The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-06-01

In attractive style she told OF the
changes the institution had under
gone, OF its trials and ~hardships aud
OF its excellent present and hop ful
future.
The entertainment was a succ IS
from every standpoint and WI inal
probability, become an annual affair
GRADUATING EX SRCIsEs.
The exercises Of graduation day
at Murrell Auditorium Wedne day
May 20, were opened with prayer by
Rev Charles W. Moore, Of Ksnsa-
City, followed by a ladies' chorus Of
six voices President Smith thep
introduced Mr.. John s. Collins Of
St. Louis, who delivered a thoughtful
address to tn class upon Education
for Citizenship.
In defining terms the speaker sug-
gests that education is the process by
which the mind is brought into =
consciousness of relations. We knoe
things only by their relations. When
those recognized are only the limit d
and particular the mind is that of tn
animal or the chlld When at las
we know things in their universal
relation the mind is Godlike. Sue
knowledge proceeds by experience and
is inevitable. Nor is scholarship ar
essential element. The function o.
the teacher is to make use hf scholar
ship 10 such way that its orderly
Experiences shall economic time and
effort and avoid waste. About all
the schoolmaster can do is teach the
becoming man to talk and to read
These however ale larger terms
than they seem. For after all ON
manner in which a man expresses his
tp051z -hethar hv a sneeeh. a
writing, a house, a building, a great
business ar an empire is his speech
Reading is The power to interpret
what another has said in any of tho
foregoing ways and is quite as broad
in its significance.
The purpose for which men are
educated is for citizenship ia It's
widest sense. But no one eau SO
speak and so judge unless possessed OF
adequate standards aud an intense
moral conciousness. Unless he has
these he is a "bad citizen" The
most dangerous anarchist is not. the
drunken law-breaker or the fanatical
assassin Of kings. The real task Of
the schoolmaster is TO so order the
experience Of school life that the out.
come shall be ethical.
Ethics Is a matter of the will. But
behind each act Of the will lies tht
motive. Good CT lzensbip is bu'
the expressi 10 10 outward conduct o
a love for country, a respect for others
a deep veneration for civic righteous
ness, and unfalteriDg reverence 70
law. After all 1t would seem thel
that the real object of the school 1
tue education of the will. viii
however, Is the influence Of ideals
impelling their possessor to such con
duct as mag result in their realization
so that we may 20 a step farther il
the progress OF our thought and CLAIM
that TIE correction and education 0
the viii consists IN the development
OF pure and lofty ideals All wei
ordered school life contributes /
this. Especially may it be aided b
the study OF character in history an
literature.
We shouid not drift into the n Jtiol
that all tie great and good character
are dead and embalmed in literature
We should study the great and goo
who are about us. We should oul
; selves live up to our own ideals
"Sigh not the old heroic ages back,
The heroes were but brave an
! honest men,
, DO thou put hero like pursue th
track,
2 Striving, not signing brings ther
back again"
> At the conclusion Of Mr., Collin.
. address President Smith made a brit
address to the class and presente
; diplomas and clrtifcates as follows:-
Miss Ella Carter, A. B.. Miss Vincer
Daniel, A. B. Miss Sadie May Donalt
. son, A. B.; Miss Hazel RubY DrakI
. Art; Miss Julia S. Hall, Voice; Mi
} Hattie May HANNAH, A. b.; Mi
T. ! mTNN All. NJ.