Excerpt from Baccalaureate and Convocation Sermons Year by year, for many years, graduates have been going forth from the schools over which it has been my privilege to preside, to take their places in the strenuous activities of this busy world. In all I have had the honor to act officially in sending forth thirty-one graduating classes: eight from schools in Kentucky; fourteen from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio; four from the Texas Christian University, and five from Oklahoma Christian University. It often fell upon me to preach the baccalaureate and convocation sermons. It was the universal custom at Hiram for the president to give both of these addresses, from which custom I did not depart while I was president of that institution. These sermons were necessarily carefully prepared, and embraced my best thoughts along lines that I deemed most advantageous to those entering upon student life, and to those going out as graduates to do the work of life. I have decided to put these sermons in book form, believing that they will be appreciated by my old students and be, as I trust, of some benefit to them. Furthermore, this is getting to be a day of graduating addresses. High schools are springing up all over the country, offering courses almost equal to the college courses of fifty years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.