Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-11
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Of the Wausau High School, Thursday and
Friday Evenings, June 9Th and 7th.

kins matron of the seminary Profes-
sot Edgerton who dressed in the height
of fashion, possessed a most delicious
lisp, and deemed 1t duty to investl-
gate matters more fully" was well rep
resented by Fred Brummond.
Miss Leona Lampert, as Kathleen, "a
Celtic maiden" and Angus Lamont, as
the seminary ''man," shared hOnors
with Fred Brummond as favOrites OF
the audience.
During the intermission between the
play and the prophesy the Mandolin
Club played "Off to Camp" Then the
curtain arose displaying most un-
canny group of wierd beings gathered
around a steaming cauldron. In real
life, the witches are Misses Ida Berger
Norma Craven and Clara Thomas
while the mephistos are commonly
known as Fred. Heinemann and Stan
ley Latshaw. Thunder and lightning
accompanied by minor melody OF
Salome from the Mandolin Club, fur
nished an appropriate back ground fol
the scene. One after another, the var
iOuS tokens of each member OF the class
were tossed into the magic brew, and
the future read therefrom. The hits
We're good and to the point; all the
most cOmical bits of senior history
were brought in from "Betty's" exploit
with the wooden sword down to the
very recent event of 'Lottie's" uneX
pected plunge into Lake Mendoza
The stage effects were all manufactured
by the three boys in the prophesy
During the prophesy Ross Beebe mani
pulated the lightning while Mr.. Schultz
turned on the thunder.
The program was closed with musi-
cal selection, German Patrol" by the
Girls Mandolin Club. This club is a
recent organization under the leader
ship of Miss Harger, supervisor OF
music in the schools, and furnished
some very pleasing music during the
evening.
FRIDAY EVENING.
The evening was opened by the High
Srh..ol Glee Climb, with two choruses
Let Our Voices be Glad" and THE
Home of Freedom" Both selections
were very well rendered
Dr. E. G.. Updikc, of Madison, was
then introduced. 1.-The Intellectual
Life" was the subject of DR.. Updike's
address and was handled in mastery
manner. The speaker impressed the
audience with the clearness of his reas
oning and his evident sincerity, SO
often lacking in public speakers. II
seems almost impertinent to attempt a
synopsis Of an address so full of good
thOughts-yet, a reporter will attempt
anything.
There are two kinds of ownership
legal and spirited ownership. A
man may have spiritual ownership in
something in which he has no legal
ownership; he may have legal owner
ship in the possession of IA muSica! in
stlument and have no spiritual owner.
ship of it. A man may have the means
To purchase the most costly and valu
able books that have ever been bought
the greatest works of history, philoso
ply, science and literature, and yet
having legal ownership, he may not
have spiritual ownership in Il single
volume. On the other hand, some
member of that family without owning
single volume in this library may
master one book after another until in
Il few years, he is the spiritual owner OF
that library. Legal ownership is only
a means to an end; spiritual ownership
is the end.
Now this is the meaning of education:
that one may come to be not particu-
larly the legal but the spiritual owner
of many things. 1t is only the man who
has spiritual ownership who can be said
to be educated. A man, after going
abroad, may return with less money
but with more comprehension to appre-
ciate spiritual things. A man may
study history and familiarize himself
with the greatest works of literature
science, philosophy, and he becomes
the absolute owner of what he sees
and understands. 1t is only wher
we measure life in this way that we
find its cost and its value. The State
University represents millions of dol
lars and yet every young man anC
woman who has the desire and the com
prehension may come to be the spiritua
owner of these millions.
We measure life by its correspon
dence and we say life is great or small
according to the way that it has CORE
spondence with what is about it. There
are some people who live in this wOrlC
who seem to touch the world in only
one point; there is the man who touche!
| the world in a material way; if he lose;
his property he has lost all. On th(
other hand the man who touches the
world in spiritual way, when he lose:
his property has still his spiritua
ownership left him. You may TAKE
away mans property, his life; bu
! you cannot take away his Spiritua
ownership of things. And so when ;
man has correspondence with spiritua
things not even death itself can destroy
his life. 1t is the privilege of ever!
man and woman to have possession o
| things eternal.
| We measure life not only by its cor
respondence but we measure it by th,
way in which one is able to tranSmutt
the things that come into his possession
| 1t is within the power of the soul Il
take the things that become its ant
| transmute them into something else
and it ought to be the part of education
/ to take all of the things that enter int
| life and in SOmeway make them par
of the person so that when death come
there shall be left something of perma
nent value that can not be taken away
The great demand today is for tn,
man who is educated in such wa,
that he can think Employers say thel
have difficulty in finding men who vii
/ think; they can easily find men wh,
will do what they are told to do; whel
| this is so there Is something defrciiV,
in the educational methods. There wa
| time when men had to think and pIal
| for themselves; one inventor did no
| then put his genius into a machin,
which any man could work. Now
a-days, man can earn a living withou