The Republican journal., 1905-06-22
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ed hopes and head.
And now, to the dear old school, we wish
to make a present as token OF our dove.
On one wall of our schoolroom hangs a
beautiful picture OF the Parthenon, a gift of
the Belfast improvement Society. AS a
companion piece we now present the school
this view of the Forum, hoping that it will
make the old room more cheerful and re-
mind future classes of the class of Naughty
Five"
The piano duet, CAMS "Qui Vive Gallop,"
by Misses Cora Morrison and Florence Hill
was well executed and much enjoyed. The
result of long and faithful practice was
shown by their finished work.
Miss Louise Halls valedictory was
specially noticeable for its directness, and
simplicity and the natural grace with which
it was delivered added to its impressive
ness.
VALEDICTORY.
Dear to us all are home and parents dear
also is our Alma Mater, yet now to the latter
we must bid farewell. Four years have we
ant times have we had, but tonight writes
"the end" and only their remembrance is
left us.
We thank the school board and superin-
tendent for their kindly oversight and in
terest in us. Our teachers, too, we thank
and hope that our past sins, both OF omis-
sion and of commission, may be forgiven us.
May we be pardoned for English lessons
left unlearned and French periods cut, as
| well as for the candy and peanuts eaten on
the sly. You, teachers, have had much
patience with the young idea here repre-
wise repay you by proving that it has not
been exercised in vain You have endeav-
ored to fit us for the world of sterner and
wider responsibilities and it is with deep
regret that we leave you.
You, who for the past months or years
have been our SchOOmateS, come next to
our minds. To you, Juniors, we leave our
position as Seniors Let us hope that you
will not be led astray by your opportunities
to make oxygen, nitric acid and other legiti-
mate compounds in the laboratory and
cook fudge or attempt to balance the equa-
ton of paratfine plus pupil May you do
much to foster school spirit and be an hon0r
to the Belfast High.
You Sophomores will be Juniors, near
enough Seniorhood to keep it constantly in
view in your work and Freshmen, you will
be SophomoreS and can enjoy the sensation
that YOU are no longer the High school in
fants. Don't mind remarks that half-Ilpe
peaches are about as bad as green ones but
persevere
Classmates, comrades for four years in
preparation for the battle of life, you are
the last. We have received our swords ana
armor. If it is possible for us to gain bet
ter; it is well but whether we have sWord
of Damascus steel and mail coat and shield
nlaid with gold, or plain weapons, let us
fight our best. You who have been in the
battle and have borne hard blows perhaps
think US young and over confident. LET
him not boast who puts his armor on as
him who takes it Off Still, surely, it is no
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gladly. We may fall; but those who fall
fighting bravely for the right are as we'll re-
warled by the Great Captain as those who
return victorious, their brows crowned with
the cOnqueror's laurel
And now, friends and schoOlmates, one
and all, good night.
Mr. Charles S. Bickford, chairman of the
school committee, before presenting the
members of the graduating class with their
diplomas, made the following appropriate
address:
Again we welcome you to the culmina-
ton of the labors of the school year and
submit these exercises as the rlpened fruit
of Belfasts schools, confident they are
system inferior to none.
The year just past has been one OF unln-
terrupted success. Our greatest trouble
has been that feature to which your atten.
ton has been called repeatedly; the lack of
suitable buildings in which to house schol-
ars 1t is matter of profound regret that
such Indifference exists on such an urgent
necessity. 1t is only because we have a
superior force of teachers that we are able
to accomplish what we do.
We are glad to inform you that our High
school has again been placed ON the list of
approved schools, so our graduates are adj
mitted without examination; for this result
we are greatly indebted to our principal.
Members of the graduating CLASS: While
the school board would not add to the bur-
den of advice you already carry, yet there
are few points they would briefly impress
on you.
From an early age, the money of your ma
tive city has been expended freely in your
behalf; and to what end? Simply to better
fit you for every duty of life; so you may do
your work better; so you may do your work
easier; so you may do more work than
those who preceded you. 1t will not suffice
that you do the same work; you must do
more and better or you will have failed.
There is one point in particular to which
your attention is called. The standing of
any educational institution depends on the
record of its graduates. No matter how
goes for naught if the graduates fail. Our
position as an approved school is directly
dependent on the work of those of you who
enter college. Ii you fail, we shall suffer;
if you succeed, we shall profit by your sue
cess; so you see you have an immediate OPP
portunity to repay what has been done for
you. Ii you will but master all the chances
of life as we are confident you will improve
that all will be well.
You have such boundless possibilities be-
fore you, it is impossible to enumerate
them, but you are more concerned with the
probabilities. You may not all become
moulders Of opinion; you may not all be-
come leaders of men; you may not all be-
come directors of thought; you may not all
become captains of industry; but you all
can acquire something higher and better
than any of these positions, and that is
character. All else fades into insignit-
canoe beside that On his death bed, Sir
Walter Scott said: "Be good, my son, be
good, for when you come to lie here it is the
only thing that counts"
And now by authority of the school
board of the City of Belfast, present you
these diplomas as tangible testimonies of
our appreciation of your labOrs and our
confidence that they hereafter will be as
satisfactory. But in order that they may
do SO you must be prepared to work with
out ceasing you must be ready for work in
any guise remembering that:
New occasions teach new duties
Time makes ancient good uncouth
They must onward still and upward
Who would keep abreast OF Truth.
The Glass Ode, written by G. WILDER
Lane, was then sung.
CLASS ODE.
Like fleet of white winged vessels
Waiting for the turning ride,