Evening journal., 1909-06-11
SCHOOL
GRADUATES SEVEN
DR.. Comfort Tells Girls of
Class Not to "DaudIe"
in College

Seven graduates, four young men and
three young women, received diplomas
at the commencement exerices OF
Friends School in Friends Meeting
House, Fourth and West streets. this
morning. The address was made lN
Dr. William Wistar Comfort, of Haver-
ford College.
The assembly hall Of the Meeting
House was prettily decorated with
palms, ferns and flowers. The gradu-
ates occupied the foremost seats and
interested relatives and friends
thronged the hall.
The graduates are Marion Beaden-
kopf' Bernice Z. Davidson, Ethel YER
non, w Whiteley Bush. Arnold Col
pitts, Willard F. Williams and Fred
erick A. Curtis
The graduate-speakers and their
subjects We're: Freedrick A. Curtis.
The Reclamation OF the West" Ethel
vernon, What Philadelphia owes t.
franklin W. Whiteley Bush. The
wonders of the Ocean," Bernice T..
Davidson, Early Life in Virginia"
The presentation Of diplomas by
Herschel A. Norris, principal. was fol-
lowed by DR.. Comforts address. D..
Comfort decried the endeavor to com
bine. in the private preparatory school
and college, technical and classical
training
The desire to develop the great nat
ural resources of our country have i'm
parted a peculiar feature 10 our svs-
tenn Of education" he SAID. "The grea
fault of private education in our coun-
try today is the fact that serious ef-
forts have been made to combine tech
nical training and training in the hu-
manities. l do not think the combina-
lion has been a success. To often II
is merely an effort 70 center the greater
attention on the technical training in
the hope that little learning Of the
classics will suffice the student for his
4 general culture.
] Il think that more and more in tn,
future the young person will be com.
PEELED TO choose whether he shall be I
technical specialist or shall ACQUIRE ,
general education. All these short cut.
of physics and chemistry in our rrivac
and denominational schools in the ne,
leave the mark of the short cuts on tn.
general education and culture Of tn
student"
In closing Dr. Comfort urged the grad
and denomination schools in the en,
enter college, not to daudle. aad warn
Cd of those colleges which Presiden
woodrow Wilson OF Princeton. -ecen
J ly designated country clubs" becaus
Of the idieness Of their students.
Several of the graduates have irepat
cd to enter college in the fall. Ethe
) Vernon will go TO Bryn Mawr. Narioi
|, Beadenkopf to Wilson, W. wdtele!
|, Bush and Frederick A. Curtis To Hav
erford, Willard L. Williams and Don
aid Van Trump to Swarthmore. Wal
lace II. Coke to Princeton. Arnold Col
pitts will enter some college. but ha
not yet decided where.
A drawing exhibit by the pupils o
Friends School is attracting man,
, visitors. The exhibit is under tn
direction of Clawson S. Hammitt
drawing instructor. Among tn
mechanical drawings done by the boy
= is plan for the conversion Of the oil
! gymnasium in the basement of IN
! school into a well-arranged laboratory
> This was done by T. Clakson Taylor
The lower middles have charcoa
drawings in four tones that are of un
usual excellence. The juniors hav
house designs on exhibition and draw
ings in notan. the Japanese term 70
light and dark.
The work in every grade shows re
markable development. For NOR
than two years Mr. Hammitt, the in
structor, has based his work on
4 course OF which he is the originator
All work is based on principles, begin
{ ming with lines, then advancing t
5 space division and space relation an
: simple objects from nature. The wor
0 of each class extends through print
ing. line work, color, design and work
e ing from nature.
[ The exhibit received so much atten
tion yesterday that it will be con
! tinued again to-day from until 4;
o'clock.