Graduation Address

"Address to the Graduating Class" University Monthly 31, 7-8 (May-June 1912): 327. (UA Case 67, Box 1)

His Lordship Bishop Richardson's address to the graduating class of the University was one of the best ever heard at the Encaenia. He spoke extempore and stuck straight out in his advice to those who were about to go out into the world. The young ladies and gentlemen who were now receiving their degress were going out from their Alma Mater, but it would be for them to determine what they would show within the next few years as the result of the gift the University had given them by their education. He urged in the strongest language that the graduates have faith in themselves and that as they gave their services to the world, the world would return in full the price of their labor. The University sent out its graduates, but only to the University of the world, and it was incumbent for all to think and consider that their life in the future would depend on the use of that life made in the next five years. The University course was nothing more than the foundation stone of the future. His Lordship in eloquent language strongly urged the class as they went out into the world to respect their manhood, womanhood, to have faith in themselves, to be broad minded in any course of life, in any profession or religion. What was required to advance the country was the building up of character, the giving of one's best energy to its progress and the good love and fellowship to all mankind.