The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-13
rorty-fourth Annual Com
I mencement Exercises Were
Held Friday
Night.
DR.. MAGIL.L IS SPEAKER
President Of Highland Park
College at Des Moines
Addresses the
Graduates.
MAeiLL IN TABLOID.

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What preparation has the past given
YOU for the future?
The methods Of the past will never
solve the difficult problems Of our
nresent day complex life, yet we must
sscknowledge that too frequently we
are expecting that very thing. As a
because Of the increasing discontent
II the day. This discomfort is evil
fenced in the alarming tendency to-
wards extreme socialism. For this
there is cause and for this there
must be a remedy.
Too long have we followed prece-
lent In accomplishing the work Of the
present. We must adjust ourselves to
present day demands. Too much time
and energy are wasted in arguing that
former things are best. The demand
II the day 10: Get busy and prove
Jour claim and assertion by practical
results and not by mere logic based
"a theory. what has been, must
be- will hold only az you prove the
adaptation to present day needs.
The people are desiring and demand
no something and the question for
,oa, as you adjust yourself to life, 10
ahat are these desires and these de.
mands Unless you know you cannot
hope 10 succeed, for true success in
life does not come to the Individual
who lives apart from the people.
TOO much Of our education has to
do with men and nations that are has
seems, and not enough to do with iiv-
ing men, present day conditions and
1sndsrn rau arhiAAo ~ 49,.
Do not be diffident about beinq dif.
'erent
Therefore, ! must say It behooves
" to apply ourselves to that course
life which will bring Us In the
;losest contact not only with the
'ecbIem, but with the people who go
% make up the problem.
Sixty-four young men and women
f Keokuk reached the elimination of
.welve years of study and prepare
ion Friday night, when they were
landed their diplomas, testifying that
hey had successfully completed the
course set out in the Keokuk high
school They are products of the Keo-
fuk school system and for them. in
le preparatory school book of life
: 1nls has been written. 1t was an
svent which they approached with
mingled emotions. They felt consid-
srable pride of course, in the fact that
they had completed their course, but
mere was note of sadness through
all. as they realized that commence
nent meant the parting from the old
traditions and associations which
hey have held close for the last four
Years.
At eight o'clock, the high school
orchestra, under the direction of Prof.
Philip c. Hayden played a short pro-
ram of music. The selections were
he following.
overture-King Rose, Geo.. D.. Barn
lrd ..,-....,
Reverie, The Mayside Chapel, G. D.
wilson, arranged by Gruenwald.
March, Quill Section, I. H; Rollin-;
Bon.
). lntermezzo, In Garden Of Melody,
". F. Sudds.
!. The class of 1915, led by Joseph L.
NcGrath took their places on the
wage, followed by the speakers of
me evening. Mr.. McGrath stood at the
rear OF the stage until the rest of the
elass approaching from the two
wings. took their appointed places. Sus-
pended over the stage was the class
seal. The class wore gray caps and
Gowns and presented d splendid ap-
pearance. They had been drilled in
Aeir entrance by Miss Lucia G. Pitt
nan, a member of the faculty.
Welcome by AIdrieh
superintendent William Aldrich
opened the exercises of the evening.
speaking briefly of the pleasure he
.aa IN welcoming the citizens of Keo-
auk' and the patrons of the schools
ana fathers and mothers of the gradu-
,,es. He introduced the Rev. F. B.
M.eAllister, pastor of the First Bap-
~. nst church, who invoked divine bless
s On the assemblage, the audience
sna class standing. The program
vas men put in the hands of DR.. r.
school.
= Or Reid introduced the speaker Of
We evening, Dr. George P Magill,
pplesiaent of Highland Park college,
IS Ses Moines. DR.. Reid said it was the
s.sdsure and custom of the high
~ rLnooi to invite men from outside OF
~, ie city who had real messages to
s'1 re 70 speak to the graduates.
~. Masills subject was The Prop
= Perspective and his message to
a ns graduates was well presented and
wei received.
=, Or. MagilPs Address.
~. hdt the great difference between
-ae past and the present should be
t; n,, In different kind of educa-
VII; sn To-Day from what obtained in pre-
Of a ~ centuries, was the main thesis
D ,1e address Of President George
p.a,sii A NJ, ID. D.. of Highland
elk college who gave his Grafton