Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-14
Tech, SCHOOL GRADS
Ninety Diplomas Awarded at
Annual Commencement.
MCKINLEY MANUAL CLASS
Address by Willet M. Hays, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture.
JAP STUDENT GIVEN AN OVATION
Exercises Witnessed by Large Crowd.
Board of Education Represented.
Diploma Winners.


young men received their diplomas. The
playhouse was packed with proud parents,
relatives and enthusiastic friends of the
graduates Each of the successful ones was
given an ovation upon receiving his her
diploma.
The stage setting with the young girls in
white gowns and the young men in tuxedo
suits or the cadet uniform made an attrac-
tive appearance. The entire front of the
stage was a mass of ferns and cut flowers.
while banked at the rear We're many palms.
Hanging from the scenery were many large
bouquets of peonies and large branches OF
oak leaves.
Mr.. WiIet NJ. Hays, assistant secretary
OF agriculture, was the principal speaker.
Seated the stage with the graduates
were Rear Admiral George w. Baird, re-
tired, president of the board of education
and presiding officer; Mr.. Hays, Rev. Fa-
Their Edward l.. Buckley, DR.. William E.
Chancellor, superintendent of schools; AS
sistant Superintendent Percy NJ. Hughes,
W. V. Cox and Prof. Evermann, members
of the board OF education; Principal George
L. Myers of the Mckinley School and Miss
Shipman.
Satoshi Shutow one of the group of Jap
auese sent to this country for training in
industrial schools. was awarded one of the
three scholarships for which the whole
school competed, and upon the announce
ment that he was the successful one for
the Columbia University honor the entire
audience broke forth with loud ovation.
Opening Exercises
The exercises opened with an overture by
the orchestra. after which a march, Col
lege Life" was rendered, and the graduates
and speakers entered. Rear Admiral Geo.
W. Baird, L. S. N, retired, president of the
board of education, made the Introductory
remarks in which ne introduced Rev. Fa-
ther l.. Buckley, who pronounced the invo-
cation After a selection by the orchestra
MIR. w. NJ. Hays, assistant secretary of
agriculture, was introduced as the speaker.
Mr.. Hays said, in part: The Mckinley
Manual Training School, which, together
with its friends is here assembled to honor
the members of its graduating class, stands
as one of the best types of our high schools.
This school, surrounded by the almost
fairy-like riches of this beautiful capital
city, is a sensible and noteworthy attempt
to develop the natural the real and the
true. You, young men and young women
who are today graduating. should be proud
of the fact that you have chosen school
course which will make greater the surplus
OF what you produce over what you con-
sumo in the world. than if you had taken
merely literary course in the general city
high schools.
Substantial Decision.
You young men, made a substantial de- /,
cision when you chose a course of study
which emphasizes the productive side of our
national welfare. Your decision and your
status are cast on the side of giving more
solid reality to the achievements of our
country. Your own manual product will be
valuable TO your fellow-men, but your lead
ership in setting higher standards in what
ever line of protective work your talents
lead you will be of far greater value. Pub
lie money, the honestly earned money of
the productive people, has been here in
vested In aiding you to bring leadership to
the industries. You are placed under obli-
cation to your city and your country; but
the kind of instruction you have received
has made you peculiarly able to pay the
obligation. Hearts as well as heads grow
strong as the hand subdues nature. and
your successful completion of your broad,
practical, technical and scholarly course
has done much to make you strong in self
reliance. in initiative, in endurance, in all
truism and in tactful successfulness.
Your constant difficulties and trials will
draw out in the strong lines of informal
education of actual life the formal education
OF the school, now completed. You need with
many triumphs a sufficient admixture of
defeat to inure you against over-confidence,
Incidence or impulse to gain your way
mainly by your wits 1t is wrong to assume
that by early beginning technical studies
YOU have narrowed the scope of your &C
tivities The combination of manual and
technical with scientific and literary studies
mas given you a broader. more truly edu
catiOnal and saner point of view, and bet
-er preparation to meet the complex and
ever-Changing conditions of our modern
life
Demand for Educated Workers.
employers of labor and labor leaders are
coming TO appreciate the fact that public
technical and trade schools, in vital edu-
cationaI coordination with an efficient ap-
premiership system, on plan which can
be agreed upon between labor organizations
and employers associations is good Ameri-
canism. necessary alike for American com
Inercial supremacy and for the highest do
mestic welfare. Educators as we'll as men
OF affairs beginning to see that the
school classroom, the school laboratory and
the school shop. occupying the nearly grown
student half the year, and the practical
shop or farm the other half. gives a larger
annual growth toward broad, useful citizen
:,hip than do nine months in school and
'hree months in Indifferent employ ment.
Science helped all the industries before
II succeeded in aiding agriculture. and II
eft woman's work even until after agri-
culture was receiving profound aid. Now,
he science of foods. clothing and the won
derful arts Of housefurnishing and home
keeping are being more Systematically de-
-reloped. and these subjects are being rap
div reduced to pedagogical form. The
technical teacher and the mother are COM
lng to closely cooperate in co-ordinating
the practical duties of the home with the
course OF technical study in the class room
and school laboratory. The girl is again
coming to use the evening and morning
duties Of the horne and the home work of
Saturday and cf the longer vacation
periods as the laboratory work, where the
mother cooperating with the teacher,
leads her naturally into the safe haven of
house Hlfcry.
y''Tnere is a growing demand for teach
crs in technical work for women and
never before were the opportunities and IA
ciIities so good as now for those who wish
10 become teachers of home economics, and
thus TO aid in making well-nigh universal
the education of girls in the science
and art of home making.
Aim of Practical Instruction.
But the chief aim of this more practical
instruction is not that we may choose those
who through collegiate training will give
us better technicians and so-called profess
sIonal leaders. The liz per cent who go to
college form relatively very small part
of the whole educational interest. Nor
must we in our industrial high schools ad-
here too closely to the preparation of
technicians. who at most constitute
only TO per cent OF the whole. The
farm boys the trade workers and espe-
cially the housewives. represent a larger
educational interest And those who
the under laborers on the farm. in the
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