The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-06-15
IN BACCALAUREATE SERMON
Father Gornley Declares That Highest
Life is Found in Making a Life Most
Useful to others and in Uplifting
Humanity.

The Rev. George E. Gormley, assist
ant pastor of st. James church, made
a strong plea for higher education on
Sunday evening when he delivered the
annual baccalaureate sermon to the
members of the senior class of the Ke-
nosha high school at the high school
auditorium. The sermon was one which
had been prepared with great care and
in it the well known priest took a
strong stand in favor of the advanced
education of the young man and women
of the country. While he declared that
man could succeed without a college
education and that woman could be
motherly and good without the training
in a university he declared that the
man who was making the world move
To-Day was the man with the carefully
trained mind and body.
He stated that the education of the
young was one of the greatest duties
of the great body polite and that it
was a matter of qualification to the
people who took deep interest in ed
ucation to see such large classes gradu-
ated from the high school.
"Get all the education you can, -
said Father Gormley, ''for education
is power. All things being equal the
man with the superior education is the
man with superior power. Students
who work may know the great value
that comes to the man or woman who
trains his mind for the best things.
Education gives the man or woman the
chance to measure up to the best things
for it gives him a plant mind and he
leaves the college or the university
with the best ideas of how to best serve
his fellow men and contribute to the
happiness of the world
Father Gormley met the objections
that have been raised to the college
education and declared that these OBJ.
jections were based, not on the man
that was truly educated, but on the
men who failed to grasp the opportuni-
ties offered to them by the higher edu
cational institutions.
FfMen who seek higher education, if
they do fall" he said, "fail because
of the lack Of earnest endeavor, they
fail because they do not grasp the pur-
pose of education and they fail to take
advantage of this great means of reach
ing higher ideals. Those who fail are
only exceptions to the rule and they
prove the rule. The world s view of sue
cess is not the real view. Wealth and
political power is not the acme of life.
Real success is to know the highest and
purest things in life and to be able to
contribute them to the world. 1t is the
highest duty of the student to form his
life so that he will be able to bring
happiness and health to those about
him rather than to get wealth or power.
inns is the hlgheSC measure OF success.
In concluding Father Gormley declar-
ed that the graduates of the high school
would be the measure by which the
school was judged and that they must
be responsible for the influence of the
school by making their lives up to the
highest personal standard
The sermon was one Of the best ever
delivered before high school class in
Kenosha and it was highly praised by
the crowd of 800 people present. In
connection with the sermon there was
q short musical program with selections
by Miss Grace Shepherd, Miss Helen
Morgan and a quartette.