The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-14
ARE URGED TO GET
into GAME OF LIFE
President Kelly, of Earlham,
Tells High School Gradu-
ates to Persist Until They
Reach Success.
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our boys and girls we can not have as
pirations.

our boys and girls we can not have as
pirations.
Changes In Ideals.
"The ideals of American and Indiana
education have very much changed
within the past few years. There was
time when it was thought that the
high school was the place to fit
a boy or girl for places of power
and efficiency above humanity. This
is not the ideal of today. The school
children are no longer taught to wor-
ship the god of ambition. The public
schools are saturated with ideals of
democracy and education of people in
order that the highest standard of cit
1zenship may be attained. 1t is to be
said to the glory of Richmond that
the high school is where ideals OF
manhood may be formulated. The high
school is dedicated to plans 1t is
formative center of the manufacture
of life's purposes. 1t is a place where
our boys and girls may determine the
future
President Kelly said he was proud
TO be a citizen of Richmond, because
of the way the citizens had turned
out the night before to help one of it's
boys. and had encouraged him to
develop the talent God had given him.
Problems of Life Difficult.
The members of the class were
urged by President Kelly to be useful
in the community where they live.
They were urged to get into the game
of life, and when once in, to stay in
sF,,1J hoc
when it was thought the schools were
institutions where people could learn
how to lead an easy life. 1--WE are
trying to train our boys and girls to
attack the difficult problems of life.
We are not merely educating you to
be standards alone of culture and Or
namentation. Persist in what you
undertake until you reach success"
1852 Alumni of School.
Superintendent Mott gave short
talk following the address of President
Kelly. Mr. Mott reviewed the work
of the class, stating that it was not
only the largest, but as promising
class as ever graduated from the high
school According to Mr.. Mott, this is
the forty-second class which has grad
1,162 alumni of the school. He urged
the class to aspire to leadership and
usefulness, and, like other classes, to
be a blessing to the communities
wherever they were.
Principal J. F. Thompson presented
the class. Mr.. Thompson said:
Thompson Presents Class.
Young ladies and young gentlemen
of the class of '13. 1t is with both pleas
ure and regret that in the name of the
school have answered the call to say
a few words to you before we are
obliged to give you up. We know that
you have been working, waiting and
eagerly looking forward to this time.
Back in the days when you were in
the grades, you were looking through
the years to this day in June when for
you the doors of the high school would
swing outward and you are glad and
happy and your dreams are golden and
since this must be true, it is one of
the finest pleasures that can come to
me or to any teacher to be with you
and to bid you hail and farewell, and
yet when we remember that you will
not come again we are filled with re-
gret; regret with which we would
not part any more than we would part
with the pleasure. We have given you
the best we have had to give in the
way of instruction and more mature
experience but you in turn have given
us the bounding warm hearted enthu-
siasm of youth. 1t is worth all we have
given and more to be baptized thus
each year with this fire-like baptism
of youth.
Lives Like Seasons.
Young people, your lives are like the
year with it's seasons. Each season is
beautiful. There is beauty in winter,
when the white snow covers the silent
ground and the trees are leafless,
when their branches are drawn