Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-07
ELECTRICAL SCHOOL
BLISS INSTITUTION GRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS.
Addresses by the Principal and by
Representative Foster-Names
of Prize Winners.

President Louis Denton Bliss of the Bliss
Electrical School last evening at Carroll
Institute Hall, 10th street near K street.
conferred degrees on seventy-f1ve graduates
Of that institution before a large audience
of friends and relatives of the graduates
and members of the faculty.
The interior of tho hall was decorated
with American flags, bunting. Bliss School
banners and flowers, which were festooned
with electric lights. The platform. on
which were seated the faculty, the board
of directors, Representative Foster of Yer
mont and Rev. E. H. SVEN. was decorated
with shields of electric lights, potted plants,
palms and cut flowers, while across the top
Of the platform was Glass B. E. School,
In electric lights.
The exercises opened with an overture,
Beautiful Galatea,'' and then America, "
by an orchestra composed of members of
the United States Marine Band. Rev. E. H.
Sven offered prayer. Down South" was
then rendered by the orchestra, after which
the salutatory was given by Leon d. Col
Inns of Weymouth, Mass. president of the
class. The orchestra rendered blue Bell"
President Bliss then addressed the class.
There are few men today who question the
value of an education he said. Every
father who has the means will give his
boy an education. II ii is possible to do so.
even though he himself has not had such
advantages. Often the more limited the priv
ileges which he has enjoyed, the more
anxious he is to give his son a liberal edu-
cation. Sometimes the boy fails to appre-
ciate his opportunities at first, and not un-
TIL he Is eighteen or twenty years of age
does he awaken to the fact that without
an education his chances for business or
professional success are slim indeed and
II he Is to take his place among the FORE
most of his generation, he must have an
education-the best that can be obtained.
AS to Higher Education.
1.-THE reason that higher education. other
things being equal, carries with It the
ability to earn higher wages" the princi-
pal added, rs that, consciously or uncon-
sciously, men are directing and making 1t
possible for large number Of laborers
and shop-trained men to perform useful
work. For this ability and knowledge the
technical man receives his pay. Shop APP
prentices have made and will make, In
rare instances. q better showing than the
average technical man, and many Of our
greatest men have. by force OF character
excellent brain fiber, persistence and self
education. risen to pre-eminent positions
Independent of all systems. It may be
stated as a general law that every man
pays for the amount of bossing he requires,
and every mans wages increase in proper
ton to his ability to act as the boss or
foreman of himself and others. The high
est wages are. paid to the man through
whose ability the largest number OF other
men may be prof1tably employed. He
does his work with his brain. Thus, on the
other hand. we see under slave system
manual labor receiving no wages, and, on
the other. mental labor receiving the high
est reward. A practical man performs his
work within the radius of his arm; tech
nical man within the radius of his brain.
You have received your training and are
about to enter upon your duties. Your
period of preparation has been short;
whether 1t has been thorough or not, time
win show. II you are to succeed you must
have pluck. endurance and good taste
without which no man can succeed In any
profession. old or new. But above alt, each
one of you must be strong man, an honest
man, q gentleman. X you would attain the
highest success, gaining reputation as an
expert and man OF honor. as well as
securing a competence. As you go out into
the world you will ind that II Is not SO
much the question of what you know as It
Is how much can you apply your education.
not alone for your own advancement, bat
for the worlds betterment.
1.-THE only acquisition In life by which q
man has any hope OF being benefited be-
You'd the life Of the animal ID character.
Nj you all achieve success IN this. the
hi est sense. and when you have cOua-