Baccalaureate Service
Delivered by the Rev. Dr. Stuart C. Lord, June 11, 2005
Truly we celebrate this great occasion and give thanks for all that each one of you has done to enrich the Dartmouth Experience.
To God be the Glory for the great things God has done. In the words of the Rev. Dr. William Jewett Tucker, the ninth president of Dartmouth College.
"Be not content with the commonplace in character any more than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of Conscience and Heart."
CLASS of 2005, YOU are heirs of all the past.
Men and women of rich minds have labored
and you have entered into their labors;
prophets and sages, scholars and scientists,
poets and public servants
have wrought with patience
and the abundant fruit of their toil is yours.
It is yours to use, to increase
and to bequeath to your successors.
We welcome you into the fellowship of seekers
after truth and servants of righteousness.
In the name of those who have gone before you,
and of your daughters and sons
who are to follow you,
the College charges you to be strong,
to equate yourself with integrity
and to be loyal to your highest ideals.
"Whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report,
if there be any virtue and if there be any praise,
think on these things."
WE CHARGE YOU TO HOLD YOUR DEGREE
SO THAT IT SUFFERS
NO HARM IN YOUR HOLDING IT:
TO HOLD IT FOR THE HONEST SERVICE OF OTHERS,
TO HOLD IT WITH
UNTARNISHED HONOR
TO YOUR SELF.
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