Advice to young men and boys / A series of addresses delivered by B. B. Comegys to the pupils of Girard College

by B. B. Comegys

Men who have honor, men who will not lie;

Men who can stand before a demagogue

And scorn his treacherous flatteries without winking;

Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog

In public duty and in private thinking.

James Lawrence Claghorn.

JAMES LAWRENCE CLAGHORN.

When a man has lived a long, busy, useful and successful life it seems proper that something more than the ordinary obituary notices in the daily papers is due to his memory. This thought moves me to speak to you to-day of a gentleman who died on August 25, 1884, while a Director of the Girard College, and of whom it seems appropriate that something may be said to you in this chapel.