Show your responsibility He Is such as the race kace has never known before by SIR ARTHUR CURRIE mcgill university Mont montreal commencement address university of vermont vemont V OU have enjoyed hero here superior privileges which it is yoi your d duty U ty to impart to others stand foursquare four square for the principles of conduct you have here been taught utter to your count country I 1 ry tile the truths you have litre here le learned arned Ife remember member that afis it is tho tha spirit of of your nation ta an mid and not lot its iti material progress that will conquer in the end and that it is ideas that move the world you will meet with many men in in high or in obscure places who have no ideal standard stan darda of citizenship IV who lid believe in public gain without public service the in influence fluence of these inell you will find it easy to oset offset it if you keep your colors flying if you voit beli bave ye that while there is hope there is life and if you turn all your knowledge find and power to the performance of duty remember that to bo be e disinterested is to be strong and that the world is nt at tho the ft foot of hin him whom it cannot tempt and do not forget that as your own poet has taught UP even if you voll stand alone there is unbounded strength in one faith against a whole worlds unbelief in one soul against the flesh of all inan mankind kind you are all young and therefore the envy of your elders th chance of youth is always the greatest chance e in tho the world the chann chance of the uncharted fea ca of the land of the undiscovered country you are going forth to battle in one of the greatest periods in in the worlds history I 1 am not a pessimist to me the outlook for the world is bright so long as we keep our faith indeed perhaps tilt outlook for our world was never so BO hopeful as it is at the present timo but it needs the strength and tho the idealism of you who are young to make these hopes realities your responsibility for yourselves Is is such euch a responsibility as the race lias has never known before there is ia a clarion call to human worth and to human power you daro dare not fall fail to answer that call |