The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-12

Fourteen young men and two young
women were graduated from the School
of the Lackawanna yesterday after
noon in the presence Of large gather
ing of their friends and relatives.
The class day exercises which pre-
ceded the distribution of diplomas were
conducted in the school chapel. The
back of the stage was banked with
laurels in the centre of which the num-
erals "02" were outlined with red
roses. An orchestra furnished music
and Charles r. Fish, the principal, act
ed as chairman.
Rev. DR.. S. C. Logan, pastor emeritus
of the First Presbyterian church, Of
fered an opening prayer and the class
day programme followed. MacNair
Atwater Phillips. son of Superintendent
Of Public Schools Phillips, delivered the
Grafton. He gave the late President
Mckinley's memorable. Buffalo address.
beginning with the epigram "Exposi-
tons are the timekeepers of progress"
in a forcble, straightforward manner.
Albert s. Freedman read the history
of the class recounting many humorous
incidents of the school life of it's men,
bers and Homer Coke Rice made the
prophecy. He pictured himself on the
banks of the river Styx receiving his
fellow classmates as they were ferried
across by Charon and he described
their fate. Stanley Edward Dolph read
the class will in which he bequeathed
the progressiveness, energy, brilliancy
and other things which it had manifest
ed to the class of 1908.
DIR. M'LEOD'S REMARKS.
Rev. DIR. James Mcleod, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, delivered
brief address to the graduates. He
repeated the Greek original Of l Corin-
thians 1873, Watch ye, stand fast in
the faith, quit you like men, be strong"
He based his remarks on this text.
"Virtue and manlness." said he,
| "were born on the same day. They
are twins. There can be no manliness
where there is no virtue. l would have
you remember that throughout your
life. The great virtues. truthfulness,
| temperancee. chastity, benevolence-all
these are embodied in manliness. God
| liness is a virtue, too. 1t is the sum
total of all virtue and an essential part
of true manliness. We have
no right to expect either personal or
national prosperity apart from personal
or national virtue"
The doctor referred to the greatness
of Greece and Rome and said that those
nations were great only when virtuous
men were in power. Rome was great in
the days of Cincinnattus, Marcus Aurel-
| ius, and the elder Scipios but when her
manhood and womanhood became de-
based she fell. "This teaches u.s. he
said, "to beware lest Ichabad should be
| written upon the brow of this nation
and lest it's glory should depart"
THE MANLY THING.
"Quit yourselves like men," he con-
tinued. ut is a manly thing to work.
| Remember that. 1t is also an unmanly
thing to prevent honest men from
working as is being done today through
out the valley. God pity those men
who are so un-American and un-
| Christian as to prevent honest men
from earning living by honest toll"
The exercises were closed with the
presentation of diplomas by Principal
| Fish. The members of the graduating
class were as follows: Miss May Lo-
gan, Miss Henrietta Harris, Arthur c.
Florey, Albert S. Freedman. Burton G.
Morss, Atherton Bowen, Homer C. Rice,
John F. Kelly, Stanley T.. Dolph, nj. A.
Phillips, Howard p. Protheroe, Harold
L. McAskie, Ernest L. Coolidge, Joseph
G. Alexander, Paul X. Holgate and
Harry A. Loan