Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-05-29
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GIVEN TO FIVE
Third Annual Commencement Of the
Bonners Ferry High School Held
Last Friday Evening.
ABLE ADDRESS BY PROF. SOULON
The Mission of Education" Was the
Theme-A Pleasant Affair.

The commencement exercises of
the Boomers Ferry high school
were held last Friday evening at
kent's hall, when, after a very
appropriate program, diplomas were
awarded to the FIVE members of the
graduating class.
The evenings program was
opened with a piano solo, The
Dying Poet by Miss Margaret
Loughney, followed by the invoca-
ton by Rev. H. L. Preston. Mr..
Emiel Johnson favored the audience
with the vocal solo, When the
Sands of the Desert Grow Cold".
In few appropriate remarks
Superintendent Spoerry then intro
duced the speaker of the evening,
Prof. P. H. Soulon of the Univer-
sity of Idaho. Prof. Soulon took
as the subject of his discourse,
The Mission of Education"
beginning his lecture with a brief
reference to the different ideas held
by various peoples in the earlier
stages of civilization as to what
constituted true education, refer
ring to the Spartan, the Athenian
and the Roman conceptions; called
attention to the mistaken ideas of
the Dark Ages in regard to this
matter, and ended his discourse
with discussion of the question
as viewed in the light of present
day ideas.
The speaker said he would prob
ably be criticized in the statement
that one of the chief aims of educa-
ton was to develop the material
welfare of man. Enlarging on this
idea, Prof. Soulon pointed out how
every day the labors of educated
men and women were making better
and richer the lives of mankind,
AS an example he called attention
to the work being done by Prof.
Shattuck in his endeavor to find
method whereby the cost of clear
ing stump land would be reduced
by utilizing the products, the
professor already having obtained
from a cord of stumps by-products
amounting to $38 in value. The
speaker easily proved his point,
viz, that one of the missions of
education was to improve the
material welfare of man.
Prof. Soulon closed his remarks
by stating, secondly, that the
mission of education was to incul-
cate true ideas of life and patriot
ism. Prof. Soulon's address was
well worth listening to, and we
regret that lack of space prohibits
a more extended synopsis of it.
t. ]. Jones, chairman of the
board of education, in a few we'll
chosen remarks, presented the
diplomas to the graduates, remark
ing that the board would expect
the graduates to make proper use
of the start the school had given
them in the battle of life. At that
time he presented to Miss Camille
Moore, as the scholar having made
the highest standing in her studies,
scholarship from Whitman Col
lege of 500 to be applied against
tuition charges in case the recipient
matriculated at that school. He
also presented to Miss Lillian
O'Callaghan and Miss Lila Wells
} solid gold pendants, gifts from the
: school board as an expression of
appreciation for the able work of
the young ladies in representing
the school at the recent county
declamatory contest. The board
presented to each of the graduates
handsome boquet of cut flowers.
/ The members of the graduating
class were Fred c. Stoos, Oliver
H. Campbell, Jessamine Camille
: Moore, Ethel Naomi Heathershaw,
Hazel Evelyn Moore.