The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-30
panied by Mrs. Alice Pitman Wesley.

| dealt with some simple, self-evident rea-
sons why success or failure comes TO the
young people just entering business life.
He said I'm part: You have now passed
through the first period OF education.
You have earned what the young people
have been earning for centuries, viz. to
train the body, train the mind and train
the soul. You have learned also that this
Is an age OF specialization. Young people
are finding out that older people are
achievin gtheir success I'm life by follow
ing special lines OF endeavor."
Continuing the SPEAKER emphasized the
value OF business education and then
pointed out the chief reasons why he be-
lieved young men and young women met
failure In business life. The first OF these
he characterized as Inconsistency and un-
stability. or the turning from one thing
or pursuit to another and thus gaining a
smattering OF that and becoming at last
a jack at all trades and an expert at none
The importance of accuracy and exact
ness was next dealt upon by the speaker.
or to DO the simplest thing exactly right
Another reason why young people fail, he
said, Is inattention.
Turning to the qualifications OF success,
he named honesty. faithfulness to the
interests OF the employer. uprightness
| and integrity OF character, diligence In
| business and application.
The successful employee. he continued.
will be able to contribute or suggest 10 his
employer perhaps a saving here or an
| Improvement there.
In closing the speaker emphasized the
Importance OF cultivating the soul growth.
which he believed should be the highest
aim OF every man and woman
THE chief success" he said. lis that
| education of the soul that shall last all
! through life. Life isn't worth living un-
less you can leave behind you some traces
of your living. 1t is your duty not alone
! to the men OF business and men OF affairs
but to be good citizens and good poll
ticians as well.
But with all your labor there may
| come success or what the world calls
failure. The brave man or the brave wo-
man, however. will be prepared to meet
\ success or defeat realizing that there is
| no defeat II one has the consciousness OF
! having done his best"
At the close OF Mr.. Luce's address more
music was rendered by the orchestra
/ after which the diplomas were presented
/ by Principal Stowell. Before presenting
the diplomas the principal spoke briefly.
He said: I'VE have tried TO teach your
sons and daughters with no uncertain
sound TO send them out into the world
prepared 20 meet it's duties. and we be-
/ lieve we send them out into the world
! tonight and back into their homes with
! higher. nobler and purer ideals than when
they came TO us II not, then We have
failed in our ideals.
IT have 70 say to the class as I present
these diplomas Assume the responsibility
OF your own life: care for 1t. guide II and
make II what you will Set high ideal
| for yourself and then gather the energy
20 press forward and reach that ideal.
whatever ~ shall be- ?"
The exercise Of the evening closed with
another song by Miss Doolittle and
"Amardca" hy the audience
The list OF graduates follows:
! Commercial observation-disclosures Albert
Campbell Aberg. Helena Eva Adams.
Hilda Mary Anderson, Charles Cady An
gen. Albert Arnold Barden. Louis Fred
erick Bell, Jr., Lester Randall Berten-
shaw. Alfred Homer Blake. Nicholas Ell
kinton Carr, Warren Henry Church,
Hazel Lawrence Cornell Walter Clifton
Crooks. Herbert Rodman Dawley. Walter
James Farrow. Joseph Arthur German.
Lizzie Catherine Graves, Charles VIII
iiams Greene. Jr., Mollie Luby Greene.
Frank Amasa Hawkins. Fred Smith
Howard, Chester Adm Hubbard. Clifford
Eaton Hunt. William Henry Charles Just.
William Bfbby Kittredge. Henry Alfred
Lange Harry Francis Lincoln. George
Francis Mcguire. Chester Martin, Thomas
Vincent MCGOWAN. Katherine Veronica
McNanley, stephen Matthew Morgan,
1 Hilda Marion Nilsson. Leila Eugenia OIL
weller, Edna Myrtle Peers, Lester Her
bert Perkins. William Angus Piacentini.
John Warren Place. Frank Alfred Plat.
| Alice Elizabeth Potter Lizzie Allen Rey-
nolds Teresa Agnes Rooney. James Ber-
mart Scanlan. Harvey Bates ScattWgood.
| Mary Elizabeth Scully Oscar Truesdell
Sherman. Frederick Edward Smith. Fred
Steere. James Henry Taylor May Louise
Walsh, Fred Clark Whitford. William
Wilson. Andrew Winsor.
| Deceased.
Shorthand BENJAMIN AL
meron Armstrong; Maud Edith Baker,
| Albert Arnold Barden, Hannah Hirst
Barnes, Lucy May Berthold. Grance
Mary Bowen, Mary Emma Bowen. Fran
| ces Adelaide Carnes, Lucy Lee Carpen-
| ter Bessie Louise Clarke, Mary Imelda
Cosgrove, Eleanor Rose Coughlin, Harold
| Clifford CoveIl. Mary Eleanor Crofton.
Bertha Louise Curtis. Frank Lawrence
Doran, Elizabeth Marie Doyle. Chester
Washington Eldredge Eileen Agnes En-
mis-. Ellen sophia Fredlund. Mabel Carrie
! Freese Teresa Cecilia Gallagher, Eliza
beth Veronica Gilbane. Helen Martha GIL
bane. Lulu Augusta Gray. Florence Ward
Greene. Fannie Hope Harris. Nettie
Frances Haskins. Mary Frances Hayes.
Helen Kelby Howat Marion Reynolds
Irons. Bessie Eudora jerks, Henry AL
fred I,ange, Gertrude Lewis. Katherine
| Agnes Lynch Marion Margaret Lynch.
Lena Annie Mscburnie, Josephine Flor
ence Madison, Jennie Ferry Martin. Eva
Perry Mathewson. Ethel Maynard. Mary
| Henrietta McCabe. Frances Veronica Nc
! Dewitt. William Michael Augustine Nc
Elroy. Margaret Mary McQueeney. Cora
| Emily Mellor. Frances Elizabeth MILL
gan. Sara Adelaide Mowry. Teresa Eliza
beth Mullen. Genevieve Regina Munne-
gle Emma Mary Munro. John Henry
| Murphy. Vivian Evangeline Phillips.
! Edith Stoughtenburg Rodman. Clara
! Blanche Roland. Clara Ann Schofield. An
ME Elizabeth Sessions. Julia Elizabeth
Shea, Anna Estele sisson, Bertha Leah
Smith. Georgiana Smith. Marguary Eliza
beth Starrett Annie Camillss Sullivan.
Catherine Albertus Tally. Ethel Annie
/ Taudvin, Henrietta Earl Thayer Alice
| Gilmore Toye. Florine Underhill.
The ushers were Albert w. Possner.
Samuel II. Lindsey, Brainard z. Caverly.
william Wilson. Charles F. Whaley. VIII
NJ Herring William Il. Kittredge, Thom-
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