Show is Various reasons are assigned for these changes one of which is that the addresses usually delivered by graduates are so terribly terribly ter ter- dry that it is is' is unfair to ask people to fo listen to them We vVe dont don't believe it would be well to omit the usual addresses from commencement day programs In the first place we might ask ak Why not omit the exercises altogether if their pi principal feature is to be omitted And as to their dryness many of our most gifted poets and most able able statesmen made their best efforts before their graduating classes Moreover we have among our called so-called eminent orators men whose ideas and expressions expressions expressions ex ex- are re as dry dryas as a last years year's lemon peel and the chances are if we employed our orators we would get more moie dry rot than we ever dreamed of These addresses addresses ad ad- dresses on commencement day are supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be given by the ablest graduates of the class It is certainly a very bad showing if a graduating class has not one or two passably bright members who are worthy the honor There is isa a manifest absurdity about this idea of employing some platform orator to address a graduating class It reminds us-of us Bill Nyes Nye's well which had t to have wat water r poured into it to keep the walls from cracking |