should have due regard for that
great Commonwealth in which the
most of, you .have been born and
where all of you are now receiving'
that training' which is to fit you for
the work of your future lives.
Every man must have his feet
planted on the ground; every career
and especially every successful
career, begins at home.
“Now some of you no doubt will
enter upon a study -of statecraft.
If you will look at the institutions,
at the principles which are em
bodied in the Constitution of the
United States, you can readily un
derstand that they never arose from
the teaching of any narrow thought
anywhere and you will find that
those principles which have been
embodied in that important docu
ment an'd which have come to be ac
cepted by all the States of this great
union were those which were pro
mulg'ated by William Penn when
he founded'the province ot Pennsyl
vania: (applause) and, if you look
at the success which attends the
development of our commercial life
to-ilay and our manufactures—that
success of which Mr. Carnegie is
tile representative—you will learn
that the thought which has con
trolled American politics fiom the
dale of the Inundation of the Gov
ernment down to this lime has al
ways been regarded as the Penn
sylvania idea.
■•Some ol you, no doubt, will en
ter the held ot literature. The first
American literateur, the first man
to devote Ins life to letters, whose
work had a broad influence upon
English thought, upon Shelley and
Coleridge and the men ot his day,
was Charles Brockton Brown, ol
Philadelphia. You may perhaps
not know, but it is a lact, that the
first time that the Bible, the first
tune that Mdton and Shakespeare
and Blackstone and the Vicar of
Wakefield and Homer and the Ara
bian Nights appeared belore the
American people they were printed
in that stale in which you were born.
Thackeray is recognized by all
Englishmen as the leader in the
field of literature to which he was
devoted. You may not know, but
you ought to know, that the
first time a work of Thackeray
was ever given to the world, it was
printed in the city of Philadelphia.
“Some of you may enter the field
of war. I saw last evening an ex
hibition of the skill of you young
men in your drill and your training.
In the war of the Revolution,Massu
chusetts and Virginia stood side by
side with Pennsylvania but in the
war of 1812 Pennsylvania was de
serted by Massachusetts and in the
warol the Rebellion Pennsylvania
was left by Virginia. In 1776 the
Continental Army had fallen down
to the small number of 3,000 men.
George Washington was almost in
despair. I-lis thought was to leave
the front and seek shelter upon the
Allegheny mountains, thereto con
duct a guerrilla warfare. At this
time, when the country was in dis
tress, fifteen hundred men came to
the rescue. With that addition to lus
force, giving him half of whaL he
had belore in his army, he louglit
the battles of Trenton and Prince
ton and the tide was turned. It is
your pride, as it is mine, that
everyone of those 1500 men was a
Pennsylvanian. (Applause) In the
war of the Rebellion, as some of us
who are old enough to remember
after the first battle had been
MR. t HAS, M SCHWAB
fought iiiimiccc'-sI u'ly and (lie rebels
had won upon the field ol Bull Run,
Abraham Lincoln stood in the capi
tal of Washington, expecting every
moment that the successlul Con
ledorates \\ould capllire Unit capi
tal. Inside ol two days 17.000 men
came to the rescue and that diffi
culty disappeared. Again it is your
pride, as it is mine, that every one
of those 17,000 men was a Pennsyl
vanian. (Applause)
“It may be that you will enter in
to the lield ol mechanics. The
greatest of the sons nl New Eng
land—l refer to Benjamin Frank
-1 iii—when he started out upon his
career, came south ward. The great
est of the sous of Virginia—l mean
George Washing ton—when lie start
ed upon his career, came north
ward, and they both met on the soil
of Pennsylvania. Now then that
example has been followed by oth
ers. Voltaire, the great French
philosopher, when ii occurred to
him to abandon the throes which
were then threatening France,
thought of coming to this State.
Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of
oxygen, the great chemist of his
day, when fanaticism had driven
him from England, came to these
valleys and these hilltops and lived
near you in the town of Northum
berland; and today, let me point
this out to you, if your career is to
be in the material world devoted to
xiechanics and construction, that in
the later day it is enough to sav
that to the same State came Andrew
Carnegie and here was born his
successor, your other philanthropic
helper, Charles M. Schwab. (Great
applause).
“Now it only remains for me to
say to you that I am pleased to be
with you, to see the wonderful suc
cess of your institution here, and to
say lurther that this great Com
monwealth, which has always treat
ed you with kindliness and generosi
ty. will not forget in the future the
liberal treatment which your mer
its deserve. ” (Great applause).
Immediately following the close
of the Governor's address, Presi
dent Atherton introduced Mr.
Charles M. Schwab, as follow
PRESIDENT ATHERTON'S INTRODUC
TION OF MR. SCI! WAD
“Two years ago, Air. Charles M.
Schwab accepted an invitation to
deliver the annua! Commencement
Address belore this College, partly
on account ol his deep interest m
every form ot education as a means
of promoting the intellectual and
moral, as well as the material ad
vancement of the community, and
parLly because it offered him a suita
ble opportunity to correct an errone
ous report that he had expiessed
himself as opposed to College edu
cation in particular. It was his
lirsl visit to the College, and he
spent several hours in examining'
the met hods and results ol work in
different departments, and in inter
com-e with students and members
ol the Faculty. ll.s Address was
deliveied m what we now call the
Old Chapel, and those of you who
were then presenL can well i ecu 11
the scene --the chapel crowded to
its lullest capacity on the floor and
in the galleries, all students exclud
ed except the graduating class, and