New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-06-23
Their L,abors
Are Over.
Six Graduates Of the New Ulm High
School Receive Their Diplomas.
Assistant supt, Hyde Addresses the Pu-
pills and Presents the Coveted
r Parchment.

New Ulm High School. The GRADUATES
were six in number and each delivered
an essay upon his or her own favorite
topic.
Miss Velikanje selected "The Kinder
garten'' as the subject of her address
She said in part:
To youth life may seem one scene Of
gayety, moving picture of enjoyment
and pleasure. It is more than this. Life
is opportunity. Life is mission. ~
Religion, science and philosophy,
though still at variance upon many
points, all agree that every existence is
an aim. The aim of every reasoning
human being is to arrive at a stature of
perfect MANHOOD. To realize this we
must lay firm foundation in the child.
The kindergarten is the true and only
foundation for general system of edu-
cation.
The kindergarten is system of edu-
cation based upon play, for play is the
only natural means by which child ex-
presses and also develops himself. Its
gifts and occupations furnish every kind
of technical activity. awe learn only
through doing" That IS the basis of the
kindergarten. 1t aims to make the mind
creative, to stimulate ideas. The child
will he taught to reason and then he
will reason when he is man. It reveals
to him tie wonderful beauties of color,
form and sound and enable him to con-
troll them within the ever-increasing
limits of his intellectual powers, thus
making him an artist, as we'll as dis
discoverer and inventor, poet, as we'll
as a worker and thinker. ~ --.
Some writer hassaid that the best secu-
rity for civilization is the home, and that
upon its perpetuity rests the future of
the world. Certain it is, that without
home-life humanity would be lost to all
the nobler conditions of existence. How
necessary then that the home-life be
what it should be. It must work with the
Kindergarten, have the same plans and
principles. Unity, love and peace must
reign here, or the Influence of the patient
Kindergarten will be limited. Good
habits and pure thoughts must be formed
in the child. Good character can only
be built on such foundation. Angry
words, cruel deeds, stories and scenes of
sin and strife must be kept from him,
in order that NJ such thong hts or feel
ings may arise. ....@. .-l~
Thus it is seen that the object of the
Kindergarten is to develope harmonious
ly the moral and intellectual faculties
and the physical forces of children.
Its ultimate aim is to build charac
ter higher than intellect upon firm
foundation of physical vigor and strength.
If the object of the education in the
kindergarten is then so important, if
the effects of it are so enduring, is it not
worth all the thought and labor it can
ever occasion?
Frank Webber discussed "Crete and
the East.'' After touching upon the
grandeur of Grecian history, he cited
various interesting facts in connection
with Cretan life and history and then
entered into review Of the troubles
that finally led to tile recent war. Com
menting on the outcome, he spoke as fol-
lows:
The Powers have paid the Greek for
his supreme insolence in daring to stand
for legitimate national aspirations III de-
tiance of the cold-blooded veto of Eu-
rope. He has been severely beaten in
spite of gallantry, worthy of his ances.
tors at Marathon and Thermopylae, and
there seems to be no military possibility
of the immediate reversal Of the verdict
of war. Peace now by the mediation of
Europe means absolute surrender Of
Greek affairs into the hands of Euro
pean protectorate. Should the Hellenes
in their rage dethrone the present dy-.
nasty and declare republic, it would be
a stroke Of Justice which would cut to.
the bone. The uprising Of an Hellenic.
democracy from the ashes of monarchy
would send thrill Of alarm through
eastern continental Europe from the.
Baltic to the Mediterranean. But aside.
from this possible outcrop from the.
Greek defeat, one is forced to believe
that the success of the Turks has placed
the whole eastern question in much.
more insoluble condit ion.
The Powers have tangled themselves.
into an embarrassing, snarl- n dispens-
mo with all morality and all logic. they