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masterpieces OF marble life which all
ages marvel All admire. THUS We see
that pleasant and commodious sur
rnundinas beget high ideas. but while
We cultivate the intellectual we should
not forget the physical. This school
may not develop into a second Grecian
Academy, but let US at least strive to
make it so, for while the man who
aims at the moon will not attain 1T,
still his bullet will go higher than his
who aims at some low object. IL we are
unable to- follow Emmersons advice
and hitch our wagon to star we can,
my friends, avoid the hitching post
and preserve a steady advance which
ii slow will be sure to take US to the
goal of success in the end.
Among the many manifestations Of
favor beneficent Providence has be-
slowed upon this town and commune
ty, II count none higher than our SUI
perb and magnifcently equipped in
situations of learning, where not only
rudimentary branches of knowledge
are impaired but also considerable ex-
cursions are made into the realms Of
the classics and the sciences. From
an examination Of the curriculum as
arranged and taught by Professor
Brown am convinced that we need
not yield the palm to any nigh school
of our kind in the state, and | cannot
refrain here from congratulating the
Board of Education upon the acquisi-
tion of so invaluable principal and
director as Professor Brown, as well
as his efficient corps of assistants. He
is man of ripe learning. He has had
the best opportunities afforded by
this country and Europe, and has taken
advantage of them all, SO that to-day
in literary attachments he is the i'm
ished scholar, an example of the best
product of our twentieth century
universities. Supplied as we are,
therefore, with the best facilities for
acquiring knowledge / say with pride
and confidence that in the near future
our greatest boast shall be that the
young men and women who are gradu-
ated from this school are armed with
the best weapons with which to wage
the battle of life--a liberal education.
The Importance of education is on
ly beginning again to be fully realized
after a lapse Of many centuries, and
we appreciate the fact that the future
Of our nation and its perpetuity de-
ponds entirely and alone upon the de-
velopment and mental training OF the
youths and maidens, and we have
therefore for this purpose and IN
furtherance of this design established
our schools, our colleges, and our uni
versities in order that the Republic
may wax strong and become more Wig
orous as the years pass by, sustained
and defended by citizens as learned as
they are patriotic, and feel that the
students whom / am addressing now
will be like unto those OF whom /
speak, the highest type of manhood on
the face of the earth-AmeTi ;an gen
tleman.
I'm using the word imam" here in
its broadcast sense, for a really great
man is the grandeSt object the world
ever exhibits. The heavens IN their
magniticence, the ocean 10 its subllm-
est immensely, mountains standing
firm upon their granite foundations,
all are less imposing than living
man in the possess on OF his highest
faculties, endowed with go5like rea-
son, superior to all animals and a lit
tie less only than the angels. May
you be SUCH
While [ am not of those who believe
in the suffrage and right OF women to
vote and share with men political
honors to be striyen for at the polls,
and while I most heartily condemn
that which tends to lessen or deterior-
ate the respect and homage it pleases
us to pay all women, / am OF the opln-
ion that the education of women is OF
as much Importance as that OF men,
for while man is the head OF the
family in most instances the woman
is the neck which wags the head. The
refining iefiuence of the gentler sex is
jncalculable and our most lasting inn
pressions of life and its responsible
ties are those received at our mothers
knees. We must therefore not neglect
the education of our women, for what
ever makes them better mothers in a
| like degree makes us better citizens
and patriots. The home which the
poets have celebrated in song is that
sanetified and rendered dear by the
presence of a mother. Take a shell
from it's ocean home and place it on
the mountain top or in the depth Of
the forest; after years return and take
it up, place it to your ear and it will
still sing the sweet song of its ocean
home; and so, while we may wander
for from home and hpcome Injured to