The Washington times., 1894-06-19
BUSINESS is THEIR BENT
Three Score Lads and Lasses Turned
Into the Commercial Arena.
A HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
Trustee Bowen Gives Appropriate Words Of
Advies-Invocation BY Rev. Rush Ship
pen-Commissions Ross Awarded the
Diplomas-Many Of the Alumni Present

Three score boys and girls wsfs sent forth
into the world last night from tho Business High
school to fight for laurels in life
Armed with the experience gained In q two
years course Of practical business instruction,
given the benefit Of the most advanced sducs-
tional ideas, and with their work passed upon
In series Of rigid examinations, thirty-two
young ladies and twenty-eight young men, who
formed the graduating class Of '94 Of the Bus-
ness High school, stepped forward on the plat
form Of the Central high School hall and re-
ceived their diplomas
High school alumni and their friends occupied
nearly every available seat and stood in the
nsss and The tn.
b. Powell, Paul It. Bowen, and Principal c. A
Davis AS the strains of the opening march died
away Rev. Rush r shippen, pastor of All Souls
church, delivered the invocation.
Words OF advice to guide the business careers
about TO be entered upon were delivered by
trustee Bowen in his address to the graduating
class, IN part as follows:
Those who are embarking on the commercial
seas are usually told of the great pecuniary ad.
vantages that flow from honesty, industry, per.
seVerence, temperance economy and q host OF
kinGred virtues. You will escape that tonight.
There is danger that you may have heard
tne value OF honesty extolled until you have
assumed degree of good faith on the part Of your
fellow man that will cause you serious losses
and sore disappontments before you acquire
thescaution and dstrust that come from ripper
experience. A proper course OF business in
struction would develop to tie student the
practical morality of business life, not TO make
MIN eN pert In thevices of competitive enterprises
and to prepare him TO defeat them with fore
sight, intelligence, and integrity.
DO not think that you have failed tonight to
receive good business advice II you attend
well to the business OF good health good society.
and good minds, the business Of getting living
will take care OF itself. The Savior gave his dis
ciples q political economy which 10 sound and
workable to-day, when he told them not 70 think
Of food, clothing. and shelter, but to seek first
the kingdom OF God and His righteousness, and
all those things should be added unto them.
Tonight you reach your educational majority.
AS We pull the props of infancy away, We do 1t
in confidence that you have done your part, and
We have done our part we'll that you can
stand alone as independent men and women.
and though We know the value Of preparation
and the winning power of effort, we also know
that fortune is not a mythical deity, and thst
chance plays great part in the affairs Of men.
So in parting we wish you abundance OF good
luck"
who had been expected TO deliver the diplomas,
Commissioner Ross performed that service. The
members of the graduating class were:
William A Biondi, William n. Birchard. Edgar
7. Brandenburg, George S. BUTT, Robert D.
Carter, John H. Collier. Robert W. Frey,
John L Fugitt, Thomas Grant, Isaac
Gregg, Irwin Hollander, waldemar Jansen.
Charles c. Lamborn, Thornton T. Lemon, Frank
j. Mcdonald, Frank F. Mckernan. Thomas s
Merrill, Ralph C. Muller, Henry n North, Frank
B. Parry, Harry A Pierce, George z Potter,
Frederick II. Ritter, Harry Sanger, John O.
Sheehy, DanielP. Sigourney, Augustus F. Specht,
Joseph p Stubener, Charles s White, Henry R
Wilkening, Henry C. Wilson, Hubert Young,
Fanny L Andrews. Molie W. Armand, Jennie
G. Booth, Lille Burnstine, Florence B. Calla-
han. Harriet h Carey, Katherine j. Carey,
AIDA D. Carroll. Jessie G. Croney. Edith s.
Dyer, Nellie D. Edison. Coda NJ Gideon, Mamie
E Goodrich, Rosa Herzog, Gertrude A Higham,
Louise NJ. Hughes, Marie L. Kemon, Grac- NJ.
Martin, Edna E. Mattox, Clara B. Milligan,
Duanna Z. Mitchell, Allie A. Parker Eleanor
Strauss. Alice E. Stuard. LOWE L Thomas, Bessie
s. Tyler, Nellie ". Vincent, and Berthe B. Yost