The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-06-04
Public School Commencement
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GRADUATING EXERCISES OF THE HIGH
SCHOOL
Graduating exercises of toe Lexing
lon High School were held at the
Opera House, Monday m rning at 10
o'clock. The program was as follows;
n Reed Quartette, Serenade-Un-
til the Dawn Parks
Messrs Aull, Meyer, Wilmot, MOrrisoO
q Prayer.
81 Piano Solo-Fruhlings rauschen
Siuding
Miss Florida Sitter.
Al Glass Address Rev G Il. Combs
s. Piano Soil:
a Etude o.. % No. 9 Chopin
b. Valse Caprice : Hoffman
Miss Fern Bailey.
G. Presentation of Diplomas and
Certificates
Supt c. A. Phillips.
Il Reed Quartette-Sweet and Low
Messrs Aull, Meyer, Wilmot, Morrison
3. B%enediction.
DR.. Combs address, which was for
the most part a personal talk to the
graduating class, was ar effort to
show that the average life Of every
day duties and every day respunsi.
bilitieS may be an heroic life and a
glorious one. To this end such life
must be one Of work, OF service, and
Inspired by duty.
Following is a brief synopsis OF DR..
Combs address:
10 Rob Roy the hero is asked his
name to what he responds: "It is
enough to say that 1 am a man for
Aough one be without a country,
without a name, without money, at
least he can be a man; and he who
has all these things can be no more. {"
The word Is wisely spoken. There is
nothing higher than manhood and it
is we'll to know at the very outset
that the highest man is not condi.
toned upon the attainment Of the
highest successes in life.
Most Of US can never be great.
The Emersonian exhortation, "Hitct
your wagon to a starr is often mis-
leading. This majority can never
make star-connection. 1t is easier
far 10 do the possible rather than es
say the impracticable. The world
work sitter all is not done by confuse
but by the uncoronetted, many
the unknown majority. The genius
elect few have not left so wide ant
deep a mark on the worlds page a
the multitude that travels the dust,
way OF the every days.
Do not Shirk from doing anything
because the highest excellence 10 tn
doing Of that thing is beyond you
The Germans have this proverb: eth
good is the enemy Of the best.
But the truer word is, the best is of
ten the enemy Of the good, Men ant
women refuse to do a thing compar
atively we'll because they cannot do I
su%perlatively well: Dare to be a me
diocre man.
But be a whole man. Be cultures
in all the trinity of your being-body
\ mind, soul. Body culture is founda
Sional and not to be ignored. Tn
4lius did not say the last word whel
he declared that ''the first duty Of
man is to make a good animal Of him
a self" but this is at least a part truth
There need be no insistence on min
culture. This we all recognize. Blu
we are in danger of stopping short /
our culture programme. Man IS NOR
than body, more than mind; man is
soul, not has a soul, but is a soul, an
so along high cultural ways must e
What qualities then must be pu
into the making of a hole manhoo
and womanhood.
First, Purpose: The purposele:
man is the man who accomplish
nothing. To be aimless, to be goa
less, that is the supreme tragedy.
do not mean to say that this purpose
fulness must just nov concrete Il
self 10 the choice Of a l~ife-vacatiOI
To get hold Of the handle Of your b
ing is, in Bushnell phrase, no eas
thing. Experiences maybe are ne
broad enough to have built upo
them the moment0us choices that Ell
dure through life, but none the lei
can the purposeful life begin to