The evening times., 1902-06-17
FUTURE TEACHERS
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Addresses to Graduates Of
the Normal School.
MR. MACFARLAND'S REMARKS
Wholesome Advice to Future Instruc-
to-s-GeneraI Har-ies Speaks of the
Eecessity Of G-aspins Opportunities
and Relates N Incident of Edison

f!ecessity Of G-aspins Opportunities
and Relates a1 Incident of Edison
The annual gri duating exercises Of the
Washington Norma School were held at
1890 o'clock thi morning in the large
assembly hall at the Franklin School
Building. Thirteenth and K Streets
northwest.
Particular interest was lent to the ex-
ercises BY the fat that Commissioner
MGcfaTland- Dr.. H NJ Johnson. Gen.
George H Harries and Gen Henry V
BCyntCn delivered addresses. An ex-
celent musical program was also rem
dered.
Commissioner Macfarland's address
was brief and was followed with the
closest interest and attention He said:
The Government Of the District OF
Columbia offers its feIicitations to you
as you graduate today Il is as deeply
interested in you as in any others who
ere graduating from its schools For.
as a class, you are TO be the teachers
and therefore largely the ma-ers CT the
future citizens OF the District CT ColUm-
bia- All that we depIore in the pres
ent, all that we desire in the future cit
izenship Of the National Capital. will be
largely within your power. II every
teacher in the public schools could be
ideal IN intelligence. integrity, and en-
thusi iasm. we would come very near hav-
ing an ideal citizenship after a very
few years. This may not 6e possible.
but it IS possible for each CT you 20 up
hold the ideal and to work toward it.
In doing this you viii find rich reward.
rot only in your own progress but in
the visible Improvement OF these under
your care This is what you expect 10
co-is s. not?
Not Here Money GettcTs.
You are certatniv rot entering the
-reat profession Of teaching as q money
making enterprise. l. IS d profession,
not a business. and you cannot get rich
in it Nor are you, ! take it. disposed
to think that you can succeed in it b.
lowering the ideal and eEaIring the
practical The purely practical teacher
who SCOTS at ideals may get r0n, but
.cennot succeed. Fer. TO succeed you
must Eot only imDaTt knowledge, but
improve character, and that cannot be
dcce with sordid motives and ignobie
motives and ideas We would not trust
you with tn ~--~ - FOvs and girls
no are to be the men and women Of to-
G1OTrOU-yee- aal -.li a p 10 be living
spirits when the Capitol shall have
cI umbIed away. IF yoG have taken the
liberal education which the District Of
fe-s its future teachers simply for mer-
cenaFy reasons. and r vau are entering
0cn your duties with no other thought
than 30 get the most out CT them fo-
yourselves. We would be better Of with
cut your services
But ne believe. CT course that you
have prepared yourselves for this work
and viii enter upon it in the right spirit
We believe that y0U have the best mo-
tives and purposes We congratulate
you not only upon what you have done
in receiving the preparation. but upon
what you are going 10 do in -eC0mpense
for It We DO not look for impossible
results. We know that you have the
limitation OF our common human na-
ture, but we know, too, that you may
have the highest and most sustaining
inspiration.
go Others stall
Take patience, labor 10 Jneir heart and hand.
From thy hand, and thy heart and tliy brave
cheer.
And Gods grace frectify through thee TO all"
General Harries to the Class.
| General Harrics gave the graduates
some good. wholesome advice. impress
| ing upon them the need Of grasping their
/ Opportunities as they presented them
selves. He also admonished them 10 be
sure that the thing they grasped was
an opportunity. AID not merely an illu-
sion. He said in part:
Never throw aside an opportunity &c
grasp something that may be Of value
( to you. One Of the men that / count
/ . mong my warmest friends is Mr. Thos
/ A. Edison, the great electrician.
| spent ad eIightful day with him last
! Thursday. At that time we went over
/ carefully together all of his greatest
/ inventions. including his latest, which
/ it is claimed. VIII revolutionize the
| electrical world. He told me that BE-
| Lad been working for over twenty years
| to find the one substance that was miss
/ ing TO make his invention a success.
! He had tried everything and studied
/ everything he thought One day a mere
| schoolboy put the very thing into hi;
! head. Mr. EdisCl had been experiment
/ ing for years and years and had failed
where this mere oy had hit upon :ht
very idea that was needed TO make hi.
Invention perfect
But the point Of this is" continuei
/ General Harries. that Mr.. Edison die
not allow his opportunity 70 sliI
through his grasp and be lost forever
/ Although he had never in the world ex
/ pected to hear what he had been seek
/ ing spoken Of by a schoolboy, he wa.
! quick 10 grasp his opportunity. and con
7 sequcntIy perfected his work
/ But let me also say that the mos
/ useless Eiece of furniture in a schOo
! is that person who has taken Up wha
iappears to be an opportunity and hangs
to it when it proves TO be no oPportuni
ty at all"
Names Of the Scholars.
Gen. Henry Il Boynton, President o
the Board OF. Education. conferred dipIo
mas upon the following:
Elsie Lillian Barnes. Mary Elizabcti
Beadle Lizzie Caroline Beller. Berth
Babette Block, Rose Mary Began, Jessi
Braahers. Jessie Evelyn Brown, Mar
! Brown. Grace Eldred Buchanan, Heste
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