Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-06-07
To the Mt. Hope Graduates.
ADDRESS OF WIN WHITE, ESQ, PRESIDENT
OF Mt. HOPE SCHOOL BOARD.

Nnu OhNouha SiDS observation-disclosures, ana i
have no donbt you are somewhat wiser
and better equipped for the labors of
our calling and for all noble services.
because of the experience through
which you have passed in this school
year just ended.
You are hot an audience of strangers
but of friends. SEE all around me- the
familiar faces OF those who look into
my face with the genial. kindly recog-
mite n which tells OF sympathetic feel
ing born of kindred labors, pursuits
and aspirations; and some of us, of
whom | am one, have attained an age
when these meetings. so marked 0v
kindly. cheerful enjoyment, are priced
the more, because. in the inevitable
course of events. there can be but few
yet in store for some of us.
This work of acquiring an education
cannot be aceompli, he'd in few
months. l. requires years of hard stu
dy. but to many this seems too slow;
everything must be done at lightning
spet d by too many. A boy is consider.
ed but half-witted if he cannot COM
| plete his education by attending high
school or college two or three months
AS rule young people easily tire of
the prospect of even spending several
years of their lives in dilieent. earnest
study. They are anxious To g-t into
business and 60 out into the world,
merely to occupy medium positions
among their fellows. In student life.
the motto OF everyone should be mot
how soon, but how WE'LL"
Ii it takes seven or eight YEARS 10
complete course and do it we'll. take
that much time, and never in sitter life
will there be the least cause for regret.
The prime object of education is not to
store the mind with facts. The first
and most important end is to discipline
the mental faculties. to make stronger
and moro comprehensive the minds
grasp, to develope all there is in the
boy to make the man.
With this object in view, with a
high moral sense and an earnest and
lofty ambition to do good in the world,
let our boys seek the benefits of the
most liberal training of the best school
of our land. Then will he develop into
an evenly balanced, wel'-poised. we'll
roundabout, complete specimen of
manhood.
What shall our boy now doe This /
take itaepends upon g. propcr answer
TO question, which every young man
kmay well address to himself, viz: I'm
what vocation can | make my life OF
the greatest possible value to others
and thus 10 MYSELF"
Many young men evade this ques-
ton by asking another, ''How cen |
have the softyst snap7" By complete
failure in life, to properly answer the
former Our young man should car :
fully study himself, his abilities, his
tastes. and his attachments, and from a
careful estimate be will know in what
IL he is confident he can do The most
good as ply stefan, let him be ply
stefan; as a lawyer, let him be law
| yer; il as a clergy man. then a clergy
man; if as a mechanic. then mechan-
ic; il as a farmer, then by all means let
him be farmer, which think is more
worthy, more honorable, more enobliDg.
1t is by no means an evidence OF lack VI
ability to remain on the farm. One OF
the boys in family is better fitted to
follow law; his brother may be better
qualified to follow the pillow. This
does not prove greater ability in the
former. The latter may be just rs
strong in character and as capable to
| fight LIES battles, as the former. The
difference is in the kind of ability, not
the amount.
Let rs look az few OF these men
Henry Clay. as he tells it himself, how
marvellous that fifteen shillings that he
received for the first case he ever had,
looked 10 him He had rather be risst
than be President. Take Abraham
Line lin The first money he ever
earned was showing off in a tlatboa,
with couple If trucks 10 boat in the
Mis8issjpp;. IN he tells you thar Ii
looked bigger than the tull moon 10
him. He va. bound to get an edaca
| t on. and not haring 4 slate or paper OF
| blackboard. he sm00thed eff the III hes
! in his ruttnfr's baartbstone aud tneft
| traced out ihs eiaraet If the great
chat Of his eountfy's freedom -
| that ne could understand L. And tel
me Of any man III tie world that ever
better exp aimed il. Look at him telk-
ING over his dead eountrymen at Iel
tYsburg and he tells yon that this Is d
cou1 try at The people, by the people
and for the people. and prays O. d thai
i mav never perish from the earth
vt - aisa L;2e3'n regretted s
want of an education. DO not eonfound
these ideas
Go down 10 Tennessee. ! think 10
the village of Greenville, you will see
"A. johnson, tailor Go outside of
the city and look at that massive mar.
Bile monument end read Andrew John
son. President of the United States. "
60 back. il you please. and see him
sitting on bis tailor's bench cutting
cloth for his customers But he could
not read the name of the maker of the
Shears which be used, till his good wife
taught him.
Wa. : s, Garfield? Garfield mot
friend who aided him to get an educa
ton. DO not confound this idea. that
because . man is very smart he has
educakion want to call attention 10