Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-12
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Forty-Two Graduates Receive High
School Diplomas.
ADDRESS BY CHANCELLOR AVERY
Devotes Attention TO Nebraska and
Its Field ef Opportunity
Scholarship for Ralph
Elmer Curti.

Forty-two candidates received diplomas
last night In honor of their graduation
from the South Omaha High school. The
function one of more than the
ordinary Importance owing both to the
character Of the class and the dignitaries
of the occasion Chancellor Samuel Avery
Of the University OF Nebraska delivered
the address.
Beginning with South Omaha. the chan
cellor found much good in the fact that
the students before him were from city
devoted to one of the fundamental in
dustries. that of preparing the meat
products of the nation. Such practical
industry he said would OF necessity have
direct Influence toward the practical
vocations and study.
The greater proportion OF the state was
devoted to a similar fundamental industry
| that of agriculture the field where
products were prepared or rather produced.
Such an industry has had its effect on
the thought of the people engaged in It
and has in the fifty years of the life of
| the state produced a characteristic people
One Of the concrete examples of the
thought of the people is its educational
system.
Nebraska Fortunate.
Nebraska is in a measure fortunate that
few manufacturing industries are here
established. The effect of a great manu-
featuring industry and especially those
which require the labor of numbers of
children is often very injurious to the
intellectual insight of its people. In Ne
braska the country is prosperous to de-
gree the soil is inexhaustible and the
wealth produced by it is better distributed
than in most states. Yet the mineral re-
sources of the state are practically absent.
The chancellor said while in Europe he
was asked What are the mineral re-
sources of Nebraska?''
He said, I'VE have no great mineral
resources nor have we water power OF
such means of transportation"
Then" said the questioner, you have a
good sober, industrious class of citizens,
for the rougher elements go where the
gold is mined"
The beginning of the present university
system, as brought out in the discussion
was in the Prussian empire when it lay
prone under the feet of the conuuering
Napoleon. The educational system was
about the only thing which the great war
rlor left untouched. With its growth from
that beginning grew the strength of the
German people, which is destined to be
one of the chief rivals of the Anglo Saxon
for supremacy.
The. American university is largely in.
fluenced by the German. The west has
generally reacted on the old-time university
also. and caused the introduction of more
of the practical fields of science and in
dustry.
Growth of Education.
The growth of the educational system
has been remarkable, SO that the South
Omaha High school graduate of today is
doubtless more accomplished scholar than
was the Harvard graduate Of 100 years ago
1T is not our object to detract from the
old-time collegiate system. but to add t.
1t the needed modern turn Of industry an,
SCIENCE" said the chancellor.
The need of college training is like tina
of the need of a thirty horsepower engine