Arizona republican., 1901-06-22
June is the month of roses. rare days

| June IS the month or roses. rare days
 and graduation exercises. The season sacred to the sweet gil
 SENSE graduate and utilized
 AND by the asplting youth
 GRADUATES, as his time for going 'uf forth into the battle of life has almost passed. Graduation or atory and millinery have been abroad
 In the land. Incidentally it is worth mentioning, that there has been a notable change in the character of the graduation exercises of the more prom inent schools of the country within the past decade. Many years ago the leading universities of the country abolished the cid type of graduation day exercises with its sa,utatorlan, historian, poet, orator. and valedic torian chosen from the class ana ever since have brought forward instead as the principal feature of the occasion some prominent statesman or sch0.ar to address the class and the assem- bled audience of relatives and friends, though we believe that the old custom was retained In part in the commence ment eX rcses of our Phoenix schools This reform has row extended to nearly all of the secondary schools. both public and private. throughout the country. high schools, institutes. and professional and technical schco's 90 that ths occasion has become enc Of vastly different import, Instead of be- ing parting exhibition of the pupils. it Is now utilized as final opportunity of giving the young graduate either a little wholesome gcoi advice. or possi- hly littls insight into some realm of knowledge or experience outside the rarge of his school curriculum. The tendency to flattsr the graduate and tell him he knows 1t all and that the {! common peop,s who have not trodden | the altitudinous paths of lsarn.ng will | now fall down and worship him md ! ask him to pick out what he wants the f world to give him and take possession . thereof, has largely avaporatei in the alter days also. The practica. hard | headed men who are now frequently . ,alled in to talk to the gra 1uate are iuite inclined to tell him In tsrms as )lain as are consistent with reasonable that the wolli is a place yh,re a man IS judged not by his di- ,loma, but by what he is able to do, md that very few peop'e will conclude hat the possessor can do anything: hat in fact the avenues of opportunity O largs extent, are contro led by nen who did not receive very much chool training themselves and are in-
 ined to be suspicious of it's utility n the higher branches of commercial purposes. This twentisth century i'd f commencement exercises was lately ct for by George Ade in one of his Fables in Slang" This constitutes a healthful reaction Q doubt from fllm.r conditions. and
 certainly prepares the gra 1uate bet ar, if he will heed what he is told, for he chilly reception he vii meet at his rst plunge into business. He has cen taught that there is room at ths )p. but he will find himself at the out t very much worried over the lack room. and he will marvel at the easy ay some fellow with experience win , . preferred to him and will distance , ir He will lie awake nights wond r. { ls how h. i3 going to get that ex- erience that seems So preferable to ( is book at;ainments. But he is unit ,, l the social structure and in time the ., w of the surviva' of the Attest will I lab,e him to find his right pacs ac- { ,rGing to his powers. So now adays [ ie graduate Is taught, at least in the J lst few moments of his school career, lat what is before him is not all for le asking. that whatever he reaches IT there will be others grasplng at the ,me object, and the man with the ngest arm vii get il.
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