The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-01
CLASS CAME HIGH
Graduation of High School Class
Was Expensive.
Well Worth the 90 Thousand
Dollars. Says Mr.. Harger.
BIG CROWD PRESENT.
At Least Two Thousand People
Present at Graduation.
Abilene Editor Talked of Things
That Are Worth While.

nave a rlan or theory" said
oharles M Harger of Abilene, head of
-e department of Journalism of the
STATE university, in speaking before
the 81 varieties Tuesday night-the
high school class of January, II. THAT
theory is that you get the real success
of life by earning living bv doing
What you want to CO. 1 might say i'll
more mo elegant language by following
out the tendencies of your tempera-
ment, but l like the plain statement
better.
believe that is the real secret of
ll1es success. If one has an educa-
tlon 1t gives joy and pleasure and fit
ness Tor work You possess a glorious
heritage and a magnificent oppor-
tunity.
L am greatly interested in the state
ment of Superintendent Whittemore,"
said the speaker in his Introductory
remarks, Ito the effect that this class
cost $4,000 and 1 am of the opinion
that it is worth it.
None of us like advice. We all have
more advice now than we know what
to do with. 1 have. These young peo-
pie have little or no use for advice to-
night. They have been getting advice
in school for years. BE a good boy
and mind your teacher is the advice
school for the first time
This is just a part of your educa-
ton which you have completed. 1t
pays in dollars and cents in the end t.
get a college education. More than the
money is the satisfaction of having d
broad outlook on the things of life.
When you have this fitness there is
demand for you. You have no idea
now the business men are watching
the young people of today.
I'VE must have high ideals. That is
what makes young men and women
who amount to something.
"Frankness and courage were never
at so great premium as today. Mems
lives We're never so open to all their
fellowmen. The trickster and the
schemer were never SO quickly detect
ed and exposed, nor so universally con-
demned- This rising tide of American
ism is our nations greatest joy and
pride. We have passed the period of
the muck-rake. We are hearing of the
glory of cities and the 'spIendor of
commemorative The rising genera
ton should know how to utilize it's ad-
vantageS."
Big Crowd in Auditorium.
There were upwards of two thous-
and persons in the big Auditorium for
the excellent school orchestra of ten
pieces under then leadership of Lee
Samuels. and the girls chorus of forty
voices directed by Miss Mary Daniels
which pleased DR.. F. L. Loveland of
the First M. E. church pronounced the
benediction. S. A. Swendson, presi-
dent of the school board, handed out
the sheepskins. Scholarship honors
were divided between Hazel E. Klinga-
man and Mary Helen Shirer. Second
honors were awarded to Kathleen
Middaugh.
Those who received diplomas were:
Mary Alexander, Allena Barker, Ira
Barrett, Mary Catharine Birte1l,
Charles Sumner Brown, Helen Brown,
Albin Carlson, Marguerite Clarke,
Louise Lamoreaux Culver. Sarah
Ellean Curtis. Ivan Willis Dibble, jose
phine w. Doran. o. B. Edison, Lydia
Emery, Stella Elizabeth Ferrin, Ruth
H. Gavitt. Mary Helen Gillies, Winnie
Davis Helbert. Mary Evelyn Horn,
Joseph White Hull, Carolyn Darline
Hutchin, Ellen Ransom Irwin, Blaine
Johnson, Mary Mildred Jones, Ruth
Isabelle Kelley, Hazel AdeH Kincaid,
Mabel Eleanor Kingsley, Hazel Eileen
Klingaman, Villa Frances Lamberson,
Lois Lindsay, Eunice Velma McDon-
aid, Robert Bruce Mcfarland. Ruth
Isabelle Mckinley, Kathleen Ma