The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-19
Va1edfetOrS.

To you, our friends. we extend our
heartfelt thanks, not only for the inter
lerest you have shown in US, but also for
the help YOU have given US in various
ways in the past. AS each year passes by
We earnestly hope that succeeding
classes may BE- equally favored.
To you, the board OF regt nts, we feel
grateful for your earnest efforts in our
behalf. We appreciate the advantages
| you have given US here and the interest
which you have taken in higher odu
cation; and, as we go into our fields of
work we will try TO utilize the store of
knowledge you have been the means of
| securing To us
Beloved teachers, would that to-day
We were only coming to you with our
letters of Introduction. Never eau
we forget the happy hours
spent with YOU day after day, as you
have so carefully guided US to the door of
| learning, making our lives brighter and
lOitier by your kindness and example.
Il may be, AS we teach the srring youth
We will be able to see wherein we have
erred, aud while today is ours, We ask
you to forget and forgive and TO remem-
Der in love your boys aud girls of "a
Our president, to you Who have SO
earnestly striveu to make everything
| pleasant and instructive to US. we will
ever feel grateful. Not only haYe you
guided US IN the paths of higher intel.
| lectual learning, but above all, by your
influence and deeds, have pointed us to
higher standard OF character. II it be
your wish aud Gods will, we earnestly
hope that you may contintic here 10 guide
ami instruct the youth throughout your
| life, and when We return in imHR
ination as we'll as in reality, we
/ Ill II -.
| To welcome US and heart to sympathiZe
with US. In the autumn 0t life may you
see the grand results If your instruction
and may the seed time oil youth then re-
turn TO you hundred fCld. Thus may
the period of "Only waiting" be blessed
| with the rich fruits of a bOunteOus har-
| vest, and hallowed with the bright
thoughts of a better world
| Dtar classmates, Ills come; Ills here
all too soon the day of separation aud
good by. AS we gD forth, each to fill a
separate sphere, our thoughts will often
return to the happy, useful days spent
in gaining knOwlt dye together. The
outline of the textbooks will grow
more dim and indistinct each
year, but we will re
tain the priceless truths which they have
aided us in discovering Our studies
here are not an end, hut supply a
means by which we are better able To ap-
prectate aud master the far more intri-
cate problems which will pi esent them
selves in our lIfe's work.
We To day but lay the corner stone Of
the great supeTstructure oil life. The
foundation of our education is LAID, and
the rough materials from which we
are 10 build are scattered everywhere
about us.
As tokens are sealed up in e corner
stone, so are the honors, flowers, con
gratulatiOns aud gocd-hyes sealed ur
In the memories as sacred relics to bt
opened in coming years to carry u,
back tt this eventful day. AS we are
now entering the doors of knowledge
together. may we perform our duties il
life SO faithfully that We may enter IN
to another door that ever stands open
Friends, regents, teachers. class mates
good bye!
Succeeding the valedIctory csme The
charming chorus Here in Cool GFot,
in which the school Joined and made The
assembly room resound with harmony.
At the close OF the literary part of III,
program, after making the announce.
meuls for the afternoon and evening
! President Taylor addressed the class q
follows:
Young Ladies and Gentlemen:
. You are about to step over the thresh
hold into a a new life your anticipation
are fast becoming realiz ATOMS. YoJ
; have completed your apprenticeship
and are now 10 enter the field as jour
neymen. Though it Is not field brisil
ing with spears or cleaning with ban
! neFs, 1t is no less glorious. You are &
become the factors in shaping the edu
5 cation of this great west. Your work il
! the past shows that you will do we'll il
; the future. We would have you de
7 voted % truth, TO manhood. and q
} country. We need scientists and philOsl
: pliers, but We need men of brain AM
[ men OF heart.
{ The poet has said: why, in tina
] elder day 70 be Roman was greater thAl
kings" but il is always greater to BE-
: man. Oh. that you and all thHse VIII
: follow In your footsteps would hold hig
{ the torch of truth, for in that sign an
T that only can you become conqueTers.
To you, gentlemen of the board of n
D gents, we present this the graduatiD
{ class OF "a
3 The SECRETARY of the board, NJ
{ Dickson, after addressing the char An
D the class, said:
8 We have long been associated tOgttl
! CT most happily IN this school, but no
J you are going out Ia your work IN d
q world. On behalf Of the regents clio
+ me 70 express my appreciation of u
e work you have accomplished. We f.
4 proud Of our connection with such &
{ institution, and il shall be OF
r ann 20 do what il in cur pow
= to increase the buildin;
a and other facilities in accordance wi
q the growth of the school We belize
Ie the time Is coming when this will be n
best school rot only IN the state but
4 the Wes'. Upoa YOU depends the futu
p of this school We don't want 70 ur,
II this pressingly for we feel that II is o
& necessary. We present 10 you (turniE
~ to the class these diplomas today n
b. only as token of our appreciation
10 your WORK in the past bot as . token
our trust in you for the futuT
is Feel assured that whenever you can cor