The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-07-04
TWO CLASSES GRADUATE.

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Those From Normal and the COUNTY
Schools Receive Their Diplo-
mas for Years Work.
The fourteenth annual commence,
ment exercises of the Dawson county
schools and normal institute were
held at the court house Friday even.
ing, and there was a very good audi.
ence present considering the fact
that there were several other attrac.
tions in the city. Superintendent
Coursey had charge of the exercises
of the evening and introduced the
speaker of the evening. Rev. w. N.
Coffee, pastor of the Free Methodist
church, delivered the invocation and
the institute chorus gave a musical
selection.
r. j. Spangler, an attorney of this
city, was introduced to the audience
by Superintendent Coursey. who de-
livered the address of the evening,
reading from his manuscript in a
mastery effort. In his opening re-
marks Mr.. Spangler urged the grad
yates not to stop at this point in
their lives and hoped that they
would push forward in search Of more
learning and take advantage of the
splendid educational facilities which
u young state has established for
the advancement of its young men
and women. The subject of MI.
Spangler's address was "The Mean
ing of Education and around this
theme he presented some remarks
that ought to bear good fruit in the
minds in which they were implanted.
He said in part as follows: "Our
forefathers when they founded our
government and its inherent institu-
lions recognized the fact that the
greatest blessing of a free people
was a thorough system of education.
They laid the foundation for the
greatest educational system that
blessed a nation. Education
for all is looked upon by the aver
age American citizen as a good and
thoroughly desirable possession. and
so thoroughly fixed has this thought
become in the average American
mind that in many states they have
embodied it into their state consti-
buttons and not only is education
made free to all but in most states it
is made compulsory upon all.
Education in the broadcast and
the largest sense of the word is a
matter of the whole lifetime. In
sense education is the discipline.
Of the mind of today for the work
and activities of tomorrow: each to-
day a storing away of knowledge, a
preparation for tomorrow. However.
we limit our use of the word educa-
ton very often. in fact, it is the
general understanding of the term.
and regard it as meaning the educa-
ton OF the earlier years in the prepar-
ing the way for the work and life of
maturity and manhood. In the lat
Ter sense it is the development Of
and the discipline of the
mind in its formulatiye period for the
use of the individual in maturity and
old age. It is the state of building
Up the mind SO that the individual
enters upon life with a mind in com
9lete readiness for educated life.
There are two ways Of looking at
The first being its inn
mediate or temporary object. This
consists of efficiency of service OBJ
5ained by force Of mind and power of
thought. The power to reason and
exercise judgment in the affairs of
life. 1t is not necessary that a man
or woman should be schooled in our
Universities and colleges to be an ed
man or woman. 1t is not
necessary that they should have a
knowledge of Greek or Latin or
French or German to be truly edu-
Gated. and to get the most cut of
life. 1t is only necessary that they
should be able to see and do their
life work well, and attain a full
measure of happiness throughout
life. But since education is for the
lifetime what should be the object
of the school? 1t is not SO. much to
furnish knowledge which is the food
If the mind as it is to awaken and
train the mind and to give the be-
Of self possession. Again
the object of the school is discipline,
Self-mastery, the development aud
training Of the faculties. Another
object of the school is the training
Of the will. Won't has too often been
mistaken for will. Too much won't,
not too much will, has stood in the
way Of the worlds progress.
If all the citizens of the universe
we're educated how much Of suffering
and misery would be eliminated from