Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-06-04
Graduating Exercises Of
Cresco High School.

Next Sunday morning the Baccal-
laureate sermon will be delivered by
the Rev. o. Fl. Holmes in the Congre-
gational church at the usual hour in
the morning, at which there will be
union service by the several churches.
| For that service there will also be
special song service.
The class exercises will be held in
High School room Thursday morning,
June 18th, commencing at 9 O'Clock,
to which parents, members Of the
class and their friends are cordially
invited. Also the general public,
interested in matters educational.
The graduating exercises will be
held in the opera house Friday eve
ming June 14th, at s o'clock. The
Rev. Father Nugent, of Des Moines,
one of the most eloquent men of tile
state, has been secured for the ad-
dress at that time.
| An admission fee of Is cents will be
asked, the proceeds for the benefit of
the public school library.
1t may not perhaps be amiss for the
PLAIN DEALER to say to the individ-
ual members of the graduating class
that they who wish to live rightly
must know this world of ours with it's
hardships and its joys with all its
certainties and its uncertainties.
Realize then, this fact, that we are
not made alike, either in size, looks.
gifts or characters. If we differ wide
ly in all these respects it becomes our
duty to study others as we'll as our
selves. In a word our success in the
world depends largely upon correct
l knowledge Of the world in which we
l act, knowledge of the men with
whom and for whom we act, and es-
5 pecially does it depend upon knowl-
| edge'of ourselves, because we must
5 for ever act and are destined to rise
l or fall by our own actions.
u You think you deal with the world,
y and so you do; but you deal everytime
u with yourselves. You cannot get out
le of or away from yourselves. You are
rs writing your own history every day,
20 and you cannot escape its RESPONSE
IS bilities do what you will, least of all
can you escape yourselves. You must
NJ forever live and act, you must every
- twenty-four hours fill one page of
- your life history.
~ AS a man sees the world 50 it ap-
a pears to him. If he is stupid or vul
,o gar, the world likewise appears stu
90 pid and vulgar, and naturally he de
at lights in the company Of the stupil
and the vulgar. If he is bright, hap
Nv py and cultured thus the world will
-, appear to him. 1t follows then yo1
por will be made happy not by what 70,
- have but what you are. A great min,
M sees great things in life;a a petty think
,ra er, small minded man, finds faul
,bo and quarrels with everything.
~ The intellectual and charitable.ma
has high and noble purpose in lif,
The selfish and sensual always live
inc for low purpose, but both live an
We exist in the same world-all chance
cen and opportunities for good are ope
'eSt to both alike. From this it follow
The that the world is not to blame b1
was that man is.
Boat This world will appear to US eith'
rill- good or bad according as we oursely
rer, are either good or bad, according
. 2, our understanding In other wor
first the things most needed is educatio
lore which is Of more value than none
line great riches and precious stones. T
we're man of clear brain and good hes
Miss sees the world as it is, the medic,
elsie through the lens Of his own base p
Itest sions and desires. The man of cl,
was mind and good education, understal
edals events, he sees their effects, he sci
lplls' them, he thus advances his own in1
estS and the interests of the world
humanity.