Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-04
LEAVE BLISS
Graduates Get Diplomas at
Electrical School.
URGED TO BE ACCURATE
President Tells Them That Is Most
Important of All Qualifica-
tions Of Engineer.
URGED TO BE ACCURATE

Eighty graduates Of the Bliss Electro
cal School received their diplomas at
the seventeenth annual commencement
exercises last night in the Sunday school
house of the Calvary Baptist Church, 9Th
and H streets northwest Charles F..
Nesbitt, vice president of the school, pre-
sided.
The Sunday school room was brilliantly
Illuminated, and the blue and whitd nen7
nants of the school were conspicuously
displayed The Criterion Orchestra rem
dered selections throughout the evening.
Rev Dr. Samuel III. Greene. pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church. delivered the in
vocation President Louis Denton Bliss
addressed the graduates. He said
when a man successfully completes a
commendable task which he has under
taken there is satisfaction which comes
to him that often far more than COM
pensates for the labor expended. whether
it be the winning of race, the coihpie-
ton of a course Of study or the con-
summation of business transaction,
there is a sense of achievement which
carries with it its own reward.
1T is impossible to eXagSerate the I'M
portance of scientific requirements to an
engineer, but only the foundation for the
real work of life can be laid in the class
room and laboratory. The Importance OF
accuracy, the use and misuse OF approx
nations are as important as the technical
studies upon which an engineer Is grant
ed his diploma. An error in calculation
in the classroom simply entails another
low mark. But in the world. III earning
a living. a mistake is usually followed
by humiliating remark from superior.
and frequent sips will burden a man
with the reputation of being consttu-
tionally inaccurate, a fault which some
engineers rank a positive vice and one
for which no excuse is accepted.
Should Do the Best
Having determined upon your life
work. having laid the foundation for
! that work, may ycu enter upon il, re-
solved each day to do the best that lies
within you and with nothing less be
content'
Following 4 selection from The Lion
and the Mouse" by. the orchestra. Gen.
George II. Iiarries, president of the
Board of Trade. delivered an address in
which he urged the graduates to enter
| their life's work with hope and energy.
Your are entering profession which
is great mystery to the multitude he
! said, and greater mystery to those who
devote. their life to q study of it, for
electricity holds many secrets which man
has yet to learn. Probably some OF you
are destined to be the men to reveal the
great secrets which will yield untold
benefits to mankind
! He closed his address by asserting that
man can attain anything to which he may
aspire if he is willing to pay the price.
| by the orchestra. after which prizes were
! awarded as follows: John B. Espey prize
for greatest progress in shop work, 10 NJ.
| NJ. Flanders, DeWittville, y. Y: NJ. Du
Perow prize for most satisfactory work iri
| testing department. TO w. II. Waite. Sufi
| field. Conn: Eugene Dietzgen Company
! prize for greatest progress in mechanical
| drawing, to NJ. NJ. Flanders. Dewttville,
N. Y: McGraw-Hill Book Company prize
| for most satisfactory examinations, to F.
| A. Carter West Brookeld. Mass: Bliss
| Electrical School prize for mos satisfac-
| tory lecture reports, 10 f.. s. Taylor.
gold medal for highest general average in
all subjects. to F. \. Carter, West Brook
| field. Mass.
Those on Honor Roll.
| The rol, of honor follows: Mechanical
drawing. F. A. Carter. West Brookfield,
Mass: testing laboratory. wiring and ma
chine work, +. A. Carter, West Brook
field. Mass; lecture reports. Z. S. Taylor,
| Lanesboro, Pa: reeita lions, 4. A. Carter;
examinations. p A. Carter. Honorable
mention: Recitations, c. +. Walker. Winn-
field, La. Perfect attendance: Roy II.
Lewis. Diamond. S. D.; Paul r. Miller,
Lebanon, Pa: Harry b. Snmmbers. Oma-
ha, Neb: G. =. Walker. WINFIELD, La.
Rev. Thomas c. Clark, pastor of the
Takoma Park Presbyterian .nurch, pro-
nounced the benediction. The class Off
GERS are: President. F. y. Carter; vice
president, r. \. Snedeker: secretary and
treasurer ". c. Mertz, il. The reception
committee consisted of s. NJ. Hull, j. n.
Sharp e. S. Taylor, T.. a. Carter j. NJ
Downing. +. y. Snedeker, W. c. Mcrtz,
ir. and c. +. Walker.
The graduates were:
Christopher Adams, Meridian. Miss:
Alton A. Armstrong. WatertoNn. S. D..
w, Oswald Baker, Union Fridge. Nd;
NJ ]. Bea1tie, Alexandria. Va; Rudolph
Bender, jr.. Washington. d. c.; John \.
Bickel. .Geneseo. H.; Roland NJ. Blenh-
horn. Nappon, Nova Scotia; Leonard \.
Brackett. North Abingdon. Mass: Regi-
maid $. Bundy. Clifton Springs, y. Y;