Graduates of 1889 Given Advice

College commencement exercises have always been marked by advice showered upon new graduates. The Daily Nebraska State Journal, May 16, 1889, offered its congratulations and recommendations to the “graduates of the present year”: “Commencement season is so close at hand that The Journal feels like offering to the graduates of the present year its welcome into active life in advance of the momentous occasion when the college life shall end. During the next month these young ladies and gentlemen will be informed by the numerous dyspeptic critics who never allow such opportunity to pass unimproved, that they didn’t know anything, that they think too much of themselves, that they are too conceited, that much learning made them mad, so to speak, that they must stop their foolishness and go to work, and a lot of other truck, conveying the idea that they are generally a worthless lot and sadly in need of a little contact with the world.