Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-06-09


manhood are the results of chivalry.
In closing Miss Mills gracefully
thanking the teachers of the high
school for the happiness and profit
which the class of 1900 had derived
from their guidance. she expressed a
hope that the high school would al
ways be the home of the spirit of
chivalry.
President Addresses Graduates.
August Heimbeck, president of the
board of education, then conferred the
diplomas, addressing the graduates in
part as follows:
You stand today at the threshold
of a new life, and the dawn of a new
century. As far as the human mind
can see the way stretches before YOU
until il vanishes in the distance. The
end of your journey is nowhere visi-
BILE, but before we unfold its portals let
US for a moment take one RETROSPECT
tive glance The past century has
witnessed the marvellous growth of
our republic, both in its material and
intellectual retources. Its form of
government has awakened desire for
liberty in every human heart, and its
unbounded and undeveloped wealth
has quickened human enterprise in
every avenue of life. 1t has given
freedom of thought to the human mind
and the cunning of creative genius to
the human hand, and strength and
beauty and courage to the human char
acter Its achievements far surpass
those of any other period of the
worlds history. The seven wonders
of the ancient world are but trifles in
comparison with the results of mod
ern inventive genius. 1t is the CEN
fury of steam and electricity, of the
telegraph, the telephone and the
photograph, and it has brought US
to the threshold of a century whose
triumphs will surpass our widest
dreams.
But it is equally the century of
intellectual and literary progress, an
age of books, magazines and newspa
pers and other thought-provoking APP
pliances. In this respect its greatest
triumph has been the public school
and the high school, bringing the OPP
portunitiss heretofore enjoyed only by
the favored to the door of the hum
best cottage and to the thirsting soul
of the lowliest child of toll.
Tine public school has become the
bulwark of the nation. In a republic
like ours a liberal education is indis-
pensable. Our institutions received
their form from an intelligent. liber
ty-loving people. and their preserva
ton and develc p ment rests upon the
intelligence and character of a SOW
ereign people. Still, You may build
your capital of granite, said Wendell
Philips, and pile it high as the Rocky
If it is founded on, or
mixed with ini9uity, the pulse of girl
will in time beat it down. i
Living as we do in this wonderful
aye and under the weight of these
great responsibilities there must be a
most thorough equipment of intellect |
to keep pace with the onward march |
Of our civilization. In no other way |
IAN we deal successfully with the !
problems that confront US. 1t de- |
nauds of you, young ladies and gem
.lemen, the service of finely trained |
powers, disciplined intellect, a well |
stored mind, worthy aim and a res
)lute courage
Members of the CIaes.
Tie mem bers of the class of 1900
ire:
General-Florence May Bollinger,
Alice Mae Bowman, Charles Henri
Jail Carrie f. Clement. Charles Ed
.ar Dack. Estella Graham, Pauline
harms, Frances Elizabeth Head. Min
lie Elizabeth Jensen, Leila Fairburn
Johnson, Ralph Waldo Lamont, Mar
.uerite Mae McConochie, Ernestine
frances McNevin, Bertha Bell Mills,
'ess Lee Mirfeld, Either Elizabeth
bison, Gertrude Raugh. Clinton Ar
hur Stafford, Grace Willard Stafford.
ennie Emmeline Tim berlake. Thomas
'oyd Totten, Chauncey futile, Julia
'ay Warren, joseph Garfield Worker.
Scientiic-Whitman Dart, Daniel
Montgomery, Simon
iosenfelder, Maurice Waldorf Simon.
Lstin-Gertrude Elizabeth Don, Ada
chwatka Durham, Eliza Maria East
nan, Florence Mildred Frysinger,
tella Kohn, Alfred Garfield Simon. :
Classical-Elbert William Stone.
The commencement exercises closed
nth the singing of the class song.
he words for which were written by
Whitman Dart.