Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
IN NEARBY LACKAWANNA TOWNS
urges GRADUATES
| TO COURT SUCCESS
'Aim to Be an Authority Dr.
Hannah Tells Madison High
School Students.
IspeeIaI TO the Evening star.l

MADISON, June 20.-Rev. e. 4.
lAcAlpine, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church. last evening opened
the commencement exercises of the
Madison High School at James As
lsembly Hall with prayer. This was
followed by the Statutory and essay
lon 1.-THE Romantic Movement in Lit
ierature," by Miss Mary :. Curtis.
Then followed in order Wordsworth,
the Romantic Interpreter of Nature. -
by Miss Helen Faulkner; Lines on
fRevisiting TinteEn Abbey" by Miss
katherine Hope; Star OF Descend
ing Night" by the chorus, The
Battle of Beal an DUNE" by Wat
son NJ Hannah; GRAFTON, with vale
ldictory; Scott, the Poet OF Roman
tic Ndventure.n by Albert Reidenger'
my Loves Like a Red, Red Rose.
ibv the High School chorus; address
to the graduates on Fundamentals
lof Career Building" by Rev F. Wat
ison Hannah. President Eli q. Part
fridge of the Board of Education.
awarded the diplomas, and Miss An
,nabelle Miller, on behalf of the alum
hi association. presented the prize
lofered by thar organization for
ithe best standing in English 10 Miss
Helen Faulkner. The graduating
song. composed by Miss Isabelle
Partridge. closed the exercises.
DR.. Humans address TO the grad
hates was pronounced one of the best
ever heard in the hall As tile four
Essentials in the laying OF founda-
stion for a career. ne gave prepafa-
ltion. purpose principle and force.
Il congratulate You who have grad
hated this evening" said the speaker
Fson having attained the first runS Of
fhe ladder. The world does not know
YOU yet. but it is waiting with out
stretched arms. If. on or about the
aniddle of your lives. you reach the
middle of this ladder. you may con
slider yourselves infinitely more for
tunate than those. who never pass
the ground floor.
4 I'm order 10 ever get anywhere
you must have preparation. knoWl-
edge If YOU have a trade il Is IN
YOUR hands: a profession. in your
heads. These you carry with you IN
all places. But no matter how great
your preparation. sou viii not sue
reed unless there is a purpose or aim
in your life toward which you are
constantly looking. With your knowl-
edge combine a definite aim. aim 10
be an authority in, your special line.
But under oil this there must be the
.Drinciple, the character to carry out
YOUR aim unswerving to the end.
fAll of the foregoing fundamentals are
useless. however. without the i'm
betus to make them a power.
LET US illustrate. Suppose we
take q railroad train that IS bull
with the greatest OF care and up-to-
date methods-this the preparation
and fill Il with the best set Of pas
kengers that could be secured any
where-this the pupose-but if YOU
put it on rails that are not properly
laid the other good points would
amount to naught. The principle il
hacking But suppose that the rails
Mere OF the best. good train hizh-
4slass freight and good road. what
GOOD would they all be If there Was
no steam in the engine
N Dr. Humans address was puncuu-
iated with humorous touches which
made it pleasant as well as instruc-
tive. His Illustrations were strik-
Ing.
Those in the graduating class were
MARY Steele Curtis, Katharine Paul
imier Davis, Helen Katharine Faux
lner. Ebert Russell Fisher. Watson
iMunroe Hannah, Catharine Amanda
Hope. Grace Eva Leighton, Ellen
| Martha Mitchell, Isabella June
Partridge, Albert Dudley Reidinger
land Barbara Tomptins.