The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-24
HANCOCK
SIXTEEN PUPILS RECEIVE
DIPLOMAS OF GRADUATION
Interesting Commencement Exer-
cises Held Last Evening at
Kerredge Theater.
DIR. HOwERTH GIVES ADDRESS

The Kerredge theater was filled last
evening by the friends and relatives
of the sixteen young people, students
of the Hancock high school, who last
evening received the diplomas that
certified to the successful completion
of their high school work.
Seated upon the stage were the six
teen members OF the class, eight boys
and eight girls, the latter attired in
white graduation gowns. There were
also present upon the stage Superin-
tendent LaRowe of the Hancock
schools, c. A. Wright, the member of
the board of education selected to
make the presentation of the diplomas
and DE- Ira w. Howerth of the Uni
vcrsity of Chicago, who delivered the
commencement address on the subject,
Learning and Doing" High school
colors and palms decorated the stage
and above was suspended the class
motto, There is a Way" in the class
colors, silver gray and blue.
The exercises opened with n solec
ton from De Koven's Golden Butter
hy," by the Calumet & Hecla orchcs-
ira, followed by an invocation by Rev.
w. l.. Marvin. pastor of the Hancock
Methodist Episcopal church. Another
orchestral number, from Suppos
Morning, Noon and Night" was Civ
en- then the two numbers by the class
members. These consisted of an ora
ton on the subject, Municipal Mis-
rule" by Gustave Zetche. and the vale
9ictory, a study of the life of Henry
Ward Bcecher, by Miss Ruth Emery.
Messr. Cowley and King of the G. & III.
orchestra played at this juncturc of
tho exercises very attractive duet
on cornet and trombone, after which
came the address by DIR. Howerth. A
flute and trombone selection by
Messrs. Smith and Relman, preceded
the presentation of the diplomas by
G. A. Wright, and the exercises con-
cluded with the rendition of Heart
Of America" by Hecker, by the Calu-
met & Hecla orchestra.
Or. Howerth's Address.
DIR. Howerth's address was one of
the most interesting heard here in a
long time at commencement exercises,
and contained food for thought not only
to the graduates but to their elders.
His discourse lasted an hour and a
half and was given in n deliberate,
precise manner and i'm plain compre-
hensive language, illustrated by few
anecdotes and quotations. He began
by describing the times when the
learned classes and the laborers were
divided. the man who was educated be-
ing regarded as too good to work, the
educated classes living lives OF leisure,
or devoting themselves to warfare and
the chase, while the productive labor
was performed by slaves. Describing
the purpose of education and learning
DIR. Howerth said many persons vast
ed their lives i'm acquiring useless
knowledge, and devoting years to pre-
pairing these which were of no prac-
teal value whatever Education, ne
said, should be acquired with view
to its practical application In enabling
one to live. and to perform some userul
work i'm life. There are some labors
that are wasted and worthless, such
for instance as was the work of the
thousands who labored to build the
Egyptian pyramids, to perpetuate the
glory of some Egyptian kings who new
or did anything worth remembering
At the present time, he said there are
three distinct kinds of labor the para
sitical, predatory and productive. He
urged his hearers to try to become the
latter. and said that education should
be along lines that would be of the