The Monitor-register., 1896-06-19


fulfill. You, too, will cross the broad
Atlantic and will settle among the a
merry making French In the citv of Paris
attending a school of art.
When old z draws near Won 7 can
again see you re- crossing the ocean 70
meet once more with your classmates of
~. They have not forgotten you in
these years. Your works of art have found
a place in every well.chosen collection.
In you our mutto has found fulfllment-
"Patience is Genius" Your name is
famous and in nothing do you so excel as
IN drawing cats. The spirit of oontem
piative genius, of philosophic meditation,
OF pathetic tenderness which you can
portray in the countenance of a cat reminds
one OF the masterpieces of tho old Grecian
schools. Of the Polyxena, painted by
f~olygnotus, of which it was said "She
carried in her eyelids the whole history OF
the Trojan War"
We shall watch your progress and
rejoice in your success, and we shall deck
our parlors with originals or copies of
your latest creations.
For you, Belle Goforth Crothers, /
reveal that your life will be spent largely
in your own native town. You, with
your own bright, sunshiny nature, will
go On as you have MISUNDERSTANDING
the lives of others and making them
happy.
l see you seated by the fireside of your
own happy home. You have just received
a letter from your classn.ate in France
and after having read it alone to those
about you, you relate some interesting
| ouaptS rphioh happapaI duripr unnr cohnol
life; you speak of this evening and of OUR
final commencement. Memory carries
you back to this very platform and this
very moment.
am glad to know til at one member of
our class will remain in WoodstOwn to
represent the Forget. mt nots of '96 To
you it will belong to supply to the +. st
of us the missing links of interest, which
we lose by absencs, for /, too, shall not
spend all my life here. | shall not cross
the ocean either to teach others or to
study for myself, hut | shall win the
gratitude of the world in another way.
To me the Fates have shown special
favor. l, too, shall be widely known and
universally beloved. To me it will be
given by means of the Catholic rays and
mechanical improvements to revOlutionize
the present system of education. There
will be no more hard work in the school
room, no more long evenings of home
study. The world waited two Thousand
years for a Socrates to reveal the true
method of teaching. 1t has waited two
thousand more for my discovery and in
v%entiOn.
In the near funure | see myself in our
new school-house with a class of pupils
before me. l am not teaching in the old
laborious fashion. | can see the exact
condition of the brain and just what
impressions are needed; then by means of
my original continuance, l make an linden
tation here and a development there until
the mental powers of my pupils are
moulded into symmetry and beauty. The
whole process is a Joy to pupils and
teacher. Character is rounded into full
ness. The millennial day has dawned!
Do you think with such a future The
class of '96 can be forgotten? But all
this lies lot in the immediate future.
Meantime there are possibly a few more
years of difficult work before each of us
Let us strive in all the unforeseen that is
sure to tome to us $50 act well our part"
since it is only in NO doing, that tall the
honor lies."
The class song, entitled the "Graduates
Farewell" the music for which was
prepared by Miss Elsie Wright, who
presided at the piano, was sung, when
| County Superintendent Gwynne, in a neat
address, presented the diplomas to the
class graduating in the county course of
studies. They we're Misses Martha E.
Clayton, Sallie E. Fogg, Edna E. Curry,
| Nellie FL. Richman and Alfred d. Fit
craft.
Miss Emily s. Sayre, Principal of the
school, addressed the graduating class as
follows:
YOUNG LADIES OF THE CLASS OF '9G:-As
the years go by there come to each one of us
occasions of more than ordinary import
ance. Occasions which seem turning points
in our lives-milestones which measure our
journey. Such an occasion presents you
here this evening, and 1t Is fitting that you
should pause for n little to look backward
upon the past which you are leaving and
forward to the future which awaits your
footsteps.
For five years 1t has been my happy prtvi-
Iege to have you under my care. We have
spent many hours together, and L thin it is
our mutual testimony that they have been,
on the whole, happy hours.
AS pupils l have found you earnest, con-
ohA ~
word and by example you have exerted an
influence which has been wholesome and
helpful. You have maintained the good
name of our school,. Work with you has
been n ~joy-never a discomfort, and L can
not wish for you any better thing in teach
Ing than that you find such pupils as You
yourselves have been.
l greet you with cOngratulation for the
successful accomplishment of the course of
High School work. 1 trust you will consider
what you have done as only a beginning,
not an ending.
l trust your mathematical cnlture has de-
veloped your reasoning powers; your study
of history and literature has given you a
knowledge of mankind; yours study of botany
and natural science has given you a love of
nature. and your study of mind and morals
has so shaped your mental and religious
character that you will go out from your
school home to fill your place in the world
with happy usefulness.
1 rejoice that even now you have a<defi-
mite purpose in life, and l charge you to
always maintain your own self-respect. No
eradication can ever compensate for a toss
of settrespect.
l trust that purity will always character
ize your thought and action, so that your
life In this world may fit you for a life of
eternal happiness in the world to come.
And now l have the pleasure of presenting
You for graduation.
j. Ii. Reading, President of the Board
of Education, presented the diplomas to
the High School graduates in the follow
ing address:
MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDSHIP affords me
sincere pleasure to receive from the Prin-
cipal of the High School this beautiful
tribute of her skill and ability as an in
structor. You bear the impress of her
worth as a teacher and a friend. Through
your future years you will nave reason for
thank ulness that you were 30 highly fav-
ored during your school life-a privilege
enjoyed by few.
l welcome o tonight TO the world of
activity and affairs. 1t is a condition full of
promise and possibilities. Let ambition
urge you forward, provided it does not
make you dissatisfied in spirit. The great.
est height to which you can attain Is purity
of life and helpfulness to others. Self-pres-
ervation ana self-good is the first and great
est law of nature; but it is not the only law.
Take care of yourselves, and then do what
you can for those about you.
Do not imagine that your chool days are
over; you are simply advancing from the
school of theory to the school Of practice.
You are being promoted from the school of
b~ook-learning to the school of practical
results. You Will have much to learn, and
when your hair is silvered, as mine is to-
night, you will still be pupils. Indeed, this
entire earthly life of ours is one great
school, in which our spirits are trained for
the activity of the glorious life bow