Keuka College - Kiondaga Yearbook (Keuka Park, NY)

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12 . THE COLLEGE RECORD. Space, teacher of music at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Ida Wright, '11, and Emma Patterson, '10, of Winfield, New York ; Hazel Brigham, '11, of Richford, N. Y. ; Edith A. Palmer, '11, who is to teach science next year at Ticon- deroga, N. Y. ; Irene E. Paul, '10, of Silver Creek, N. Y. ; Mrs. John Zimmerman, '08, of Bradford, N. Y. ; Matie Green, who works in the State Hospital at Binghamton, N. Y. ; Scott Manzer, of South Gibson, Pa. ; Leon Beach, teacher of manual training at Waverly, N. Y. ; U. Boyd Blatchley, '11, who teaches agriculture at Newark Valley, N. Y. ; John Tomer, of Rochester ; Florence Gleischmann, of Geneva, and Maurine McPherson, who graduated this year from Hiram College. THE MORAL RECALL. r PHE prominence which the Recall, as a political device, has assumed in recent years renders it highly improb- able that anyone is ignorant of the principle which it in- volves. The antipathy of many people to the recall is not based upon a disbelief in the justice or efficacy of this instru- ment, but rather in the method of its application. A super- ficial observation of life shows that it is one of the most com- mon phenomona with which we are conversant. Throughout the range of human activity, in art, business, industry and the professions, a certain standard of excellence is essential to success. Those who meet the requirement inevitably suc- ceed; those who fall below the standard are recalled. It is the operation of the old law that to him that hath shall be given; to him that hath not shall be taken away that which eineth to have. Because of Christian training and beliefs the majority of people instinctively feel that morality is of supreme import- ance and infinite worth, and that the failure to achieve the moral life constitutes an irreparable loss. In this address we are to brace this fundamental truth from the viewpoint gained [from a knowledge of the evolutionary process in so doing wetrace tin; Will of an Infinite Creator. Nature is a vast library, id which we read the writing of God. It is a

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THE COLLEGE RECORD. 11 Invocation, Rev. Nevin D. Bartholomew, Penn Yan. Solo— Adelaide, Beethoven. Prof. Mozealous. Miss Julia Ball, Accompanist. Address- The Moral Recall, . . . Rev. Charles N. Fillson, Wellsville. Presentation of Diplomas, President Joseph A. Serena. Announcements. Alma Mater. Benediction, Rev. N. D. Bartholomew. COMMENCEMENT YISITOES. j MONG all the people who were present at Commence- ■ ■ ment this year, probably none more thoroughly appreciated the occasion than did those who came from afar, and after several years of absence, to enjoy a re-un ion. Fourteen of the girls who were in the dormitory in 1905- 1906, together with their former dean, are circulating a Round-Robin, and during the past year they have made plans to meet at the College during commencement week. Six of their number were detained at home through various causes, but the nine who came were greatly delighted with the success of their plan. In alphabetic order they are as follows : Laura B. Adams, who has a flourishing class of music at her home in Middlesex ; Genevieve R. Ball, '09, who is a successful teacher at Charlton, Massachusetts ; Fannie L. Bell, '08, teacher of science and mathematics at Conajoharie, New York ; Mrs. Durfee, Dean of Women at Hope College, Michigan ; Agnes Feenstra, who has a pos- ition with the General Electric Company of Buffalo ; Janet Gardner, who will return to her teaching in Jefferson County ; Lura Mack, a Senior in Syracuse University; Mary Stephens, who is teaching at her home in South Apalachin, and Inez Wilder, of Lycoming, New York, who this year received her diploma from Keuka College, conferring the degree of Bach- elor of Arts. Among other former teachers and pupils who were present were : Lora A. Marsh and Lynn Space, who are teaching in Friends Academy, Locust Yalley, Long Island; Ruth

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THE COLLEGE RECORD. 13 revelation of the methods employed to obtain the triumph of the designs of the Eternal; it can tell the truth only. God is not divided against himself; he cannot say one thing in nature and its opposite in Revelation; therefore, in so far as he has spoken through nature, that communication is an in- fallible expression of His Will and it should excite our rev- erence and gratitude. The Recall is the foundation of the evolutionary hypoth- esis. It lies at the base of that cardinal principle, natural selection, or survival of the fittest. It is nature's favorite weapon and is wielded without regard to sentiment or pity. Both plant and animal life are subject to this culling pro- cess. Among any family of plants the presence of a weak and puny one threatens the hardihood of the whole, for, if permitted to survive, the deficient one might spread its con- stitution al weakness throughout the species. To prevent this catastrophe the Recall is employed. The weak plant is stamped out and rendered impotent to perpetuate its de- fects. Thus, when the individual of any species is disqual- ified for this great struggle for existence, nature exacts a toll, — extinction. Again, for example, if among animals, whose horns are their chief weapons of defence, the rudi- ments of horns failed to develop in any animal, it would lack the necessary means of defending itself and would quickly succumb to any enemy seeking its life. This judgment of unfitness which nature passes upon un- likely progeny, may seem harsh, but it is justified upon the assumption that the survival of such a one might furnish opportunity to transmit its weakness to its offspring, and, through them, bring about in time the deterioration and con- sequent extinction of the whole tribe. Throughout nature there is a terrible struggle; on the one hand there is a tend- ency to the reversion to a less perfect type, and on the other hand there is a tremendous effort to keep the species pure. We have no adequate conception of the fierceness of this com- petitive conflict; the hopelessness of the struggle of the unfit; the bright prospects of the fit; the weeding out of incompet-