Arizona republican., 1914-05-16
SEN|OR6JuN|OR
 BANQUET HELD
Graduating Class of the Phoenix High Sc h. o ol Prove Great Entertainers at Annual Get-Together of Two Classes

The senior class of the high school did themselves proud last evening in the entertainment provided for their guests at the annual senior-junior banquet After a sumptuous repast which was served in the cafeteria, George Hamilton, president of 1914. started the feast of reason and flow of soul by introducing a~whole line up Of after dinner talent, and the toasts that followed were of an un- usual order of merit. Mayor Young, the guest of honor, made the speech of the evening on the subject, Hard Knodks' He said in part:
 My Dear Youngsters: Sweet as the odor of old lavender are the memories awakened by this occasion. Anyone who can say, T was once d student" should be proud.
 You have assigned me the subject Hard Knocks and l presume your nerves are drawn taut fearing l will try to give you some advice. If you are so thinking. dspel the thought. Could l but sell. at fifteen cents a
 
 on helpless scholars. 1 could easily pay for a new city hall, and then have some money left.
 It's pitiful-this advice business Some of you before me now, will soon think of yourselves, sufficiently i equipped to go down, put up your money, go against this confidence game" called a teachers examina- tion. and get a present called a teachers certificate. and thus, with i conscience lulled, go into the same game of unmaking men and women forgetting that teachers are born not made
 We appreciate how you feel to- night You see the world, want it and are getting ready to take it But you won't. Your ambition is laudable, but when you get through the world will still be here and you we hope, will rest content in youl own little portion measuring threC by six by six feet
 Tonight you sail the amethyst sea | of life in boats of beryl. while the light of hope flashes with diamond brilliancy from ambitions masthead Your hands idly play upon the gol- 1 den oars in the Elysian realms o | plenty of time;' but sliding doWT the scale from the sublime to tho ridiculous-it's an awful knock tC 1 admit not one of us, with all oul vaunted wisdom, can tell why tw, plus two equals four
 l am with you, boys and girls every one of you. No advice have 10 give, for no one could live my life as a. boy, and no one can liv, your lives as boys and girls or mer and women. The world is cruel, ye kind. bad, yet good; bitter. yer sweet. and my parting words to yoI are: when you study. think: wher you think, get up your courage tC act. Be original: be yourselves Learn to detect the true from tn, false and learn. to know that it i. a wonder any of us ever got througt | when we consider the enormous loat of ignorance and bunk" built up by selfish ones in ages past for per sonal aggrandizement under whici we have had and do have to staggel along. Despite this great handicap men commit but few crimes I can not forgive. and women none.
 We live in the best-yet the mos dangerous-age of the worlds his tory. especially for the young mind for the book trust controls the stat and the state controls the school with the result that individuality il the scholar is being more and nor, stutified. and in many instances, de stroyed. and when individuality il must fall"
 Prof. Lloyd Elliott. the next speak CT, had as his subject That Re minds Me" and as usual was re minded of much that was humorous
 Miss Myrtle Johnson took for he subject Significance" and made on or the best speeches of the evening
 E. W. Getsinger, president of tn board of trustees responded with few well chosen words of advice, an, was followed by Prof. Stabler. who's | remarks were as usual, fitting an, appropriate to the occasion. The came the presentation of the senio cane to the class of 1915. afte which ceremony the crowd adiournei to the west wing, the scene of S many delightful class affairs
 Music for the affair was furnishe, by Besse's orchestra.