The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-29
Delivers Scholarly Address to
High School Graduates.
DIVINE Discomfort.
Every American Boy and Girl
Should Keep Striving.
Unselffsh Citizenship an Educa'
tiOnal Asset.

Fifty-seven students of the Topeka
high school have completed their course
--35 girls and q boys. Last night they
received their 'tsheepskins'' from the
hands of Colonel J. D. Norton. presi-
dent of the school board. There were
perhaps $500 persons present for the
presentation of diplomas TO the mem
bers of the forty-ninth graduating class
of the school "a
AS Dean Horace l.. Whitehouse played
the professional march on the pipe or
gan the high and mighty seniors ac-
cording to custom marched down the
center isle of the big hall between two
rows of sub-senior girls VINO were link
ed together with chains of smilax. A
payer was given by the Rev. ThoS.
ton of diplomas. IF 1 Were a Sun
BEAM was sung by Miss Hattie How
ard.
In introducing the speaker OF the ev-
ening DR.. Frank K. Sanders, Superin-
tt ndent L. D. Whittemore made the
assertion that opeka Is perhaps the
greatest educational center of any city
of its size in the United States, and he
was of the opinion that DR.. Sanders is
one of the chief educational assets of
which the city can boast
DR.. Sanders Address.
Educational Values was the sub
ject upon which DR.. Sanders spoke
THE purpose of education is to make
life worth wnile,'' said he. Have the
last four years been wasted years?
Oftentimes many years must go by be-
fore we can fully realize the full sig
nificance of The experience We have
gone through 1t sometimes seems to
many that the best training we can get
is that which comes through contact
with men.
it may be the friendships we have made
or the pleasant experiences we have
had, that stand out most wildly, but
in later years other values will become
I .ore prominent.
THE first educational value of which
7 will speak is sort of a divine dis
content. The true American boy or
girl should grow up never being con-
tent until he has attained what others
have attained.
THE second educational value to
which 1 will call attention is our in
PRODUCTION to the worlds best things.
An education not only widens our ac-
quaintance but it enlarges the range
of things and introduces us to new
pleasures that never grow stale.
Unselfish Citizenship.
ga third educational value of SUI
preme importance is the training
which school life gives for commun-
ity service and unselfish citizenship.
Group strength rather than individ-
ual capacity is the secret of Anglo
American prosperity. 1t will be
found that the best asset of our ma
ton is the capacity of getting togeth-
er and in solving together the press
ing problems of the city, state and ma
ton.
Zone more educational asset which
we must realize today is the power of
discrimination. Prof James remark
ed that education helps us to know
good man when we see him. We not
| only need to have the world at our
command, but to be able to reach out
and select the best that is within our
reach and to avoid that which is I'M
worthy.
"Our national representatives are
| likely as not to be foreigners once or
! twice removed. They have been Civ
| ing some of their racial traits to the
American character, and we are a
stronger race for it. We need men
and women of discrimination beyond
all other types.
Live the largest, broadest life that
circumstances will permit. If it isn't
Garner at once I would advise You to
go to college. The one thing you want
to do is to be leader"
Those Who Graduated.
| The following are those who received
diplomas last night:
| Miss Annie Ballard, Miss Murlel BaX-
ter, Miss Myrtle Beeler. Miss Dorothy
Brown, Miss Gladys Dougherty, Miss
Ruth Emert, Miss Meta Estep, Miss
Irma Ferguson. Miss Jessie Ferrin
Miss Louise Grandon, Miss Jennie
Heinzman, Miss Irene Holzle, Miss
Bertha Hull, Miss Margaret Hulse
Miss Helen Johnston. Miss Lillian Nc
Cahan, Miss Enid Link, Miss Adeline
Mclaughlin, Miss Florence Middaugh
Miss Clarice Ogee, Miss Pearl Daisey
Miss Clara Peterson, Miss May Rey-
nolds. Miss Jean Rodgers, Miss Mamie
| Smith, Miss Susie Snodgrass, Miss
Helen Stevenson, Miss Helen Sticknell
Miss Maud Thompson. Miss Fora Tay-
lor. Miss Ethel Warren, Miss Mary
Williamson, Miss Marian Withers
Miss Mary WOODBURY., Miss FToy Whit
eker. Mr.. Herbert Blinn, Mr.. Earl Bush
Mr.. Walter CLANCY, Mr. Clarence
Churchman, Mr.. Roy Davis, Mr. Leslie
Hawley, Mr.. Edouard Hyatt, Mr.. Itta
Luke, Mr.. Stuart Magaw, Mr.. VIII
i Brown, Mr.. Charles Haynes, Mr.. Roger
! Jackson Mr.. Frank Jones, Mr.. Joel Nc
Knight, Mr.. Frank huffman, Mr.. Leroy
| Petro, Mr.. Albert Roebuck. Mr.. Charles
Ryder, Mr.. Snow Sears, Mr.. Sheriff.
limit Mr.