The Newtown bee., 1905-06-23
OUR NEIGHBORS.
WASHINGTON.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.

COMM ENI GAEhC1SES.
 Commencement exercises were held
 at the Gunnery hall, on Friday, June
 Is. Following is the program: The
 students orationS were exceptionally good and did credit to the school. O.
 Osborne of the New Haven Register
 who addressed the school in the after
 noon said in part: 'I am tlattered tc
 be asked to come here, and although
 am not one of the alumni, 1 have
 learned to respect the principal highly
 on account of the difference in politi.
 cal opinions. One only need come up
 here from the city with it's tOiling
 masses to appreciate what it is to be a
 dweller here among quiet fields and
 folks. Men look on life so differently.
 Some have to struggle hard and the
 race is often very uneven. Some who
 try hard secure little and some try lit tie and get the most. Yet in the trial
 of life, things come out about right as young as you boys. l have just at
 Rosemary Hall,' one of the best girls schools in the world, Wykeham
 Rise of course, being the second best
 in the world. One of the speakers on that occasion said the young women
 were entering the conflict of life with
 keen interest and that they were to solve the problems of life. l will say
 that my interest in the conflict of life
 is just as keen now as it was, and that
 there are just as many unsolved prob lens. One of the best things in the world is a boy and the next best thing girl. I did not come up here to ser
 mOniZe. This reminds me of the old gentleman who on being approached for money for the cannibals, said that he would not send his money, but that he would send them cereals. There is some of the old Adam in all of us. You boys acquire habits in football and baseball, and just as you play here you will be sure to play the game of life. To fully overcome anything, to get what you seek is to win in sport as in life, but the real thing is to over- come that desire of victory which sac rifices true sport. Take the same view of life as of sports. Play the game for the honor of the school. All institutions are presided over by gen. tlemen and when l go, to my college commencement and also go to see a game of baseball, and I want the Yale man to win but do not want him to win if it is necessary for him to intro duce the slightest possible trick into the game. Some of you feel that you confer favor on your parents when you come away to school and live here. If you try all your days and all the means known to human generosity to return to your parents, what they have done for you, you cannot do it. Here you take upon yourself an Obliga- tion to live up to the standards of the Gunnery.- No man is independent of his neighbor. One mans right begins U horo onnfh0rSQ 0n6S p1ou fhn fair. You won't perhaps reap great for tunes but great fortunes are not bless ings unless honestly and wisely used. Positions of honor await some of you. Many times things do not work in harmony. Our friends do not stand by us in affiictiOn as they ought to do. There has to be little darkness to make the light more profitable. Great men are scarce and after all there are not many in the school of life.
 It is the good men that are needed. We feel about school as we do about newspaper. Anyone can buy a press, type and printers ink and make pa- per, but what is newspaper worth without growth behind it. A school can easily be purchased, chairs, pic. lures and building do not cost much, but there are the traditions behind it. MT BrinSmade, who carries on this school, received it almost as finished product to be used with prudence, not increment, but to be of service to the children of other people. Now be re- putable sons of the Gunnery. Watch 1t and.honor it. As Yale man, hon. or Harvard, as every true Harvard man hontrs Yale. Take what you get here, make the world little better. Remember you are under obligation to make the world a little better and there will not be so much difficulty in securing success and happiness.