Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-21
RECEIVED DIPLOMAS
Another Class Goes Out From
 Crosby High School.

Although the commencement exer- cises of the graduating class of Crosby High school were started rather late at Polls theater last even- ing, notwithstanding the delay the program was well enjoyed. Creswell MacLaughlin, the speaker of the eyen- ing, was not awakened at The Elton as early as he should have been.
 Mir MacLaughlin came to Water bruy from Philadelphia, and being fatigued when he reached "our large and fashionable hotel" as he termed it, he decided to take few hours rest He was called at o'clock but he was still among the sheets at s. At S:30 he had not arrived at the theater and the audience was swelter- ing. At about nine o'clock he was on hand.
 The audience had been waiting for something good and they got 1t. MT MacLaughlin is most interesting talker. With keen sense of humor,, voice that is most distinct. a. very peculiar delivery and several eccen- tricities which caught his auditors, MT Mclaughlin, during the greater part of his address, had not much diffi- culty in holding the attention of his audience Though many seemed to think that he brought in too much politics, again and again lauding Roosevelt and several times doing the same for Governors Woodruff and Hughes, yet the big majority was wont to criticize. It seems to be habit for commencement speakers to praise the president to the skies. The editor of ''The Schoolmaster" was bet ter than expected and it is to be hoped that he will be heard in this city again.
 After being introduced by Com missioner Charles, S. Chapman of the board of education. Mir MacLaughlin's spoke in part as follows:
 T have travelled all day to get here and have intended all along to get here. I travel long distances and have never broken an appointment in my life. I had thought that when I reached your fashionable hotel I was in the center of New England civiliz- ation. I don't know what science you call 1t in your high school which names the process by which man performs a function by imagining it. I left an order to be called at ' o'clock. They did 1t theoretically. The grave and dignified clerk per- formed his function and the bell boy did the rest. When man comes from Philadelphia to Waterbury he is liable to be drowsy."
 Long applause followed this intro duction after which the speaker went immediately to his address.
 "We are living in great age," he continued, ian age in which every question unde rthe sun is liable to be solved. I had better tell you who I am before I attempt to discuss our subject with you. l come from a town celebrated for only four char acters, two living and two dead. The dead are Nathaniel P. Willis and E. P. Roe. The two living are the Rev Lyman Abbott and myself. A man has variety of opinions about him. self, but his wife knows exactly what he is. ''I come from that state that is re- presented in the senate by two ven triloquised mummies-dead but not buried-Depew and Platt. My moth- CT used to point to Depew with pride and prayed for the day when I could stand on the same platform with him. The time has come-when I cannot afford to do it. One manly power is changing the whole com plexion of American politics-Theo- dore Roosevelt. What if he does play golf in the kichen or leap frog in the dining room with his boys? What If he does take the foreign diplomat for ten mile tramp before breakfast or tell a tiresome politician to Cut it out?
 ."The personal force and manly character of Theodore Roosevelt is changing the character of the age. His is the greatest single force on the globe, and his Is encouraging those of manly type throughout the COuutTy. I1c hdo Tcflfcu tue SplTlt of the old Puritan ancestry.
 That Puritan spirit is coming to the front in the character of your governor, Rollin s. Woodruff, the one single individual who stands out in your public life as desirous Of doing right. Behind him there appears tc be the foremost newspapers of your state and the force of public opinion yet these forces appear to amount tc nothing before a few cheap members of the assembly. An honest man is not the noblest work of God-amone the politicians.
 ''I appeal to you young graduates to be the thing you pretend to be Have a decided opinion about your self. Know what you are good for even If you fool everyone else.
 "An ex-governor of the great state of New York said to me few days ago: You are a fool. You've got to sacrifice your conscientious scruples if you want to succeed And that man stands before universitie.