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Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

 - Class of 1929

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He was ever a welcome guest and favorite speaker at Tech gatherings. On many occasions he was glad to lecture to the classes in Government and Econ¬ omics, to the great satisfaction of the students. In more than fifty years since his own graduation, he has been absent from Com¬ mencements on only two or three occasions, when important engage¬ ments necessitated his being out of town. For many years he has in¬ variably represented the Trustees in making the award of the Salis¬ bury prizes to six members of the graduating class. Many hundreds of Tech graduates recall that presentation speech as the most entertaining feature of the Com¬ mencement program. For here— as at other intimate Tech gather¬ ings—he has always “improved the occasion.” He kept the audi¬ ence ever on the qui vive, for his stately presence and deliberate utterance made his hearers wholly unprepared for the next turn which his discourse might take. Jokes at the expense of the Fac¬ ulty, whimsical reminiscences of his own student days, satirical forecasts of Tech’s future mingled with humorous but sage counsel to the graduating class. But from that Commencement platform no one else has ever expressed more hearty commendation of the manly efforts by which many a graduate, faced by seemingly in¬ surmountable difficulties, has won his way to the goal, nor a more discerning sympathy in the pride and gratification felt by parents in the successful achievement which their own heroic struggles and sacrifices have made possible for the sons in whom their hopes were centered. No one who was present at the Tech Banquet held but a short time before Mr. Washburn’s death can fail to recall the spirit of the last public speech to Tech men which he made there. By a sud¬ den and characteristic shift from the humor of his opening sen¬ tences, he raised the whole tone of the evening’s thought by words which might appropriately be his last message to his Tech friends. In effect he said: “The mere amassing of money is no worthy ambition for a young man to set before himself. He can take none of the money with him, and, to those to whom he leaves it, it may bring more harm than good. Fet him strive to amass friendships. Fet him fill his life with worthy service to his fellows. These are the things that make life worth while. These alone yield the satisfactions that endure as life nears its close.” His whole community bears witness to the fidelity with which Charles Grenfill Washburn’s prac¬ tice squared with his precept. George H. Haynes. Page

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