The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-01-13
DAY ONE OF SUCCESS
DIR. Gulick, of New York, Was the
Closing Feature of the High
School Dedication.

the city embraced the opportunity Oh
fered by the board of education to
inspect the new high school building.
The doors were thrown open from 2
to 4 O'Clock, and a large number OF
high school students were present to
conduct the visitors over the three
floors and through the various rooms,
explaining the various departments
and giving the people a pretty good
idea of things about the new struc-
ture.
In the evening a public reception
was held, and which was quite lnfor-
NAL. In the long corridor on the first
floor frappe and waters were served,
a table being placed at each end OF
the corridor, to which the
of the visitors was directed by the
committee in charge. Young ladies'
presided at the tables and served.
In the assembly roo there was
an immense number of people, the
room being filled to its utmost capa-
city, and many standing in the hall
ways leading to the room.
The program of the evening began
with a selection by the high school
chorus, entitled '"The Wreck OF the
Hesperus" and which was presented
in an enjoyable way. The chorus has
required a great deal of practice for
it ia quite a difficult selection and OF
more than ordinary length. Miss
Walrath and the students sang the
selection with fine spirit and good
harmony and the number was ap-
plauded. For the closing number OF
the evening the Pilgrims Chorus"
from Tannhauser was given. The
high school orchestra also presented
several numbers during the eevntng
that we're appreciated. By request
Prof. Lindsey repeated his solo Of the
morning.
DIR, Guulick's Address.
The feature of the evening was the
address by Luther H. Gulick of New
He is the director of physical
training in the New York city schools
and president of the Playground AS
ISOLATION Of North America. In the
early part of the evening DR.. Gulick
was the guest Of honor at a banquet
rendered by Secretary Whitaker and
the Y. M. G. A. in the rooms at the
city hall, where he made a short adj
dress, which was listened to by about
fifty business men.
"The family has hitherto always
been the chief unit of society,"" said
DR.. Gulick. mo one disputes that.
The relation of family to society has,
within a century, however, changed
profoundly in all civilized commune
ties. The family is ceasing to be the
social unit. The community is no
longer an aggregate of complete and
separate family units. Many func-
tons of the old family unit are now
being performed by the community
in other and mainly better ways. The
first important change has reference
to work. This change is most no
ticeable in New England. Here the
home used to be the center, the place
where the work of the world was
done. All the industries which We're
carried on here by the father, mother
and children-all these have gone for
ever from the home. 1 do not need
to bring to your memory the history
of perhaps your fathers, certainly
your great-grandfathers. Nearly all
of them lived on farms and each farm
was a complete unit, making clothing
from the backs of the sheep, perform
ing all the tasks involved in provid-
ing the food supply and getting but
little from abroad. They not only
furnished their own meats and vege-
tables, but they made their own tools
and their WI harnesses. They shod
their own horses and put up theil
own buildings. They did themselves
nearly all the things that needed te
be done around the farm"
DR.. Guiicks statement that the
family was no longer the chief uni
of society created a profund impress
sion. In explaining this statement
he said:
Everywhere the family is c~easint
rapidly to be the center of the in
dustries Of the world. Walking be
hind one Of these steam gang plow'
drawing sixteen plows, each cutting
three inches deep and sixteen inche'
wide, one can see that there is nj
place here for the boy to take tn,
lines of the horses and co-operat'
with his father, and thus come int,
that character broadening AM