The record-union., 1897-06-25
KINDERGARTEN TRAINING,
Commencement Exercises Of the San
Jose and Sacramento Schools.
Graduates of the Classes of 'o7-Ad.
dresses by Rev. Mr.. rlac.
laren and Prof. Bailey.

/ Eds. Record d-Union": The mid-year
class of the Sacramento kindergarten
Training School having completed their
course of ten months, accepted the cor
! dial invitation of the San Jose school
to unite with them in their commence
ment, and on Tuesday evening last par
ticipated with them on that occasion in
| that city.
The usual pleasures attendant upon
a commencement We're combined with
those of a delightful pleasure trip The
party left Sacramento on Monday
morning and proceeded to San Jose in
| tending to take in the Mount Hamilton
trip with peep at the observatory be-
/ fore their return. The exercises were
! held in a prettily decorated music
/ hall, where large audience greeted the
class of fourteen graduates.
A most impressive invocation by DR..
| r. F. Maclaren, pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, preceded the reg
ular programme This was followed by
a group of beautiful movement songs
rendered in a charming manner by the
! graduating class. One could not fail
| to be delighted by the original charm
and beauty of these pure, simple, ma
ture-revealing melodies pictured by the
graceful movements which are unique
feature of kindergarten songs.
DR.. Maclaren followed with a short
address, which quite captivated the
audience by its humorous, pungent ma
| ture, which served to illustrate and
make more vivid the telling points of
/ Professor Bailey's lecture. He gave a
! short resume of the history of the
school, which was Incorporated in 1889,
and has had a phenomenal growth
omprising at present schools in San
Jose and Sacramento and numbering
among its graduates successful workers
and exponents OF the Frobelian phi
| losophy in all parts of this coast
and far into the East He compliment
ed most highly the Principal Miss Led
yard, and Principal, Miss Prich-
ard, upon the far-reaching and ever
enduring influence of this school, which
! is due so largely to their efforts and en-
! thusiasm.
! Knowing these ladies personally he
/ spoke of the intelligent, sympathetic
insight and intuition which aids
Miss Ledgard to give to her pupils that
inspiration which helps them to round
out their truest individuality and keep
ever before them the highest and truest
! ideals. He also spoke of the high grade
of work pursued by Miss Prichard as
director of the Sacramento branch
/ He then presented the diplomas to the
graduates, bidding them heed the true
meaning of the word commencement"
which is so fifty used to signify the close
of their first preparation, and the going
forth to their real work.
Miss Mary F. Ledyard, Principal of
the school introduced the lecturer Of
the evening, Professor Thomas Bailey
of the University of California, accord
him the place which he so richly de-
serves, that of the very highest expo
nent on the coast of the true principles
and methods of the new education.
His theme was: Personality,
individuality and Character" In
part he said: ''The kindergarten
trains, nurtures and develops
the whole child The child is the heir
Of all the ages, for individuals, how
ever descended, however lowly their
apparent origin, were potentially per-
sons and characters from the beginning.
| The Kindergarten sees the end in the
beginning Of the child life, and would
have the child gain an ideally perfect
! body and ideal psychical or Individual
| iStic and social instincts, in order that
the budding personality, self-conScious-
ness in the art forms may fifty and
easily express itself. Personality graSps
truth and beauty and right in feeling.
1t unites or integrateS the egOtistic and
social instincts in a higher sythesis,
which has eternal value or worth.
Hence the constant appeal to the es-
thetical instincts in the kindergarten.
We must feel and intuite before we can
think and reason. But personality is
only the first form of self-activity.
However noble the art form, it is un-
true and unreal unless it points upward
to the still higher region of character
or conscience SO the kindergarten
teaches the child the eternal worth Of
right conduct. Not morbid conscien-
tiousnesss, but noble conduct which
ought to be, that is the ideal. Feeling,
thought, emotion, all these must ter
inmate in moral endeavor Teaching
as it does the eternal rhythm of work
and play, alone and in society, the kin
dergarten is the first great co-ordinator
of the divine principles of the family,
the State, the church. Kindergartens ir
some form or other we must have. Let
us strive to have the healthiest, noblest
and best"
The list Of graduates was as follows:
Glass of 1S91-Laura Cooper, Sacra-
mento; Sophia Katherine Duggan, Sac
ramento; Fessenden Eaton, Campbell's,
Rena Mae Hertzler, Portland, Or. Har
riet Ita Harris, Eureka; Rubina Hun
ter, Livermore: May Ithama Johnson,
Sacramento; Sadie Louise Melting, Mt
Pleasant, Utah; Emma Elizabeth
OHara, New York; Viola Mabel Rich
ardson, Sacramento; Saidee Brouner
Smith, Eureka; Alice Hitchcock Sar-
gent, San eBrnardino; Lulu Augusta
Tenny, San Jose; Adeline Waldorf, San
Jose.
The presentation of diplomas was
followed by the class song, composed
by Miss tia Harris, a member of the
graduating class. This proved like a
fitting finale to delightful and profit
able evenings entertainment.
This school has recently raised their
standard still higher. and extended the
course to twenty months, in accord with
the best schools of the East
San Jose, June 23d
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