Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Baccalaureate Address 5 G accalaureate Address I-Ie that cometh after me is miahtier than I. whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with tire.-.llaI!l1r:z',?.'11. l OIIN is here speaking of the supreme power of the edu- cator,-the hapttsnt of hre. Sometimes you have telt it,-clrudgery has heen changed into exhilaration. a meaningless maze illtuninated hy a clear path tif shining light! You have known what it is to have some great teacher touch your mind when it has heen dull and filled with dis- content and ennui.--until. as if heneath a magician's wand, it has kindled into hlazing llame, and nothing has seemed too hard to do or to hear. Some one at some time has touched for you a suhject ahsolutely uninteresting and commonplace.-a landscape dreary and gray and repellant,-and at the cotntnand of his word it has heen suddenly allame with the scarlet and gold of the sunrisel 'l'he great 'l'eacher is the Nlaster Blagician.- when lle touches the soul of tnatt it receives the haptism of spirit and ul- tire. 'l'here is no greater tniracle than the etlect which Christ! teach- ing had on the men of llis day. Xte sometimes forget that lle was ottr greatest edttcator. 'l'he resttlts which lle accomplished hy a comparatively simple method are heyond helief. lle took certain ignorant peasants.-a tisherman. a tax collector, a carpenter: lle taught them no literature. lle said nothing ahout classical lorttls. httt after they had heen under llis instruction for three years they wrote hooks which have heett tnore quoted :tnd admire-ln ltoth hy the ptthlic attd hy literary authorities. than any litttvlis we know to-day. lle never taught these tnen arcltitecture. httt one ot' them was the cattse for tlte rearing of tlte most tnagniticent editice in li--mel lle neyer taught them to paint. yet they were the inspiration hy which Raphael and l.eon:trdo wrouglit their lllttsl wondrous worlcsl lle tteyer showed them how tn play a musical instrument. yet their words are the very heart of the Illtfsl glorious lllllsit' 'tl' lit-nnod. llaudel. and Mendelssohn. llou did .lle do tt. Ntu lu tht nsnal method. lle gave these men the hapttsm ot nre.