The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-17
Eleyen Young Men
and Women Grad
uate.
A Very Successful Event.



exercises OF the Calumet high schoo
took place last evening at the M. f
church. The spacious auditorium wal
filled with an expectant audience
Interest in the event which was OF sc
much Importance TO the young particl
pants, was clearly indicated 10y the
friends present. The increased Interest
manifested in these exercises from year
to year is a great encouragement to the
teachers, and stimulus to the stu
dents Ii indicates a healthy condition
and shows that the people recognize the
Importance Of high school training. The
fact that with the incoming class, this
department has increased 400 per cent
during the past four years should be a
matter OF pride to every citizen OF Calu-
met.
The church was beautifully decorated.
Flowers, ferns, pictures and Old Glory
above all, formed an appropriate back
ground. This was the work of the TWEEN
ty-seven iuniors-now the senior class.
At s o'clock the class appeared and
seated themselves on the platform, a
short prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Kerredge
and the exercises OF the class OF 81 began.
1t would be useless to aitempt to name
any who particularly excelled. The es-
says and orations were well written,
showed much study, reading and careful
effort in preparation. while the delivery
was marked by clearness OF utterance
and proper expression, and gave evil
dence of careful work on the part OF the
principal, Miss Sanborn, who carried the
entire responsibility in their preparation,
and who cannot but feel highly gratified
at the result.
The following is briefsynopsis OF each
number:
WORK" By JENNIE sINcocK.
Work is blessed privilege, although
not always recognized as such, The mind
as well as the body must be exercised in
order to develop.
Any honest labor, il properly done, re-
fleets honor and not discredt upon the
doer. No matter what ones station in
life is, he may do good work aud be justly
rewarded. The true test OF a noble man
is how be does his work. True gentle
men perform their duties well, for in this
lies the true value OF living.
Poor work is a curse, never a blessing.
IL is curse to the person who does it, as
well as TO the people who suffer from it,.
Some do poor work from discomfort with
their station: Others through ignorance
Of the work; Others even from choice.
Those who do poor WORK willingly, lose
their greatest inheritance. For If any
one can work and has something to do,
be il fortunate.
Let US do our work as WE'LL
Both the unseen and the SEEM
Make a house where gods may dwell,
Beautiful, entire, and clean"
ATHLETICS" BY FRED GOoDsoLE.
A few years ago our students lacked
physical development, and alter finishing
their education. they were not strong
enough to make their way through life.
But within rec ent years colleges have
been experimenting with physical cul-
ture, and now no school iscomplete with
out gymnasium.
The effect on the students is very
marked. Now they are well developed
men and women.
The origin OF athletics was among the
ancient Greeks and Romans. 1t was
their custom to celebrate national and re-
ligious festivals with athletic sports
These sports developed into the barbar
GUS gladitorial combats; but owing to
the ciyilizing influences OF christianity
and the western civilization, these gadi
torial shows we're abolished, For mum
Der OF centuries, athletics were almost
abolished, till revived by the Germans.
The fret regular study OF athletics in
the United States was at the military
schools. Now nearly every school has
provided for physical culture.
Athletics has attracted large number
OF boys TO school, who would otherwise
not have attended. They go through
college, and when they graduate they arr
better able to face the world.
Athletics gives the student healthy
body, and as healthy body ia necessary
to have well developed mind, it also
gives him well developed mind.
Thus we seefrom the experience OF past
ages. and even OF our own times, what
athletics does for person. and why it il
necessary branch OF education.
SERVICES OF ART" BY DAISY McGINNIs
Greece owed much of her glory to art
Their appreciation OF the beautiful mad,
religious and patriotic, besides aft Jrdinl
models and ideals for the world today
Love OF art heralds a purely aesthetic
mind, character refined and cultured
Our country has been awakened to thu
influences of art within the last fifty years
when, after the Chicago and Boston free
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