The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-06-24
CLASS DAY EXERCISES.
Weather Made 1t Advis-
able 10 Hold Them Indoors.


threatening weather made it inadyis-
n 70 hold class day exercises on the
(m saturday afternoon and while the
ErUsm was carried out in the high
MI room the touch OF color was lack
b that comes with the floral decorations
Ea grouping OF classes on the green.
Harold Elmer Staples, president OF the
Es pIefaced his address to the grad.
uts with alm,ion to the fact that school
Nv are over but for those who. may
aia college or pursue other lines OF edu-
Rational work there still remains an
opportunity Tor the members of the class
b make record. He quoted the words
Cicero; Il concede that more often
ss natural ability achieve success,
limsh maled by a formal education,
thl an exhaustive study without the
ass Of natural ability. Yet tins do l
i1ln that when to a person OF great
nign mental powers is added a conf
PIE system Of education, then some.
Ting wonderful and remarkable is wont
be the result Then, as now, sald
President Staples, the greatest rewards
vent to the trained man, Other things
kns equal, the man with the broader
allation is better fitted to succeed, and
knowledge Of the past and its problems.
essential to solution of the problems OF
ls present. He spoke of the opportun-
ls that science presents 10 the man
\ today and said that the keynote OF
v work, and was of the belief that
" world owes no man a living except
men a man earns it by service to the
'aa' Within lis is the danger and the
taggtatlon, as well as the strength, and
AlI We conquer ourselves we cannot
we to be successful in the conflict with
lle class grafton, The Uplift of Human
v was given by Charles Fletcher Rams,
El tie sad that the compulsory school
Wy OF this country have developed the
epe INTO race Of thinkers and re-
a'N the percentage of illiteracy IN
,lellca below that of any other coun-
Y As mankind advances in education,
.s race also advances physically. IL
y ceen said that one-third of the SICK
= = IN the poorer foreign sections OF our
"a, s cities is caused or aggravated by
..il9lalee-lmolance of the simplest
SSs Of health and cleanliness. As the
s ~. OF foreigners who live in these
~. cities become educated and Amerl-
aaaed IN our public schools, they are
, ! n lessons OF personal neatness, more
! 'ae example of their American teach
|. ana schoolmates than by anything
!, Mill, he told Of the uplift that science
i, ~aAng Tor the people, referred to the
l o,a being made in the medical
,s,,.. ana closed by saying that the
,,a.tsl force of all in the uplift OF
s,tn Is Christianity. Where Chris
N.Y. goes education and civilization
n % As country becomes Christian
NJ NJ ale follows more closely the prin-
~ VI the Master, it becomes better
aii M nduon and its people better as
! sH ss5 R, Hall, class poet, told of
~ nl Of school days and the coming
stss od'tle Of life, and urged her class
A. y 70 DO honor to the colors of the
hw VI s,4 lSlO, purple and white. The
onoD @ls' set to the tune of Loeb
tNqn NM was then sung, and Maud Anna
AZ Il class poet, told in facetious
at sr r possibilities and probabilities
MI % wal the class of 1910 as it goes
The ' nu Tor the fray. The musings