Gunnison news-champion., 1907-05-31
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COMMENCEMENT olERClSES OF
THE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
toal l..Aaaioa 70 MI H. Wy n he Vodd

The week has been filled With
commencement" and i's echoes
Beginning with Sunday morning.
members Of the county high school
graduating class held the center Il
stage. At eleven O'Clock al the
Methodist church, Rev : A Web
her preached the class sermon, an
unusually fine address. II was foil
Of apt illustration and kindly words
Of advice for the young people
Members OF the grammar school class
were also present, by courteous IN
vitation of Superintendent Campbell
and Rev Webber
Monday night at the same place
DR. Aylesworth OF Fort Collins gave
the class address. The doctor L. a
splendid speaker and his words oi
wisdom both TO the students and
to the audience were much appreci-
ated.
Tuesday evening came the Rradu-
ating exer cise- proper, and the out
pouring of relatives and friends of
the young people and Of school pa J.
irons taxed the utmost capacity ol
| the church.
The program was quite varied in
st,l lie and was interspersed with APP
propriate music
First on the program was Moore
II. Black stock, who took as his sub
ject, The American Cattle Indus
try" Moore had studied his topio
thoroughly, his oration was well
written and he delivered it with
good effect Starting withthe fact that
original y the American continent had
no native cattle, he traced the i'm
portations OF stock by early settlers
and the subsequent mingllng ol
breeds which formed the native
cattle of eastern United States. the
famous Longhorns Of Texas, etc IL
the latter part of the 18th century
due to Bakewell's ideas we see the
foundation laid for the modern Here
fords, Shorthorns, Durhams. Devons
and Gallowavs. Later came the
importation OF these standarI breeds
the development of the Texas cattl,
industry, the discovery of the mar
ket for feeders and stockers, the de
mand for and production OF "bab,
beef and lastly the enormous pro
portions to which the cattle industry
has grown and the possibility of i'm
provement along the line of bette
breeding and better feeding. Tn,
Grafton received well merited ap
plause.
Next came very excellent essa,
on Mental Faculties by Charles A
Mueller. Dealing with sach ar
abstruse topic, the article was sev
erely logical, vet clear in its exposi
ton of the little understood facultie
Of the mind and their three folc
manifestation. The reader frs
/ compared the mind to the machiner,
of an associated press agency whicl
receives news from all countries an,
in turn sends out its messages III
described the nerve ganglia and th'
reflex nerve action which they con
troll. Then taking up the motto
functions of the mind; intellect
, feeling or emotion and will h
told of the mental faculties whioi
enables us to establish relation
ship between ideas, the memor
which revives any kind Of pas, men
5 tai experience. the imagination an
| its wonderful Influence upon tn
body as well as its creative use. th
steps in progressive thinking whicl
, distinguishes man from the lowe
animals. In closing the ESSAY h
dealt with emorions and lastly wifi
will power, that supreme stamp c
, character. which when acquired
like gold which can be dug from
the Unborn mines Of the inteliectus
and moral faculties