The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-15
Ninth Annual Com
nenCement Exer-
cises
Of the Michigan Mining school


0ioeS vi the michigan Mining School took
place in the Armory Opera House yester-
day afternoon. Rev W. C. Hicks opened
the exercises with prayer, and the club
orchestra followed with well-rendered
selection.
DIR. M. +. Wadsworth introduced the
speaker OF the occasion, Judge James b.
Mcmahon, OF Ludington, alluding to him
as member of that branch of our gov
eminent which is the greatest bulwark OF
constitutional liberty the judiciary.
Judge McMahon's subject was Sue
cess In Life" and his address was a
scholarly one-interesting, appropriate,
and at many times most eloquent. The
speaker started out by saying that sue
cess is measure OF merit, wealth, In.iu-
ence and power, mean success, and the lack
OF these, failure. In the common mind
success is the attaining of any object
sought worthy or otherwise, and is too
often measured by the wealth attained
indeed the dictionary definition makes
nodistinction. A gambler who can edo"
those among whom he operates il a sue
cess as surely al the attainment OF any
object means success. A man who has
risen, no matter how, ia accounted sue
cess. After an elaboration OF the above
idea, Judge Mcmahon said he desired to
modify the dictionary definition of sue
cess. He declared that, TO his mind, life
must have a high aim to be success
The aim should be definite. This age re-
quires concentration of object. Intense
application is the price OF progress.
Labor, said the speaker, ''is mans
good angel" 1t compels man to work
to attain his object in life. Life in the
Garden OF Eden would be an ideal life for
some but the world would be poor in
deed 10 successful men with the training
such life would hand down to them.
There would be no stimulation to success
in garden where there were no weeds.
Judge Mcmahon besought the young
engineers before him not to he satisfied
with mastering the knowledge OF their
profession handed down by their prede-
cessors, but to get down on their knees
to the rocks and learn something new for
themselves. Success in their profession
said the speaker, lay in more than fol
lowing the beaten paths.
Men should set for themselves an ideal
and follow it with all their might, Some
would fail OF attainment, indeed most
would, but at least man owes it to the
power that gave him life to do his best in
the sphere in which he may be placed.
After another selection by the orches.
ira. Judge Jay A. Hubbell president Of
the board OF control, in an appropriate
address, presented the graduates with
their diplomas.
The class OF 1896 is composed OF the
following gentlemen: Mining engineers
and bachelors of science, John 7. Been
Alvin Bacon, John n. Esselstyn, Solo
mon Fecheimer, Mac Graves, Ii. Albert
Joseph Houll, b. Kent, Edward f. Rus
sell, James II. 1'rethewey, E. W. Walker
William Wearne, Jr., and Ignacio M. Ter
tuche; mining engineers, Louis NJ. Har
denburgh, Will A. Hodgson, Robert S
Rose, and George Slock; bachelors o.
science, Fred W. Hoar, William j. Rash
leigh, Enrique A. Schuman, and Arthur
+. Snow.
Theattendance at the graduation exer
cises was very small. The interest which
such an institution in our midst should
excite was not shown. Scarcely bust
ness man of Houghton showed enough
interest to attend, though on occasions
loyalty to The school isloudly enough ex
pressed.