The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-05-21
THE OPENING EXERCISES
OF COMMENCEMENT WEEK.
Well Prepared Program Rendered in FauItIess
Style by the Graduates.
LARGE AUDIENCE HEARD DR.. GOUCHER
DELIVER THE GRADUATING SERMON
Friday Evening
Oratons the charlottesville
surpassed by those of any Previous Year.

commencement of the Reynoldsville
high school was the senior class rhetor-
icals in the public school auditorium
last Friday evening, May l6. The class
colors, purple and white, were promi-
nently displayed, and the class motto:
"Perfection is Our IDEAL" stood out In
large letters above the stage. There
are seven graduates, five young ladies
and two young men, and each one of
the graduates read an essay or delivered
an Grafton, and each did exceedingly
we'll. The excellence Of the essays and
orations, parts Of which we publish be-
low, showed that deep thought had
been given to the subjects and that care
full attention to details by both pupils
and instructors had left no room for
criticism.
THE ESSAYS.
Katheryn May King was the first
OF the graduates to face the aud
ience and read an essay. "Ethics Of
Music was the subject she had chosen.
She said: This world is world of
beauty. Look where we will, study as
we may, in all things there will be
found the harmony which is essential to
true beauty. The student of nature re-
ceives from his study real discipline,
In language, In culture. Among these
lessons by no means tho least is that
taught by music. Nature gives us a
charming parable OF the beauty and
worth OF music in every flower of the
spring which comes to the full realza-
tion of its poesy and beauty. Music,
like literature, is representation of
beautiful ideal within the mind.
Although the most ancient of the
earth's inhabitants indulged in song and
played upon rude instruments, yet 1t
was not until the beginning of the
christian era that music began to grow
and develope and be called an art. 1t
became part of the ceremonies of the
first churches, and as it grew in i'm
portance, men saw the necessity OF
making system of signs, so that all
could sing together the Same hymns.
In this way music became a written
language. To the church we owe its
development.
Verdi Belle Dougherty in her essay
on "rint Your Own Sky" said: Per-
lection is the goal Of ambition. From
away back in the echoing ages Of the
past mans life has been filled with a
restless energy that is ever urging him
forward. Man is being never satisfied.
However great his treasure may be, he
is continually reaching out for those
things which are not in his possession.
Life is made up OF two parts, desire
and the fullfillment of desire: to have
noble desires and strive to realize them
is the debt every man owes TO his fellow
men, to the world and to God. Not
what we have, but what we are and
what we attain to be settles the question
Of our power. In the tinting OF our own
sky II we do not use honesty, justice
and wisdom, we may be sure our sky
will fade. For what coloring can with
stand the bright sunlight OF an honest
and righteous God unless it be that
which comes from a pure and noble
heart. We must not tint our sky at
the expense OF others or must we be
selfish In our desires. Our characters
are formed by what goes out from us
as truly as what we take into us. What
we give effects our real personality as
we'll as what we receive. That is only
a one-sided education which is merely
reception of knowledge and not an
expression OF service.
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"Faith OF Our Fathers was the sub
iect OF an essay by Christine Brown. AS
boy holds tightly kite string, which
links him with the restless heavens
carrying to him along its threaden
course the message OF the winds, and as
he watches diligently its bird like
movements now rising, now falling at
the mercy of the elements which ever
strive to tear 1t from its fastenings, so
do we hold tightly to the lessons
taught by those who have gone before,
watching diligently in history and
biography the restless actions OF our
for, ,k(athers and the political and re-
lIpio| n elements which governed them
rise n IA }oll, AS we turn the pages Of
sacred yr6 profane history there passes
In prarl N ession an host Of heroes
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