Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-06-30
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
or THE
Perrysburg High School.
Successful Termination OF Another
School Year-F0ur Young La
dies Graduate.

Successful Termination OF Another
School Year--FOur Young La
dies Graduate.
The exercises of the graduating class of
bur High School were held on Friday
evening last, and we're great success as
they have been each year under the excel
lent management of Superintendent TAY-
LoR. II is gratifying to see the great at
tention bestowed on these Commencement
occasions. They are the greatest possible in
,entives to scholars in all the lower grades
10 continue their studies until the course is
finished. II they should be allowed to di-
ninish in interest, the effect would soon be
'een to operate injuriously on all the
schools.
The rooms were decorated with pictures,
svergreens and flowers, until the whole was
like fairy scene. The audience was the
largest ever held in the Hall on any SINH
lar ocrasion, every foot of sitting and stand
ing room being occupied by eager listeners,
as also we're the halls and recitation rooms,
showing the deep interest of the commu
nifty in the proceedings of the occasion.
We here present the
ORDER OF EXEUCISES.
ANTHEM. PRAYER. MUSIC.
Glee--"Wa1e mp, Sweet Melody
................ ELIZA THOMPSON.
MUSIC.
Essay-Satisfacti from the Discharge of
Duty, uty,....................-ET Eta c. WEBB.
MUSIC.
Essay-Treasures CARRIE T.. LINDSAY.
SOLO AND CHORUS.
Essay-A Power That Rules the World,
MART f. DODGE.
mUSIC.
Essay-What is True Success?
ELIZA THOMPSON.
MUSIC.
Naledictorv, orv,................MNRY +. DODGE
PREsENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
Song-"What Shall the Harvest BE ?"
BENEDlC TION.
The graduates were superbly dressed, in
harmony with the surrounding beauty.
Their essays were we'll read and evinced
careful preparation and laborious thought
The salutatory by
MISS ELIZA THOMPSON,
was we'll calculated to concileate the good
will of the audience. Reference was made
in very happy manner to the changed
circumstances, new life, and heroic strug-
giles on which our forefathers were entering
Just one hundred years ago. so this "Cen.
tennia" class was forcibly reminded o.
the changed circumstances, the freezer exis
tence and life warfare on which they were
Just entering. Hitherto they had beer
under school laws and school matters, nov
they were entering more Independent life
and must learn to be self-reliant. They
had in school been learning to think nnt
to educate themselves. They did not CLAIM
to be wise, but only seekers after wisdom
If our friends shall only see in our effort
to night, proofs of diligence in our schoo
course and fair promise for the future, W
| shall be satisfied.
Our motto, Esse Guam Tideri-"to be, ratll
er than to seem"-is significant of ou
desire and resolve to be all that is wis
and good, rather than to put on a show
parade of qualities which we do not pos
sess. For in the one course, we know, lie
| true happiness, true goodness, with socia
| power and influence and in the othe
only hollow -heartedness, infinite life-di'
satisfactions, with essential weakness an
absence OF all influence for good. We hop
now to go on from this first stage and try t
educate ourselves, as long as we live, i
all useful knowledge, and in all the virtue
and excellencies of good and useful life
Satisfaction from the discharge {
duty"
By MISS ETA c. WEBB.
The first essay of the evening was rea
by Miss ETA WEBB. Subject, "Satisfa,
tion from the discharge OF duty"
All have some duty to perform in whic
patience and honest industry are require
and al feel the need of something high,
and better in life than mere self-indu
gence and self-seeking. Just how to o.
tain that something higher and better
a matter of prime importance. Our pre-
: ent modes Of thinking and living are fu
OF false views and wrong practices. Happ
ness, we readily see, is what We want al
10 obtain it we mast institute many r
forms in our thinking and doing. To {
, this will require much courage, a dete
mined will and great ixeIness of purpos
1t seems never to occur to some that tn,
. have duties to perform; they are altogth
seli-plc lsures, caring little or nothing f
all the responsibilities OF life. How CT
, such have quiet conscience? How c;
I they be happy? How can they know an
5 thing of the sweet satisfactIons of beil
faithful in their lot?
> The fathers of our Republic were fait
full to their trust 100 years ago, and rea
ed a rich reward of freedom and cons
quent happiness, and their descendar
have been gathering blessings ever sin
z iIbAl AllN ohAiN sOh lbbs III NV iNAN W
for the Union, the patriotic thousands
r the north with heroic devotion to count
j and to duty, ioyfully threw themselves
o to the contest and laid up blessings
themselves and many future generation
The locomotive, engineer and fireman
each moral hero, and deserve daily 81
V iafaction in doing his duty amid dang
: to the precious lives committed to his tru
!. Would you know the sources and seer
y Of the highest joy, you must find them
= those things which seem most difficult, a
only to be done under a sense of duty. L
Il cry duty discharged renders sweet sat
d faction, unknown to the devotees of pie
$ ure, ease, or selfish greed for money. I
{, highest satisfactions often accompany I
= most seIf-denying duties. Let us, the
o fore, stand to the work assigned us, rene
e bering that in this way only can We sect
II the highest happiness here, and receive |
- speaL able reward hereafter.