At this writing the Ferris Institute is beginning its thirty-ninth year. These exercises open with congregational singing. Now and then the music is special. Twenty minutes remain for readings or short talks by the president. In these readings the lives and thoughts of many great men and women are presented.
Every possible effort is put forth to awaken the students to a realization of their possibilities.
The talks are on the great themes of life sometimes on various phases of conduct as revealed in the daily lives of the students. Thousands who have gone out from this great school testify to the worth of the Morning Exercises. I have always entertained the notion that the majority of mankind sleep twenty-four hours a day. The Morning Exercises are a happy introduction to the day's work. I ought to add that whenever great men or great women are available, they are invited to speak to the school.