The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-03
Honor Members Of se High school Graduating Glass;

/ Old Harvard message to these young
westerners, delivered the address; the
/ sheepSkin diplomas were delivered to
/ the lightweight graduates, the final
round of the educational ladder which
/ the c1aSSTnen have climbed in the city
/ schools during the past dozen years was
reached, the class motto I'VE can, and
we will" was fulfilled and the young
/ men and young women went forth, as
they were told by the speaker, fronting
the unknown
! There are several features by which
the June '05 class shall be known. The
audience in the Auditorium, of which
pupils were in the majority, was or
/ derby and the squad of blue coats from
police headquarters, who were dlStrlb-
uted about the building, were not need
/ ed. Perhaps the sight of them had a
/ good influence and perhaps the class is
not like its predecessors. This class
should be commended too for writing
IS graduation orations without following
/ the old ruts and taking as subjects
"SavOnarola," Beyond the Alps Lies
italy and s'Touissant L'Overture" IN
stead they chose such up-to-date sub
jects as THE State of Kansas Is Justifi-
able in Establishing a State Oil Re
dnery,'' THE Necessity of Legislation
/ Against Freight Rate Discrimination
and Americas Rise irs the Commercial
/ World"
DR.. Eliot's Address.
After the Schubert March on the
organ, by Prof G. B. Penny, and the
invocation by Rev. Thomas S. Young,
/ superintendent Whittemore introduced
DR.. Samuel Eliot of Boston, who ad-
/ dressed the class on the subject Know
/ ing and Doing" DR.. Eliot said:
Thinking and doing. Like two
| strong men standing face to face look
ing into each others eyes, but know
1 ing all the time that they ought to be
pressing onward together, hand in
hand, or like two promontories
stretching out into the sea toward one
another and in spite of the waters that
! seem to divide them, feeling all the
/ time underneath the sweep of the con-
/ tinuous continent that unites them=so
stand knowledge and action, so that,
/ however far apart they may appear
/ to be, they belong together.
We talk good deal in these days
| about the value of practical education.
/ Let US beware of the common inter
probation Of that good word practical
! The practical man is sometimes false
man, but to be practical does not mean
/ to be ignorant or superficial. 1t is not
\ practical to waste force or to fail to
economic material. There is very lit
/ tie value in work as work. The mere
/ fact that ones time is occupied, ones
arms in motion, ones thought in ac-
! ton, does not make one worthy. We
| have to consider the motive with
( Which, one aCLos Inc IuQEIlGIL ne p
plies, the result he achieves. 1t is not
always a virtue to work, though it is
always a vice to shirk. No work that
we do really contributes to growth ex-
/ cept what we do thoroughly. A
slovenly task leaves a slovenly result.
We redeem time not so much by
putting a good many things into it as
/ by getting something real out of it.
Be sure that quality is more than
quantity; that haste is perilous that
character is not built in a day. Definite
conviction precedes useful endeavor.
Evil too often captures the puzzled
mind that cannot see its way. Not
because we lack. desire to do the right
thing. but because we fail to discern
what the right thing it.
Emerson said somewhere that
power and aim are the two halves OF
human felicity. Now too many peo-
/ pie live in the half. Either we are so
uncertain of what we are going to do
that we neglect the present labors
that must develop the larger future
on we are so absorbed in the present
duties that we give no thought to the
/ purpose and end of our exertions
Power without aim is merely wasted
ammunition Ai1n without oowex is