Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-06-07
Commencement Exercises

The Opera house was las. evening
filled with an intelligent and interested
audience, who assembled to express
their interest in the young people who
we're to bid farewell to their old school
Nugent speak.
The stage was beautifully decorated
with stately palms and the national
colors, upon it ranged in semi circle
we're the members of the graduating
class and the teachers who have done
so much to make this occasion possible
Never did the orchestra givN greater
pleasure, and the town rings with
praises of their performance last night
Rev G NJ Ward invoked the blessing
of the Giver of all good upon the meet.
ing and then Father Nugent delivered
one of the most mastery and mapnifi.
cent addresses that it has ever been
the good fortune of the people of Mo.
Valley to hear. His subject was: .'The
Human. Brain and Education"
For over one hour and half Father
Nuoent held his audience spell bound
and toward the close of the lecture the
intensity of attention was wonderful
no one stirred and the breath of the
hearers came quick and short as they
sat fearful of missing one word, or los.
ing one link in the glorious chain of
developed thought. He spoke of the
mighty forces of nature, which by la
tent, undeveloped and misunderstood
until the intellect of man, that breath
of God within us, had made all ma
terial forces its servant, even the sun
with its great forces of light and heat
is merely q hod carrier and water
bearer for mans use.
Father Nugent drew sharp line
between the intellectual and moral
qualities of man, using John the Dap
fist with uplifted face as the type of
the moral nature developed, while q
huge steam engine with man at its
throttle guiding and directing all it's
forces by 9 touch of his hand, seemed
to Father Nugent typical of the intel.
lectual supremacy of mind over mat
ter.
The object of education is to develop
intellect. No limit can be prescribed
to education, the brain is the only
awakening. For six thousand wears
the great forces of nature lay unused
or feared, now the world is ready for
their mighty secret, and it is being
Welded up, through the force of the
intellect of man.
1t is however impossible to even
give glimpse of the fine thing said
Dy the speaker, but all that were 80 for
tunate as to hear him feel they are un.
der lasting obligations to those who
were instrumental in having Father
Nugent come among us. President.
I fnA S~l~
as to the members of the gratuating
class which consisted of Edith Amen
Manus Burbank, Jessie b Clark, Grace
Moore and Grace Williams.
Mr. McGavren voiced the kind
feel ngs and congratulations OF
Prof. Warner, the teachers, school
board and the public generally, who
always are, and until the end of time
will feel kindly toward the young.
1t Is said by some that the prOverbial
Sweet giri,graduate" seems to have
been out done, and the class of last
evening had an added touch of love.
illness.
| After music by the orchestra class
reception WAS held aud more pretty
things were poured into the ears of the
graduates than they will hear again at
one time. until their wedding day.
Then those who had 80 long been
associated by common interest went
home with hearts slightly saddened
in spirits of their triumph for they
felt after all q golden cord was being
loosened and their interest would to
some extent in the future be divided.
"G6d shield them all and keep them
from harm and preserve their purity
and honesty of heart. was the pncon.
scious benediction rained down upon
them by loving hearts. The mottaiot
the class is "Virtus Sofa Nobilitat.'
Its colors scarlet and white, and ffs
J flowers Carnations. So the cdrtn,n
l.drops upon the commencement exer.
eises of the class of 1900.