The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-05-28
COUNTY ATTORNEY DELIVERS
SCHOLARLY ADDRESS TO
GRADUATING CLASS.
HIGH SCHOOL YEAR ENDS
Commencement Exercises Are Held and
Diplomas Are Awarded to Eighteen
Young PsoPls--Orator Of Evening
Gives instruction and Advice to
Young Men and Women.

Last evening at $50 the Missoula
county high school began the exercises
which marked the successful close OF
the work begun four years ago by
the senior class and new beginning
FOR greater things To come for Is of
Missoula's young men and women.
The auditorium OF the high school was
well filled with friends and relatives
OF the graduates and they heartily APP
preciated the program of the evening.
Rev. J. n. Maclean. pastor of the
Presbyterian church. gave the invoca-
tion, followed by violin solo by
Lawton Beckwith. The address To the
graduating class was given by County
Attorney T.. c. Muironey who made
q very scholarly charge To the young
people. Mr.. Mulroney said:
Muironey's Speech.
Another school year has completed
its cycle. and you. the members OF the
class Of 1910. are about To quit the
shelter Of these halls wherein you
have been sustained and strengthened
by the uplifting influences OF gen
erous education. For some OF you
circumstances have decreed that your
days In school are ended. Others of
you will continue your labors in other
and higher halls of learning.
Bm the hope that | would express
10 you all tonight IL that you have not
only Systematically gathered a fund Of
historical facts. but that your educa-
tion has also inspired you with a Wig
orous and healthy imagination. Man
is not born. He II made by educa-
thon-by the education he receives and
by the education he gives himself
Imagination rules our lives. II creates
the ideals by which we live: from
point TO point IL beckons ns on to the
unattainned. over vulgar reality Il
throws mystic veil: It draws the
charmed circle wherein move friend
ship. love and freedom. II blows the
trumpet of honor and fame: II even
leads the way when. necessary To glor-
ious death.
The more cultivated man IL. the
greater the number of things which
interest him. Where others see moth
Ing he sees "a well-spring Of fresh
thoughts; he observes. and attends to
what he observes: he receives much
because he brings much; he discovers
truth and beauty and goodness In
things because he bears them within
himself: his imagination calls forth a
living world from the waste and void
abyss OF matter.
Pleasure in Good.
As you have been taught To take de-
light In whatever Is fair In nature. In
whatever IL true and beautiful In lit
erature and art. so you should hence
forth learn to find pleasure in what
ever brings good to men. and first of
all. In the welfare and success of those
around you, though they be your foes
and rivals A noble man feels that
no human being. not even his enemy.
Is as happy as he would have him be.
and thus he finds satisfaction In what
only embitters and saddens small and
narrow souls This enlightened good
will which enables US To have genuine
sympathy with all men Is the very soul
OF the moral character which II
tion to form. Imagination Is the
parent Of ambition. and ambition
IL not wrong. ON the contrary.
ambition Inspired by lofty ideals
Is the handspring of true success.
wonder how often you have been
told. and how little you have reflected
upon what is expected OF you when
You leave these halls OF learning and
put on the armour of the world to do
battle with the hardshIps of more
or less cynical people with whom you
Will come In contact. My message to
you tonight Is from the world into
which you are about to enter You
need a message now and then. like
Noah In his ark. to assure you that
the outside world still exists and that
you must go forth betimes to labor In
It, My message relates to the respon-
sibility Of the high school graduate In
civic life.
My observation and experience have
led me to think that the most valuable
element of education Is the forma tior
OF high ideals. II the education Of a
high school graduate has not en-,
dowed him with noble purposes 1t viii
be OF little benefit to himself or Il
humanity, 1t should so inspire him
with a desire for civic Righteousness
that he should be willing to devote his
hest energies to the betterment OF hi,
state. The history OF his own ant
other countries has told him the stor,
Of the thousands OF patriotic men ant