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Sperry Warns of Waiting to Live' At Baccalaureate

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Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity school advised approximately 500 graduating Seniors and 700 relatives and ends to conduct less personal introduction and begin to live when he delivered the traditional Baccalaureate sermon last Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church.

In one of the University's oldest graduation week ceremonies, Dean Sperry used Ecclesiastes XI: 4, 6 as the text for sermon, in which he counselled the Seniors that, in the face of "uncertain her" today, if they wait for "settled her" before they begin to live, they never have lived at all."

He underlined the advice in Ecclcsiasics, "He that observeth the wind shall now; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. In the morning sow seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand."

Dean Sperry made use of the text as a remedy for man's current troubles, pointing out that "our too self-conscious and self-centered life needs the wholesome correction of a less introspective mind."

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