The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-06-16
RECEIVED DIPLOMAS
Class Of Five Graduated From The
State School OF Forestry.
DR.. ROBERTSON GAVE ADDRESS
President Of Wesley College De.
lighted Large Audience at
the Assembly Hall.

Commencement week at the
School of Forestry came to a
close last night with the pres
entation of diplomas to the five
members of the class of 1911 by
Frank Peltier, president of the
board of trustees and a splen-
did address by DIR. E. p. Robert
son, president of Wesley Col
lege. Those receiving diplom-
as were: Miss Bertha E.
Fleming, David P. Dinwoodie,
Peter A. Mcintosh, G. Regin-
aid Meighen and Alfred S.
Vikan.
The program at the assembly
hall in the School of Forestry
building last night opened
with a duet by Misses Marjorie
Meighen and Bertha Fleming.
After the invocation piano
solo was given by Miss Ida
Nansen. Following this Presi-
dent Kemp announced that
Frank Peltier president of the
board of trustees would pres
ent the diplomas. Mr.. Peltier
made a short address in which
he stated that this was a new
experience for him; that he had
never received a diploma ex-
cept the one that came from
the school of hard knocks but
that he was very pleased to be
able to take part in giving to
others this evidence of advant-
ages enjoyed and made good
use of. He gave to each grad
uate good wishes for a success
ful future andsaid that he hoped
they would so use the train
ing they had received that
mankind in general would
profit by the education they
had received at the expense of
the state.
When DIR. Robertson was in
troduced he emphasized the
thoughts expressed by Mr..
Peltier and dwelt on the point
that the spirit that prompted
the founding of educational in
-stitutions was an unseltish one
and that it was expected
by those who contributed to-
ward their founding and sup
port that the graduates from
these schools would be at the
service of the people; that it
was never the intention to
educate a person in order that
later he might make you his
victim; that the underlying
proposition in education was
the giving of additional
strength to the individual for
the ultimate benefit of society.
Coming to the subject assigned
to him, The Aim of Educa-
ton" DR.. Robertson said that
there was not much that is
new to say of education nor for
that matter of life but that the
purpose was rather to shape
our thoughts and our attitude
toward the truths as applied to
the conditions at hand. He
said education was regarded in
many different ways by differ
ent people. Some thought it
consisted of cram ming as many
facts as possible iuto the mind
of the student much as turkeys
are fed for the market. others
that it was the brin ging out of
the individual by cultivation of
his natural talent. His favorite
thought with regard to educa-
ton was that the aim of
education is one with the aim
of life.
In discussing his subject the
speaker divided it into three
heads:
First that the aim is to make
the person receiving the edu-
cation a worker among workers
of the world; second, think
er among thinkers; third, be-
lever among believers. He said,
Happiness consists in doing
we'll that w h ic h is orth
while. He dwelt at lens tn on
the problems that boys and
girls have to meet and on the
opportunities they have and
maintained that the measure
of life and it's opportunities
is the bigness of the individual.
. He said that right education