Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-05-03
COMMENCEMENT
At INDIAN SCHOOL
Five Pupils Com
plete Course at
Institution.
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GOVERNOR GIVES DIPLOMAS
Graduating Address by At
torney General Prichard
Interesting Exercises.

The sixteenth annual commence
ment exercises of the United States
Indian Training School were held last
night in the spacious auditorium of
! the institution, large and interested
audience being present. The program
had been perfectly arranged and was
manner, a number of the pupils of the
school taking part and doing justice
TO themselves and credit to their in
structors.
The auditorium had been nicely
decorated for the occasion and the
stage presented pretty appearance.
Besides the five members of the grad
uating class and Superintendent G. J.
Crandall, Governor Herbert ]. Hag-
erman, Professor Hiram Hadley, su-
Iperintendent of public instruction. At
torney General G.. w. Prichard, Cyrus
Beede, travelling Indian inspector with
headquarters at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and
the instructors of the institution oc-
cupied the stage. The pupils OF the
institution were in attendance, the
girls ranged on one side of the audi
torium and the boys on the other,
while the center was reserved for WIS.,
| itors. A number of the older boys In
uniform acted as ushers in which ca"
pacity they did good service.
The program opened with a seiec.
tion by the Indian School orchestra.
which was well rendered. After the
singing Of America" into which the
pupils of the school entered with a
spirit, Professor Hadley gave the In
vocation.
Superintendent Crandall then made
short address in which he told some
thing of the work being done by the
school. He said that during the six
teen years since Its establishment, q
large number of Its pupils had gone
forth into the world and that the re-
ports continually being received from
them were gratifying.
Graduates Become Educators.
"There are young men from the
Santa Fe school," said Superintend-
ent Crandall, 'in all of the Rocky
Mountain states, and from the reports
which we receive from them we know
what work they are doing. After
working hard in this institution for
uoorc opd hocop,ipo ,Doctarc OF fhotr
various trades, they have gone out
into the world and are making a sue
cess of life. Many of them have gone
back to the pueblos with their people
and there have acted as educators In
their own way"
1--WE have no apologies to make for
the work we are doing here" con-
tinued the superintendent. Among
the Indian schools of the United
States, this one ranks fifth in size and
in proficiency l think 1t Is equal to
the best Of them. We have In our
class this year five young men, two
| of whom have learned the tailoring
trade, one of them Is skilled shoe
maker, one a baker and the other a
blacksmith"
In conclusion, the superintendent
addressed the graduates telling them
of what the government had done for
them and informing them that 1t was
their duty to lead life hereafter
which would show their appreciation.
The address of the evening was
made by Attorney General G. W.
Prichard. His speech was not long
Ibut effective and interesting. Colonel
Prichard has been a resident of the
west for many years and Is familiar
with the Indian both at peace and In
war. He has made study Of their
habits and their manner of living, and
spoke very entertainingly upon the
Isubject. He told of the legends which
have been handed down from one
Igeneration to another and regretted
THAT no historian had ever been able
to collect them and reproduce them
lin some work of art.
indian Language Beautiful.
"The written part Of the English lam
lguage," said Colonel Prichard, lis its
most beautiful. So would 1t be with
the Indian language. ! am sorry that
we have not the history of these people
who are living in their primitive way
, about us, extending back thousand
years or more. 1t Is possible and l
sincerely hope that at some time, 9
, member of some of the southwestern
: Indian tribes will write us a history
| of their people"
} Colonel Prichard then devoted some
/ time to telling what had been done
and was being done by the govern.
) ment for the uplifting Of the Indian
, and expressed hope that. when the
present class left the institution, they
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