Show Of BROAD General Genera Wickersham Wi kersham Attorney Delivers Alumni Address at Lehigh University MEMBER OF CL SS OF 77 HONORARY DEGREE CONFERRED UPON CABINET MEMBER nu Bethlehem Pa PL J Jane ae Attorney General of oft fr of o 77 7 today delivered Ute tine alumni t P r rags rasS Mt at the t h fortieth th annual commence I f T high university at which de der r RP r conferred upon one on hundred v r f the of 19 ly iy Pre l c 1 Dt t H f The honorary hon nr degree degreef degreer f r of fa it t 1 law Iowa ia wa wee w conferred on OR Mr i Im mi In hi his hla address addre Mr Mrk V k r r mi u dissuaded in ID an Illuminating i e dif between merely rely am wet r ni nl i 1 atlon fl and broad culture V tp Ia Hp P poi rit hp he said had found In to Dr Dro H Hr He rv r i IP pee at t that time president pr ent of ofT o T r fit rin T a wille counsellor who 1 t I WK rK k t I r In a student a It taste r him to relinquish n fr f I r d fors i j r or of T calculus for that hat of t Black advice was waa w hardly to tG be ex ox d rr n m th the faculty of Lehigh for or the tM the Institution then i a I I eat of o al mi IHn der f Top h i of many eager young youn r aid id Mr Wickersham were there thera fue H f re toward preparation for the branches of engineering belley rz matt mat to those W vocation offered th the t t nm in pathways pathway to and anti pros prosIt roe It 11 wap d a natural for Americans with a ai aff cane i of ff the t h great gnat natural resources of I mum r rv to turn to the study and an n nf of practical cleat in order aid In the development v h hat t th might nt nl r iho th resource and share te In th tM the mater ma rna irr ter l results to tf be he thereby Training Too Technical Mr Yr Wickersham that the ther r ud dent tit of technical knowledge have bp n not t taken quite the rank In Amer AmerIcan Americ Ican ic ni ocial al and political life commensurate with nith thir th ir aoi u in III their own ions I I this to the fact that their lr training has hag been too purely t to inual the they have specialized too early In it life 11 and without that broad and catho Ib Ii foundation upon which special train be br based All educated men r the full value of or the technical education duration but hut the defects In a merely technical education alao also are easily per perr pere r e ived Th The of a t m that is I not purely materialistic have Tim nut ot dispensed ed with art and literature litera tUn nor Ignored the tremendous Importance of the tho value of poetry and song fong In m Inspiring that impulse which achieves the greatest practical results nor ran can it II the tM Importance of the study of the past of man for and example for warning and for emulation The Th best superstructure ture of special te tech technical h I nral knowledge Is le I built on the broad I foundation of enral Intellectual and culture In an age of great technical tech technical and Industrial development the tend ten ri d nry Is t toward pure materialism the ex exalting Hing alting of practical accomplishment in the production prod of wealth over the Uw leas le s tangi I hi M result of if the study of history literature litera literature ture turl and art and to n there to lea on the part many man men who have bave attained success su suIn in n hu inns life lice or in the practical oal act sel acte fi s II a disposition to extol extel such p r Tt beyond yond all aU others and to n alue or not at all aU to realize the tm theAh i ji Ah i of or mental IOn tal culture In to 11 any other than pure technical t lin li liThe lines 6 The Renaissance Tf U IK is to he hf noted however that the discoveries In ID ei ne followed trat ta great intellectual awakening which Is I kni known knon n is ia the Renal ane The revival o or of learning the desire de lre for general culture which II found inspiration In the study of th ti ar art th the literature and the history of oft 1 t It Greeks and Roman Romans produced a as Its fV t nuts fruits the marvelous architecture of Bramante Br Michael Angelo Ancelo and Bru the Basilica of St Peters In Roma Horn and the Duomo of Florence the thep p T Rs of Leonardo Raphael and TI Tl TIan tIn an the 0 sculpture of Luca Iuca delta della deltaH H iv Donatello and Michael Angelo lh immortal Divine Comedy of ot Dante ind rd the th rh tender lyrics lyric of or Then n RPt e 1 the HIP philosophy of or Erasmus and andl andr r l I f t and aid More the epic poem of Arleto Aristo H end and d th the historical work of i pun this iMs splendid foundation of ot art and andT T poetry tr and letters letter was built the stately i ture of modern modem science a i us while studying i 10 d