The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-22
PROP. MooRB's ADDRESS.


the Senior Glass: | congratulate
you on this, the occasion of your
graduation from the Union City
Training School, and, in the name
and by the authority of the Board
of Trustees and Faculty of this
literary institution, | shall present
each of you a diploma as a certif-
cation of the fact that you have
completed in satisfactory manner
the course of study required in
said institution. Before doing
this, however, | wish to say a few
words to you; for this will be NV
last opportunity to appear before
you as a class.
As an introduction IT, what |
shall say to you, shal refer to
language used by the honorable
editor of the News Banner while
commenting en- the closing exer-
cises of our school one year ago.
That gentleman made use of this
expression: prof. Moore was in
his kingdom" | acknowledge l
dil feel proud when | stood before
that distinguished class of 15 that
graduated last year, but | must
say that | feel none the less proud
to stand before yoar class to- night.
Now | know my friend, Mr..
Brice, will pardon me for telling
him tonight in the presence of
this intelligent audience why | feel
proud of your class. | hope that
the audience will also pardon me
for referring to our Training
School in connection with what |
am now about to say, for every
teacher has pardonable pride and
pleasure in referring to his best
scholars.
The reason | feel proud of this
class, sir, is that when | turn for
a moment from it and look back
upon the different classes that have
graduated from our Training
School for 80 years taught for the
most part in the lower end of this
county, / see so many of our pu-
pills that have made good and use
full citizens, and some of them
more distinguished than others.
shall mention a few of the more
distinguished ones.
One of the leading financiers of
his town and county, and grad.
nate of Vanderbilt University in
both the literary and law depart
nents, was a graduate of our
School. A graduate of
West Point, and afterwards a cap
ain in the United States army,
and one that fought through the
Spanish American war was anoth-
sr. The principal of the High |
school of Fulton, KY, was anoth-
sr. The principal of one of the
High Schools of jackson, Tenn,
was another. The president of a
college at Little Rock,
Ark, was another. A graduate
If Davidson College, n. G., and
afterwards a law graduate of the |
Cumberland University, and now
he honorable and efficient Super
ntendent of Public Instruction of
Jblon County, was another. A
graduate of the University of Phil
ldelphia, and now professor in
Vanderbilt University, was anoth
,r. A graduate o + Vanderbilt |
University and one that taught
iour years in the same institution,
md afterwards taught in the Uni
7ersity of Colorado, and after that
n the University of Missouri,
hat made two trips to Europe,
having studied two years in Ger
many, France, Spain, Italy and
Greece, and who is now teaching
n the University of Mississippi,
was another. A man who gradu-
ated with honor at Vanderbilt, and
who is now one of the leading
lawyers and one of the most brill
liant men of the State of Texas,
was another. A young man who
at Vanderbilt with the
highest honors that have ever been
in administration of learn
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