Willmar tribune., 1900-06-06
Ten Young People Finish The
Work of the Wi11mar
High School.
CLASS MOTTO: ''CARpE DIEM"
CLASS 'C0L0RS: PINK AND BLUE
Or. D. l. kiehle Of the State University
Delivers An Address. No Glass Ora
tions at the Commencement Exer-
cises.

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practical life class of seven young
ladies and three young gentlemen.
The graduating exercises took place
in the opera house, which was filled to
its utmost capacity. The decorations
on the stage were neatly arranged and
pretty and appropriate. The class
colors, pink and blue, showed to good
effect, and were most prominently dis
played in the motto, "Carpe Diem, -
which was suspended overhead. Occu-
pying positions on the stage besides
the graduates were the memters of
the High School faculty and the
board of education. The program
opened with songs by the High School
Glee Club and the ladies' chorus.
Then followed prayer by C. H. John
son, and another song by the Glee
Club. Supt. Fenno then introduced
DR.. Kiehle, who gave the address of
the evening. His subject was "Edu-
cation for Bett Living.' We give a
short synopsis Of his scholarly ad-
dress:
The struggle OF all the ages has been
for better living; more comfort, more
ease, more intellectual enjoyment.
From the isolated cave dweller, living
on what nature bestowed on him, iso-
lated from his fellow men, to the high
ly complex civilization Of today is a
vast distance, but it has been accom-
plished by gradual steps. It is the re-
suit Of experience and education. The
infant of today is just as helpless as
the infant Of the cave-dweller. Educa-
tion gives him the experience Of all the
past ages, and enables him to live a
higher, nobler life. True education
develops all his mental faculties and
enables him to become the best pos
sible there is in him. All persons arc
not alike, and cannot develop to same
extent, but education will develop
whatever faculties person possesses.
No kind of useful labor is disgraceful;
bit the person that possesses the
mental faculties to enable him to rise
to a higher plane of usefulness, and
neglects his opportunities by failing to
get the necessary education, ought to
be ashamed. The value of labor is
not in the amount Of muscular activity
used but in it's usefulness to mankind.
The skilled occulist who by an opera
tion restores sight to a blind man gets
u large fee, not in proportion to the
time taken for the oper alton bnt to it's
value to the man whose sight is re-
stored. Teachers and parents should
try to discover the work for which the
child's natural gifts best fit him and
develop them.
After songs by the male chorus and
the Glee Club the president of the
board. I. T. Cramer, made a neat
little speech, praising our school sys-
TEN in general and bestowing a we'll
earned tribute on the faculty of the
Willmar High school. He then pre-
sented the diplomas to the graduates.
Then came the awarding of the Wen
nerlund gold medal for highest stand
ing in the years work. Jacob Nelson
had the best standing, but as he had
won the medal last year it was given
to the next highest, William West
berg. Miss Stella Gilger won honor
able mention as being the next high
est. The scholarships in Carleton
and Manchester colleges go to Jacob
Nelson.
The Glee Club rendered two more
songs, after which Rev. Johnson pro.
nounced the benediction, and the ex'
ercises were over.
The music furnished by the Glee
Club was so thoroughly appreciated
that the young people were obliged to
respond to several encores. TO Miss
Woodbury. is due great deal OF
credit Cor the success which has
crowned their eff orts, and it is to be
hoped that the organization can agair
be heard from in the future.
The young people who have accom-
plished the arduous task Of finishing
the high school course are as follows:
LATIN SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
Rortha Trcia HanscOm Tessie So.
phie Korthe, Hans Johnson, Jacob
Nelson, William Westberg.
ENGLISH COURSE.
Lille Mae Johnson, Ida Mathilds
Lien, Caroline Josephine Moss, Mabe
LeClaire Porter, Olive Leonora STAINS
berry.
This band of earnest workers are tt
be congratulated on having reached
the goal they have been aiming fo1
through all these years of hard study
They have learned not only the les
sons assigned them from their books
but the far more valuable one of per
severance till the object in view ha
been accomplished. hen we thinn|
of the fact that about sixty started to
gether at entrance Of school life ant
only ten reached the end we realiz
that there is merit in staying in tn
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