The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-26

tae breach and advanced the funds
which lad been destroyed. 90 that the
.progrsss Of your school was MT i'm
pfdedEtp anF considerable extezst-
Theagent}emen who advanced this
money deserve and doubtless receive
nach credit for their prunpt actions
for il was a commendable The
sum whica they advanced was large
and they stand in the breach pending
lis possible repayment by action of
the Legislature.
| particularly desire to say a word
in com-rendation OF the present prin-
cipal of this school, Col. WILSON His
administration has been a successful
one IN every respect. A very great
compliment was paid to his admins
trative ability. when h Omitted Stat
es government placed this school so
nigh in the ranks of the good military
schools in the country Last year !
believe that it ranked sixth in the list
| which is a very ine showing, when we
consider the great number of institu-
| tons of a similar character which are
within our borders, many of tnem be-
ing situated in wealthy and thickly
| populated states.
Unless yuu had had the right mar
in the right place, you would have
/ made no such showing. I ~congratlr
late YOU, Col. Wilson, and / congratu-
late this school on having you to di-
rect and guide 1t.
Now, young gentlemen of the gradu-
ating class, you are al exceptionally
| good looking and intelligent body OF
young men, and / believe that each
of you appreciate what has been done
| for you, not only by the people of
Chaves county, but by the citizens
and tax payers of the entire territory
in providing the necessary funds for
the carrying on of this school, so that
you might receive such an education
as will enable you to enter upon the
battle of life with a fair prospect of
success.
Some men, there are but few OF
them however are so constituted that
they seem to be able to acquire learn
ing and an education with scarcely
any schooling. It is exceedingly rare,
however, for us to find suca men. As
the English poet Cowper well says:
Few men are born with talents which
eXceH,
But all are capable of living we'll"
A great deal of truth is compressed
into those two lines. But few children
: are horn into this world who possess
talents which place them mucn above
the ordinary run of men. Most of us,
so far as ability is concerned, seem to
have beer cast in the same mould.
IF one is so fortunate as to be born
possessing talents which excel. tai
ents which place him on a plane above
his fellows. he will surely distance
other men in the special line in which
his genius shows itself. And II is al
so equally true that all meQ if they
~ so disposed are capable of making
an homes living, and being good. up
right and useful citizens, who are Of
benefit to the republic, and who are
good husbands ard fathers, and who
command h respect of the people OF
the c2sr-runity IN which they chance
to live.
Perhaps in the class before me
which graduates today. there may de
velore some men of true genius. who
would make a great success of life
ven If they had nad no more school
ing than had Shakespeare, the manor
tai bard. or the great Lincoln. for ex-
ample. IL there are any such the
training which they have aad here
ought to develope those talents quick.
".
DO not get the false impression, that
by graduating here you have learned
all there is to know. for no school
teaches or pretends to teach that, no
matter how high its course. or how
dificnlt its studies may be. You have
but knocked at the threshold of learn
ing. but what has been taught you
here ought to have shown You how to
pursue those studies farther, and en-
able such of You as SO desire to delve
deeply into the fountain OF knowledge.
The knowledge which really adds
to the worlds fund of learning comes
later in life. and as a rule Is acquired
By patient research, observation and
study. BY applying in fact to the
things which you endeayor to do.
whether in the field of science, art,
literature. or business. the principles
which you have learned from books.
and doing them better or devising
some process by which they may be
done more .cheapfy than they have
been dole before.
You have enjoyed here the means
of acquiring the rudiments OF an edu-
cation. Vol hav acquired that which