The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-14
Ten Pupils of Mill
tary Academy
Graduate.
DIPLOMAS GIVEN BY THE MAYOR.
DR.. Mendenhall of Tech
Speaks Encouragingly
to Young Men.

Ten pupils of the Highland Military
Academy were the central figures in
the graduation exercises which closed
the final day of commencement week
yesterday.
The days exercises opened with
prize drill and both infantry and ar
tillery practice at $50 in the forenoon,
and the graduation exercises in the at
ternoon commencing at go o'clock.
The days exercises opened with a
competitive drill by two classes before
the following judges: Capt. P. L. Rider,
Capt. Edwin Barrett and Capt. w. L,
Cheney, NJ. H. A, 80. The cadets who
have attended the school for over
year drilled first, and the following
were awarded prizes: First prize, gold
medal, Sergt James P. Champlain,
Portland Me-; second prize, silver
medal, Sergt Harold A. Peart, Keene,
n. H; honorable mention, Cadet Sam
uel A. Levy, Boston. OF the younger
cadets, the following We're the winners:
Cadet Frank Morrison, first prize, and
Cadet ClaXton Munroe, second prize,
while Cadet J. c. Linn received honor
able mention.
The artillery practice was then gone
through, and the young men did ex-
cellent work on the parade grounds,
limbering and Numbering wheeling
and loading and firing. The tennis
contests yesterday forenoon were for
gold and silver medals, and were won
by Sergt. Harold A. Peart of Keene. n.
H, and Capt. Roland Burbank of Dali
ton. The shooting contests were dis
continued
The graduation exercises were held
at 2.3O in the afternoon in Armory hall.
which was crowded with the friends
and relatives of the members of the
graduation class. The hall was taste
fully decorated with the class colors.
| blue and white, and the national coors
! predOminating.
Seated upon the platform were Head
| Master Joseph Alden Shaw, His Honor
| Mayor Rufus B. Dodge, Jr., President
Thomas c, Mendenhall of the Poly
technic Institute and Rev. Eliot White.
The graduating class were seated fac
! ing the platform, and in the left of the
| hall The members of the class were:
| Classical-Cadet James P. Champlin
| Portland, Me. Scientifc-Cadet Fred
erick f, Burden. North Attleboro; Ca
det Eburn f. Haight, Brooklyn, n. Y;
| Cadet Harold A Pearl, Keene, n. H.:
| Cadet Joseph A. Sanford, Ware Bust
ness-Cadet Roland E. Burbank. Dali
ton; Cadet Alfred B. Cross, Lynn; Ca
det Allen W. Dodge, Medford; Cadet
William R. Green, Everett; Cadet Ed
win E. D. Record, Medford.
Rev. Eliot White, rector of St. Johns
Episcopal Church, opened the exercises
OF the afternoon with prayer. Cadet
Harold A. Peart of Keene, n. H., then
| delivered the salutatory address. "A
retrospect. These remarks were in
relation to the members of the school
and were of course only understood by
| them. He said briefly:
| For the first ten years in the history
Of this school the senior classes read
their essays on graduation day, Their
the idea of speaking them was intro.
| duced by the present principal, so fol
the last 81 years, it has been the es
| tabltshed custom for each senior TO pre-
pare to deliver an essay, until this yea
the order is again changed and The
number is reduced from 10 TO two.
think l could appreciate the merits O
the change more keenly if I did no
| happen to be one of the sO-Called Un
fortunate two. There has been d ten
dency Of late years to reduce the mum
Der of speakers both in high school ant
academies on commencement day. 1hi!
has been done for various reasons, hu
principally because of the constantly
increasing size of the graduating class
es, and not forgetting, I am sure. tn
patience of our visitors from year Il
year. This is amply illustrated by thu
enormous increase in number of tn
senior class of SO over that of So; 81
having only nine while we have fully
TO- besides one on the fence, in othe
words Senior Middler."
The valedictorian cadet, Joseph A
Sanford, of Ware, then delivered TIT
following address on advantages of
technical education: Education il
the first ond foremost element in tn
success of any young man who has il
his mind, the idea of making himaal
felt in the world of science. or in pro
fessional life. 1t is one of the great
est means of civilization in the world
and may be divided into TWO grea
classes. First the collegiate
, which embraces the professions
second the technical branch.
Those who have gone before us knev
the value of education, and now W
sea and feel the results of their know
ledge of our wants, in the liberal en-
doWmants they have bestowed upon tn
different institutions of learning in thi
country. Through the aid of these en-
dowments these schools are able T.
build extensively and well-equippel
: laboratories and shops for the practic
of the knowledge gained from books.
=. These endowments also offer facili
ties for dividing up this liberal educa
| ton into classes. The principal division
of which are mechanical, electrical an
civil engineering, and chemical labora
tory practice.
Choosing ones life calling is not
matter to be trifled with. The youn
; man has all the advantages and oppor
tunities left by the previous genera
tons, and he should ponder well befor
the decisive step of his life.
The advantages of a technical educa
] ton are realized in many differen
ways. Take the young man of this coun
try and see how many more are fittei
for mechanical profession, the prac
tise of the sciences, and of the other So
= called arts than are prepared for tn
profession of law, medicine and Thea
logy. Many Of the men who go to tn,
technical institutions, go there not t,
get an education in any one thing hi
TO get a general education. thus fittfnt
them for business life as a whole. VIVA
greater advantage could we ask of an,
: institution than this?
{ The technical schools graduate as ;
usual thing men who are more likely
10 lead successful business life thar
do the colleges, for the reason that tn,
, young men as rule who have had II
rely on themselves go to the technioa
schools while those who have plenty o,
money oftener go to the colleges wher.
the hours Of study are not so long ant
where they do not have to study 50
hard. OF course this rule does NOT ami,
to all, for some young men with Iarps
means go TO college and apply them.
| selves and come out a credit tn tbo,,,