Repository: UIHistories Project: Commencement - 1922 [PAGE 14]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

decrees a word of special congratualtion is dui were there fi* time to give it voice. You are of the family of the Mini, »*• ind it is an honorable company. ° You have enjoyed a rare privilege here in the studies fp" you have been able to prosecute, in the growth of mental powers you have experienced, in the associations you enjoyed, in the acquaintances you have formed, and in to the 'introduction to the modern world which a collc-ge&f he a course assures. You have enjoyed peculiar privileges, but you are notiot v a peculiar people. You are going into the citizen hip of ida; the state debtor to society for a good part of the mental -;• equipment with which you start out. And just as the I University owes a constant obligation to the public roac because of its support, so does every student who leaves re e its laboratories and its classrooms owe back to societv atio a perpetual debt of gratitude that can be discharged only cr by faithful service. th You have from now on a triple duty, arising out of ; your privileges here enjoyed: a duty to yourself and mds yours, all the greater for your opportunities; a duty to • society and to the State that its investment in you shall :< • prove profitable; and a duty to the University as an i iu\\ cational institution of the land of your nativity. let The duty to yourself and yours will be discharged in ] - v the prosecution of your profession and the meeting of \ those personal and family obligations that people ^ : training and refinement are everywhere expected to d charge. Your duty to the public will be render* I in an) m one or more of a thousand ways in which the mater: I and spiritual welfare of society can be promoted. Mere " \\ you must pay the debt contracted in getting j mr educa- r v m l tion at state expense, and this debt runs on trie amortiz tion plan, for you will not live alwa ^. '

• i

Your duty to the University is the same as that, fanv

other citizen,—plus " , something ' tin l,,v, wc , c . , '," a .& the love we feel for father and mother and lor family. I have but one word of caution at this p int, and it'is this- | n x\\ matters concerning the policies and the financial "support of the University of Illinois, I beget >u, act not a i

'4

,,N,,, akin lkl to

,

. L »

v:<»»-