Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-30
College Year
Is Ended At
Wake Forest

Wake Forest, May 3d. The l05tl
year of Wake Forest college came
to a close last evening with an All
dress by DR.. Sidney Clarence Gar
1ison president OF George PeabuoJ
College, Of Nashville, Tenn.
Diplomas were awarded to l5s
members of the graduating classes
and honorary degrees were conferred
upon S. C. Garrison, president o1
George Peabody College since 1887
and Dean H. Claude Horack, Of the
Duke University law school, who
were awarded the doctor of laws
Hoyt Blackwell, president of Mars
Hill College, doctor of divinity; and
DR.. Wilbur Cleveland Smith, head
of the department of gross anatomy
in Tulane University, doctor OF
science.
After the presentation of the di-
plomas, DR.. Thurman Kitchin, presi-
dent of Wake Forest since 1880, ad-
dressed the seniors on the subject
'The Fortified Life
Seniors Grating in competition for
the A. D. Ward medal were Cyrus
M. Johnson, Goldsboro; Robert M.
Holm, Jr., Winston-Salem; Thomas
Sloane Guy, Jr., Southern Pines; and
William S. Hicks, Jr., Raleigh.
The following medals were award
ed: Euzelian society senior orators
medal to d. Palmer Brooks, of Shell
by; Philomathesian society fresh
man-sophomore orators medal to
RodericF M. Buie, Jr., of Greensboro;
Euzelian society freshman improve
ment medal to j. T. Spencer, Jr, of
Norfolk, Va. Joe B. Currin medal
for the best grafton on the subject of
"Christ in Modern Life" to Frank r.
Moore of Cary; the Hardwicke medal
for the best Society Day oration to
T. Eugene Worrell of Bristol, Va;
Hubert A. Royster medal for high
standing in scholarship and athletics
to James l. Waller, Jr, of Nashville,
Tenn. and the Carl Schurz Memoir
ial Foundation prize for the best
student of German to w. H. Brooks,
of Rome, Ga.
GarrisOn's Address
Speaking on the topic, Education
and Culture in the Modern World"
DIR. Garrison declared that the most
recent development in the field of
education has been a wider recog-
milton of the individuality of the
student and the impossibility of sue
Cessful education through a mecaniz-
ed process.
"At times society has focused its
attention on the development of the
individual; at other, on the preser-
walton of its culture; and yet at other
on the development of its physical
resources" he said. SIN the main,
the liberal arts college has been in
terested in the development of the
human resources in relation to our
cultural heritage of the past and en-
vironmental heritage of the present.
"By the beginning of the present
quarter of the century," the speaker
continued, "biology and psychology
began to discover that the properly
educated man is fore than a bundle
of acquired skills and knowledges.
Not knowledge, but the love of know
use it for the benefit of others char
acterize the educated man.
In speaking of the changes which
the twentieth century has brought
us, DR.. Garrison said I'VE take a
yellow metal out of one hole in the
ground, bury it in another, raise its
value 40 per cent and change all
LOT - ~.
values
Proper emotionaliZed personal
relationships, love Of home and fam
lily, are characteristic Of all civili-
cations Of a high order" he conclud-
ed. Would we house our people bet
ter, preseve the fertility of our soil,
and eradicate tenancy? Then let us
start, not in Washington, but with a
definite program in our educational
And social institutions which will
produce a generation of adults who
love the SOIL the forests, and the
streams, and who love to do creative
labor" n
Kitchin Speaks
In his baccalaureate address to the
graduating class, President Kitchin
centered his challenge around "The
Foytified Life, comparing the mem
bers. of the class to the knights of
old, 9lad with the armor of a COL
lege diploma.
DR.. Kitchin then referred to the
diplomas which the seniors held as
"armors Of light, instead of lance
and shield. That, he said, would be
their symbol of defense, and the
world today provides an unequaled
field for the use. of defense.
"You may not, God helping us you
will not, be called on to fire machine
guns or pilot death-dealing planes"
he said, "but in the tangle and con-
fusion of our present day world there
are many hurtful influences which
challenge you and with which you
must enter into combat"
AS influences which the seniors
would have to strive against DR..
Kitchin pointed out the dictator's
harangue, economic illusion, relig-
ious intolerance ,and materialistic
philosophy. In conclusion, he chal-
1enged the members of the graduat-
ing class to take their armor of light
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