YOU to get your own education;
# is discipline and sel1-conCIoI
which YOU have to have to LEAD youi
life to higher power. .-.. l.. -
E0The diploma you are about 10 re-
ceive. in many instances, Is uue "
Some little woman sitting in the au-
dienca or to some father VINO n9S
mt his face into the wind in oruer
that Won might have the advantages
of training in the eompetltl'e 1'00
of modern life. ,-,.,..o+o-
ct would advise you to deliberate
lv cultivate the imagination, nor can
Won Mead the mental bankruptcy
act for everybody has it. ConstrucC
.fcr Yourselves that very UNIVERSE
End give if such dimensions as you
will and then populate it with tne
iy1ages of your own creation. rms is
az .,' @reat creative. force. Everybody
HAS #. The convict in the StaLe
nrison has it in an equal sense WIN
+5aa president of the United States
.e''The power to see your ulo.nel '1+roS
Mho is absent or who has passeu
3iwav.-or or the childhood home J" "licr ! y
Van left. rethe chamber in &EnlsR
Dan have often knelt to pray, IS tne
Sall-mark of nature and OF hlgh
bbwer. i'm,
@Ss"I rejoice if you have been an I'M
esinative child. 1 have had many
iEdnnd licking as youngster Wnen
Ksaid I saw things that these uulI
lHHd stupid creatures around me
eould not see." ,,o,
@S<He told of Warren Hastings Wnen
alboy of twelve or fourteen, passlng'
With his mother, athe home winch
Mev had lost and of Hastings mo-
Iiier weeping at the sight Of it. When
Hastings asked tWhy do you weep
7oother?'' and she replied because. II
l+yss once ours" the boy said, IN
thirty years 1 shall give IT eack 70
you.' And he did,
SDr. Cadman continued:
"Dream on your dreams. When
fbev are made to further duty and
to the second mile OF oDllgauon'
they become a very useful and pow
erful thing. Have passion for or
aer. the power of truth, honor and
right, and you can not fail.
& NThe only difference between man
and man is in the power OF his I'M
agination. 20
Z is@Imagination is the lubricant OF
business. It is also the lubricant Oh
society. - .u
"The difference between jazz
which is music of the naked African
fribes, and the Beethoven symphony
istin the use of the imagination.
Sys'It is no distinction to be a col
4ege graduate, unless you give 1t
distinction yourself"
AT the close of DR.. Cadman's ad-
dress, Professor John A. Luman,
vice principal of Peirce School, ad-
dressed the graduating class, and
smoke on the subject Of Modern Pol
itics and Political Life. He exhorted
fhe graduates not to steer clear OF
nolitios. but to hold strong political
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