The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-16
President Benton of Miami
University Congratulates
the Richmond High School
on This Record.
HUBERT G.. SMITH is
THE HONOR SCHOLAR
For the Four Years He At
tended High School His
Grand Average in His Stu
dies Was o7.2 Per Cent.

Congratulating the school authori-
ties and the people of Richmond on
the fact there were so many young
men in the high school graduating
class OF 1911 and that the class honors
fell to a young man, President Guy
Potter Benton of Miami university.
Oxford, Ohio. who was the principal
speaker at the graduation exercises az
the high school Friday morning, said
he had almost come to the conclusion
that the race was developing into in
tellectual and moral Amazons, on the
one hand, and into intellectual and
moral ''ninnies" on the other.
President Benton said that it was
most unusual to find a large percent
age OF a graduating class composed of
young men, and he declared he was
glad that when he learned of condi-
tions here he had to amend his ad-
dress SO as to praise the school on
GERS and people who had made this
possible. The speaker called this COM
ment depression from his address.
but it pleased his eight hundred au-
ditors as was attested by the gener-
GUS applause his statement received.
The class, the largest In the history
of the school and the first to graduate
from the new high school building.
consists of seventy-seven students.
| thirty-two of whom are boys. Al
thnnch tho iOr;ty uirlu
class is much more evenly divided,
as regards sex than heretofore To
the girls, chiefly due to the greater
interest they have taken in their
| work, has most often fallen the class
honors.
Honor to Young Man.
However in the class of 1911 HUI
bert Conover Smith averaged for the
four years while in school 97.2 per
cent of perfection, the other high av-
erages being Charles Edward Smith.
95.7; Miss Gertrude Acton, 95.6; Miss
Violet Elmina Stidham. 95.0S, and
| Miss Frederick Clare Seifert. 95 per
cent. Thirty-four credits Is the re-
quired number for graduation. but
during their four years Roland Nus
baum, Albert Wallace Clifford and HUI
bert C. Smith made IS, AZ, and Ais
| credits respectively. None of the
girls made higher than 40
immortality" was the subject used
by President Benton for his address
and well did he handle it, 1t being the
general opinion that his subject was
most clearly and eloquently express
ed Three possibilities OF immortality
were enumerated: First, industry:
second, adherence to purpose, and
third, conviction.
| The laborer and the housewives,
with their drudgery, and not the
scions of the Goulds, the Vanderbilfs
and others with their divorce scan
dals and whose vocations are golf, So
cial attainments and cruising. are the
ones who really enjoy life, in Presi-
dent Benton's opinion. Not the ex-
amples of the wealthy. but those OF
Jesus Christ. Moses, Washington.
Gladstone and others were held up to
the graduates for emulation.
| Diplomas Are Given.
Presentation of diplomas was made
by Principal !. e. Neff; invocation and
benediction pronounced by the Rev J.
F. Radcliffe. pastor of the First NJ. E.
church, and the graduating program
featured by several musical selections
rendered in most pleasing manner.
The numbers by the Richmond high
school orchestra included an over
ture, Light Cavalry" by Suppe. and
"Edris and Hyperion" "a legendD by
Grunewald Misses Helen Nicholson
and Helen Jameson gave piano duet.
lie Reveil d'Amour," by Moritz Mos
kowski; Roland Nusbaum rendered
yioloncello number composed by Mo-
zart. and another by Verdi: Miss Ar
leen Shreeve gave soprano solo,
Joy of the Morning by Harriet
1 Ware and Miss Marguerite Hasemeier
la violin solo in two parts.
| The class roll is as follows:
/ Gertrude Acton, Howard B. Ashley,
| Martha Marie Brown, Norman Arthur
Brown, Blanche Leo Bayer, Ruth Ann
Bradley. Esther Beatrice Beck,
Charles Buell.. Myrtle GIendyI Conner,
/ Edythe Cory. Earl Rutherford Cotton,
Lewis Craighead. Joseph r. Darnell,
/ Lillian Bliss Dean. Charlotte Catherine