The record-union., 1891-07-31

grace and ease of veteran of the stage.
Cyrus Miller as Gratiano and Fred FL
worthy as Bassanio, and Charles Goethe
as the Duke are also deserving especial
for the manner in which they
recited their respective parts.
THE vALEDICToRY.
After the stage had been reset and the
graduates had reappeared, Miss Nellie
Mott, who achieved the honor of deliver
ing the valedictory, addressed the Assem-
bly,. Her remarks We're brief, delivered
with clearness, and in feeling manner
She referred to the pleasant days the
class had spent in the High School during
the course of study in that institution,
and Of the care and patience the teachers
had shown in instructing those under
their charge. All, she said, could not
achieve fame, but there was achieve
ment which everyone could and ought to
seek, and that was TO be brave and honest
men and women, and to always keep be-
fore them the motto Of the class, "Ad
AStra.''
Judge G.. 4. Blanchard then delivered
the address of the evening. "At the
close of your school days" he said,
''you find yourselves at the beginning
of your course in the great University of
the World, the college where all attend
with varying success and with varying
honOrs. In your career thus far you
lGdNG DGulHu you 1dllLlul L0dCUpfS anu
the common school which an enlightened
country has provided for all her children;
before you there opens the broad vista of
life and of the world. Still, if you are
wise, you will find teachers and school
whose studies and discipline are as diff
cult and as eXacting to those who would
succeed as any you have heretofore en-
countered. The love of learning, which
all of you are supposed to possess, you
will N rNnrf11it To lannniSo or Tin olltt for.
want of cultivation. You will find prob
lens for daily application which will tax
your ingenuity and call into use all of
the mathematics you have learned.
TO Keep your place in the class your
knowledge of general science of history
and of literature must not only not be
allowed to gather rust but must be from
time to time renewed and increased by
material additions. Such acquaintance
ship as you have made with the Ian
guages, ancient and modern, you cannot
afford to have suffer by neglect or relapse
into mere bowling acquaintance. Your
day and age give you great opportunities,
and it has right to expect and does de-
mand much of you. You are marked
CHILDREN OF FORTUNE,
Sharing the wealth and resources of a
great nation, and your country as an in
dulgent parent has a right to demand of
you SOlllG ueT DOuuIy III ulVl-
dends from you paid in good citizenship
and the elevating influence of increased
culture, mental and moral. You are now
just fairly started, no more, and what you
may do hereafter will depend more upon
yourselves then heretofore. In your de-
sire to continue the cultivation of the
science to which your studies have intro
duced you, you will meet with obstacles
to surmount and difficulties to overcome;
the apathy of the many and the actual
discouragement of the few unappreciative
of the value of utility of the learning of
the schools and the companionsbip Of
books. In the distracting din of the
worlds noise about you you may always,
if you viii, hear the music which divine
philosophy makes for the soul.
How charming is divine philosophy
Not harsh and grabbed as dull fools suppose
But musical as is Appollo's lutte,
And perpetual feast of nectared sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
''In the buzz and trundle of the haste to
get rich in this high pressure age, do not
cease to carry your school Satchel where
ever you go. If you have the true learners
instinct the friendships of youth will be
renewed and kept green SO long as you
live. Mental and moral culture is the
true object of all education, and is indeed
about all there is OF value to cultivate in
this life. Your school studies, as mental
SS lllhooL1SS O1ll dAS VI luGSllludDl6
value in all the stages of ones career.
THE mental culture desired is not to
be had solely from the mechanical
mastery of language or the dull perusal
of books, but books cannot be ignored in
any scheme of educational advancement
Who would go through life without
testing the delight of some converse with
the saints, sages and patriots of other
times and of all countries? Knowing the
greatness of our own Washington, would
one be satisfied not to speak with those
who held up his hands and acted a part
in the founding ofa great nation. Ian
guage as nearly allied to history presents
most inviting field for excursions in
and out of school. Our mother tongue
with its origin i'll so many and divers
peoples, and in its cradle neighbor to the
very dawn of creation itself, offers to her
students treasures richer than those ever
discovered by the explorer Of new seas.
The Saxon and Scandinavian grating
steady and vigorous shoots upon the
polite and facile Norman and Iberian
stem; French, the language of the court,
the scholar and philosopher, these and
more will, with little wooing, show you
more of pleasure than could be described
within these limits.
The tracing of q single word of COM
mon and constant use back to Zoroaster
and the birth of Buddha will bring you
iiitO tLlo CudIilSu IcBlOu dDOtt 1dfaQ1Se
itself. Science, which in our time it is
a crime for any one to totally neglect
has made such advance of late years
as the imagination had not spanned
fifty years ago. History can be courted
all the time;
she is the owner Of tina sphere
OF the seven stars and the solar year
OF CHsar's hand and Plato'S brain
OR Lord Christs heart and Shakespeare
strain.
Literature will be a sweet solace tC
| you at all times when consolation is most
sweet to the taste. At no hour of youl
| life will the love of letters ever oppress
you as burden or fail you as resource
In the vain and foolish exultation of the
heart which the brighter prospects of life
sometimes excite, the pensive poetess OF
| her holy cell. In the notifications OF
disappointment her soothing voice shal
| Whisper serenity and peace.
| I'm social converse with the mighty
dead of ancient days you will never
smart under the CALLING sense of depend
ence upon the mighty living of the pres
ent age. And in your struggles with the
world should crisis ever come when
even friendship may deem it prudent to
| desert you, when priest and Levite shall
come and look on you and pass by on the
other side, seek refuge, and be assured
I'VE shall find it'' in the friendship ol
| Llnlius and Scipio, in the patriotism o.
| Cicero, Demosthenes, and of Burke, as
well as in the precept and example o
| Him whose law is love, and who taught
us to remember injuries only to forgive
| them"
! PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
Before presenting the diplomas to The
! graduates Superintendent Hart could no