j his spare time Ume to painting ltd I i Ira i an earne earnest t student of litera literati ti tre A as a Greek and Latin r la Ia a musician and a painter MI In I when th the Mentions of 0 the great swinging lamp lampsi si 0 iw l t first directed dl ted hi his hla attention to a am m in n physic II which led to his great Jj New Newton ton pursued his studies CI t Cambridge end nd was Willi graduated gT in 1 l R with the degree of or bach bacho bachur ur n o f arts art The steam engine was waa as In 1 t toy ry Aitt Witt the locomotive by Ste Sten Stern r rn n and ami al tine tilt spinning pinning Jenny by a a tin tun wh i 1 the whose who civilized world na in m d it ferment of or Intellectual agitation wiring Ct tome the th rights of man and the he they y tr to ones of o social order and when the end the literature of the ancient rid wr rr eagerly erly studied for light lI t on fundamental principles principle of or civil gov Jov r ment r n an d Individual liberty Almost r a t the great men en whose I n 1 hat ha V ht n written large fa the his hla r re rv M I Th net were men of oC cut cul e r often tin almost moat a as proficient In r rp and I art ab in m The versatile Franklin the e the Ut ac Re mj hed Bunsen and tk the cultured IP are Rr jq g Bf of th the fact act that r r i nual atlon alone has u never r i t h first rank In hi the life or of the mm ua Lesson Leeson of Human Life Lifer Th he pic of Homer tn tIM the pm i f Dante the to logic of Aristotle t can 1 drama of or Shakespeare er all k Mil tie 1 or of human hua life In th thor the I C Ie P nf or f which union is Ie to be found power nd help and guide Kulde and aM si r r w l u h III ie the ac a om m ma a mn m n The temple of Diana t ye I lea las crumbled away but th the thet t r M x hylo and nd the tin comedies r r r r main The Roman Forum ok nc collection lon of 1 but Jut Juts buts s nd d satires atre or of f Horace the let Jet letak ak hr r r n t the he lives of or Plutarch h ath h p a s t v great men of Rome as real IMI toE to toy E e er ea a rf yesterday y In France and andOr From Or r them fr from m th their r exp expert rl m r ideas their failures and their theirs s t m nt many an inventive mind j 1 tn and ha has all had Imag Image Im e to the or of g great j i P Pk r n frt 11 n r and In InrI k rI rd man who goes geed S OUt Into th the ther thear ar r wt t n J I t th the knowledge mo of these hese hu ha hara ra ti 0 licking In a men mell mellI men I a I which lea leaves him kJ v et a J n P General Gen ral II widespread Iris that the man mano r f 1 II work w wg ork rk with Ith h a iI mere m rf o a g i n he comes comy in rom corn petition with men of I broad culture is at ata ata ata a d decided disadvantage t gt ge geA A combination f the he ideals Ideala of purely pur l technical study with broad university cul culture culture ture tre offers to the oD of becoming not engineers ers but educated gentlemen I have thus far dwelt delt only upon the practical s of or this broader that thai thol 1 merely technical ed education Uon But Dut the refining influence nee and aam the intellectual pI l opened by b such study should not Dot be lost sight of James Jam JamRus Russell Rus ell Lowell once exclaimed out of f thu fullness of oJ his hie scholarly mind Neither would I ave aye you neglect U a humanities I would wish that every one on QC of you could enjoy In the H merand tsar and Virgil and Dante ariti Rabe Rabelais lais lal Und Goethe In an essay essa I written n shortly before his h death he revised this list somewhat and characterized Honer Dante Shakespeare Cervantes and Goethe as ss the five Indis Indispensable authors Certainly If tho the work ok of any an one of or them were eliminated from our cur literature j and nd sp ech ch there would he ho tagged lagged J spaces apac s in the tilt fit fabric brie brieIs Is It not then well worth north ort the time an I effort of an engineer or nr a chemist ch as aswell aswell well veil as of a lawyer or doctor to study stUtt and know kROw the works of these greit gre th e Indispensable able authors authora From them ea each eab h hof of or us may ma catch something of their knowledge their Insight their inspiration and end with quickened fI imagination and sharpened shar nel perceptions per ma may maJ more clearly see the solution of problems which have hae baffled us ua As the prophet of Israel long lo g gago ago declared d Wisdom Is the thc principal thing t there therefore therefore fore rore get wisdom and an 1 with all thy th getting get fiet understanding Take fast rast hold of in instruction let her not go keep her for forshe forshe forshe she is thy life I I |