The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-05

to-day GeMarutus anu IL Is just as graz
flying To your teachers as ii is to you
10 ascend a step higher in the tower
Of education. May your enthusiasm
and the spirit of good education never
depart from you. The struggle for
knowledge Is noble one, and your
youth ought to be devoted to gather H.
Scarcely a young man can be found
whose heart does not beat with high
hopes and whose bosom does not thrill
with strong emotions. This world is
scene of tolls and difficulties, and the
need of earth be it gain, renown
place or power. can be secured only by
stern labor. God has placed this vital
power eminently in the hearts of young
people, and with the congratulations
offered you ] hope you Will remember
this day, and the good resolutions you
have formed to always keep a high
standard in life. Now we viii proceed
To distribute the diplomas.
Diplomas We're presented TO Ben
jamin Franklin Sabolsky, Alfred Car
ence Holmes, Eliza Elenor Nralth,
Margert Griffith. Hilman RI. LAUREL
Edith Frances Graves, Augusta a. Miles,
Elva p. Wright. Archie +. Terrell. Anne
liza r. Sheffel. Matte a. Alexander A.
Marguerite kuhwarth olga hermann
Zaidee Jean Mckay. Edith {. Crahgle'
Ray A. Warren, Gilbert j. Thomas,
Harvey Dickey, j. Mande DAVIDSON
Winnie Kelsey Alice Bryant, Cecilia
Cornfield. Marion Nichols, Hellane Til
ton, Georgiana Rhodes, Edwin Hyland
John Henry Curtis, jr.. Clara d. HIN
kle, Lydia Bartes Josie Christine SIN
sci, Alice Passmore.
Following Is Miss Davidsons essay
on Oliver Wendell Holiness
The genius of Holmes is regarded as
the result of choice heredity. because
the Holmes family came from long
line of vigorous colonial ancestors
whose Influence through learned ana
Col In -
of Massachusetts. His father, Abel
Holiness was a pastor. who for more
than 40 years taught the people of
Cambridge the lessons that he hrst
learned himself. His mother. sarah
Wendell had the character of TINS
worthy family as also. further PACK,
of the Qnincys and divers. OF such
parents, in Cambridge lin an old gam
hrel-roofed house, looking out on the
college green, was born Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. Aug. %. 1909, who was TO
shed new luster on the name, and take
rank among American poets and es-
savists In after years, in one of his
noems he describes his old home as
follows.
~ see ii now, the same unchanging
spot.
The swinging gate, the little garden
plot.
The narrow yard. the rock that makes
its floor.
The nat, pale house, the knocker gar
nished door
In his Autocrat OF the Breakfast
Table Holmes says: 1 was born and
bred among books, and those who knew
what was in books. | was carefully m
structed in things temporal and spirit
tual.'
He went to school in Cambridge,
was fitted for college in Phillips aca-
denny at Andover. and entered Harvard
college i'm 1925 at the age of 10, ana IN
1876 when the academy had it's looth an
nversary celebration, he, being III An
dover took part and delivered a poem
which describes his Impressions ana
sensations at the time when he entered
the college. The title of the poem is,
The New England school,
The morning came, reached the
classic hall
| \ clock face eyed me, staring from the
wall
Beneath it's hands'a printed line read,
Youth is LIES seed time, SO the
clock face said.
Some took it's counsel, as the sequel
showed,
Sowed their wild oats, and reaped as
they had sowed.
How all comes back, the upward slant
ing floor.
The masters throne, that tanks the
central door
The long. outstretching alleys that di-
vide
The rows of desks that stand on either
side.
The staring bows. a face TO every desk.
Bright. dull pale, blooming. common
picturesque.
| Grave is the masters look. his fore
head wears
+ Thick rows of wrinkles, prints OF Wof-
rYing cares;
| Uneasy lie the heads of all who rule,
! His most oG all whose kingdom Is a
school
/ Supreme he sits. before the awful
+ froWn
| That bends his brow the boldest eye
goes down.
/ Not more submissive Israel heard and
saw
j At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.
After graduation he studied law for
/ q year, and then abandoned the pro-
/ fession for that of medicine, Which he
| followed until 1888. when he went to
/ Europe and continued his medical stu
dies in Paris for two years. At the end
/ Of which time he returned TO America
where he became DR.. Holmes in 1886.
He was professor of anatomy and
! physiology Tor more tran ~ Years III
/ Two of the most noted colleges in Mas
! sachusetts, and during that time con-
tributed largely Ia American literature,
both poetry and prose. DR.. Holmes
himself says: In my books / have un-
burdened myself of what | was born to
say. many things that | nave said in
my ripper years have been aching in my
soul since | was a mere child.
His most noted works are Elsie
Nenner,' The AutoCrat Of the Breakfast
Table The Poet at the Breakfast TIA
BILE and many others: also many noted
+ poems such as The Last Leaf The
one Hoss Shay and Dorothy O.,
which are the best examples of humoi
in American literature. In his medica
writings he argued against giving peo-
pie so much medicine as the doctors
used 10 give. when he Was taught Il
practice. and for this we all owe him Z
| debt.
Holmes was married in 1870. ana
WAS constantly surrounded by dDmpS