Arizona republican., 1894-05-26

liver the class address. after explain ing his presence hy aecribing 1t to the innate vanity of man which in the present instance had been judiciousIy tickled by Prof. Wollam in inducing him to appear he remarked that in the midst of so much immaculate loveli- ness he felt like a black holly hook in g garden of lilies. Continuing he said
 When the giadiatorS who were doomed to speedy and mortal combat marched along the arena in front of the imp, riai benches, custom decreed that they should raise the mailed hands in greeting, and thus rendering their courtesy and allegiance to the emperor, cry out: "Hail, Cesar we wbo are about to die salute you"
 With greater reason may those who began life ip the first half of the present century stan l before you dear girls and boys; yo1 who Gre imperators of 6 realm of time whose con fines may extend beyond the first half of the coming century, and in love and greeting for your youth, and in love and reverence for your future, cry; Hail youthi Bail hopel those whose early years have passed down the eur rent Of time salute yOuW
 l scarcely know which will prove the greater privilege, to have lived during the last half of the nineteenth century, or to yet live during the first half of the twentieth century. What the future holds we may only predict but the yield ot the past is in onr grasp and our arms
 
 that humanity grows us the grass and the flowers and the trees growth pulses. We know that civilization advances as the tide; adyance-wlth periods Of cessation between the throbs, and We also know that the last half century of the life of the world has been apparently a march without halt
 All reforms, all inventions, all discoveries, all great works and deeds of man had their and realization in action. Angelo saw the dome of Saint Peters in his dreams before he swung it in air. The thought of Columbus beheld the Hesperides while yet his caravels struggled with unknown seas The mind of Newton followed the course of the swinging planets long before he announced the principle of gravitatlOn. Our fathers organized this re public in their thoughts before the first shot of the revolution was fired, and the white lights blazed and the telephone spoke for Edison while he was working for $10 week for the Western Union company.
 As with the thought of an individual so with the thought of an epoch. It moves in pulses and impulses, and in no period of the worlds history repeat has there bean such rapid evo- lutlOn ill the thought and action Of mankind as m the period through which we have passed and are passing. The path of the later years has been rendered luminous with achieve ments in knowledge, in philosophy, in inven- ton, in sciences and in the arts, and it is lined with letters which have been broken from the bodies and souls of men.
 The future is for you young Caesars of the coming century. Have patience then with us who nave helped to accumulate your heritage while we enumerae some of our achieve ments. What contributions and what names have not the nineteenth century added to lit erature 10 art, to science, to oratory, to music, to invention, to statesmanship, to arms, and to philanthropy? What immortal deeds to hero ism? What glories to nations? And what shall we say Of the errors that science has dis sipated with lens and crueibles, Of the rights that have been established. or the wrongs that have been redressed. of the struggles and a-tG G,anr Nf hr1,,, EOil and in forum, of the moral growths under the impetus of which nations have been lifted to higher planes of thought and action? The men and women of the coming generations will need to accomplish much if they shall be able hal. century hence to point to fifty years of su4A achievements as history must accord to the age through which we have passed.
 It is true that for the moment the air is full of discomfort which only proves however that stagnatlon is not the law, but the result ot in fringement upon some universal principle. All nature tends to uprising and occasional revolt It is thus she gathers her forces for advance and marks her methods of growth.
 It is rhe function of wisdom and experience to lay cheek upon the wrong, and give direction and encouragement to the right, and IL is to this end that our res 1urces are laid under con- tribution. To develop the possibilities within you; to train your hands to the magnetic br1dle of seltgOvernment; to stimulate the subtletles of your expanding brains to the prophetic vision only glimpsed through the lens of truth;
 
 broaden your mantle of charity; to strengthen your discernment of error; to teach yourselves that measure of self restraint and self control incomputable in the mathematics of Archi- medes or Galileo-that is your study and your privilege young men and women, and in this work you will realize every day and hour the benefit of your labors here.
 No edifce can be erected without founda- tion, and the education of the school-room Is the foundation of the House Of Life Upon 1t we build the structure which never is com pleted on earth; the structure whose building must continue upward until we carry its sum- nit beyond the reach of human vision. The education of the school house is but the pre- psrAtive preliminary to the greater education of the world. All our lives we gather Knowledge | not merely from books but from events, from l men, from nature and her infinite voices from humanity and its illimitable lessons, from the ant tOi lding under its burdens, and from the | planets coursing in their circles. The chief value of the education you have received my | dear girls and boys is that by it you have learned how Jo learn. Your habits of obserya | ton, Of memory and of reflection have been expanded and strengthened and traiLed. You have been better fitted for the race and battle and whatever may be the case in the other life 1 yet in this life the race is generally to the swift and the battle to the strong-the proverb to the | contrary notwithstanding.
 | If were a teacher for the young, and by this l mean no criticism upon the excellent meth ods in vogue, I would frs enumerate those l things in which have found my own educa' l llUu uueICcllfc-duu Illhb NOulu 6hlDIdCc dpOut all that one teacher ought to know. 1 would place morals and manners hand in hand tC 1 lead the column, and let music and mathe matics bring up the rear. The ciga cite smok ing boy and the gum. chewing girl should be | placed in one cell with only (llke the victims of Dante's Inferno) 8 tantaiizlng and impas- sable wall of tamarack and tobacco between them. [Laughter.l There should be g single standard of morality for meI and women. islander and malicious gossip should be punished with SO cial 0stracism. and every young lady should | be taught how to get up and sit down whether ! she knew how to make coffee or not.
 Aim high young friends, and make a point i of reaching your aim. If parchance you fa1 i below, go at it again with rednubled zest. Higf and int1eXible purpose is truth upon cycle swift, silent and sure 10 get there. If you fine your natural capabilities limited, if you fail tC accomplish the hysteTi@al steps of the chro metic scale, or to comprehend the sexes of the i French nOuns or to understand the tune table of the Maricopa railroad, or to guess on which side Ph9Eix Republican politician will turu up after election no mat ter. [Laughter.l Be sure there i | something you are fitted for, something you can do thoroughly well, and it is your business in life to find out what that something is Don't fTitter away your time to attempt tho impossible Remember that geni s is judg ment. The colOred brother who was haunted day and night by the letters G. ?. C., believed at first that this was divine call to go preach Christi but after his ministrations had driver away the congregation, he concluded that tht letters really meant ''go plant corn" Laugh teri.
 would not crowd you into other footprints Every young man and every young woman wht lives g. life worth living must live an indl vidual life. No two of us see from exactly the same point of view only arrange your auge! Of vision truthfullv and conSclentOusly. Tem