Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-26
GLASS Of IS IS
/. GWEN DIPLOMAS
!. At STATE NORMAL
Six College and Ten High
School Seniors Graduated
From Silver City institution
M. L. Fox Delivers Address,
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silver City ~ NJ, May 20, - The
New Mexico State Normal school
closed the most successful session of
It's history today with the holding OF
the annual commencement exercises
There were sixteen graduates, as fol-
lows;
Conege--H. Knox Bell, clifford C.
Blood, Robert Earl Bfownlee, Mabel
Il. iced, Carolyn Shotwell, Fay Hor-
ton. High school--H. e. Franklin, Eff
fie Jackson, George Gardner. Ray
mond Coffey, Nellie Wilson. d. b.
Morrill, H. Paul Arrest, Wilma Gra-
ham, Blanche Michelet, Frank over
street.
Final Ball Closes Exercises.
The feature of the commencement
exercises was an address to the grad
yates by NJ. l.. Fox, editor OF the AL
buquerque Morning Journal, who took
for his subject, Beyond the Diploma.
Normal hall was crowded with stu
dents and spectators and Mr.. Fox
made splendid impression on his
auditors. Tonight was held the Alumni
association ball at the Elks' theater,
this being the closing event of COM
mencement time. The ball was one
Of the most brilliant ever given here
and silver City society was out in
force 10 assist the alumni in doing
honor to the graduates
Mr.. Fox, in delivering the address
to the graduating class. advised those
taking degrees not 10 regard their dip
Tomas as ultimate goals, but as covct-
ed mile-posts, and to begin at once
efforts to secure other diplomas in
stil higher institutions of learning.
He said the great object of education
is preparation for service, ana the
better the preparation the better the
service.
The next point made by the speaker
was that in serving the interests of So
ciety efficiently the students would be
taking the surest means of bringing
personal success to themselves and
that in doing their work well they
would be building and shaping their
own characters along the best lines.
Attitude of Optimism Needed.
In order to serve mankind well, Mr..
Fox said, an attitude of optimism
must be maintained toward the world
and a belief in the work one is doing
He said worlds of energy had been
wasted worrying over evils that never
occur or are brought about by our
own morbid apprehensions," and.
quoted the doggerel
The worry COW would have lived tin
now
If she had only kept her breath;
Afraid that the hay wouldn't last all
day,
She choked herself to DEATH
A cynical attitude toward life, the
speaker said, was the hall mark Of
failure I'VE now and then find
a man who is forever asking of every
thing, what's the use?' and see him
drift in listless apathy through the
days and the years. or take to. drink or
commit the execrably foolish act of
self-destruction in sudden impulse or
deliberate conviction of the futiiity of
all things"
Positive Religion Causes Progress.
Mr. Fox then pointed out that the
life and character of Jesus were ex-
amplos of positive, constructive right
eousness, as compared with the mega
tive religions of the orient, which, he
said, accounted for the progress of
the western civilizations and the
apathy Of the follows of Confueius and
Buddha
When engaged in their life work
the graduates were advised not to
look too much to pay in the coin of
the realm, and were quoted the i'm
mortal couplet from Lowell:
It's not the grapes of Canaan that
repay,
But the high faith that failed not by
the way" HH
In conclusion, Mr.. Fox compliment
ed the work being done for the edu-i
cational advancement of New Mexico
in the institutions of higher learning
and in the public schools, congratulate
ed the graduating class on having had
the will and the industry to do the
work necessary to take the degrees
and predicted for them successful ca
reers whether their success might be
such as the world would so acclaim
or not, closing with the quotation from
one of Addson's plays:
" It's not in mortals to command sue
cess,
But Wen do more. Sempronius, we'll.
deserve it,"