Show 162 STUDENT LIFE Let us then honor and love the flag of our country and all the more that it stands not for military glory and conquest but for peace and freedom peace to the downtrodden and oppressed — freedom of thought speech and act to all beneath its folds And now graduates the time is at hand when you must depart from these halls to enter upon the busy stage of life there as we trust and believe to do your several parts fittingly and well as becomes those who hold the citizenship of the great republic With the knowledge of natural laws you have acquired here it is not to be doubted that you will earnestly strive to conform your lives to their teachings The love of knowledge and the desire for wisdom will ever give a clearer vision and instruct you in the building of character upon which your influence and usefulness depends Character may be said to be the crown of life' The results of a man’s living are to be in part measured by the impress of his character upon the people of his contact Character is the illumination cf a life and its light is never obscured In life it shines all about the man inspiring the respect and confidence of the community and warming the hearts and affections of friends and neighbors as it stimulates them to better purpose and renewed effort and after death it remains with all as a remembrance of a just and upright man Thus do we find in life a recompense and in death a compensation Consider then that if animated by noble purposes and devoted to a realization of high ideals and ordering your lives in such accord you shall perform the allotted work of life success in its true sense will have been achieved And so putting aside all that is low and mean and selfish you may consecrate vour lives to the service of humanity and when the shadows lengthen at the sunset have sweet consciousness in the thought : “Above all believe it the sweetest canticle is Nunc Diirittis when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectation” o The Alumni Banquet and Ball The annual reunion of the alumni was held on June ioth and the usual routine of banquet and ball in celebration of the event followed At 6:30 the guests began to assemble and at 7:45 all were present whereupon they repaired to the reading room which for the time had been converted into a banquet hall When all were seated Professor Peterson in a brief speech extended the welcome of the Alumni to the assembled multitude concluding by introducing Mr John Stewart ’97 as toastmaster for the evening Mr Stewart in opening touched briefly on the pleasures of college associations and of the memories that cluster around old landmarks dear to those who know them I11 conclusion to his remarks ihe toastmaster called upon Professor Upham to respond to the toast “The Graduating Gass” Professor Upham prefaced his remarks by saying that he thought it rather unfair to invite a convalescent person to a banquet when all he could eat was Grape Nuts and to a ball when he does not dance Further that it was adding insult to injury to call his address a toast when he had scarcely seen much besides toast for three weeks After a few references to the English department the speaker went to the subject of his remarks saying that he felt in touch with the graduating class because “one of which he is who” |