The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-10
join The ALUMNI
Large and Strong Glass Graduated
From South High School
Last Evening.
Judge A. M. Harrison's Address in
Presentation of The Journal
Medal.

Admired by thousands of relatives.
friends and well wishers,4t the members of
the class of 03, South Side High school
last. night bade a graceful farewell to
Years. The Swedish Tabernacle was the
scene Of the commences exercises and
that pacious auditorium was filled to
overfloWing with visitors
The graduating class. was the largest as
well.as one of the best ever graduated by
the South High schools and the exercises
last night formed fitting finale for, rec
1ords which the high school ia Guilty as we'll
as, the students themselves have reason
to be proundfof.s Miss Marie Johnson, val
ed1ctortan, received the highest standing
of any of this years high school grad
yates, In the city and the announcement
tof this fact was enthusiastically applauded
by the loyal audience.
Miss Johnson's valedictory, entitled
The Parting Of the Ways was poetic
In thought and diction, a masterpiece and
one seldom equaled on similar occasions.
journal Medal Presented.
AS valedictorian, Miss johnson was the
winner of The Journals gold medal for
scholarship, which was presented to the
honored, student by Judge A. NJ. Harrison,
who spoke as follows:
We who stand in the arena of the world IS
the young men and women who ha veFbeen. strug-
Cling with the tasks of, the world of education
and who are now about to enter into the wider
work for which they have been preparing them
Selves To this magnificent class of graduates
want to address a few words of advice even
at the cost of being considered preaching.
To the student or world man there Is no truer
philosophy of success than that found in these
words: fidelity to Self 1t is the secret
spring whence comes the strength. the symmetry,
the beauty of character. The true cause; near or
| remote, of the grace and perfection that adorns
the physical form, the sole source of human
happiness. and Of all that constitutes manhood.
BY self is meant the moral the mental, the
physical-the human trinity, distinct yet insep-
| arabic, the whole man. " By fidelity is meant
not that gormandzine spirit of seltishness, but
that sincere respect God and humanity demand of
us as responsible beings. Hence, in this busy,
| grasping world of ours. where men act for gold
rather than think for poverty, our first ambition
should be to know ourselves. Burns says:
o. wad some power the giftie gle us,
To Sc oursels as thers us:
IT wad fra mony hlunder free us
And foolish notion.
tutions, our powers and idiosyncracies. We
pursue the routine of Our schools and go forth
to study the beautiful outside world, to measure
! the stars, to weigh the sum- to analyZe the dust
of the earth, and to sound the depths of the sea
| but too little do we seek to study, and know
| the no less beautiful inside world In the
struggle for honor and happiness, how often do
we overlook that knowledge so ESSENTIAL fol
| their a attainment forgetting that they depend
| not so much upon the outward circumstances al
upon the inward condition Men are continual!
viewing themselves in the mirror Of public op1n
| ION; and many man who can face undauntet
the cleaning bayonet or the cannon's mouth
shrinks and finally dees from self-examina tion.
| Any amount Of study and imitation of thu
character of Ralph Waldo Emerson would neye
[ make one Ralph Waldo Emerson. God ha'
nIaced the true standard of uprightness in ou
conscience, whose teachings become more pla1l
as we study them. 1t is possible for us to stih'
| them: but happy is he who fearlessly look
within upon the intricacies and DISCREPANCIES O.
| himself and learns what is so much to learn
| that the main object of life !, consists in thu
largest possible self-development and harmonious
adjustment. This object is to be attained no
BY accretion but by growth, and growth i
from within outwardly; and not, as many sup
pose from without 1nwardly. A high develop
rnent of tour complex nature requires defnit