The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-29
GRADUATES
GET DIPLOMAS
spt ENo,D ENERGIES MARK THE
I5sE os Te AT THE
HIGH SCHOOL.
ADDgrsS BY HON. {. {. BARTHELL
certiA ties Are Awarded by Pres
ident, Ashton Of the Board OF
Education.

The graduating exercises Of the
columbia public school brought hun
dreds CT riends and patrons of the
school to the study hall at the Athe-
&naeum Thursday night The exer-
&cises were interesting throughout, but
8doubtless the best feature was the
address of Hon. E. E. Barthell of
below
The choruses were trained by Miss
camille Herndon and were full in vol
ume and sweet in tone. The reading,
sThe sweet Girl Graduate" by Miss
FLORENCE Boughn, second honor pupil,
and the reading, The Tay Bridge,
by Miss Winfrie Church, first honor
pupil were both exceptionally good
and the yonug ladies were enthusiast
tically received The defamation by
Robert Gilbreath, representative OF
the eighth grade, was also good.
]. B. Ashton President of the Board
of Education, awarded diplomas ana
grammar school certificates. The
graduates were Misses Media Pillow
Allen, Margaret Anna Bishop, Florence
Boughn. Winfrie Roberts Church, Pat
tie Lee Clement, Alleen Overton.
Following the award of the diplomas
Mr.. Barthell delivered his address to
the graduates, which was in part as
follows:
"The parchments which have been
presented to you are not merely evil
dences of the fact that you have a GER
tain degree of mentality-they are not
merely certificates that you have at
& tanned a certain grade on your exam
4 inations-they do not merely signify
& that you have properly answered an
swered certain questions which have
been put to you by your teachers
hut they are more significant than
this They signify, first, that you live
in this republic and inherit the PRIV
leges of freedom; they signify, second
that your country has repudiated tne
~ ancient doctrines that education was
matter with which the State had nt
concern. and was therefore only O
private consequence; they signify ina
your city responding to most enlight
ened thought, has established here
Mace where every girl and boy ma!
Il receive under public supervision de
gree of discipline, Tearing, and culture
which in other days was unknown Il
combination-even to Kings-for
these three virtues, discipline wa
found only in the army learning In tn
monastery, and as was then though'
culture could only be acquired a
Court. But here you have received al
three.
I'm addition tot hat home disciplln
the rendered of all-which is the POI
ton of every one blessed with tn
family ties which are SO strong her
in our Southland and for which you
"a OWN MduIN COuuNN
stood. Won have received that disc
pline which comes from the necesslt
Of democratic intermingling OF tn
children in the public schools an
which at the same time does NOR
than any other one thing in our live
TO remove both false pride and neeC
less humility.
And in addition to the indulgen
discipline of the home you have r.
ceiyed this broader and stronger dl'
cipline Of the school under the careft
superyision of faithful and devote
teachers who knew that sternness
oftentimes the most kindly treatmeI
that can be accorded, and under TIL
discinline while you have grow
strong and self-reliant, you have ais
grown strong in self restraint and
the RECOGNITION of the rights OF other
'WliS ~uhe public schools succeed
as they generally do, and as those
Columbia certainly have, in teachh
their pupils such discipline as TIM
they hove justified their right to liN
and II public support, even thong
they should fail in all else-regardies
even of the teaching of the three X
But neither your schools, nor ID
public schools of the country, hay
stopped here. They have TO the gre;
body of the American people take
the place of those unselfsh instit'
lions with narrow boundaries foun
ed by scholars and maintained by IN
church in which alone for SO man
centuries could be seen the light
he lamp Of learning. What was one
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