The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-06-10
NORMAL GRADUATES
GET THEIR DIPLOMAS
From Fridays Daily.

The graduating class of the norma
has been especially favored in ever,
way during their commencement week
The events have all been most enjoyabl,
and the weather has been ideal. Con
tray TO the usual order of events thi.
good luck continued to the end ano
the commencement exercises were thu
growing event.
They were fortunate in having Mr.
Thomas G. McCracken of Mnneapoli.
here to sing. He sang a group OF
songs, June Morning. by Willeby
Come to the Garden, Love-" 1.-THE
Pine Tree" "A Proposal" by Salter
and Il Go to Prove My Soul" by
Harraden.
The Triangle club of the normal
sang two selections, "Sprngtide," by
Becker; "Daffodils." by King Hall, and
the Girls Glee club sang two groups
of songs. First, Faith in Spring" and
Spinning Song" from Flying Dutch
man;" and second. three flower songs
by Mrs. II. II. Beach.
The selections were such as gave
the girls an opportunity to show their
ability to give expression. What they
are able to do along this line is very
largely due to the remarkable ability
of Miss Ella Louise Fink. under whom
they have worked during the year
The Address of the Evening.
The address of the evening was
4
Soares. PHI. d.. of the University of Chi
cago on the subject Living as a
Fine Art" In part he said: 1T isn't
an easy thing to live. Few of us really
live. We are all so busily engaged in
getting a living that we give too little
thought to how we are going to live
after we have got our living. In life
as an art we have To paint picture,
10 compose song, To erect a temple.
All OF these things are done in every
complete life. Topsy, as We all know,
Just growed.' and there are too many
people who Just grow People who
get up in the morning. 60 to work,
help a little now and then if they
see good chance and go through the
same process day after day. These
people may be fairly successful in
business. they may get along fairly
well, but they don't live.
The Essence of Living.
"The essence of living as a fine art
is To unite all of life into a fine whole.
An artist might sit down before his
canvas, paint cloud in one corner.
a brook i'm another, some trees i'm an
other. but it wouldn't be a picture I'M
til the parts were united into
whole. SO it is i'm life, JOY. sorrow,
glory, health and beauty all together /,
make life.
The essence of living is to he united i
with the living. A few years ago the
hinaman thought the earth was fiat,
hat China occupied three fourths of the :
earth's surface and that the other one
fourth was occupied by some unim-
portant countries not worth knowing. |
We have seen the change in his at |
titnde in the last few years. What |
has brought this about? He is be-
WIFI WOTIl.
What is the use of people knowing
all they know? Why do they labor so
strenuously to gain this knowledge?
Does it help them in business? Does
it help them to better positions? 1t
may, hut the real reason for it is,
that it is a part of the fine art of
living, because it brings one into a
better relation with the world in which
he must live.
"Some people committed suicide be-
rause of the comet, which has proven
so harmless. In India, during an
eclipse of the moon greatest terror
feigns, the natives sing dance and beat
tom-t toms, to brighten away the dragon
which is eating mp the moon. Why
DO they do this? They don't know
their world They are not acquainted
with their universe.
80 know is 10 live. man may
iwell in village all his life and know
nothing of what has gone before, but
he student of history knows of pre-
historic man, knows of his progress
orm the earliest ages to the present
ime and is better able to appreciate
he opportunity we have of living.
What Makes Life Broader.
What we know in the field of let
ers makes Our lives broader. To know
shakespeare is to know humanity. To
NOW Browning is to know the trag-
dy of the human soul To know
Wordsworth is to know the beauty of
he natural world
Each new walk that you take and
ach new book that You read makes ,,
our life that much broader and that
much better worth living. But it is
lot enough To know in order to live
I is not enough that art snouI1 ne
nrate. 1t must be beautiful 1t must ,
,e true
The architecture in Chicago is some.
ines spoken of as Queen Ann in front
nd Mary Ann in the back. Because
t isn't genuine. 1t isn't true. 1t pre- I
ends to be what it isn't. To live one
must be true. II
ITO live. as an art one must give.
nd the only real contribution one ever
ives to the world is himself The
eaching profession is the highest and s
OLDEST calling because in this the
eacher not only has an opportunity to /,