The Sauk Centre herald., 1911-06-08
Jennie L. Mckay
Lucille NJ. Miller
Herbert Swift
George L. Hopkins
Blanche L. Lee
Florence Chisholm
Mary Palmer
William Parker
May Quinlan

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dress. The idle ones, he said, are the
ones who are doing the greatest harm
in this world. The man who works
is safe citizen. The speaker paid a
compliment to the recent Minnesota
legislature by saying that it had done
more for the new thought in educa-
tion than had any other legislature
in the country, as it had provided
ways and means for the training OF
the youth of the state along practical
lines, especially for instruction in ag-
riculture
Mr. Mayne defined education as
that which teaches us how to live.
Said he: "We have confined the pu-
pill to the things that are in the book;
now we are going to give him taste
of the things outside the book"
, The speaker argued that instead of
measuring every pupil by the same
rule, giving all the same course of
study, each one should be trained
along lines and for a business or a
profession for which he has natural
adoption. Hence the necessity for
instruction in manual training, do
mestic science, agriculture. i'Give
the boy or girl what he is fitted for, "
exclaimed the speaker with enthusi-
asm, and his utterance was warmly
applauded. He lauded agriculture
and held that every pupil should be
taught the basic facts of that calling.
Every man is just as good as farm
er if he behaves himself" was the
speakers way of telling what he
thought of the agriculturist.
Mr.. Mayne's illustrations were scat
tered with lavish hand throughout
his address: they were appropriate,
clean cut and drove the point home,
while many of them elected smiles
and laughter.
Mr. Mayne is evidently an enthusiast
in his educational work, has seen a
great light, and while something of
an extremist, yet he is clearly blazing
the way for better and more pracfi-
Cal things educationally in Minnesota.
A reformer must of necessity be Tadi-
cal and Mr.. Mayne is certainlyl/a re-
former. He made an excellent i'm
preston, and the following day many
expressions commentators oS his ideas
were heard on the streets jand other
places where men do congfegate.
DR.. F. J. Lewis, president of the
Board of Education, wasfto have con-
ferred the diplomas, butt as those doc
uments had not arrived, he was
forced to apologize for the fact, and
to wait until Monday night at the
annual alumni meeting to present
the graduates their coveted sheep
skins. DR.. Lewis addressed the class
and the public and during the course
of his remarks stated that the Board
OF Education had recently adopted a
rule to the effect that, in the future,
no high school student will be per-
mitted to graduate who shall on the
first of April, fall below the required
grade. DR.. Lewis referred to the fact
that in the past few high school
pupils who were below grade had been
permitted to e arm diploma by max
ing up their deficiencies during the
summer vacation, but that this would
not be done in the future. The rule,
he said, would strictly enforced here
after. DR.. Lewis felt, he said, that
it was justice to students, parents,
teachers and the patrons of the school,
to know that the Board had taken
this action.
At the close of the exercises rela-
tives and friends crowded to the stage
to congratulate the members of the
graduating class.
SALUTATORY
FRIENDS and 'eh00lmates: In be-