Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-06-20
GRADUATION EXERCISES.
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The class OF 1907 OF the Randolph
High school held its graduating exercises
In Dubois a Gays hall Friday evening
before crowded assemblage OF interested
friends and townspeople. The stage
was artistioally set in color scheme OF
green and gold, carried out in draperies
OF green, palms and ferns, relieved by
outtereups and knots of yellow ribbon.
The class motto, "palma non sine pull
vere,' appeared in gold ON a green
background, while "R. III. :. 1907" was
green ON a yellow background.
Al the opening march played by the or
ehestra, the class entered the hall nuder
the leadership OF its marshal, Clyde n.
Smith, and advanced to the stage, upon
which were seated the faculty OF the
school, Prin. +. q. Ham, Miss Mary S.
Dubois and Miss Frances Warner; the
soloist OF the evening, Miss Minnie Bar
bour OF Montpelier; the flower bearers,
Master Wilmer Angel and little Miss
Marion Drew, and the pastor OF the
Methodist church, Rev. X. Nj. Fowler,
Who offered prayer.
First in the list OF speakers was Robert
Elmer Sault OF salutatory rank, who took
for his theme the quotation from Horace
adopted for the class motto, "Palma non
sine pulvere" literally "No palms with
out dust" but more freely translated
"No success without labor We get
things in this world by working for them
and not by simply asking for them. We
prize them, too, by the price we pay for
them. There is price to everything,
and nothing worth having can be had for
nothing. Constant working brings the
body To that skilled mechanical move
ment where il involuntarily seconds the
operations of the mind, and the pianist
is able to play without thinking OF his
fingers. 1t is not always the fastest
worker who accomplishes the most, but
the one who works steadily, persistently.
Master your difficulties as you come to
them; one lesson unlearned makes the
next harder. Set up an ideal and
work for it; working for il is what
counts. But don't set the ideal too low,
and don't aspire to be lawyer when you
are better fitted for doctor. The labors
of Lincoln's early life prepared him to
meet the difficulties Of the Civil war. c.
lumbus struggled with rebuff and ridicule
eight years before he was finally granted
three small vessels to discover a new con-
tinent. They and many Others won the
palms OF achievement, but not without
the dust OF labor.
An Grafton on american Forestry" by
Clyde Nelson Smith was business-like
exposition of practical subject and
showed both careful preparation and &C
curate knowledge. Forestry-the art Of
using the forests continuously to meet the
needs of man-deais mainly in the United
States with supplying wood and timber
for the various uses OF civilized life while
maintaining a constant flow OF water, up
on which so much depends. Wholesale
cutting off of timber land without refor-
esting the upper channels of rivers has in
the last fifteen years rendered 80, 900 acres
OF land in New Hampshire nearly value
less. The water flow from the Appala-
chan mountains, generating power for
manufacturing and electric lighting, d.
rectly affects fourteen states south oil tAs
Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers.
The forests of America cover /, 100000
square miles, or about SO per cent OF the
total land surface, and the main object
OF forestry is to conduct numbering opera
tions in these great wooded tracts under
such scientific restrictions that they may
Weld profitable returns annually while all
the time rapidly increasing in commercial
value, protecting the watersheds and
clothing the mountains and hills with
beauty.
Miss Rubie Mae Miller reviewed the
history of the class in its progress
through the school, noting its increases
and losses in numbers, until 1t reached
the finish of the courses band of seven.
Then, passing from the role OF historian
to that of prophet, she forecasted the fu-
ture from knowledge of the past and told
fortunes like benevolent gypsy whose
hand had been doubly crossed with sill
YER.
A contralto solo, "Sunset," by Dudley
Buck, was beautifully sung by Miss Bar
hour. and then came the Grafton OF James
Edison Fullam on argentina" whose
rather stormy political career was inter-
estingly sketched from its exploration oy
Sebastian Cabot for the king OF Spain IN
1927. Civil wars and connections con-
tinued from its early settlement to dis
turb the country until at last it has
reached peaceful government based on
| constitution like that of the United
States. Argentina's mighty rivers, its
high mountains, its broad pampas ano
its situation in the tropical and south
temperate zones make it fertile land,
we'll watered and Astounding in such fruits
as grapes, peaches, oranges and bananas
One-fourth of its people are engaged II
agriculture, and yet only five per cent o.
I the land is under cultivation.
At the close of his Grafton, Mr.. Fullam
presented the class gift, which stood al
| one side of the stage-a large bust o.
that noble Roman, julius Caesar, witt
whose valiant deeds acquaintance IS &C.
ouired in the scboolroom through painful
perusal of his famous commentaries.
The bust was given by the graduates n