The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-05-29

she will go to Germany, whore she
will study music for several years,
and will return to this country ali ac-
complished musician. She viii latey
take charge of the music dep 4"tmcnt
of a large university in Wisconsin,
that is yet to be established.
Annie will go to Wesleyan College
and take a four years course there,
after which she will return nd a,sist
Mr.. Workman, who will len be a
gray-headed old man, loaded down
with his great responsibilities, and no
longer capable of attending to every
minor detail in the Ocala High School.
of which Annie will relieve him, until
Lagrange shall have graduated from
the school and shall have taken a doc
tors degree at Amherst, and until lie
shall have received a position as sur
geon on one of the great ocean lin
.ers. Then she will, with mucn IelGc-
lance, resign her position as teacher,
and accompany him on his voyages,
visiting many parts of the world.
Ralph will enter the Massachu-
sets School of Technology next year.
taking a course in civil engineering.
After he finishes there he will take
up the construction of several of the
greatest railways in America for few
years; then, just about the time the
Panama Canal is completed, the gov
eminent will decide to drain the Ev
erglades, and will endeavOr TO hnd
someone to plan the work. After he
has finished there he will become in.
terested in the transportation prob
lem, and will be at the head of a great
corporation operating a line of air
ships from New York to many parts
of the world, for both passengers and
freight.
1T is hardly necessary to tell what
Lawrence will be, for everyone who
knows him knows that, with all his
knowledge, it would be a sin for him
to be anything but a professor in
some great college. However, he Will
study this summer, and take exam
nations, with honOrs, at Harvard, to
the second years work there. So it
will take him only three years to get
his "A. B." degree. He will then take
up other courses until he has a whole
string Of letters to his name. After
he takes as many degrees as he de-
sires, or, more likely, as many as is
possible to be had, he will become pro-
fesor of Latin and Greek at Yale. He
will have held this position but few
years when he will be requested to be-
come president of his Alma Mater,
which presidency he will gladly ac-
cept, and will hold the balance of his
active life"
Then, as the time came to hear IF
myself, l was wondering what was TO
be my fate-whether l should go to
college for a few years, tour Europe
in an automobile, spend a year in Mon
tague, or what, was aroused by hear
ing my name called: "Vieva, Vieva, it
is time for you to come in" And 10
my surprise and disappointment, papa
had awakened me before my own fate
was revealed. And thus again is bud
ding genius nipped in the bud.
Master Robert Clarkson next playe.l
q very pretty violin solo. This young
boy is making marked progress on the
violin and has a bright musical fu-
ture ahead of him.
The commencement address was de-
livered by DR.. Andrew Sledd, presi-
dent of the University of Florida at
Gainesville.
DR.. Sledd is brainy scholor, a bril-
liant educator and captivating orator
He is not unknown in Ocala, having
delivered addresses and sermons
here on several previous occasions,
and it was a matter of great delight
to everyone that Mr.. Workman and
the graduates chose him to deliver the
address this year, and he met the ca
ger anticipations of everyone of his
hearers, and those who had never
heard him before were charmed with
him. He is an educator of whom the
state is very proud.
After his address the chorus sang
very sweetly the Merry Dance"
Mr.. Lawrence Price, the other
graduate, had been very i'll for the
month preceding the last week of
school, and was compelled to remain
in the hospital for several weeks. Up
TO leaving school his average was 81,
and his prospect for winning the med
al was almost certain. He recovered
sufficiently to stand his examination
and received his diploma with his
classmates, but was physically una
bic to prepare the Grafton that he had
expected to deliver. II was a great
pleasure to his class that he was SufTi-