The daily sentinel., 1913-01-29
Reu. Charles
F.Seitter is
School Speaker
By supt. J. Henry AIIenN


Preparation For Life" Before
speaking, he Offered reverent
prayer, and read an Inspiring selec-
tion from the Bible.
He spoke of the wonderful insuir-
alton and the intrinsic literary merit
of biblical Literature He said that
il was an impressiyc occasion for
any one to stand before young peo-
pie, because of the great possibilities
for good and for evil. Every pack
age here this morning." he said,
contains thousands possibilities.
Two paths appear before us-one
leading up to larger and better
things, and the other. leading down
to ruin. We can not all be great.
as the world counts greatness, but
each of us should be great in his own
particular sphere, aud should do with
efficiency that which he has decided
to do
Rev. Setter spoke effectively upon
the importance of thorough prepara-
ton. An education to be valuable.
must be thorough. The one who
makes the best Preparation for life
is the one who performs best the
duties of life"
Rev Setter spoke effectively up
on the Importance Of thorough prep
aration. AN education to be yalua-
BILE must be thorough. The one who
makes the best preparation for life
Is the one who performs best the
duties of life"
The speaker stated that never be-
fore were the college men and college
women doing such important work in
the world as they are doing today.
He said that college men from the
early periods of our national history
have always had great influence in
the affairs of the nation.
Rev. Setter brought home to the
hearts of the young people the value
of higher education as shown by
statistics and the book, Who's
Who" In the year 1900, according
to the census, there were ID 900, 600
of men, 80 years Of age and over
There are divided into four classes
In the first class there are 100000
with no education. In the second
class there are 12,OO0,OOO of men
having Il common school education
through the eighth grade. In the
third class there are 650,OO0 men
who graduated from high school. In
the fourth class there are $4,000
The book. who's Who" contains
about ten thousand names. In the
first class, the men who have no ed
ucation, there is not single name
in Who's Who. In The second class
of 12,000,000 with an eighth grade
education, only SEQ became distin-
guished enough to have their names
in Who's Who. In the third class,
the high school graduates, only =
200 appear as noted men. In the
fourth class-the smallest class of
all-325 900 who went through col
lege, there are 100 names on the
pages of Who's Who. In other words
about one man out of every AZ col
lege graduates becomes distinguished
in some line.
The speaker stated emphatically
that all the signs point to college
men doing the business of the world.
Each young man and each young
woman he said should have a tre-
mendous purpose and the push and
determination to 20 through a col
lege course. All great things in life
are the results of hard and long
continued labor"
He urged his hearers, with many
fitting illustrations of great men, to
climb on and not to stop until they
reach the top.
The audience gave Rev. Setter
the strictest attention and listened
almost spellbouud as he closed his
masterful address with an earnest
appeal to build up a strong charac-
ter, for without a good character
higher education is worse than use
less. He said You must have a
character to sustain your education.
One of the worst men in the world
was a Harvard graduate." He cited
Booker T. Washington and Aaron
Burr as examples of men with edu-
cation-one with noble purpose, the
other with depraved character.
Not mans brilliancy. but his
stolidity is what counts in this life"
In closing. he stated that there were
two thoughts he Wished to leave with
us; preparation in head and in heart
intellectual preparation and char
acter.
The juniors are making prepara-
tions for the juuior-seni0r party, to
he given at Margery hall, Friday eve
ming, this week. An interesting
program has been prepared and a
good time is assured.
Supervisor Fred NJ. Bacon, after
consulting with Superintendent Al
len, has decided that penmanship
will be graded in work outside of
the ordinary penmanship lessons,
when ii is evident that the pupils are
careless about their writing For it
Is not of very much value to pu
pill to be able to make a fine showing
with special effort, unless his writ
ing is legible in The daily work
At the high school faculty meet
ing. Tuesday afternoon general plans
for celebrating Lincolns birthday
were discussed. We expect TO have
excellent programs in all the school
buildings at . o'clock on that day.
We shall be pleased to have visitors
present at the exercises. Entertain
ing programs will be prepared and
several speakers viii be present. We
hope the G.. A. R. will come and fur
nish martial music, as they have done