The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-06-20
THIRrY.sevEN GRADUATES
One Of the Largest Classes In History
= OF owosso Schools Given Diplomas
Wednesday Night = Splendid Ad.
dress by Rev. Carlos n. Hanks.

! Thirty-six graduates listened to on,
of the best as well as probably the short
est graduating address ever delivered
in Owosso on Wednesday evening o.
this week The thirty-seventh grad
l,uate, William Wise, was not present
being in Detroit taking entrance exam
itinations for Columbia University.
The beginning of the exercises wa.
delayed for some time beyond the usua
opening time on account of the heavy
rain, which preceded the hour for meet
ling, and the showers which followed the
heavier rain. At quarter past eight
however the last of the white gowned
kgraduates had reached the Baptist
church in safety and all were ready to
go on the stage Miss LOCKER presided
at the organ and the class marched in
|Spreceded by Superintendent Austin,
principal Osburn, and the speaker OF
the evening, Rev. Carlos Fl. Hanks. AT
a signal from the superintendent all
were seated. The platform had been
tastefully decorated with ferns and
spalms and which formed just the sug-
igestion of barrier between the grad
suates and their parents and friends.
The invocation was offered by Rev. J..
III. Coultard, pastor of the Disciple
lthurch.
n The music of the evening was under
the direction of Miss Kanagy, special
Teacher of music in the city schools.
Four songs, Lightly My Bark" by
Minard, Little Dust Man." by Brahms,
cover the Summer Sea-" by Verdi, and
"The Spinner" by Henry L. Clapp,
were given by the chorus of grade pu-
pills under her direction. Although the
combined voices were light owing to the
small size of the chorus and the youth
of its members, the effect was very pref
ty and the execution was all that could
have been desired. AS al. of Miss Kan
agy's choruses do it showed the results
of much patient work and great skill in
the management of the children as we'll
as mastery of her subject. The attack
was fine, the time perfect, and the way
in which the children paid attention to
the baton Of the leader must have made
a glad heart i'll the breast of every per-
son in the audience who has ever at
tempted to lead chorus or choir.
The benefits of the work in music We're
we'll illustrated by the singing of the
evening.
The address of Rev. c. H. Hanks was
in part as follows:
THE MEANING OF EDUCATION.
What has not the world been willing
to do to prove its devotion to Jesus
Christ? From the breaking of Mary's
alabaster box to the heroism of Father
Damien, the leper priest, it has offered
all that it had to prove that it loved
him. The offices of which Jesus Christ
is the highest exemplifcation as bearing
on the rational and spiritual develop
ment Of man are many and various
But whatever else Christ was or was
not, there is no title more descriptive of
his mission to man than this, ''the
teacher Those who We're nearest to
him said rabbi we know that thou art
a teacher come from God" The world
has endorsed that judgment ever since
From his example the teaching Office
has acquired for Christian civilization
an importance which is almost Unequal
ed in that civilization. The reason why
this Importance has been attached to
the teaching Office has been and still is
that the teacher can almost make or
unmake the life of the student whom he
has in charge. Life is literally at stake.
This brings us face to face with the
problem Of education. AS to the whole
question of education, after all what is
it other than the question of how we
shall live? In his essay on education
Herbert Spencer says: ITO prepare us
for complete living.is the. function which
education has to discharge" This is
The best statement of the aim of educa-
ton that l know. How to live is the
aim not merely of education and relig-
on but Of life itself. During the past
century there has been great progress in
educational ideals. Not so many years
lgo knowledge of the three Rs was
thought to constitute fair education.
Afterward there came what may be
,alled period Of scholasticism when the |
acquisition of knowledge was considered |
% be the end of education. But in the |
present time there is broader and pro-
founder conception of the real meaning
If education than has prevailed before.
leasing, who was in advance of his age,
ruly defined education when he called
t revelation. 1t is the opening of the
oul Of man; it is the disclosure of pos
abilities; it is getting the power of in
light. 1t is also an emancipation, In
The Marble Faun" Hawthorne, -sug-
rests the idea that the task of the sculp-,
or is not by cutting to impress figure
lpon the marble, but rather, by the
ouch Of genius to set free the glorious
or1p the cold grasp of the stone impris-
ms. There are two ways of looking at