Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-11-05
DIR. FELTON, Clark
billiard Founders
Day Speaker

students can't pay for their edu-
cation by renting for tuition and
other academic expense" DR.. Eel
ton G. Clark, president of Southern
University, Scotlandville. La, told
"a huge, spellbound gathering at the
fifteenth annual Founders Day ex-
ercises of billiard University in the
college gymnasium-auditorium Sun
day afternoon. at is impossible for
students, or their parents, to fully
repay the kind of Christian hard
ships and sacrifices that were re-
quired to be found and develop
educational institutions of the
stature and scope of Dillard", the
prominent educator asserted.
Praising the late DR.. J. Hardy
billiard, for whom the present
billiard University with roots from
Straight College, founded in 1869,
and New Orleans University, in
1873 was named at the time of the
merger fifteen years ago, Dr. Clark
said, I'VE must recognize that the
past and present are but facets OF
the same human experience. billiard
University, as it stands today, is
no accident-but the result of
thinking and agreement and con-
victions of Christian educational
pioneers who preconceiyed the
billiard we know at the present
time" 4ft at
The wisdom of DR.. billiard was
recalled by the Southern Univer-
sity president who told that the
late educator once advised that 1--WE
should be concerned with the means,
ohe methods, the how !. to free
ourselves, while stiH not ignoring
the end, or final objective
The speaker agreed with the
teaching of DR.. billiard who was
quoted as advising that great
human emotions are consistent in
that they dominate every era; they
are mans life and hope" Dr.. Dill
lard's constant advice, it was stat
ed, was that 1--WE. should be con-
cerned with the spirit, the right
ness, and the thoroughness in which
a thing is DONE"
Educational institutions like
billiard are the result Of eras of
intellectual inquiry, DR.. Clark as
serted, informing that history
shows that primitive men had no
such inquisitory interests and that,
down through the ages. various
philosophers came along with vary
ing degrees of logic and inquiry
requiring more and moro scientific
proof for admitted facts-and de-
veloped the honor of scholarship
and great scholars, which has pro-
duced the mighty educational in
stitutions and systems Cf today.
Breaking DR.. billiard advice
down simply, DR.. Clark said that
he meant that to practice fright
ness" is to speak right, think right,
and act right--and in the words
of Micah, the best way of doing
right is to do justly, love mercy,
and walk humbly with God. These
personal methods of conduct, he
explained, could be exemplified to
great extent by wider recognition
to two of the great command
ments: "Do unto others as you
would have them to do unto YOU"
and Love thy neighbors as thy
self"
DIR. Clark, who received a grand
ovation, was presented by DR.. Al
bert w. Dent, president Of billiard,
and his speech climaxed the obser-
vance of Founders Day. The ma
tional alumni group, in charge of
Wallace 2. Cant of Washington,
D. c., national president, conduct
ed q business meeting Saturday
morning and, Friday night, DR.. c.
Charles Taylor, pastor Of st. John
Fourth Baptist Church and presi-
dent Of Union Theological Semi
nary here, who is Billiard gradu-
ate, delivered a masterful speech
on the essentially of Christian
education.
The billiard University Choir,
directed by Orrin Clayton Suthern,
provided music for the Sunday
program, with benediction by the
Rev. Nicholas Hood, pastor of Cen
trail Conversational Church here.