New-York tribune., 1901-06-08
EXERCISES AT STATEN ISLAND.
GRADUATES FROM THE ACADEMY AND
LATIN SCHOOL ADDRESSED BY WILLaAM
H. MELROy AND WILLIAM WINTER


The graduating exercises of the class Of 1901 OF
the Staten Island Academy ard Latin School were
held yesterday afternoon in the Music Hall OF
Sailors Snug Harbor. New Brighton. William H.
McElroy delivered the address the eleven gradu-
ates and William Winter. president Of the board OF
trustees Of the academy. presented the diplomas.
The hall decorated with flowers. palms end
flags of lavender and white
Mr.. McElroy closed with this caution:
Turn deaf ear to those who say these are bad
times for young EeoPle. These are the best times
us. but the poorest of the poor are the pessimsts
William Winter addressed the graduates with
much feeling. and said in part:
Human Hfe-which is always the theme Of the
voyage-is largely composed Of parting hours and
OF farewell words. and therefore it is wise for Us
must continually recUr. The young do not consider
ures will fade that ties will be broken that hopes
will be disappointed and that the world will one
beauty and hap1fnese b9t age Which be 5ad & 0L
perience of the world. knows only TOO well how de-
and hence It is Tor those of US who live mostly in
nn1 memory that occasions Ike the present are in
Walter Scott, is a dream within dream: youth
awakens from childhood; manhood despises as
visionary. The pursuits of youth and age looks
back on manhood as struggle and fever So
the poet Gray remembering his distant prospect
of Eton College. when from the ramparts Of Wind
sor ne gazed on one of the loveliest landscapes in
the world. wrote OF the lads OF EtOn-
"AIast regardless of their doom
The little victims play.
No sense have they Of ills TO come
Nor care beyond to-day.
''It is all true. And yet for many reasons thf,
natural sohcftude as to the future Of the young
may well be tempered with hope and low Let "a
guard against the deIusion' $50 wrote Boswell the
great biOgrapher of DR. Johnson that there ia
an end OF human felicity when ourselves grow
old OF are unhappy
Your education has only lust begun Cher
ish and extend your companiOnshD with vOu-
books but look upon life through your own eyes.
and not through the eyes OF others Profit hyr
great examples. but be yourselves. and being YOUR
selves. do not create burdens for other people TO
carry limitation Is weakness. and excess OF
homage degrades its IDEAL The value of a great
example Is ddrnOniriOn % the importance OF
opportunity You only the brink You
have. as YET, made no mistakeS-and a mistake at
the outset is seldom retrieved. Do trhe with
ing are truly obtained only by desert Things
worth doing are only done By labor. Lo1gfellow
wisely said:
The heights that great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden fight.
But they, while their companions slept,
Were tOiling upward in the night"
Choose early the path that leads 70 the noun
That is the true in life. which no muts-
biltty OF fortune ever disturb. and no caprice
OF disaster can ever take away
Frederick r Partington. head master. spoke OF
the work of the class and the development OF the
school Graduating essays were read as follows:
Salem Witchcraft." Miss Florence A. Meyer;
Myths and Legends of Our Land" Miss Mary A.
Delehanty; Literary landmarks of New-York"
Miss Anita g. Mathez: Brook Farm" Miss
Theresa z. Graef The other graduates wers
Jay z. Eddy. Russell C. Low Miss EVELYN Mullen
Miss Charlotte PaTke Miss Georgia Sillcox and
rendered by Miss Sophie T. E,idam. Miss Ida Cor
son and r W. Durken.