The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-13

fare depend upon the quality of skilled
labor, how important is it then that
such training form no incOnsiderable
part of all education that aims at COM
plefeness. The kindergarten has al
most reyolutionized the old system of
primary instruction. Manual training
which is no longer an experiment in
Europe is fast obtaining recognition in
America.
Much of every mans happiness de-
Ponds upon the right use or misuse of
his sensibilities. The period of youth
is the time to educate the strong af-
fections into symmetry and beauty.
Music and drawing which are taught
in our city are recognized as essential
TO a school course now and are con-
sidered of Importance by progressive
boards of education.
Many men and women go through
the world unhappy and unblessed be-
cause they cannot appreciate the
beauty all around and above them.
they pass through life unresponsive to
the glory and charms of this delight
full world because in their youth they
were not taught to look with open
eyes upon the paradise around them.
Men and women of equal intelli-
gence may differ widely in their politi-
cal and religious views, but every one
must agree that no system of educa-
ton is entitled to public confidence
which does not educate the moral fac
ulties, instruct conscience, instill a
love for truth and truthfulness, culti-
waite an exalted patriotism, implant a
high sense of honor which cannot en-
dure falsellood or impurity, and exalt
the sense of Righteousness in the
world.
Various classes of people protest
against higher education at the public
expense. The American common
wealth was founded on universal intel
ligence, instruction in knowledge and
virtue. In 1886 provision was made by
the colonists of Massachusetts, for the
maintenance of a. grammar school, af-
ter which John Harvard came to the
assistance of the new enterprise with
means to supplement the appropriation
by the government.
The example which the fathers set
has been followed by an honoring pos
terity, and now education is within the
reach of rich and poor alike without
distinction.
MISSION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
The high school is one of the strong
est links in our system of education
To it we must look for teachers to
serve in the elementary schools. 1t is
the function of the normal school to
train in the art of teaching those who
already possess the requisite scholar
ship. When the normal school is
obliged to do the work of the high
school in imparting knowledge of the
subject matter of mathematics and lit
erature and history and science, in adj
dition to it's proper work Of instruction
in the science and art of teaching, the
result is unfavorable to the public
treasury and to the profession of
teaching
The perpetuity of the nation itself
is vitality dependent upon the kind and
degree Of education bestowed upon it's
citizens. AS never before we want
men whose training enables them to
grapple with the questions which are
now agitating the country and holding
all industries in suspense. In the place
Of statesmen we have politicians. In
the place of ability and learning and
honesty we have weakness and ignor-
ance and demagogism. From the
standpoint of public safety it would
be wiser to refuse the children of the
country instruction in even the rudi-
ments of knowledge, if they are to be
denied the opportunity of receiving
the mind from bondage and to disci-
pline it for the conflicts of life.
"a little knowledge is dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or touch not the Pierian
Spring
The only consistent policy is to
make education in its fullest, broadcast,
completest sense open and accessible
to all. The objection that only the
few who receive the education are
benefited by it rests upon the false as
sumption that knowledge and disci-
pine are exclusively a selfish posses
sion. AS well might one declare that
only the people OF this city would be
benefited by the erection of a capitol
building. Horatio Seymour said:
What you gain to adorn and feed
your mind you gain for all around you.
When you use your property you take
away its use from all others; when
you use your knowledge you can do
so only by giving it out to the COM
munity in which you live In other
words, a completely educated man or
woman is public benefaction.
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
The Girls Chorus club sang Day
break" after which Principal Malone
in a few appropriate remarks pointed
out to the graduates the Importance of
the step they were about to take and
admonished them that the spiritual re-
alities of life ought TO be sought as we'll
as the intellectual and material. The
diplomas, tied with the class cotors,
blue and white, We're then presented.
During the singing of the last song,
Good Night" the ushers were kept
busy bringing floral tributes to the
graduates. At the close of the exer-
cises all the friends of the various
young men and women crowded about
them to congratulate them
THE GRADUATES.
The names of the graduates are as
follows: George Edward Aris, Clarissa
Alice Beesley, Damaris Annette Bee
man, Bertha Bishop, Carrie Ellen
Davis, Rollin Wilbur Dole, Florence
Dye, Earl Dunshee, Emma Hall
Fisher. James Todman Goodwin, Flora
Tiford Griffen, Florence Maria Hall.
Harry Hamilton Hampstead Nina
Marie Hicks, Katherine Marguerite
Jelfch, Arthur Osgood Johnson, Nina
Belle Kendell Harriette Lorraine
King, William Byington Lister, Alice
Lavina. Manning, Valentino Rhoda
Murphy, Pearl Elsie Newcomb. Leah
Oppenheimer, j. Fred Odell William
John Patterson, Gertrude Margaret
Reilly, George Harris Smith, Grace Luz
ella Snyder, Sybil Juliette Stewart. E,s-
tella Kate Watson, Winnifred White
head, Claire Jessie Whitehead. Beatrice
Wilkinson, Ethel Gertrude WINNER.
Elizabeth Williamson, Gordon William
son.
NORTH AMERICAN SAENGERBUND.
PITTSBURG, June 12-The twenty
eighth national saengelfest of the
North American saengerbund closed