The Mankato free press., 1902-06-06
FIVE GRADUATES.
Lake Crystal High School
Commencement.
Interesting Exercises Held Last
Night in the Presence OF a
Packed House.

Five students of the Lake Crystal
high school finished the course this
year and commencement exercises
were held last Tuesday. The graduates
were Vera Leavitt, Margaret Davis,
Robert Roberts. Ray Bartlett and Ed
win ]. Lee. The hall was packed to
its utmost capacity a large number
being obliged to remain in the hall
way.
The first number on the program
was a march played by Mrs. Alice
Herring, to which the board of direc-
tors, headed by President D. A. Reed,
high school faculty, the graduates and
the iunior class marched to the front
of tie hall, all but the latter taxing
their places on the platform. ine
front two rows of reserved seats were
occupied by the juniors.
A brass sixtet furnished muisc for
the evening and after the first selec-
tion, prayer was offered by Rev. w.
]. Robinson of the M. E. church
followed by song chorus, - A June
Day."
The class oration entitled Labor
Conquers All'' by Miss Margaret
Davis was a very prominent number.
She said:
For four years our little feet has
been riding in harbor today the an
chors are weighted and slowly we
drop together down the tide. A few
hours more and these clustering sails
will be scattered and fading specks,
each in its own horizon, staining or
drifting toward its goal.
And now as we still linger in the
narrows, side by side, the purely secu-
lar grows foreign, and we turn frsm
specific ills and fallacies to the
thought of some worthy life princi-
pie, the vision of some high and COM
prehensive ideal which may awaken,
as we part, our finest purpose and
devotion.
Let us consider for moment how
we may attain this high ideal Long
fellow says: "The Heights by great
men reached and kept were not at
tained by sudden fight. But they,
while their companions slept, were
toiling upward in the night ..
So it is, dear friends, we cannot ex-
pect to be successful in the highest
sense of the word, by dreaming and
wishing, it is labor that conquers
everything. Never in the history of
the world has this truth been so evil
dent as in the present age. When has
the world..made-greater progress than
during the last century. Take for ex-
ample our.own great .nationf A little
more than..one hundred years ago our
forefathers were ..English. subjects, out
by....their labors and sufferings, we
stand today..at:the-- --front.in the. march
of the.nations It.mayssbe fairly..said
that the. e..founders of this country came
from.the.cream--of the. European peo-
pie. They. were not the rich.-and
titled, .not.the.. ..class.. ..that.claim to have
bluer..- blood than....common, not-...the
idlers, but....the...workers. They, were
men who thought for themselves; men
who were ready to dare the perils of
the sea.and.the- -hsrdships of a barren
shore for the blessings of liberty and
free thought ..men..--of sturdy thrift,
unAinching energy, :..daring enterprise
and sterling.character.
ss--They:were men who..won their way
by honest toll. whose hands,. were un-
sullied -by..wealthE hEwrongfully..--gained,
whose hearts were true. and--sshonor
unstsined by deeds of shame. -
ssSuch was their. .birthright fsr.great-
ersswasiit..than if had -they,..been--..born
rich
"The rich mans son inherits lands
And piles of brick and stone and gold,
And he inherits soft white hands,
And tender flesh that fears the cold,
Nor dares to wear garment old,
A heritage it seems to me
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
1.-THE rich mans son inherits cares,
The bank may break, the factory burn.
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn.
A heritage it seems to me
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
"What doth the poor man son inherit
Stout muscles and sinewy heart
A hardy frame, harder spirit,
King of two hands, he does his part
In every useful toll and art,
A heritage it seems to me
Well worth life to hold in fee.
"What doth the poor mans son in
herit2
A patience learned of being poor.
Courage, if sorrow comes, to bear it,
A fellow feeling that is sure -
To make the outcast bless his door
A heritage it seems to me
A king might wish to hold in fee'
s.Inss-.the.. latter..part.of - the 10th cen
tury, Sir Waite. Raleigh planted tht
frst--American--..colony. a-a The -settlerl
made no attempt to cultivate the sol
but spend their time in hunting fol
gold-in plain language those colonist
were lazy-they lived long enough il
America to learn the use of Tobacco,
and then returned to England. If thes,
men had found the gold they sough
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