The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-16
ADDRESS BY GOV. ROGERS
The Executive In Good Voice and APP
parently Deeply Interested In His
heme-EIementsPy Glass Exer-
else. Inciude Interesting Papers.

| EI.LENSBURG. June i5.-The large
! auditorium CT the state normal school was
| flied 10 The limit this afternoon when the
/ commencement exercises OF the week
| were brought 20 q close by an address 10
the graduating class by Gov. Rogers. He
| was IN good voice ard apparently deeply
/ interested IN his theme. The governor said
! il part:
Tire profession and occupation OF the
teacher - markedly and c.early important.
Indeed. | suppose that among all the oc-
/ equations followed by man none is so i'm
| porsant. Ii follows then that the cnarac-
| ter q The teacher is OF immense and far
reaching Importance. This school is II
/ The present time the only normal school
| ii the state OF Washington. IL is under
the special care Of the state. and ] feel
hat 1 am engaged in ths strictsst per
foFm2nce ot duty in endeaTorlng al tbs
tine 70 impress upon the minds OF the
graduates here gathered the Importance
| Of their mission.
This school has for its object The train
| ing OF teachers. Men and women here
prepare themselves so far as they may he
| abe. for the most important profession Of
life And yet if IL bs thought by you that
men and women here only secure their
training great mistake, in my opinion.
vii he made. More important than educa-
ton. more important than any thing else
| is the man himself. The theory that edd-
cation proceeds from an exterior source
and Is IN this way impressed upon the mind
of he student by the teacher Is. x seems
| 10 me, faulty and misleading. Educ0. 70
| draw out. the root, il appears 10 me shows
| that clearly. The principal thing, the all
| important thing, the thing 10 ne consid-
cred above all csc Is the education that
gives himself and in saying this |
tell You nothing new.
LET us then for few moments look for
ourselves outside the regular course Of
studies laid down for guidance that We
may Of ourselves think for ourselves. And
first, We see about us the absolute reign
| OF law. All things are sabJec~ 10 -aw,
| from which there Is absolutely no escape
| The child. as he stretches forth mis- little
| hand 10 The blaze, discovers an effect
| fire burns; and as he again and again eX-
perments with Natures great destructive
| force he gradually discovers and fixes in
his mind a law. fire always burns. And
the most exalted scientist can go no fur-
| Their. Why it burns no one knows. As In
Nature. so in the mind OF man. Man Is
| subject to law and from Jaw he can never
escape
Though men in the mass are in the long
run, forced 10 go forward. each Individual
OF us may advance or recede. Life IS a
struggle, a perpetual conflict. Each man
and each woman of us mus; hsh; our own
fight for life Is indeed a warfare. and he
| who has no stomach for the struggle will
surely fall back beaten N the conflict.
Alone We come into being. attesnng with
puuy walls our dissatisfaction with the
| fact that life is thrust upon us. We leave
| il when We must. and alone. Alone. too,
we meet the crucial test Of our various ex-
great quality. You must use your schools
| and your teachers. They must never DOM
mate you Whenever they do, YOU are
lost. mere fotsam upon the tide or life.
BE honest men and women. And know
your own honesty. Act for yourself Think
for yourself. Be yourself And be such
est tribunal known to man-your own
soul"
| On Monday evening the seniors enter
| tanned their friends al the Normal dormi-
| tory. The rooms were appropriately dee
| Grated for the occasion by the senior tro-
phies. The evening was pleasantly spent
| and the reception of the class OF SO was
| voted by all 10 be worthy OF their brilliant
entertainers.
The elementary class exercises began
| Tuesday al 10 a. m. The weil-rendered
chorus Rock ABBY" was followed by Il
| paper, the MYTH in Education" Ivy Lutte
| Baker. Miss Baker believes in the culture
epoch, and showed how in the childood of
| the race poetic fancy was strong. and how
| the child appreciates this material which
was produced by the childiihe f4ations or
long ago. ION. the child the poet is
| poets pleasures, too. are his: would he
had the art 10 tell what he sees and hears
| 80 we.l"' From the treasure house of
| Hydrologic lore not only childhood finds
| rich material. but the poets ard the paint
| ers too have found i'm the myths a verb
| table Goleonda. Not only have the myths
proved a treasure house. but The inspra-
ton Of these stories has also had rs effect
| In the world Of action. When the shadow
| Of slavery hung over the land, Lowell was
not content % let his winged horse, Peg
1sus crop the sweet grass OH Mount He'll
| con. but, soaring al3ft on the wings OF
poesy, he went 10 meet the terrible mon
stcr.
Fora Wiers Alterations in Speech"
| was bright and interesting. The pet at
fectations OF the school girl We're given,
and the audience was asked 10 believe
that. no matter how absurd the schoolgirl
may bc III her silly Alterations OF speech,
one must be- patient aud wait for the vie
i'm to recover from the passing Of the
ma,edy During the seventeenth century
some Of the literary ladies OF France be-
came so enamored with h.gh-sound,ng
phrases that IL was not until the French
| dranatist MoHere wrote the comedy that
made them tire laughing stock OF literary
Europe that they desIsted from ;hs sub
ordination or science to sound. The
Euphu.sis Of sober England had their
slav 20 reign, and In weii-ss.ected quota
ton from the Monastery was given an
eximple Of "a most rampant Euphu,s..
Samuel Johnson whose writing abounds
IN b!gh-sounding phraseology. lives not
through his writings - much through
his wiz OF speech. which was direct AID
simple
Mrs. J. r. Frosts solo. Separation"
was gwen in th3t iadys delightful style.
ard was appreciated O& me music lovers
IN he audience.
In an essay entitled Docs II Pay" IT,
! Srearns drew the lessen % he learned
from tho ives cf $turm anl Comeni}is: of
Charles Dana and Henry George. S;urm
vas given a. a typ6 of successful man
The ore wac desires what 0.her men de-
sire. VINO stud * 10 please. tho popular
taste OF the day.
During his life he had the pleasure 81
conducting over the RIVAL road a l7s Tn-
iuE princes dukes and counts To-Day his
name - forgotten LIS all save the student
of pedagogy. CGmeulus. on fha otnt--
/ band saw win jeep-s.ghted vision n0a
whaf the people desired al the time but
what t1ey needed. AID s;rove amid o.san-
p7iutgnzniS ard hsTy3sasFps 20 ac1ua.ize has
hiEb ideals. H.s name = known wherever
uscgeCn educational methods preval.
Dana. The brilliant journalist. lived uot Tor
others The pFgstfsV .Nta his Success lfs
t6e Co.a which 81 desired present popu-
.aritv. HeaFy George lived and 7te,l for
mss ideal. In copeltsjoFs SIR Stearns said:
These whose broad humanity seafiS them