The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-24
HILLHOUSE GRADUATION
MAYOR DRISCOLL PRESENTS DI-
 PLOM1S TO THE CLASS OF ,90.

} Professor Hadley's Strong Address oI
 "Preparntion for Citizenship'-Larg Audience Hears YaIe's New Presiden
 Speeches by Principal scudder am,
 Superintendent Kendall.
 The graduation exercises of the clas!
 of '99. Hillhouse high school, took plac, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the Hyperion. There was very large ant
 apprecative audience present. The ex
 ercses were opened by Superintendent
 Kendall, who made a few introductory
 remarks concerning the work of the
 class during its course in the higf
 school.
 MT Kendalrs remarks were followed by song by the class entitled "Let
 Our Voices be Glad" The piece was very acceptably rendered and was heart fly applauded.
 Principal Myron T. Scudder then in- troduced the class. MT. Scudder gave a
 brief review of his career at Hillhouse and referred to the class in very com plimentary manner. He said the class when it entered was numbered at 250 | and that the 120 who received diplomas were the most persistent and deserving of all those who entered with the class.
 The ladies' chorus composed of the senior class of the school, then rendered Vincents Merry June'' in a pleasing manner.
 Superintendent Kendall then intro | duced President-elect Arthur T. Hadley of Yale. Professor Hadley was the ora tor of the day. The address was on Preparation for Citizenship" His ad- dress was a very powerful one and in- | tensely interesting.
 Following Professor Hadley's address was a song, March of Our Nation" Alonzo Stanley Osborn acting as solo ist. The piece was the most enjoyable musical number of the programme.
 ''The Lord is Great" by Mendelssohn, was then given by five of the best sing CTS of the class. The quintette was composed of the Misses May l.. Babier, Harriet M. Rathgeber and Lena Visel, and MT Osborn and MT Thornberry.
 Jerry Barrett Sullivan, the class vale dictorian, then delivered the farewell address
 The presentation of diplomas by May or Driscoll then took place. The mayor complimented the class on it's splendid appearance and advised them that in every undertaking in life they should follow the motto, Industry, integrity and fidelity"
 The exercises closed with solo by Miss Clara Asher H. H. S. '9s.
 Professor Hadley spoke in part as fol- lows:
 Ut is of the utmost importance that the university, the high school, the common school, as parts of the com- munity, should come into relation with one another, and solve their problems together. For it is as a part of the political community that we are here to-day. I should not say one word against the value of education to you as individuals, which you have shown by your high school course, and the audience here shows by it's interest in your course, its appreciation of what it does for you severally. It is not on that account-not on account of the
  action that we have a public school system. It is because in the making of citizens of the nation, we must have educated citizens. It is because an ignorant body cannot be a self-govern- ing body, that we have universal edu- action throughout the country, and 1t is with the increase in the difficulties of self government as our country pr97 l gresses, that we feel increased need of development of the higher education. This is the theme on which l have to speak to you this morning. l say, in- creased difficulties of government.
 Tn the first place (and this we have already) we must have more education on the old lines If we are to handle | we need more arithmetic than | if we have to handle hundreds If we | are to deal with foreign races, we need | more languages, than when we have only to deal with men of our own race. If we have more things far from home to understand, we must learn the hab- it of reading more But this Is not all, nor Is it the major part of the differ ence. We have a problem, not of gov- erning ourselves alone, but of gov erning an enormous country, and of dealing with races alien to ours in their habits and for the preparation of this, can be shown the development of the study of history and geography. The new methods that are introduced in teaching these sciences, are gratify- Ing emblems of educational problems. A part can be done perhaps by the ad- 1ition of new subjects into the course ,f study, but that Is a doubtful exper- ment, and will at least only touch the surface of the matter. Whatever you nay do in the study of economics, or whatever name it may be called, there vet remains the fact that We can learn n this way but very small part of he modern lesson needed. In fact, In ,ne respect, too much study of the ma ,hinery of government is positively det- 'imental in the training of citizens. For, lnless it is put in the hands of the skill 'ul teacher. we may think too much of he mechanism and too little of the pirit which governs it.
 "Excellent as the constitution of the United States has proved itself, Is is not 'ecause we have a president and two louses of congress, is not because we ave a federation of states,-it is not ven because we have a jury system nd a free press that this country is and on the whole, well .overned. The constitution is a good