The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
DANA SCHOOL
| EXERCISES
Rev. DR.. Hills Sets Forth the
Necessity for a High Edu-
cational Standard.
MUSICAL PROGRAM A FEATURE


held in the gymnasium last Tuesday
morning, the building being prettily
decorated with dogwoed and with the
class motto at the front of the room.
The seats provided for the guests were
all filed and some persons had to
stand during the exercises.
The graduates were Classical
Mary Douglass Macnaughtan. En-
glish- Henrietta Dora Bahbltt, Helen
Chamberlain Bredin, Ethel Marie
Brown, Oressa Stuart Conger, Corne-
liza Cousins, Minerva Mabelle Gardi-
ner, Gladys Goodrich, Clara Isabel
Gregg, Ellen Burnham Miner, Ethel
Marguerite Sleicher, Mary E. Swim
barne.
Shortly after eleven O'Clock the
sound of singing was heard in the dis
tance and soon after the pupils
marched into the gymnasium from
the main building, singing the school
song. Following the members of the
under classes came the graduates,
each bearing large bouquet Of roses
Then came Miss Dana, followed by
Miss Newell with DIR. Newell Dwight
Hills, the speaker of the occasion and
DR.. Erdman and DR.. Macnaughtan.
When all had been seated, the exer-
cises were opened by Invocation by DR.
Maenaughtan. The Glee Club then
rendered under the direction of Dud-
ley Buck, Jr., g Morning Invocation
by Buck. Miss Miner followed with
well rendered piano solo, "Impromp-
tu" by Schubert.
DIR. Hills then spoke, referring to
the appearance of the sun after the
days of gloom, like the smile of God
on the commencement. He referred
briefly to the many noble festivals of
the year, the home festival of Novem-
ber, those of the mid winter and the
one so near at hand, the solemn cere-
monies of the induction of officials in
to Office and the marriage festival.
None are more pregnant with mean
ing than those of the institutions ofI
higher learning during the weeks of
May and June. The outward diploma
granted at that time is but the sign
of inward cultivation. The scholar is
the favorite child of heaven and earth.
He said that this is an age of trade
and commerce, but we have learned
all from thinking. Every steam en-
gine is an idea Of Stephenson clothed
in iron, every speech of Summer an
idea of liberty clothed in words and
sentences, and so of Newton and
Wren, Civilization is woven of the
warp and woof of thought.
The festival of higher education
stands for the genius of the republic.
A monarchy is ship of war and does
not need to educate all its people,
while a republic is a raft which can
not sink. Every one must be a scholar,
Christian women and obedient loyal
men.
Our government is getting more
and more complex and is impossible to
run save as the eighty million inhabi-
tantS are all scholars. We stand at
the threshold where the scholar is the
ruler. DR.. Hills referred to the words
of Solomon, saying that wisdom finds
and poishes rubies, and knowledge To-
Gates mines, smelts and stamps the
gold. Wealth begins with training
on the inside.
The savage eats and sleeps and is
starving TO death. Margaret Fuller
said the time is coming when there
will be a school OF higher education
for women in every village in the
country. In Daniel Webster you see
universal scholar, and he briefly
traced the philosophy of education
and the changes it causes.
1t is our first duty to grow. The
scholar is the heir TO everything rich in
history and is the one to hand on what
he has received enriched until the
golden age when the world becomes
Gods heaven, and city of God is set
up in every village.
The speaker told of an experience
he had at Cambridge, where the young
man who recently inherited a great
estate showed the pictures of his an
cestors for twenty-five generations and
was impressed with the duty they laid
upon him. So are we made rich by
those standing behind. Our fathers
gave s.liberty and literature, and the
church pledged to higher education.
See our grandparents the Puritans,
Milton, Raphael, Bach, Mary and
Martha, the army of martyrs, poets,
statesmen, heroes every one looking
to us to see whether we are doing
good work. We must not be recreant
to those who have put great treasure
in our hands.
DR.. Hills cautioned his hearers to
care for the body, which contains the
museum more wonderful than any
other the human soul. To take care
of it and give all the treasure back to
God, is to have lived well.
There is altogether too much stress
placed to-day upon intellect. All are