Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-11
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS.
Rev. Geo. Wilson Scudder Speaks on
the "View Point In Life"

The Raccalaureate exercises before
the graduating class of. the HalloWcll
High school occurred At the Old South
church sunday evening, Rev. George
Wilson sScuddcr delivering the annual
address. The attendance was large and
tie order Of exercises was particularly
interesting and pleasing. y quartet
consisting Of Misses Coughlin and
Marston and Messrs. Runnels and Rob
rrts rendered beautiful selections, Miss
c"ushlin's solo being an especial fea-
tur.. of this part fn the program.
The senior class numbers Six-all
young men, as follows:
Harry shea, Pearl BlaiSdell, Clarence
Shepherd. Leigh Dinsmore. Lester
L"n..fcloW and Harold Smith.
1hc decorations were III green and
white and We're very appropriate. The
junior class attended To all matters of
decoration ana acted as ushers. The
membership IS as follows:
leon LongfelloW. George Nigrin Har-
Old Wood. Caesar FalcOni. Harold Full
| i..r. Charles Fuller, Ray Fuller, Waldo
| 3Iiillin. James Leighton, Lille john
con. Ruth Farley. Helen Nye, Ruby
| Sherman. Christie Hayes. Lena Lynn
| and Myrtle DIXON.
Mr. Scudder said in party: "McmberT
II The graduating class. You are near
| ing the event in school life known as
| commencement. i'ut none OF You Will
! sto2 =, ing to school as the saxon
phrase is. You viii be promoted on tn"
receipt of your diplomas to tn" higher
sciirnl If life. So it is most fitting that
| the. graduation EXERCISES he called COM
nlenrem,nt for it is in truth a COM
mtncrnrnt, Il commencement in on Il
(; rent school, with different asSocia-
| tiuns. different curriculum.
AZ the DAVIS ana years pass on much
that has been learned in the course of
yuur school life will be forgotten. You
will not remember the rules, the details
cf All the 'hiugs that you hay" studied
Eat there are some things that You
viii moi forget as long as you live. and
tnos,. are the iri"ndShirS yea nave
have formed ana the mental drili. the
intellectual alertnrSs that YOU lave r.
c,.ivci.
You have, in the course Of your hl5i
school training ana none the less IN th'
eight or nine years that you were II
ne under GRADES, been learning to q,
things by rule. Now was it not for th'
nurnosr of training you to use the RICH
mi. that your teachers and text book
have been So insistcnt on this Yer!
thing?
The right point was of prim
imuoriance in taking up the subject
!, that you did. ana having thus g"t'e'
= the right viewpoint it was necessar.
i for success that YOU keep the path re
, vealed by the viewpoint.
Nav in life. as you will find 1t whe
vo,, hive hurued Your bridges benin
Won and cut off your school ihiluehc'
ITO same in regard To the Vicw-poii'
rs i'm echool life and matters
I'll. right point Of view is Just as i'''
warrant in the school Of life as in I'll
school of preparation mat you VIII pu
shortly leave.
soon YOU Will take up the du'ies
1 oitiyansbip The work that you hay
/ been doing in your school DAYS i'
/ been Preparatory for the work as cit
i y.n., of iris country, and citizens OF u
ora.tar commonwealth of God.
II Is IMPERATIVE that you be ap'e
.oa tho nrnhlems and difficulties an
orortunities which will surely cohiroi
vn, in their true lisht-that you st
thor, &c they are and not as they seer
win almost every young person II
49,, mia that they take either one