Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-06-17
p. H. s. COMMENCEMENT.
Seventeen In Glass 'os Graduated
from Latin and English Courses.

Inc randolph high school graduated
It's 2Sth class Friday night before an au-
olence OF 500 people who crowded Chand-
Ter Music hall.
Palms, ferns and buttercups formed the
tasteful decorations OF the stage on which
were seated the seventeen graduates, the
nigh school teachers and Rev. Homer
White, who offered the invocation. The
Music Hall orchestra OF seven pieces
played an order of very beautiful music
during the program, " hich had been ad-
nlraDly arranged and was carried out in a
faultless manner.
Will Edward Hyzer was the salutato-
ran and struck a vein of original thought
IN splendid grafton, which was finely
delivered. He said in part
10 the members OF the school board |
turn first with my word Of welcome. In
very peculiar sense it is YOU who have
made this graduation possible. We now
realize and shall more fully realize the
seli-sacriice and true devotion OF an all
suffering school official. Every salutato-
rian has rightfully expressed this same
sentiment; yet we have a special reason
Tor being grateful to you and a true cause
Tor being glad to see you here. There
has been no proverbial war between this
class and the school board; in fact our
relations with you have been the very
best.
''From the school officials, I turn TO the
citizens, the taxpayers Of the district. All
others are likely to underestimate the
part OF the taxpayers in school matters.
Few Of Us have thought where the money
was coming from. 1t has come as comes
the rain and the sunshine without any
demand for recognition. l believe the
success Of the American school system
lies in the fact that each community pays
for its own education. Germany con-
meets her schools closely with a strong
central government, thereby achieving
great success in the highness of her edu-
cational standards. There are many rich
ly endowed schools in England and
America, but these are not doing the
great work Of education. 1t is the public
school supported by the people for their
children that is accomplishing the revoIu-
ton OF things educational. What we
help pay for we have an interest in. II
we are investing our money, we will see
how things go. The school must sue
coed or he citizen will know the reason
why.
Parents, to you we give a very hearty
greeting You have made the initial sac
rifice which has raised us TO this place.
You have resolved that your sons and
daughters should have that which you
had not in educational advantages, and 1t
is this spirit which makes a nation great.
"The transition from the parent to the
teacher is natural and easy; so to you,
our teachers, our welcome is filled with
tender feeling. Some reason that your
service has been paid for and that your
relation to US is purely business propo-
sition. But we must pay an honest trib-
ute to your long-suffering patience.
When one gives more than is required.
his giving is praiseworthy. You have
given a measure heaped up and running
over into our lives. The teachers reward
is through his pupil; the product of his
labor is true manhood and womanbood.
"Schoolmates, this class has some
things to he proud OF in its high school
course. 1t was the first to abolish entire
ly the custom of sailing. Our attitude
towards you has been one OF hearty good
fellowship and our class spirit has been
exceeded by bigger school spirit.
"Tonight we begin to make returns for
our high school course. You all have
had a part in this course, and in the com
mencement exercises and in our lives you
are to reap your reward. In closing,
welcome you in behalf Of the class, not to
our graduation alone, but to all that is to
follow this commencement"
sour Visit to Washington" was the
subject OF an essay by Miss Ida Pearl
Rand, who gave an interesting account OF
the memorable trip taken by the class
during the Easter vacation, when it
joined the futile travel party of 1853 and
found pleasure and profit in journey to
the seat of our national government.
Miss Rand covered in a general summary
the enjoyable experiences OF the excur-
sion, hose main details were elaborated
5y the next five speakers.
sour National Capitol" was described
in a concise, and at the same time COM
preheusive, style by Albert Horace Mar
colt. He sketched the rise OF the city,
whose site President Washington was
authorized to select in 1891 and whose
plan was the design Of French engineer,
Mai. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who had
served in the Continental army. During
the first few yearsthe large scale on which
the plans were drawn was in such con-
trast to the actual size OF the place that
Washington was derisively called "the
city OF magnificent distances, "the city
without houses. Passing from its his
tory, Mr.. Marcott spoke of the present
grandeur OF our capital, its noble avenues
and costly buildings, its peculiar govern
ment, different from that Of any other
state or territory; the charm Of its situa-
ton on the broad Potomac and all its
beauties that make 1t now the pride OF
America.
Miss Evelyn Mary Denny told in a
nicely written essay how four days passed
all too quickly while the class was en-
gagged in seeing only the most important
places and things in Washington. The
Corcoran Art gallery, the Congressional
library, the Smithsonian institution, the
National museum, Mount Vernon, Ar
lington, etc, were evidently more than
glimpsed by the class in those four brief
days IL all gained 50 complete an idea OF
the city and its wonders as the entertain
ing essayist.
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