The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-06-11
CHAPEL HILL CHAFF
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seats there In these days (perhaps had better saw
in these years) don't climb formidable stairs like
nose IN memorial hal so we came home hoping that
Mr. Golden would publish his speech in the next ssue
OF his newspaper, THE Carolina Israelte"
just relate this incident as evidence of the crowd
ing IN Chapel Hill know that many other persons
have had the same sort of experience
Ihls Is the time of year when thousands of COM
mencement speeches delivered and when their duls
ness Is apt to be deplored by writer's in some of he
newspapers we were lucky in Chapel Hill this year.
there is general agreement that Vermont Rovsters
hPeech III tne henan stadium was marked bv the en-
lertalnng quality as we'll the good sense for which
ne W mas become famous as the editor of the Wall Street
Journal. " NNNN'
Last Sundays New York Times MAGAZINE had On
article entitled Commencement Day at Old Clche II
by Grace and Fred NJ Hechinger who saws h;o
grapnlcal note, have been held captive by manv a
commencement speaker during years of reporting on
euucatlon, and James Reston's column on the Tmes
editorial page was on the topic
This is report on how to endure and survive =
commencement address in a hot June sun, begins Mr.
Reston, and is prepared at the reouest Of . vonng mon
IN cambridge who is about to be sprung from Har
ward" ~
And the opening Of the Hechingers' article in lid
Magazine is follows:
1T is hard to tell who is put through the tougher
teSt-the impatient students who are the canive aud
ehc or ne speaker who is expected to dress up the oc-
caSIon with combination of worldly wisdom hearty
cheer, tathery counsel and solemn satesmanshin
All the while he suffers from that certain feeling
that he has heard his words before He probably has
at his graduation"
Inc co-authors say: CAS- public service we here
set lorth series OF indispensable ingredients for anv
Respectable commencement address," and there follows
lohR array OF words and phrases long familiar to
people who have attended c0mmencements These make
up "hat u"ed 10 be known as plattudes but are now
more generally known ciches
, For example: "They the leaders Of tomorrow,
the shining hope Of the world" ",Todav', ,,rodn.ta
IS keenIy Of these United States as tbe Ieador f
the lree "ord " "While point with pride to the
ree-shaded campus a haven for reflection nrotected
against the hectc tempo Of everyday life and the vul
Rarlty Of the market place Old Ciche T. nevertheless
dIscharges to the fullest her community responsibility
through close town and gown ross-fert ilzaton If
ideas" -. And 50 and on
Mr. Reston has his own specimens Of commence
meht speakers remarks to which he dissens and ubis
ne presents as ms own special aversions
Our generation is not waiting for the young gen
'i"Ioh 10 TX up the mess in the world 1t is our
iL anu we are determined to go on mudding around
"''n ny IL untll we are finally ebowed out of the way
Inc world Is not in that big a mess It was ON
the verge Of war or actually in it. when tbis war;,
NaduatIhR class was born 1t has its problems TODAY
"S aI"ayS-tVen Adam and Eve had a housing prob-
Dut references to twilight and gathering dark
he"" suggest Kind Of inevabilty of disaster that is
not relevant to the present situation
What is all this about the American frontier benp
IS"eo IL no" extends the whole face of the
"'ih' mere are more useful things to be done by
A"ercahs ana more opportunities to do them in bus4
ness ana government IN Africa Asia Europe and Latin
|1'fIca tan ever existed in the old days of our mis-
sonary zeal. -
A graduate Of the class Of SO need not accent
bH I'll
~ South' as the commencement orators saw For the
Iuture belongs to whoever take hold of it. and those
VINO nave 1t now are all hanging on like Adenauer
nevertheless, it is something to muse about dur
I'R dreary commencement speech, and by the time
you nave rejected it the distinguished speaker may
finally have sat down"
Mr. Restons son having won a Morehead scholar
snip ne VIII probably be visiting Chapel Hill now and
eh III the next four years. If he finds the commence
mem address in 1863 when James B. Reston Jr, gets
d dploma tresome he be counted on to pick some
o'hef topic for his column in the next Sundays Times
Or heres an idea how about the Unversity's bavin0