The Newtown bee., 1900-06-22

with exercises in the school hall. A large number of the boys friends and city guests attended. Prof Perrin of Yale delivered the commencement ad- dress, speaking substantially as follows The most valuable thing boy brings to school is himgelf, in other words his personality, his individuality. It is not the money in his pocket or the clothes on his back but the capital that will tell. Dld YCu ever stop to consider what 8 priceless treasure your personality Is? IL is the product of unnum bered genera liou8 handed down from the forefsther9, who lived in caves. Every father wi hes his son 10 have better star. in lie than he had himself. If pels 1nality mems all that is it not 8 priceless treasure, and aow are you boys going to treat it.? some boys and some men live by them seiVos, for themselves and to themselves. Some few do this because they are tlmid, more because of pride. Timidty is soon overcome in 8 school, but pride is not tolerated ;u New England school com- munitics. i've cit on him." "take it out of him." RE the phrase goes. It is plainly boys duty not to put this price jeaa treasurc-this personality a bus hc!, but to share it with other per ,oca!itipe, for no man or no boy livcth unto himsel'. When 8 boy comes to school he finds the most valuable thing in school ia othcrs' personalities; these priceless personalities have claim on the hoy. Each boy has a right to bis own pcrs0rl lily, but it is the duty of each boy tO share that personality with other pc7aoualitics. To start with, there are several wave of sharing personalities in sudden. communitios. First there is tte chum etsge. Relations are formed which ucan go much to Us in later life that we hardly dare trust ourselves to discuss them, closest relations between boy and boy life, the Damon and Pythias of hI5- tcry and the David and Jonathan Of the Bible, "eouls knit together" These boy relations are often so tender and sentimental that those who lack them ridiculc them and other people because | jealous, and indeed 1t would be unfair to society if each person merely Id, ubled up orca in personality" Beyond chum stage is the club stage. By club stage mean an association of organized con genial personalities like an eating or athletic club, coDgeniaI souls bound to- l gether by common interests. Birds of feather have perfect right so flock together, but remember, boys, other birds have a right to tlJck. When boys | forget this it gives them swelled heade. There has been of late 8 great deal of 1 friction and hard feeling at Yale over i this very thing, but the faculty, through student help, are fast healing the wound. 1 We have touched on the chum stage and the club stage. Now no stingy person can ". k through school successfully. No community can have the benefit of ones personality unless he shares it with others. This sharing of personality ia the true standard of all good schools. It is the sharing of Individuality that breeds in boye the spirit of patriotism, chat makes good governors, good legis- lators, judges and preachers. Another social law is the coming in touch with great minds of all ages. The great
 writers of antiquity did not write for themeclves alone; they conceived that
 what they did, said and wrote would lcomfort, help and cheer future genera
 tions. It was said of 8 great historian
 "He writes something that he wishes tt
 be 8 treasure forever" In studying Latin
 the first great spirit we ale introduced tt
 is Cm3ar. He was the greatest man O
 the world that ever lived in the world
 He wrote not only for his contempOra
 ries but for those whom his great sou
 conceived would come after him. Gu
 Latin book should not merely be a plac U to decline adectives and conjugate verbs but spot to meet the great man who's | work it took three generations of degen
 crate Romans to undo. What man ca
 be obscure if he has Cesar, Virgil, Ho, v ace and Herodotus for his friends an can say, Cicero writes to me. II read hi
 letters."
 Miss Genie Cowles of Woodbury ha
 been visiting her aunt, Mrs Danie } Knowles. She sailed for Europe on tn
 14th for 90 days tour, taking in tn
 Paris exposition and visit to tn
 Passion play at Oberammergau.
 Miss .Ruth Smith of Woodbury close
 her school on the Green on Monday b.
 giving her young pupils delightful pic
 nic in the woods.
 The D. A. R.'s gave very pretty ia G. -lz-