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Show To the Graduates ANOTHER LETTER FROM DAD I A ell, youngsters, it has been quite a spell since my last letter was V V sent to you. I have not forgotten you, and now on the day of your igraduation I pen this epistle with the deepest feeling of pride in your accomplishments. I only hope, as you have lived within the walls of learning you have caught the real spirit of life. Along with your search for the scientific truths, in seeing thing; as they are, I hope you have caught the essence of poetic beauty in all things. As one man has so aptly said, Poetry only displays the emotional feeling; aroused by science. Unless you catch the beauty in living you lose yourself in a maze of cold calculating formulae. Be as William Watson says: Science and Art, compeers in glory, Boast each a haunt devine. My place is in Gods laboratory, And in His garden mine Or feel as Milton did toward astronomy, a most exacting science, in his descripton of the mlky way: A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold Seen in a galaxy, that milky way, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear. Which nightly, as a circling zone, thou seest Powdered with stars. Not in the sense of advice are these following remarks made, but they seemed so full of meat when I read them that I pass them on to you for judgment. A few months ago one of the worlds greatest scientists died. a man that lived eighty-seve- n His name was Pavlov, years in As a bequest to the youth of' Russia just beservice to mankind. fore he died he gave them these sign-pos- ts to follow: Be gradual: Learn the A. B. C. of science before you try to ascend to its summit. School yourselves to patience. Learn, compare, collect the facts. Firstly Secondly Be modest. However highly you are praised always have the courage to say of yourself I am ignorant. Never think you know it all. Thirdly Be passionate. not enough for you. If you had two lives that would be Be passionate in your work and your searchings. youngsters are on the threshold of completing your prefor living by still further years of schooling. I think if you paration follow any semblance of the philosophy of Pavlov you shall, by your indomitable spirit, see artistic representation and regularity of perYou shall LIVE. formance in the phenomena of the universe. You Sincerely your Dad, D. Elden Beck. |
