Turning to the second and more pleasant commencemepit theme, I fear I have little to advise for the benefit of your personal careers which you have not already learned and observed. You need not be reminded that education is usually a prime factor in material success. The great American publication "Who's Who in America" which hi-annually prints the names and biographies of more than 30,000 leading Americans in all lines of endeavor, points out in the foreword of the book that 86 per cent, of those included in the list are college trained, and complacently adds that education appears to increase a person's earnings.
If I were asked to give in a few words the essentials for personal success and happiness in life. I should ay: "Character, education and possession of a sense of values That is all you need. Cultivate by all means a sense of values, learn to necessary both -fór world order and lor personal advancement, In the hart space of, let us say 75 years, the World has had such amazing mechanixa! and scientific progress that humans have not been able to as-simulate and digest the modern things they have created themselves, Seventy five years is but a flash or &n instant compared with the time humans have lived on this planet and 15 years is but a fleeting season in the life of the Chinese nation. Yet the so-called "progress" and developments of these last 75 years have so utterly changed the manner of living and the minds of men that this world, has become a stranger planet to the world which existed before than the planet Mars would seem to us if we could explore it.
This mechanical and scientific flash Which has struck us has produced a strange confusion, Tt may mean self-destruction or it may be the birth pangs of a new and enlightened world, We may reasonably assume that perhaps it is not a mere momentary flash but that science will endue and machines and devices will con-time to be produced.
1f be, the problem becomes one of direction. By whom and for what are these modern processes and formulas fo be controlled and used? It seems, in this crisis, that the type of mentality which is to take charge is of terrifying importance. Medieval mentality utilizing modern methods and tools spells a horrible world catastrophe. And herein lies the concern 6f the young graduate of today. and the concern of the whole world of civilization
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