The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-02
wITH.HoNoR
To Themselves, Their Friends
and Their Teachers,
Eleven Pupils OF the New Lexington
High School Graduate. y

eve must educate, we must educate,
or we must PERISH" was the immortal
utterance OF one who understood the
fact that progress depended upon en-
liahtenment and that the security of the
State hinged upon the culture and NOR
ality OF its people. In the presence of
those institutions of learning, provided
and iostered by the genius OF our coun.
try, the danger of perishing from lack of
culture is obviated and the sacred insti.
tutions OF home and country are secured
in the enlightened refinement of free
people.
The commencement exercise of the
New Lexington high school were OF
character to STRENGTHEN the conviction
that the future will be brighter than the
present. When the young are able not
only to resist the allurements OF pleasure
and the calls OF convenience, but to sub
nit themselves to the severe discipline
and mental application necessary in the
preparation for successful work, no fears
need be INDUCED that the character OF
American citizenship will deteriorate or
lose caste through ignorance and vice.
The graduating class roll Of the New
Lexington high school for 1902 hold the
following names Mabel Beck, Marie
Cohn, Grace Earl, George Robbins, Mary
Adams, Gertrude l.. Redkey, Rose Cohn,
Leata Woodmansee, Sallie M. Pensyl,
Bertha Challendar and NJ. Francis Lar.
kin, eleven in all, one male and ten
females.
To mention one OF these names apart
from the rest would seem invidious, and
as we recall the effort of each we are
conscious that equal merit and excellen.
cy marked them all. To say that each
and every essay evidenced high de-
gree OF mental culture and drill, would
be but to repeat the words of the five
hundred intelligent people who listened
in pleased attention to each, who in
their turn delivered their best thoughts
upon the subjects assigned them in clear,
pure and forcible language that all could
hear and understand. Not break, not
a failure, not even mistake in the pre-.
gramme to mar the harmony Of the .oc-
casfon 'pf1vokeaiie criticism OF "Mrs
Grundy,' Evidence Of profound study
and persistent effort was everywhere
present and the conviction grew that
these young minds had been under the
direction OF one who had been trained to
think and work and who was permeated
with the conviction there was no "ex.
cellency without great labor" After
the reading Of the essays and the distri.
button of the presents, which were mum.
erous and costly, came the bestowal OF
the diplomas by the Superintendent, R.
B. Barrett. +"
1t is said BY Charles Dickens, in his
preface to David Copperfield, II may be
regarded as partial parent toward all
my mental children, but I have en-.
shrined within my heart OF hearts one
favorite child and his name is David
Copperfell." But cultured Dick Bar
rett had no favorite child in all that class
and as he handed each the roll OF parch.
ment. which by merit they had won, it
could be plainly discerned that no secret
heart burnings were present to destroy
the bond Of love and esteem that united
pupil and teacher. The address OF Supt.
Barrett to the. class was short but to the
point, no effort at display or oratorical
effect, but a plain sensible talk fitting
the occasion and Of value because of its
practical good sense and utility in their
struggle with the world. r. B. Barrett
is a school teacher BY profession and is
proud OF his calling. He is not using
the position OF teacher as stepping
stone to some other calling but with
heart and mind engaged in his work
fills the picture that Lord Brouehsm
draws: "Let the soldier be abroad il he
will he can do nothing in this age.
There is another parsonage abroad-a
person less imposing-in the eyes Of
some, perhaps, Insignificant. The
schoolmaster is abroad aud trust to