Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-20
SEVENTY STUDENTS
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
EXERCISES HELD BY HIGH
SCHOOL AT PASADENA
Rev. Robert R. Meredith Delivers
Commencement Address Dealing
with the Demands of Modern
Times and Conditions
special to The Herald.

special to The Herald.
PASADENA, June 19.-Seventy stu
dents of Pasadena high school received
their diplomas at the commencement
exercises held in the First Christian
church this evening. After a number
of musical selections Rev. Robert r.
iueredith of the First Congregational
church delivered the commencement
address on the subject of 1.-THE Times
We Live in and Their Demands Upon
U.s." Superintendent Arthur l.. Ham
ilton also made a short address and
Benjamin E. Page, president of the
board of education, presented the di-
plomas. The exercises closed with a
distribution of flowers to the grad
yates. DR.. Meredith in his address
spoke in part as follows:
"You have come to your kingdom in
a grand time. These first years of
the twentieth century, these tremen-
dous, resistless times of ours, are as
potent for good or for evil as any that
have passed since time began. There
are signs of swift and mighty changes,
of conflict and of progress in the
whole realm of the material, the intel
lectual, the spiritual life of the world.
They will certainly lead on to better
things. But in one hundred years from
now, when war is abolished, when the
great sociological questions are set
tied, when politics are purified and
men shall have learned Gods father
hood and their own brotherhood, one
hundred years from now, or whenever
it shall please God to bring in the
reign of universal righteousness and
charity, we shall not be here to detect
and correct our plumbers. Our work in
speeding the good time coming must
be done now or never. This Is our
one chance. We must measure up to
the demands Of our time. or 1t will
sweep by and leave us incrusted like
pillars of salt. Think, then, for mo-
ment of two or three salient features
of this time.
"For one thing, the people have
come to their own, and are more
largely than ever before to demand
and control the movements of the
times. We stand today at the close of
an accomplished revolution. Individ-
ual men and women in the ordinary
walks of life amount to vastly more in
the solution of the problems of their
age than in former years. The power
is in their hands; they stand at the
center of influence and their opportu-
mites of useful action are greatly null
tiplied.
Glass Distinctions Waning
with the shifting of power so that
the people rule, there has come
wholesome disregard of mere class dis
tinctions and q demand that men and
women shall stand on their own mer-
it's and be judged by the characters
they develop and the work they &C
complish. The question which meets
any new aspirant. as he takes his
place In life, is not Whence comes
he? but What Is he?' There may be
semi-fossilized relics of the past who
will continue to insinuate, Has he q
grandfather but the great world of
the earnest and the workers thunders
out, Has he a soul? Has he a lofty
purpose, a single eye, heart of pow
err? Has he a giants strength, a
hero's courage a child's simplicity, an
apostles love. a martyrs will? If he
have, then make way for him. He Is
royal in his character and will be royal
in his deeds
Following is a list of the graduates:
Florence Schmidt, Clayton Carus,
Gertrude Reineman, Grace Post. Sam
May. Edith Gray, Ruth Baugh, Mae
Woods, Morris Fuller, Dorothy Bro
kaw, Marjorie Driscoll, Mary Gibbs,
Joe Ogier, Fred Hart, Herbert Lock-
wood Paul Smith, Bessie Davis, Eda
Schoenleber, Norma Cosson, Lura Cat
tell, Gertrude Nicholas. Ella Macklin.
Mary Howard, Bertha Allen, Clifford
Ph1llpS, Bessie DouSe, Lester IttlHe-
man, Ruby Adams, Erie Hill, Gertrude
O'Neal, Marie Miller. Leroy Christen-
sen, George Wright, Warner Hollister,
Edwin Rothenberg. Paul Wachob, An
ME Henkin, Ethel Neer, Paul Christ
man, Elizabeth Jones, Jennie Bartlett,
Alex Nottmeyer, Helen Sanders, Ell
eanor Dean, Marjorie Perrineo. Ethel
Henderson. Mabel Gordy, Anna john
son, Ida Gray, Olive Stebbins, Harold
Landreth. Irene Harnly, Virginia Hill,
Robert Whitmore, Viroque Baker, Alice
Kratka, Cecil Hanan, Wilbur Smith,
Corrine Seeds, Hazel Hamilton, Ethel
Coad. Ethel Zuill, Ross Edmunson,
Ethel Mcclellan, Julia Perrine, Ed
mund Skinner, frankie Savory, John
La Spada. Charles Daley, Clyde Cham
bers, Freeman Mason, Alfred Rothen-
berg, Roy Pyle, Eugene Kern, Severy
Hibben, Elvon Musick, Kate Bailey,
Grace Crawford, Bessie Wells, Sallie
Mum.