Daily inter mountain., 1899-05-18
With THB GRADUATES.
INTERESTING PAPERS READ BY
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS.

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yesterday evening by the graduating
class Of the High School. Mary Eliza
beth Dawson of the senior class had for
her subject History Repeats ITSELF in
which she said:
From the study of history we learn
to prophesy Of the future, so surely does
history repeat itself. We learn that
when our rulers become tyrants, hatred
and revenge will follow them and their
lives are in danger; when governments
become wholly corrupt their destruction
is certain.
ut is little wonder that after thous-
ands Of years of bloody warfare, when
men trusted in the strength Of weapons,
the size Of their armies and the animal
courage of men. that they should stand
in doubt and denial before the great CEN
trail figure of history. He taught them
that love was the greatest power in the
universe. that truth was stronger than
armies, that love and truth would con-
quer and subdue the world. No wonder
that they could not believe this-it was
such a strange, unheard-of doctrine.
Though men still doubt it's truth, the
centuries are proving it true.
with our armies that go to the Philip
pine islands will go our enterprise,
wealth and progressive ideas. and to a
younger and oppressed people, taxed to
desperation, light will so also. and an
enlightened, educated. happy people will
be the result, and in their breasts will
glow the light Of love and liberty"
''The Fall of Troy" was the subject as
signed Miss Josie Mulville, an extract
from which is as follows:
"AS we read with great interest of the
fate Of Troy, with a kindly feeling
toward Hector, whose part one takes
against the blood thirsty Achilles and
great as might have been the guilt OF
I,1.
may be delivered from the besiegers.
When the last assault began destruc-
ton followed. fire and slaughter swept
over the doomed city,
1T is never a pleasant sight to behold
long and heroic resistance to adverse
destiny, receiving no higher reward than
despair and perditon, hence it is with
profound sorrow that we contemplate the
fall Of Troy
"Many are the horrors related of that
terrible night by the poets. The Greek
soldiers fought as demons. Priam sturdy
columns We're moved down like grass.
Victory perched on the Greek standards.
and Troy, opulent and wealthy. in all its
grandeur, magnificence and glory, had
fallen.
when the gray light of dawn ap-
peared, unsightly heaps of ashes and
| smOulderlng embers, intermingled with
calcined bones and piles OF blackened
! ruins, and lurid volumes of smoke roll
ing up to the skies, alone remained to
:; indicate where Troy had been. A city
| and a nation had passed out of exist
ence."
'The Red Cross Society" was Mabel
Wraiths subject, in which she said:
"Never in the history of the world has
there been any society to compare with
the Red Cross society. This is the first
organization where men of all creeds.
from civilized and sem-civllized nations,
have Joined together for one common
good, not only for themselves, but for
, their fellowmen.
'"The birthplace of this grand society
is Geneva, and it's founder, Henry Du-
nant, had many hardships to undergo
before he could get people to feel the
same charity for their fellow wmen and
| organize what is known as the Red Cross
society.
Red Cross is society which will flour
ish more as time goes on, and when the
seeds of peace which it has sown upon the
| earth have reaped it's harvest, and uni
versal peace will have spread over the
world, of the honorable Clara Barton we
| can say, with George Eliot, She light
ened the burden Of lives to others"
Carolyn Bowmans essay was Moral
/ Education" She said in part:
"'As man thinks or desires in his
heart, such indeed he is. for then, most
truly because most incontrollably, he
acts himself There is in every moral
| being faculty or sense by which he is
enabled to distinguish right from wrong.
"Education is such training, mental
and moral, as has for it's end the maxi
ing of good citizen--such training as
fits the individual to play a helpful part
in the march of civilization-that which
lifts him from among the stragglers in
| the rear and incites him to push forward
toward the van, lending a helping hand
| as he goes, for no man liveth to himself
alone, but that which he receives must he
surely return again into the world
| through the influence of character
| moulded by his surroundings.
The best way for one to advance is to
take the forward step himself, relying on
the innate disposition of men to do as
! they are done by.
"'Be noble and the nobleness that lies
IN other men, sleeping but never
dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine
own.'"
+ Miss Winnfred BrethertOn's theme was
"Herbert Spencer" She said:
Besides the speculative Philosophy
Mr.. Spencer is the author of a book on
education and one on THE Study Of So
clology.' His occasional papers have been
collected and published in four volumes
OF essays: Scientific, Political and
Speculative The wide knowledge which
all his works display of physical science
and his constant endeavor to illustrate
and support his system, by connecting
their positions with scientific facts and
laws, have given his philosophy great
currency among men on science and
philosophy
Mr.. Spencer is neither an Oxford nor
a Cambridge man. He owes nothing to
rit ~ hoe L.
more to his father and his uncle and to
his own correct mode of living and think
ing than to any other agency.
"Spencer's syntheses at the beginning