Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-30
THE SCHOOLS.
CLOSING EXERCISES AT THE HIGH
SCHOOL.
Addresses by Professor Anderson
and Superintendent Laine-
Names Of Graduates.


The pupils of the High School assembled
at the school building at 1880 4 NJ yester-
day to receive their reports for the year.
Although no extended exercises were pre-
pared, DR.. Lame delivered very impress
sive address to the graduates, whose names
are appended, after which the President of
the Board Of Education, Richmond Davis,
presented the diplomas TO the graduating
class After a piano solo by Mrs n f.
White, Professor Anderson made a few
earnest and eloquent remarks to the class
of 50, admonishing them TO further and
greater efforts, encouraging them to perse-
we're in the important work which they had
begun, and proving to them the vast ad-
vantages which are reaped from good
education. In conclusion, he spoke crate
fully of the kind reception with which he
had met from the class, and of which he
would ever cherish a tender recollection.
At the close OF his remarks the classes re-
paired to their respective rooms, where
their reports for the year were distributed
to them.
SUPERINTENDENT LANES REMARKS.
Young LadjcS and Gc3tiemen am called
upon, through the courtesy Of your teach.
ers, to take part in your last day in the
Sacramento High School. ! would be glad,
indeed. to say anything that could add to
your qualification of the present, or that
would be to your benefit in the future. 1t
would give me great pleasure 10 trace the
progress of each member Of this class from
infancy to the present time. Each one of
rs possesses Il distinct and independent
mental and physical organization, yet there
is a samenesS almost commonplace in the
birth and family training of the indi-
yidual. Each child has been trained
not 10 disturb the convenience
of the parents, and each has acquired the
little arts which will help in maintaining
the economy of the household. Each one
of you went to bed at night rose and
dressed in the morning i'll preparation for
the duties of the day. Each one was sent
to school, and each one felt thrill of pride
when you knew the alphabet apd learned
the multiplication table. You remember
how happy YOU were when you graduated
from the primary into the grammar de
partnent Do you remember what n
number of others were with you at
that time? several hundred, at least.
You then knew how TO read. You could
even spell little, and knew something of
figures and the geography of your State.
Year after year Won advanced in the grades
of the Grammar School. This was not
done without pauscS and dehections from
YOUR onward course. There were times
when the boys didn't want 10 learn any
more They wanted 10 quit school and go
away and hunt and play and be pirates or
tramps. They did not like to read. Arith-
metic was distastcful, grammar nauseous,
geography useless and physiology beastly.
And as for drawing, it was senSeless and
harmless while writing was positively
ruinous to a boys delicate nervous system.
Many fell by the wayside Some wanted
to continue but could not. Some were car
ried out of the stream by i'll health. Some
moved away SO that each advance lessened
the number OF those of you who started on
this campaign Some dropped out willing
". and, if they live, will consume them
selves with that most corroding of re-
morses, neglect OF opportunity.
You then came as young men and
women into the High School You were
deemed to have acquired all that the State
is permitted 10 give you in common
school education \ GU had obtained the
rudiments of am English education. When
you graduated from the primary schools
Won had already acquired sufficient to en-
able you to learn almost any branch OF
knowledge unaided You knew how to
read When You graduated from the gram
mar schools you had q technical knowledge
that it would require years Of private read
ing to compensate for. You were, for your
ages. comparatively well educated. The
world was before you, and you chose the
High School Your little band diminished.
and has continued 10 diminish, until q
score are all that remains OF the number
that bean TO climb the ladder when you
did You have been taught in this school
how to study as men and women. You
have been taught to think. You have
achieved huge triumph. You have
done your parents a great honor. You have
done yourselves an inestimable benefit.
and, though you Go not realize it, YOU have
digniiied your posterity by giving them
parents they need no be ashamed OF,
Your connection with this school has
made lasting impression upon you-au
impression that will be detected in twenty
years or more. You are about to 20 forth,
armed with high school diploma
ard youthful enthusiasm, to battle with
the world. Some of you young ladies
viii retire to the refining priyacies of your
bomes-some Of you will be future teach
crs III our schools To you we look for the
perpetuation Of YOUR noble example. Some
of you young gentlemen will stop where
you are Others viii go to the State Uni
versitv for further advancement. Others
will become merchants. mechanics. farm
ers. Some will choose professions. but you
will always be dignitied by n correct de-
pertinent, pure English, and that uncon-
scious but distinguished air obtained by
the training under your masters III the
Sacramento High School 1t is something
to have started in Il race and won.
| would have you look upon
practical life as succession of races. You
cannot win them all 1t is better that you
should not but if you enter the lists will
ingly, remember the past; remember that
you have won before, and never relax a
muscle until your race is nobly won at last
There is honor even in defeat there IS
heroism. there is chivalry, without either
of which your education will have been but
the burnishment of base metals.
Do not understand from my remarks
that your success in life is assured because
of your past proficiency Nothing can be
farther from the fact it merely increases
YOUR opportunities And let me say to you,
young men, that if you stop here you will
be distanced i'll few years by some boy
vino never got ABOVE tne DIlIudIleS anu ms
been working daytime and reading nights.
If YOU keep on top you must keep moving.
If you would attain an aim, you must make
sacrifices of all personal inclinations to ease
and self-indulgence. | feel that it would
be superAuous to give advice to the young
ladies. Yet ] cannot refrain from a word
OF caution. Do not inform any one of the
fact that you are educated Don't tell any
one of it keep it to yourselves as secret.
Do not expect any consideration on ac-
count of your attainments. If you do you
will be disappointed You will see young
ladies who have not learned geometry,
algebra nor Latin hold their places in so
ciety with even better grace than those who
have INDUCED in these, and you will see
those whose minds you have been taught
to believe were trained, unappreciated and
neglected. They made the serious mistake
of neglecting their manners. The world
takes no note OF your minds, but the world
observes your manners. If in the manner
of q young lady there is an absence of
delicate womanliness, she is pronounced
i'll bred, and no amount of French,
music, painting and nonsense will place
her in the ranks of the Well-bred. Wealth
does not give good breeding poverty can
not take it away. 1t is the unconscious
weapon OF the defenseless against the ag-
eressions of a coarse world. 1t is the con-
servator of good morals. Let me make
your manners and | will insure your
morals.
l will say to the young men that it is
bo hoariner cf a man tOxrardc his fnllpu-S