Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-14
a Latter from Panlshoro.

On Monday evening Laws Hall was
crowded with friends Of the graduates of
the Paulsboro public school from Pauls-
boro, Woodbury., Thorofare, Gibbstown
and Clarksboro
The following pupils had completed the
course emitting them to First Grade certi-
ficates: Lillian Sullivan, James Sinister,
John Myers, Ethel Thompson, George
Bramell, Ada Bramell, George Murray,
Clarence Cowgirl and Frank Nothnagle.
Alice Adamson and Leon Stratton were the
High School graduates.
The hall was very prettily decorated
with ferns, palms and the GLASS colors,
front Of the room.
On the platform were the graduates,
teachers, members of the Board Of Educa-
ton, Revs. Payron and Smith, and last
but not least, the lecturer Of the evening,
DR.. M G.. Brumhaugh, WHO is the in
structor in pedagogics at the University of
Pennsylvania, and formerly Commissioner
of Education in Porto Rico.
To the strains of music by the orchestra,
the graduates marched to their places on
the platform, after which, all were led in
PRAYER by Rev. ]. Fl. Payran. The class
then sang commencement song. DR..
Brumhaugh was introduced and the follow
ing remarks were CLEANED from his splendid
address:
HHuman beings are born imperfect, and
as result they want to get something to
add to what they are to make them more
perfect. Education is the one thing that
helps us to become what we ought to be,
and what we are not. It is the force that
changes the whole current OF a persons
life. As we go forward in civilization, it
takes longer to learn what is to be known
than it did in the past.
ssEyery generation has larger work to
do because there is a larger amount to be
taught.
''Adam and Eve would have had no
history to teach to their children, their
geography consisted Of nothing beyond the
walls of the garden, their arithmetic could
be nothing more than counting the animals
as they passed by.
"The child Of to-day has to learn not
only what is being done, or what is to be
done, but also what has happened.
Any community that is wise will make
the largest possible convenienees for the
children. There should be a High School
in PaQlshoro.
sit is great crisis in the child's life
when he goes away from home to study.
Each student ought to have as much
High School learning at home laies las in
their power. All teaching should have
ethical qualities which mean a betterment
of the race.
ut is more important to learn to be
honest and truthful than to learn history or
arithmetic. A man who has been bereft of
moral training in his youth is dead
weight on civilization.
ut is better to make child good for life
than smart for life.
Son one particular instance is this princi-
pie shown to good advantage, lying in
business The student who leaves the
school should have been taught that to tell
the truth when he starts in business is to
make success.
1.-THE school is the community's social
institution. The students who are taught
in morals go to exalt
the community through the advan-
tages the school has given him. Twenty
years from now they will lead the affairs OF
the town and now is the time to SOW the
seed that shall be reaped in the future.
children should not only be taught
things they do know, but things they do
not know.
Schools are to give appetite for knowl-
edge rather than to glut the mind with a
few things.
''There are three things that lie outside
of the child that educate him through his
senses, particularly those of sight and hear
ing. The knowledge of these three things
if mastered, is education. /. Look do,un
upon things beneath you. 2. Look out
upon your fellow-men. 3. Look up to the
divine mind that is above YOU.
Therefore, every sane man who lives
has to have three interests ;'-the school,
which helps him in the first instance; the
State, which brings him into social contact
with his fellows, and the Church which
stands as guide to his life.
"Until man does these things, he has
not education, and can not have right
view of life.'
After some music by the orchestra, Mr..
Robert Stetser, member of the Board Of
addressed the graduates, taking
for his theme the class motto-aWork and
Win, "and earnestly urged them to test the
full value of perseverance.
piano duet by the Misses Anna Paul
and Anna Miller was we'll rendered, after
which the diplomas were awarded by the
President of the Board of Education, Mr..
l. G. Cox, who made a very pleasing speech.
Supervising Principal, William G. Sulli-
van, read the names Of the pupils who were
entitled to Second and Third grade certifi
Gates.
The exercises were brought to close by
the Glass Song, "Hail and Farewell, y and
the benediction by Rev. w. F. Smith.