The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-23
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS.
IMPRESSIVE WORDS SPOKEN BY
 MISS VERA TIlIM.

O~N'~NNS'A
 One.
 Miss Vera Timm, daughter of tho
 Rev. MT. Timm, gave the valedictorS
 address at the graduating exercises ol
 the Hillhouse and Boardman higI
 schools at the Hyperion. It was full ot
 interesting and impressive points anc
 caused her many classmates to come tc
 a fuller realization of the exact mean.
 ing of graduation from high school and
 the breaking of the many pleasant as
 sociations formed while attending
 there
 It was as follows
 There is a tide in the affairs of men
 Which taken at the flood leads on to
 Fortune;
 Omitted, all the voyage of this life
 Is bound in shadows and in miseries"
 The whole success of life depends
 upon how this tide is prepared for and
 met; for it comes swiftly, unexpected
 ly; one moment and the present is past,
 the future Is here; the old has gone and
 the new has come. Yet although this
 flood tide has come all too swiftly for
 us, the graduating classes of Hillhouse
 and Boardman. still we feel the power
 and spirit within us which will take it
 at the flood and on to fortune.
 For the High school, as one of the greatest educational factor in our American civilization prepares for life,
 It changes the whole tenor of the thoughts of those who spend four years within it's walls, New ideas concern ing life are disclosed to them; they tread paths unknown and undreamed of before. A standard of justice and honor is set them and they learn here the true democracy and equality of mankind.
 The High school, too, is distinctively American. We can see it's foundation and it's beginning in the little red school house of years ago. A small red building standing at the intersection of two or more roads, in a lonely spot with the most barren of landscapes. it never theless sent out along these roads men and women as founders of colleges and universities, as civilizers and missiona ries, as rulers and patriots. These schools taught only the three R's, but they taught obedience instant and un- questioning; and who can say if the thoroughness and completeness of the instructions, and the simple lesson in duty, were not needed in the making of men and women?
 Then came the days of better school houses and of higher work. Men, af- ter the first struggles incident to the eat tpor of Iap tO Gi- der how they could make their children fit citizens and rulers of this new coun- try endeared through the countless sac /, rifices made in gaining it. They felt that more time must be spent In getting an education. and that greater breadth and culture were necessary for dwellers !, in this land of peace and promise, So | academies were built, Latin and Greek l were added to a curriculum now broadened in every way. Yet, then | there were few educational opportuni- | ties for girls. The life of the girl of | this period was exceedingly narrow. She read very little except the Bible and few plays of Shakespeare, but | spent the day sewing and attending to household cares. To know Latin was to call down upon herself the name of to be able to earn her own living was considered extremely History shows us some ovely characters which blossomed forth in this soil, but Is silent concern ng those whose ambitions were checked, lives narrowed and hearts en- in the blind struggle toward hat which is noble and elevating.
 The academy soon became the High school whith soon grew into what was the college. The first of these schools had much ridicule and ill-feel- ng to endure Short-sighted men la nented the great expenditure and cared the American youth would be endered unfit for useful labor, They ct a limit as if there were any bounds o the ambition of the poorest and umblest American boy or girl, who has Il the world before him to choose! hort sighted indeed were those who ailed to recognize in the growth of the ' American schools the welfare and safe- uard of the American people. Our own !, Iillhouse had to endure much; and matters even went so far that day ! yas appointed when the men of New f faven voted at the polls whether the S High school should live or die. But de- f pite all these disheartening occur snces, this American institution grew nd fiourished and gained a strong foot | old on the land, and it is still prov I lg it's value if only in the ideals which strives to set before its students. In- fl them into the realms of clas- I c lore, it leads them through the cen h lries of thought. It shows them what t men have had and SOW they ave accomplished their aims It gives = lem for companions kings and queens, lt niosophers and scientists. Through D le darkness of early history to the y -ightness of the twentieth century it Q yhibits ai them the greatness and i' of mankind. Through it's aid s tt even the councils of the mightiest e secrets to them. It familiarizes the , udent with the language and the l' ought of other nations; revealing to '" ger eyes the mysteries of bird and " ,wer life. It teaches them how grand ~ Id glorious this bright world is. 4, hen all is finished it's students have ~, Il equipments for life they are eager 10
 begin their struggle with dauntless urage and bright hopes
 If they make mistakes, their errors = o,, e,,1n N4 ,,tonVs tbaNy tI,, ('