Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-18


as good as if he had common school |
education. College graduate has one
chance in 45, or 200 times more than
if he had common school education.
One half of one per cent of the United
States are college bred people. Col
leges furnish SO per cent of the con-
gressmen, 45 per cent of the senator's,
56 per cent of the vice presidents, 90
per cent of the house, 20 per cent
presidents, and SO per ceut off the
supreme judges.
If you do not remember anything
else | have said this morning, remem-
Der that an educated man or woman
with 81 900 has more avenues to use
fulness and happiness in the world
than an uneducated man or woman
with $4,000.
JAMES w. HUTCHINSON,
who on behalf of the school board
accepting the memorial presented by
by the class of 1908, said:
/" This custom of the graduating
class leaving some memorial 20 the
high school appeals to me very
strongly; and in after years they will
look back to their school days, and
especially their high school days with
very pleasant recollections. They
were among the brightest of my life,
and no doubt they will be to the grad
uating class today and classes to
come. | have been very grateful to
you and to the classes who have gone
before that you have taken so much
interest in the school and in the APP
pearance of the school building.
These memorials add very greatly
to the artistic appearance and culture
of the school. In fact, they are an
education in themselves. They are
the inspirations of many of the pres
ent members of the classes that have
graduated, and will always be pleas
ant. The fact that they will have no
use for them themselves, the fact that
they have graduated, only makes it
the more pleasant, makes it the more
unselfsh, and they will find as they
grow older the affairs of their school
days that were prompted by unselish
motives, that were brought forth in
moments when they made it easy for
the teacher, where they helped each
other in the work, where they did
some kindness, these things will tend
to make it memorial as long as they
live. This is not only true in school,
but all the way through life. You
may desire to obtain a higher educa
ton. You may desire to accumulate
wealth. You may desire fame. All
these things are used and made use
of, but if you do not acquire them
unselfshly, they are not in line with
this memorial that you have presented
and will be empty bubbles. My de-
sire for this class and for the young
people of our schools is that they may
unselfshly endeavOr to secure the
best gifts. [ want to thank this class
for their generous gift to the school.
[ want to thank them for their interest
in the future welfare of the school.
[ want to thank the classes that have
gone before. A great deal depends
upon the influence of the graduates of
school. They have set good eX-
ample to the older people to take an
interest in school after school life is
over. [ think that all of us should be
more interested and more generous
towards the school and towards
others in the schools"
ERNEST c. FIEDLER,
president of the school board, in pre-
senting the diplomas said:
Commencement, the event to which
you have long looked forward, doubt
less at times with anxious hope, has
come, and with it ends the first chap
ter of your school life. You are the
29th class to graduate from the Min
eral Point High School. % classes
have gone before you. Is classes
have looked forward to commencement
with the same pleasant anticipation
and the same anxious hope. The %
classes, numbering in all 325 gradu
ates, out in the world today look back
upon their high school days in the
Mineral Point High School as among
the best days of their lives. They
look back upon the friends of their
high school days as the best friends
of their lives, and as you go out in
the world, you will in time look back
upon the days you passed in the
Mineral Point High School as among
the most pleasant, joyful days in all
your lives. You will look back upon
the friends you made in Mineral Point
High School as the best friends of
your lives. Friends that are real
friends. Friends not made for bust
ness or other selfish purposes, but
friends that are the stauDchest, truest,
best. Especially is this true of the
members of the graduating class.
You have come up through the High
School together. There are many
things you have met as class. You
are united by ties of friendship that
are binding and lasting. Ties that
you will recall in memory as of the
pleasantest happenings of your school
days.
You have the distinction of being
the largest class to graduate from the