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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 6-1903 Student Life, June 1903, Vol. 1, No. 8 Student Life Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Life, Student, "Student Life, June 1903, Vol. 1, No. 8" (1903). The Utah Statesman. 6. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/6 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TO A LlmF.D nORA TIO U PHAM. T il E li't\']'1/ }o~rt OF STUDENT LU'E, TillS VOLUME IS RESPEOTFULLY DEDICATED. CONTENTS. BACOA L AUREATE SERMON . ........................ ... ..... ....... " •........ ... 141 B ON. MOSES THATCHER F IELD DAy ..... ', ........... .. .. ... .. ' ............. ............... , ... ' ...... .... 141 J UNI OR BANQUET ..... .. .. .. .. .............. ... .... .... .. •••. ... .. ... ... 141 SOPHOMORE BANQUET' ... ... .. .. .. ........ .... .. ....... ...... .......... .. 148 SECON D-YEA R CLA SS . ... ... ... ... ...... • . ..... .. • . .... .. .• •. .. ... .. .... 148 SENIOR EXERCISES . ...... .. ... .. .. " . .. ... .. ...... ......... .... ..... 148 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISE S . .... .... .. .. .. .. ........... .••. ... .... •. .. ... 150 ADDRESS 'ro GRADUATES . .. .. .. ... .. ... ..... .. ..... 150 llON. C. S. VA IHAN ALUMNI BA NQUET AND BA LL . ..... .. ............ ... .. .. ..... .... •. ...... 162 ADDRESS OF GOV . ITEBEB. M. WELLS........ ..... ... .. ..... .. ... •••........ 163 EDITORIAL "T n E AG B:I CU LT UB:AL COLLEGE OF UTAH ," .............. ...... .. 100 DRA MATIC REc r r AL . .. ..... ................. .... ... ........ ............ ... 161 &Y Cn A C U" " "" """ "" " """""""""" "" ", 1M AGRICULTUHA L CL UB l<~ N TERTAI N ED . .. .. .. , ... " LUC I{ I N 'l'fI E DA YS Oli' '91" (A STony) . .. .. .. .. .. ...... ... .. .. ... .. 169 J. E. llAH, itACl< 'r UE A. C. U. ALUtrrNI ... .. .. ..... .......... .. .. ...... " . .......... 110 VOll1.i\fE RCI AL NOTES . ........... .. .................. .. .. .............. ..... 111 List of Plates. PL AT}; I. PlU;;S. W . •1. KERR .. b'rontlsplcce PLA'J' E 11. T. CLA RK CA LLIST ER, P r cs lcl e n~ Class '03. PIlOl'~. WM . PETEHSON, President. Alumni ASSOC iat. lon. PLATE lll -(Jommencement SI)Cakcrs. n ON. C. S. V A RIA N. R ON. MOSES T HATCn ER GOV. Il EBF; R W'ELLS. A. C. U. BA SEBALL 'r F.AM (Photo by b'rlcs) "MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM." STUDENT LIFE JUNE, 1903 COMMENCEMENT WEEK. SUNDAY. Commencement exercises began Sun dare they are being shelved by the day morning, June 6th, wit h the audi boys." torium filled beyond its sealing capacity. It is not that youth knows more than Among those who participated wcrc Sen tlge ; but when a youth, buoyant with ator Barber, Hon. John T. Caine, and hopes inspi red by confidence, with a vis members of the ladies' quartette. Every ion undimmed by the doubts and preju thing was characteristic of the day and dice engendered by long acquaintance time, and culminated in the address of with the world, hi s ambition unwithered Hon. Moses Thatcher, which was full of by years of dreary toil for subsistence, beauty and eloquence, and glowed with hi s heart full of love for humanity, and the fire of experience. The text which his soul vibrant with the possibilities of follows may be taken as tnc synopsis of life-when such a youth fresh from a slI ccessful life. study and with intelleet well stored, call at once reach the point attained by his -~o>-- fa ther through years of effort and bitter 'BACCALAUREATE SERMON experience, and from that vantage ground begin the battle of life, he is un OF HON. MOSES THATCHER, .n THE doubtedly, of the two, better equipped. A. C. U" SUND AY , JUNE 7, 1903. t t , I , "A dwarf perched on the shoulder of a " T he young man who hesitates to ac giant can see further than can the cept or assume stations of responsibility giant." and trust, because of his YOllthfulness, These youths who think that young and waits for the dignifying and solidi men have not a fair chance, and those fying infl uence of maturing years to fit older men who think young men not able him for the station, is not a close student to fill important stations may each learn of the lives of those who have impressed lessons from the fact that H enry Clay their names on the pages of their coun was in the United States senate at 2 1 try's history. years of age, though a provision o f the Older men may shake their heads while national constitution had to be temporar remarking that "boys know more than ily abrogated to permit it. Webster was their fathers" these days, "yet from no attending college at fifteen, and at thirty, source does the determined young man was the peer of the ablest in Congress, reeeive more cordial encouragement and !