Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1897-05-21
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
OF the Macksburg High School Largely
Attended and Very Interesting.

Attended and Very Interesting
On the evening of May 18th the peo-
pie of Macksburg and vicinity assem-
bled in the NJ. E. Church to witness
the exercises of the 5th Commencement
of our High School
The Church was we'll filed with an
anxious, appreciative audience. The
stage was very tastefully decorated,
and when we noticed the rear of the
platform the class motto For Life
and Not For School, We Learn" we
thought that certainly this class must
have good apprehension OF
the proper purpose of school life
Every one seemed to be happy, and
everything pleasant save the weather.
! A few minutes before the time for
the exercises to begin our worthy Supt'
| f. p. Wheeler. attended by the class
| entered the church and took seats up
on the platform. The audience greet
ed them with hearty applause. After
music bv the choir Rev. j. NJ. Shafer,
of Summerfeld, invoked the Divine
blessing. After an excellent selection
of music rendered by the choir, and
when all were intensely anxious Tor
the exercises proper to begin, MISS
Leila Worrall the Salutatorian of the
class, advanced to the front OF the
platform, and with the subject, Habits
Are Sci Made" caused the thoughtful
hearer to tremble anew with an appre-
hension of responsibility in view of the
free personality with which God has
endowed u.s. We were impressed anew
with this stern thought oft expressed
in other language that indeed, habits
ARE self made. At the close of this
excellent essay, and while yet musing
on it's excellent thought SO we'll deliv-
ered we were taken in thought on
voyage on the ocean of life, in the
masterful Grafton by John A.
Kennedy as he delivered well-woven
thoughts from Launching op the
Deep" The trials and experiences OF
life were vividly presented to US in the
figure of an ocean voyage. Young
men who heard this, were you not
deeply impressed that life is a stern
realty-not a dream?
After the choir again sang, Miss
Mary Patten, in an essay, Waves We
Cannot See" taught us lesson OF pa
tience and forbearance well worthy of
our needing. The delivery OF this
thought quickened our apprehension of
the power of unconscious influence,
and refreshed in our mind the thought
which prompted Cowper to write, "God
moves in a mysterious way His Won
ders to perform
Next followed the oration of George
A. Hale on the subject which, express
ed in one word, set forth THE purpose
| for which we were now Assem- bled-
"Education." This time -honored sub
! iect upon which Sages, Princes and
Poets have discoursed with fervor in
the ages past, was presented earnestly
| in we'll chosen words, and its acquisi-
ton zealously urged by this young
man who, himself is striving to clint b
the ladder of fame.
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lection Of music, when the Na!dlctor-
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