The record-union., 1895-12-24
YOUNG MEN And WOMEN GRADUATES
Closing Exercises at the Sacramento
Business College.
Interesting Addresses by State School
superintendent Black and Rev.
L. II. B. Anderson.

| Last night the Sacramento Business
College closed it's twenty-fourth year
| The exercises on this occasion were
opened by Rev. Henry N. Hoyt in a
simple and direct prayer, which was
followed by a either quartet executed
by Messrs. Stever, Gates, Eizler and
kleinsorge, who gave another in re-
| sponSe to a rouSing encore
The address of the Hon. Samuel T.
Black, State Superintendent of Public
| Instruction. which followed, was
marked by the straightforward, sincere
and sympathetic manner for which this
| gentleman had become noted 1t
abounded in good sense, and was sound
and wholesome to the core. He noted
the great demand for specialists at the
present day, and instanced the fact
| Harvard offers a choice among 200 and
| 500 courses.
He emphasized the value of English
as the medium of communicating
knowledge in all other subjects and
| named, in addition, mathematics, his
tory and natural science as the neces-
sary basis of all specialization. Pass
| ing from the scholastic basis, he re-
ferred in a forcible and impressive
manner to the needed moral basis. In
his discussion of this topic he reviewed
Joaquin Miller's famous epigram,
| Money costs too much" When the man
making his toilet before his mirror is
every day conscious that he is looking
into the eyes of a cheat, fraud, thief,
ar oppressor of widows and orphans,
no matter how large his bank account,
his money has cost too much.
Continuing, Mr. Black said the ap
plicant for position should inquire as
| carefully into the integrity-the bust
ness integrity-of his employer as the
employer into the character of the ap-
| plicant. Be sure, he said, that the
| business is reputable, and your en-
! ployer an honest man. You cannot
afford to win even bread at the sacri-
fee of principle and virtue. Avoid also
| idleness as rust and death. The sound
oe your hammer heard at . in the morn
ing or 9 at night by creditor makes
him easy six months longer. ITO work
and not to genius, 1 owe my success,
said Daniel Webster.
The speaker closed by urging a study
OF the lives of Washington, Grant and
dS types Ol lHl6SIlly, liiOocSIJ
and charity for all mankind.
| Little Miss Mabel Forbes, pupil of
Mrs Fannie B. Williams, then tripped
upon the platform and delighted the
audience-startled it, one might almost
say-by her brilliant execution of a
! piano solo from "Charminade." She
was brought back by an encore that
must have thrilled the little frame of
| the child performer.
A telling song by E. S. Elkus led to
| the address to graduates by Rev T. H.
| b. Anderson. His manner of speech is
too familiar to Sacramentans to need
| description The address sparkled with
gems from first to last, of which there
is space for but one or two.
us it easy to write poetry?" someone
asked of a brilliant author. Yes, or
| impossible" was the reply. Therefore
| before you select a business sit down
and consider whether you have the
qualifications and tastes that fit you
! for it, Is it easy to be a banker? Yes,
or impossible a mechanic? yes, or inn
possible; a farmer? yes, or impossible;
| a doctor? yes, or impossible.
| Urging upon the young men the duty
to redeem trade and all callings from
the stigma resting upon them, the
speaker said: stand erect in the midst
OF your business or profession. If a
merchant, open the inner eye and see
that your little store fairly represents
your loftiest and manifest powers; if a
carpenter, that your honor is repre-
sented in every beam of timber laid, or
nail driven; if a manufacturer, do not
/ - L in IoI
ers hands; or, if a tailor, coat that
will split in the back Rise to the hight
of the traditions of your calling, and by
your life impart new glories to your al
ready honorable employment" MrAn-
derson then paid a glowing tribute to
the womanhood of past ages and con-
cIuded this part of his address as fol-
lows: Ladies of the Sacramento Bust
ness College, have the face, the eye, the
brow, the heart clear and smiling as the
lighted hearth. Whilst men are respon-
sible for winning the bread, you are re-
| sponsble for the brightness and cheer
| fulness of the home. Should you be
compelled to engage in business
should reyerses drive you to the mart
take your accomplishments and unsul-
lied virtues with you, and maintain them
as priceless jewels. They are a wealth
of which neither life nor death can rob
you"
At the close of Mr.. Anderson's ad-
dress II. H. Vanderhoof gave two solos
or the violin. one in response to an en-
core, and both of which added, if pos
sible to the artists already high repu-
tation.
The delivery of the diplomas by
County Superintendent B. F. Howard
was gracefully DONE and the exercises
were over.
Following are the names of the grad
yates:
Business Course-Miss Luise Buck
mann. Miss Minnie Jasper, Miss Anna
| Thompson, Miss Jennie Pearson, G.. N
Harris, Fred. Bonetti, Jesse Jessen.
! Percy e. Mccoy. Frank HAITI, Frank
Coyne Walter Neumann. William
Dougherty. John F. Hearne, John Riley
and Fred. Farrell.
Amanuensis Course - Miss Avilla
Crawford, Miss Phoebe Collier, Miss
Peulah Goddard Miss Mabel E. Brad
| ley, Miss Lottie Shepstone, Miss Lo-
retta Meehan, Miss Tecla M. Erickson
Miss Harriet Bradbury, Clarence
Candy, Albert Madsen. Fred. Bonetti
Mark II. Raynsford, Albert Boynton
Caesar Rodoni and H. Wayne Yarick
May Isabel Fairfield.
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