The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-06-20

awaken and train the mind, and to give
the beginning of self-possession. The
training of the school gives power of OBJ
servation, the power to see. The ability
to see with the mind and imagination.
Again, the object q the school is disci-
plino, self-mastery, the developing and
training of the faculties The object of
education is the complete possession of
the faculties which enables person to
use himself. Another object of the
school is the training of the will. Won't
has been mistaken too often for will.
Too much won't, not too much will, lras
stood in the way of the worlds progress.
The right kind of education takes the
superiuous softness ont of u.s.
Another object of the school is to
create and develop taste, using the word
in broad sense. 1t is taste which en-
ables us Ito sit by our firesides and take
hold of the poles of the earth" Taste is
the appreciation of the good, the beauti-
full and the true. And it should be the
work of the school to awaken this power
of appreciation.
The noblest end of education is to
create or foster true ideals. The stimu-
lating of noble ideals is the means of
true culture. Culture is not veneer,
it is quality struck in: it changes the
very substance of nature. But while
the school awakens faculties and powers
and influences the nature in the right
direction, it is the business of life to
continue the work of culture We
should be at school always. Michael
Angelo never ceased learning, and this
was what he meant when he said, II
carry my satchel still"
But what is the purpose of getting
the ability to know and see things, and
the use of faculties and powers? We do
well to remember that education is not
mere money-making tool, neither is it
toy for luxurious idleness. Mere pur
suit of knowledge with no practical aim
in sight and no end to be achieved, is
not an occupation worthy of man or
woman. We have little patience with
people who are forever learning and
never adding to the sum of human hap
piness and joy as result of their labor.
An education should make him who
receives 1t more human. 1t should be
the garment Of wisdom to make man
more brotherly, not less so. Nothing
that breaks the continuity OF the
healthy associations and memories Of
life can truly minister to the progress
OF our race. A truly educated man
remembers that he must be man
among men, and not allow the healthy
associations OF humanity to be broken
in his life. TIE business of the man
who has had some advantages In life is
to demonstrate that they make him
more capable servant Of the inter
ests in which all mankind has part.
Life being itself trust, education
only makes it a sublimer one. The
real meaning or purpose, then, of liber
al training, forget it not, members OF
the graduating class, is ministry. 1t |
is to make men more manly, and wo-
men more womanly, and to so develop
all the resources of the mind as to
make 1t happiness for both to serve the
generation with gladness and unself-
ishness.
Our business in life Is to reproduce
the image OF God. Let us then make
life what it was designed to be-a com.
plete thing in perfect harmony of
form throughout. And we shall con.
tinue to unite, as true men and women
have united under the standard of the
Supreme Teacher, that Universal |
Man, the man, Christ Jesus. May
you, members Of the graduating class,
may We all, in truth, say with |
Browning.
THAT one face, far from vanish, rath.
er grows,
Becomes my universe that feels and
knows"
The diplomas were presented by SUI
perintendent Austin who spoke very
briefly. He reminded the graduates
that while the high school was part of
the free school system it was free in an
other sense for no one was compelled to
attend the high school. They were how
EYER thirty-seven out of over four hun
lred who had chosen to attend this part
If the school system during the year
which had just ended. 1t was ten years
before, he told them, that he had first
net them. They were then in the sec
md grade in the school Since that
lime he had taken no small degree of
pleasure in watching them advance and
more particularly during the last four
-ears during which he had been with
hem as their superintendent and they
lad been in the high school, He con-
,ratulated them on having successfully
the high school course and
presented their diplomas to them in be-
lalf of the school board.
After the presentation of diplomas the
Exercises, which had lasted but little
more than an hour, were closed with a
by the Rev. Paul Desjar-