The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-12


ample Of one man IN the excellent work
that had been accomplished in Spaulding
high school by Superintendent Mathew
son.
We ask ourselves, What is the value
Of a productl What Is the value Of a
hoy or girls Il is the man who knows
the value Of a product that succeeds, 1t
is a great epoch in history marked by
the new study Of the value Of man.
The speaker referred TO the ancient
Greeks and their knowledge Of the origin
OF matter when Socrates asked them
what it all amounted 10 and advised
them to study man instead. Through
Plato, Socrates became the father Of
European thought Then came q time
when men were sinking back into degra-
dation and there came another unlearned
man, lowly Nazarene, who taught that
God was the father of man and from
this teaching came the splendid move
ment that rules the world to-day.
Then came a disappointment. Scien-
fists told as that we had come up from
apes instead Of down from the angels
After centuries OF development had come
man, but this did not disproye the theo-
ry Of Divine origin but rather showed
the way in which the Divine MIND
had produced man from matter. II is
grand thought to realize that each
generation IS little better than the one
before and to think that each generation
is doing something 70 uplift mankind
Other ideas came ia our own time.
When the men Of the North were chal.
lenged they sent their best to fght in
behalf OF the black man and to make
him free. II was a greater answer to
the question Of the value Of man,
inasmuch as the black men were a de-
graded race and not the equals Of the
men who freed them. To-day we hold
nation Of yellow men in political slav-
cry and we are in danger when we say
that the yellow man shall have no free
dom.
Another tendency is to forget the
value of man in the tremendous value
Of material things There is danger
that man viii think that he has 50 many
things Of value that he will think that
he, individually, is Of more value than
others himself. Therefore we need to
leave the material things and return
TO the value Of man.
The speaker then discussed the value
Of man from the material side, saying
that while we would not allow material
things to waste, we allowed man to
waste himself unchecked. He then dis
oussed the social value Of man, his value
to his own home, saying that q man is
Of the highest value 10 his parents who
work TO give al for him. Another value
Of man: all temporal things have their
day and are gone. Man is immortal,
and at his finish on earth, goes to the
world beyond
Next came a chorus, "On to Arms" by
nine Of the boys Of the high school. This
was warmly applauded. II was followed
BY an essay, AThe Philosophy Of Lin
coin" by Harold Nelson Burroughs, first
honor student Mr.. Burroughs opened !
by saying that the career Of Lincoln
had been treated in many of its various
phases and countless writer's have made |
clear the features and added new fea-
tures, each Of which added to the great.
ness Of great man.
The speaker went on to a study Of the
Of Lincoln from the main
stays Of bis life; his lore Of his fellow
man, his utmost trust in the common
people and his devout faith IN God. He
went briefly through the career and made
plain again some Of the things that Lin.
soln did for the country and for man
kind in general
The members Of the commercial class
then marched on to the stage. where
their diplomas were presented BY School |
Commissioner Stewart, who in a well |
chosen remark complimented that class
upon the completion Of its work. The I
Of the academic department
then marched to the stage and their
diplomas were presented by II. G. Wood.
ruff in a fitting manner
The two departments Of the class of
90 then took their plSces on the stage
ind sang the school hymn, Lead, Kindly
Light which completed the exercises.
The officers Of the class are as fol- 4
ows: academic course, president, George
Watt; vice president, Carrie Linekin;
treasurer, lee Traeyi secretary, Eva.
Annie Bisbee; commercial course, presi-
lent, Ralph Huse; vice. president. wis
snow; secretary, Mary Boyce; treasurer,
William Edwards