\'Ir. Fox was a member of the British hearty support than from men who de- Parliament at uineteen. Luther at thirty- 14 2 S'l'UO.6; NT LIFE six had reached the apex of his -world a twin brother. f{ you would ca rve your wide fame. P eel was in Parliament at name high on the column of human fam(', twenty-one. Napoleon at twenty-fi ve base your hopes 0 11 an irreproachable commanded the arllly of Italy, and at character, and ever have with you an forty was 110t only one of the most re unsullied conscience. lo.lan has within nowned generals of his time, but was one him the elements of Deity-whose glory of the greatest lawyers of the world. At is intelligence. T herefore, without ex· Waterloo he beheld the twilight of his cessive pride, ,set your mark high and glory when only forty-six years of age. will to do righteously what you may, \Vashington was colonel at twenty-two, Should you start the battle of li fe with President of the United States at thirty a large supply of self-esteem, nature be seven. Story was in Harvard at fi fteen, ing founded on the law of compensation, in Congress at twenty-nine, and judge of will supply attritions sufficien tly Ilumer our national Sllpreme Court at thirty-two. ous to increase your ballast, or ree f your Glad;:tone at twenl,\·-two was in Parlia sails, when the storm-lashed sea of life ment, and was Lord of the Treasury at foams and breaks above dangerous and twenty-four. Pill entered college at fif hidden reefs. Making morality the chief teen, was Chance\1or of the Exchcquer corner-stone of life, do not forget the at twenty-two. Prime ~linister at twenty ·'proprieties." By upright conduct and four, and at thirty·five was the most pow truthful statements win the confidence erful uncrowned head in all Europe. and respect of your fellows. Sow the Grady ma(lc his famous New Eng seeds of confide nce in the fruitful soil land speech when thirty-six. Dthe! of you r own noble souls; waler them with instances without number coulu tears of mercy, and warm them with the be cited to show that the worlu sunlight of truth shining on your daily has always heen rc"dy to confer distinc walk and conversation. Avoiding deceit, tion on )'ol1t1g mcn of abirity and show go shy of diplomatic policy: base all )'our them that no one ventllres long to hold acts on justice. and fragrant flowe rs shall back pluck and brains. The world's his· bloom before, as well 3S rise up behind tory docs not show that ability has been yOIl; while the fruit of honest endeavor sl ighted becausc possessed by routh. fli l shall be you r portion- the esteem of oth ter bias and narrow prejudice may briefly ers your part. ~Iake chastity the purest retard, but llC\'er were there more open gem in the .diadem of virtue. Guard, doors for young men than today. For preserve, defend it as the pearl above the worker there is room cverywhere. and price. \\'hite plumes, emblems of pur at the top there is little crowding, ity. llIay bedeck the brow of shame. the You arc in an age of high pressure. in hollow laugh may ring in halls of revelry, a world of contest and or competition. and the angel of mercy may lift up the Hence the imporlance of laying deep and fallen, but wOllnds, thougfl hcaled, leave broau the foundations upon which you !'icars behind thcm. 'Tis true the physi build. Cement tllem 10 the bed-rock of cian comes to thc sick, but it were better principle, hond them with justice, cover to have no sick and to nced 110 physician. them with truth and fear no storm. As Repen tance is a law of li fe, only because well anticipate permanent safety in a we are in the throes of death. T he mas house built of sand as lasting success ter said not hing, did nothing of which based on policy. Work, if not genius, is to repent. If in Him we cannot see God, STUDENT LIFE 148 at least let us behold him as the perfect " There is a tide in the affairs of man, 01311. Before all ages he stands match which, taken at the flood, leads on to less in the majesty of his purity, un fortune." F rom ci rcumference to center <,qualcd in the grandeur of his purpose. of that thought, we may trace all ebbs !\.Iakc His life and character your guide and flows, floods and tides, to their and yotl cannot fail. He measured all source, there to find, not only the arbiter heights. and widths,and depths. exploring of nations, but the shaper of all efforts, every SHore of human thought. Between human and divine. Paul Tllay plant, Apol noting the sparrow's fall, numbering the los water, but God alone giveth increase.