The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-18
Evening: High School
Exercises.
EX-SENATOR ROE
Speaks On Their History
and Development.

high schools were held in the hall OF
the English high school last evening
and were attended by large number
of people.
| Previous to the exercises in the hall
the guests inspected the work that has
been done in the evening schools dur.
ing the past session, This work was
artistically displayed upon tables in the
main corridor and in the adjoining
halls. and included work in bookkeep.
ing, chemistry and many other branch
es. During the hour previous to the
exercises in the hall. sl. L. Smiths Or
chestra played a concert program both
in the exhibition and assembly halls.
The exercises opened with chorus
selection by the school, Land of the
free" under the direction of Charles L
Rice
In his Introductory address. DR. John
I. McGillicuddy said that it was not In
the province of the evening school as al
present constituted, to provide higher
education. but it was rather to guide
| INTO more practical lines and provide
the pupil with that which is necessary
| In the struggle for existence. While
ne dld not wish to be understood as OBJ
posed to the study of the languages. he
thought that the money expended could
De useo 70 better advantage were 1t
| employed in instruction in such lines
as manual training. He believed in
spending every dollar where II would
90 the most good. The attendance
during the last few months has fallen
ell quite considerably, and this he ao-
counted for by the fact that business
is better, WORK is more plentiful. money
ls easier and the pupils are seeking
more enjoyment and forsaking the dull
ness OF the school room. He said that
tha education that is given is that best
| living. .
Mrs. Dorothy McTaggart Miller was
heard in a solo selection, Angus Mac
donald" which was greeted with an
plause.
The address of the evening was de-
livered by Hon. Alfred S. Roe. who
spoke or the history and development of
the evening school. During the course
or his remarks, he said:
The public schools of Massachusetts
are not the growth or development of
9 day. From the enactment of 1919
whereby certain chosen men were to
see that parents and masters, under
penalty, had proper care for their
| cHlidren, to the acts of the more re-
cent years warranting not only q COM
plete college preparation but the teach
| ing OF cooking and the imparting of in
struct1on in manual training as well.
the advance is so amazing that evolu-
tlonistS may, with reason. give the
system large place in his list Of H.
| Illustrations
However we'll the fathers built for
their day, they would be Wonder-lost
| in contemplation of what has grown
from their beginnings. When we
were homogeneous people, largely ru-
raj in our dwelling, we had little need
OF many of the most necessary mod
ern appliances. The growth of manu-
featuring and the consequent introduce
ton of large foreign and illiterate ell
ement, neceSsitated appointments new
er dreamed of in the earlier days. Or
iginally, a peripatetic school, now here,
now there, answered the needs of Wor-
cester, but the fixed school came in
time, next the grammar and Latin
schools, then the high school and at
last the evening school, to meet the
needs of many whom the existing con-
ditions did not advantage
Society will always have its sub
strata of humanity but in Amarica it's
Inheritance. In the universal whirl and
upheayal of mankind, the attitude Of
the individual in this country is large
ly one of his own choosing 1 have
known parents to willingly delve and
save that their children might get
what was denied them in th2 hope that
years would bring the comforts and
honors to the younger generation not
to be dreamed of for the toilers. And
iT1A i7Yao rNxr To- al
ization of what might have been then
our evening school extends just the aid
needed.
Happily the day is past and can never
return when SIX II in letters is considered
the special province Of any particular
class. The clergyman ministers to peo-
pie as well read as himself: the ply
stefan finds patients who demand a
statement of why and wherefore even
the lawyer must make clear to his client
the reason for his procedure.
The school Is particularly fortunate
in having a principal who is enthusi-
astic in his mission. Tireless himself,
pc prompts a similar characteristic in
those who labor with him and best oE
all in the hearts and minds of those
who look to him for guidance.
NO one who ever saw Louis Agassiz
before popular audience and heard
nm diScOutSc Oh Jeiiy IlSnGS, can DOUBT
the ability of a thorough student to
interest and instruct the people in a
subject which they may have approach
ed with some trepidation. There may
not be many successors of the great
naturalist but there are still men and
women who can make the air fairly
glow with ideas and their very pres
ence IS a mental and moral uplift From
them and their words our schools are
yet to receive much that shall make
them more useful than they have been
hitherto, The next ten years will dis
close even greater advantages than
those made in the last decade.
His Honor Mayor Rufus b. Dodge.
Jr.,. spoke in a pleasing vein to the
pupils assembled and caused much
amusement by reference to his repeated
appearance on similar occasions in the
past He thought that the times were
lines. ~
After solo selection by Charles L
Rice. Forging the anchor" the diplo-
mas and certificates were presented TO
the pupils by Dir. McGillicuddv for the
oor1mittee on evening schools. Dinlo-
mas were presented to the following.
Graduates In the regular course: Frank
4. Cate, George u. Deering, Edward RI
DeVine, Henry G. E. Henchav CartiG
Gates Of completed course in etenoe,,9
phy department. Frank II. Cate. Mary
A. Fleming, Henry G. e. Henehey
Harry w BadulSe, Joseph e. Lenire
William r. Thompson graduate class
OF $50. Eva 8 Wooster Certificates q,
completed course in bookkeeping de-
partment. William IT. Barron John ]
pwyer, Minnie A. Holley. Ida Miller
Jeremiah y. Moriarty. Lizzie Mo-
risey. David J. OsConnor. Annie NJ
Ralph, John sullivan, Belle A. Turrill
RETURNED TO HOME FARM.
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