The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-12
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.,s,,ou was delivered by
..ser a, the commencement
u ssl Houston High schools
I, Is youth How bright 1T
NJ. aspirations. dreams.
ao ,nss story without End,
s s1si each man a friend
!. the scene tonight, for
md 10y are ours. Our eyes
.rOluess, our story without
.r,p. Each maid of us feels
IN truth do we regard eacn
our friend. In the faces
!. and friends see our spirit
,,is is a time OF good feel
mess can enter into it.
,ea,h the genial smiles there
s.aness. We may not feel 1t
shall feel it tonight, when
,,ne--the sadness of parting.
some will go further in the
alton. many of us must bid
,0ht 10 the best and brightest
reuth. We shall not lose our
.. But the sweetest part OF
have said sometimes that We
# school; perhaps we have
labor irksome--but years
re- all must say, Never can
a. those days be equalled.
will there be the association
fering natures and dispositions
|lted us SO much. Never the
companionship of those we
mr. friends. We have learned
friends and well wishers are
have learned to choose COM
ire responsive chord their ma
q ours or for their virtue and
character. But after to-
bust drift apart. Many ties
bken forever.
m thinking of these two things,
friendshlp--both beautiful, bu,
dearer, more enduring. And
bght OF some universal friends,
have learned to love in school,
our fathers and mothers have
bany a year. / refer to books
Pse friends. which benefit and
pst. from whom we need never
let us pay our tribute tonight
no one Of you, am sure, who
believe in friends. Indeed, he
off from all the friends a man
In the world, his fellowmen, his
lure and his God, is a pitiaDie
More than that he Is not civ
how can a man be civilized II
)touched by the refining COM
HI all that Is best in the world
5sociation with his fellowmen he
Zeal, unsympathetic. Without d
)ture he lacks one of the refine
b distinguish man from animal.
)ligion he is coarse. Lacking all
no better than a brute.
ht me that, but do you know
you would pity such a creature
|pity man who lives with the
brld around him, yet knows moi
Pyes; sees around him the pro.
8es Of progress, yet in darkness
! that he sees. Lives in the
fsent-narrow because he know.
Is OF other men either in past OF
6uch a creature is he who never
y friends are books to men tina,
} them all that this creature |.
z broaden instruct. inform. Ana
|hey are tIuer friends than oul
Fociates. Books never deceive
/ about US ont of our hearing
always the same, always true.
y say that books can never tax,
81 people'iwith you because PEG.
H passing things, things of inn.
lterest TO you. and books do not
books do! Are not all things o
'rtance and present interest dis.
newspapers and periodicals
.nese discussions fuller, more t,
led upon than the careless, un.
TAX Of people we daily meet
wspapers and periodicals are ;
books.
egaFd books as Ruskin has. unde
) lot Ruskln. the philosopher. tn
wen able to speak of what ha
'ehiei interest in life.
men, Books of the Hour; second
All Time.
lirst Ruskin says. THE goo
ae hour, for | shall regard onl
Is simply the useful or pleasan
ny person you can not otherwis
VAN, printed for you. Very use
telling you what you need I
efy pleasant often as a sengibl
resent talk would be.
', OF travel. witty discussions q
iveiy or pathetic story telling
telling-all these books of tn
ugnt TO be entirely thankful TO,
asnt TO be entirely ashamed q
u we allow them to usurp til
Tue books"
=, saa newspapers are right, bu
10Y reading for all time.
OooS Is essentially not a talle
written thing. And written nc
u "a OF communication but of per
ine book of talk is printed onl
aulhor can not reach thousand
NC volume is a multiplication c
nut book IS written not I
.o'ce, but to preserve it.
y many of US read CARLYLE. hi
works on history? That gruf
~ ,,e OF his, that rugged accen
" weep sineerity-do We not hea
'ssa! So perfectly hat Carlyi
us voice in his works that he
:, - an orator, to move his hearei
~ magnetism.
- you study the great MASTER
NJ, Byron or Browning. and lear
u ~. words, heart and soul, III
=. lheir mighty passion will 70
soul IKE the deep toned mus
''san' Those voices are preser,
~ snd clearly does Ruskin deflr
'ns author has something to sa
~ tlsncelves to be true and usefu
\ beautiful. He says 1t melt
y yearly. In the sum of bic IiI