The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-29
LESSONS OF PTAH- HOTEP
 FOR CLASS
Verify, There is no New Thing Under the' Sun, is Lesson of
 Dr. Walsh

A ment exercises of the City Normal school last evening. while a matter of regret for many who were interested in seeing a man whose parents or bap- tismal sponsors had sent him out into the world so heavily handicapped, was more than compensated for when 1t was announced that Dr. James J. Walsh, dean of the Fordham Medical School of New York. had been secured to address the graduates.
 A telegram received yesterday from Greeley, Colorado. stated that Dr. Shy der would be unable to be in this city last evening. and Superintendent Deane recalling the very favorable impression made previously upon Bridgeport audiences by Dr. Walsh, fortunately induced the latter gentle man to substitute.
 For nearly an hour Dr. Walsh held the attention of his auditors. his entire address being TeDlete with wittic1SmS, artisticalIy embellishing the deeper thoughts which impressed all present with their value.
 The address of Dr. Walsh was sup plemented by the rendition of three choruses by the combined junior and senior classes of the Normal school, The music was we'll received. display ing as it did evidence of capabflity and training. The selections were sung to orchestra accompaniment.
 The young ladies made a very at tractive picture while on the stage, and were subsequently, the recipients of numerous handsome floral gifts from friends The fact that the ex- ercises were held in the High School assembly hall. a departure from the custom of many years. met with the approval of both graduates and guests.
 The basis of Dr. Walsh's address was the papyrus of Ptah-hotep, an Egyptian sage many centuries before Christ. The undercurrent of his text was to the effect that the supposed possession of knowledge by the young is usually. transmitted when one lives long enough. Dr. Walsh stated that he would refrain from giving advice to the youthful graduates. since advice is negligible quantity and experience is the valuable though expensive teacher. However said he, i've all think we have the price to pay'
 In his easy. nirth inducing manner. the speaker adapted the wisdom of Ptah-hotep to present day exigencfes, revealing the fact that the problems three thousand years ago. The ser want problem, the stewardship of wealth and divine gifts. the require ments for a happy domestic environ ment. all were treated in the ancient papyrus, all were interpreted interest ingly by Dr. Walsh. Even the Vernac- ular of the twentieth century was ac- corded legitimate lineage when skill fully manipulated by the profound scholar whose fund of humor equalled his intellectual endowment.
 The knowledge of the ancients in educational matters. medicine. astron- omy, arts and crafts and various other matters were touched upon in the dis course. By the laws of analogy and deduction. Dr. Wa1sh's inference was that even training schools for teachers must have existed in a very remote period in Egypt
 Concluding Dr. Walsh urged upon the young teachers the necessity for regarding the imperativeness of inn T'arting their powers to others, so far as is possible in the profession of teaching. He said that advice would mean more to them 25 years hence than it does now, and that their aim should be to improve that portion of the world which had known their pres ence.
 At the close of the last musical num- Der, Superintendent Deane. with brief message to the graduates. presented the diplomas. The documents were tied with ribbons of Nile green, the twenty-two young ladies. Katherine Rebecca Beardsley. Marguerite Lucille Buchanan. Saidee Hannah Caldwell, Agnes Elizabeth Collins. LeoniIda Margaret Corcoran Irene May Deck CT. Anna Jane Dorsey. Julia Cecile Farnam. Anna Lorine Finlan. Edna Evelyn Goodwin, Ethel Lorraine Hege- man. Anna Loretta Judge Christine Estelle Macdonald. Marguerite Me Garry, Anna Gertrude McNamara, Etha Lena Newell Bessemay O'Con- nell. Lima Bessie Oelsner, Frances Will "a hal ho1 Thorpe Thomas. and Anna Elizabeth Toobov