Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-06-24
GRADUATION EXERCISES.
Address Last Evening by Charles 3. Gill
bert of New Vork-List of the oradu-


ates.
The constantly increasing interest
which is shown by the townspeople for
the Brattleboro high school was mani
tested last evening in the hundreds of
people who attended the graduation exer-
cises in the Auditorium. The seating
capacity was filled and many stood
throughout the exercises The front of
the stage was trimmed with mountain
laurel, while overhead was suspended the
class motto, Tex vita scholae ad scholam
vitae" from the life of the school to the
school of life, wrought in the class colors,
orange and black. Leitsngers orches-
ira gave the Poet and Peasant" overture
for the opening number, and a waltz song
by the high school chorus was followed
by invocation by Rev. II. r. Miles of the
Congregational church. After a selection
by the boys glee club J. L. Martin. of the
school board introduced the speaker,
Charles B. Gilbert of New York city who
has been chairman of school boards in
Newark, n. j., St Paul and Rochester,
president of the National Education So
ciety and identified with various educa-
tional bodies. He spoke on different
phases of the educational problem. giving
an address pronounced by many to be
one of the best ever given at commence
ment exercises in Bratteboro.
The great educational problem. he said,
is civilization itself. The condition of So
ciety at any time is the result of the edu-
cation of individuals and the educators
are the social forces that are about us
The school is a small factor in education
Every influence and every activity in
which we engage is educational force.
The school is simply the preparatory
school for the larger college Of experience
The test OF. the value Of education is
ones ability to solve the problems of life
as they occur. The speaker discussed
some of the social problems which every
body must meet, such as civil govern
ment, the relations of labor and capital
the social classes, the simple problems of
wise and rational living, etc, and said
that whatever discouraging conditions
prevail today argue to wrong education.
| These vital problems never can be solved
except by the education of the mass
through the individual The function of
the school is this general education, but
too frequently the school is a thing wholly
different from life. Artificial conduct un-
der restraint does not qualify the students
to live wholesome rational lives after
wards. The thread of the address was
that the teaching in the schools should
be such as to give the students an oppor-
tunity in school to apply themselves so
as to gain actual experience, which is the
great educator.
The remaining numbers on the program
were as follows: Girls glee club. "The
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the class to the school board, by Principal
Whitaker; comforting of diplomas, by Rev
e. Q. S. Osgood, chairman; chorus, WA
ter Lilies" Linders; singing of the class
song, written by Mai Hammond Spear;
henediction by Rev II. r. Miles; postlude,
by the orchestra.
The class roll as printed on the pro-
gram. contains these names Classical
course, Luther Willis Hawley. Carl John
| Strand, Rolin Thomas White; Latin
course Edward Samuel Clark May Clark
Goodhue, John Putnam Helyar, Julia
! Dineen Brosnahan, Edward Dewitt Leon
| ard. Milton w. Pierce, Helen Augusta
! Nelson, Frank Warren Roberts, Horatio
! Elwn Smith, Frederick Asher Spencer;
English course, Flora Macdonald Catta-
mach, Marion Parnal Chaplin. Mary Eliza
beth Frost, Lucy Cutting Havnes Helen
Agnes Keyes. Edith Marion Knight. May
! Kathryn Moylan, Charlotte Goodrich
! Spauding, Mai Hammond Spear and
Elizabeth Benton Tuthil The class Off
GERS are: President. Frederick A. Spen-
GER; vice president, Mary r. Frost; score
tary, Rollin T. White; treasurer, Herbert
F. Mack; executive committee the fore
going officers and Elizabeth r. Tuthill,
Luther w. Hawley, jr, and Lucy c.
Haynes The commencement program
was designed by Frank j. Eckels.