Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-04

Souledge, for you are taking a year
saor course and your training will be
Z thorough. Wehope you will strive
an;sh the course in our school. We
In YOU perfect success and we hope you
nj have all OF our successes with none
!, our failures. Make it a point to finish
~ course and graduate. | believe it is a
1aod thing, and / know from experience
shat there is a good deal OF satisfaction
: n We bid you Farewell.
Teachers, although some OF you have
.o,or been our direct instructors, yet
..our diligence in your work taught us
,naov q good lesson which we thank you
~. and hoping that you will never meet
In worse fortune than teaching the
webster schools, we bid you also fare
w,l. Mss Lawyer, your work has been
mare directly with us, we feslingly thank
rou for the many hours you have spent
i instructing us. And remember that
.oeh one OF us will always remember you
and will always hold a little warm spot
IN our hearts aside for you.
Mr.. Rock, you have surely done for us
opthat we could have asked, and if we
On all occasions would have respon ded
az we should to your untiring efforts to
load us out OF our little ruts, we would
no much farther advanced than we are
now. IL there were any little deficiencies
IN vour work with us which | cannot re-
call, we most humbly forgive them in
YOU, only hoping that you will forgive
MS some OF our many, many weaknesses.
Mr.. Rock, | cannot speak what we feel
We can thank you; we can make ourlives
such lives that your fondest hopes OF our
future would not be disappointed. That
would be the best thanks we could offer.
You have opened for us broad fields OF
literature; you have led us through
creener and greener fields OF knowledge:
you have tried to stimulate our individ-
ualty, opening with golden keys OF ex-
~perience the closets of our minds, reveal
ing, we may say, long hidden treasures
Of thought. can but poorly speak cur
thanks, but we can feel and also respect
your kind advice, which we will remem
Der and profit by it. 1t has been your
lot for about three years to stand before
US and instruct us in all the branches
and teach us in your lectures how to live
noble, honest, upright lives. We cannot
reject those truths. | have not the
power to thank you for them, for they
will be our guides to lead us ever onward
and upward toward perfection. We have
never been on intimate terms and have
not taken one another into our secret
condolences, but we can feel that aside
from our parents you are the very best
friend that we have, where we have al
ways been able to seek for aid and add
vice which was freely given, and hoping
that your efforts will be crowned with
most brilliant success and that your
future will be a happy one, we thank
you a thousand times with all our heart
Tor all that you have done Tor us, only
regretting that we have to leave you so
soon.
Dear classmates, we have assembled
asaclass probably for tn last time, to
part and leave our happy days together
as only q pleasant memory. With diff
ierent abilities, hopes, aspirations and
Inherent motives we step out from our
school into a different world, we may
say, with more difficult tasks toperiorm.
Like ships that meet, sail on a while to-
gether and then part, SO have we met
ana now Is our time to separate and
steer Tor different ports. Will we reach
'hem' 1t lies in US, in our ability to
serve. Our paths will not be strewn with
fragrant roses to make "a cushion for our
rect but our way will be OF thorns, rocks
ana burning sands.I believe it is better
20, Tor then instead OF having things
Just as we want them, we will have to
suflnount obstacles and overcome diff
hcultles. The measure of our lives will
oe the number we surmount and over
.ouhe; n would itnot, dearclassmates,
lA yns.I
wmuch more satisfactory when we have
ocome old and gray, to look back upon
Tue road that had been so difficult, and
We IN our footprints beautiful roses
growing, than to look back and see
~nere we had crushed the roses that had
nade our way easy and pleasant.
"e@Ill adhere to our motto and per
urn the task at hand and not be discoH-
'su'ed with the present on account OF
PICTURES OF the f~uture-castles in the air,
.Has always longing for the future and
1''p'slhg the duty devolving itself upon
Us today.
inose who live in the present never
q or cannot be disappointed, for
snea they do not expect roses where they
INV tnorns. We will not be in a hurry
'ake partners for life, we will continue
wi educatiOn ana we must pro6t by u