Semi-weekly herald., 1915-06-07
THE GRADUATE.

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failed to recognize the important
phaze of life of the gradute we would
be amiss. We have been looking
over our exchanges and find every
community is proud of their boys and
girls who have or are about to re-
ceive their diplomas and the inspira-
tion of this article is from reading
other papers on the subject.
In the years to come there may be
periods of great satisfaction but moth
ing will ever equal that auspicious
ocassion when new serge suit or
new white dress proudly marched
before hundreds at commencement.
What a thrill it is
In the audiance sit many mothers
ard fathers wondering if those pround
confident youngsters marching across
the stage are the little tads of yes
terday. 1t seems but a short while
ago that mother was teaching them
their letters and dad was answering
their numerous questions. And here
they are now marching bravely into
life with better equipment perhaps
than their parents.
The graduate is an evolved edition
of the Boy or Girl Who Was Lost.
Parents lost them when they attended
school the first year. The boys and
girls were still babies when they had
their first day Of school but at night
they returned different. They had
begun the lesson of life and its mean
ing and were babies no more. Many
times mothers and fathers have sighed
for the day that has gone but they
knew that some time they would be
proud of the boy or girl.
Singing the wonder song Of youth
resolute, confident, and optimistic in
the sense of being without trace of
cynacism, the boys and girls march
on tonight. They have a splendid
equipment for work. High school
graduation marks the second lap in
their training.
| To the average boy or girl grad
uating from the high school, life seems
to be urging them to quit their period
of training and plunge into the every
day battle. Many are frequently mis-
led by this desire to start before
they are prepared. Our schools and
training are for only one end, service.
The graduate who goes into life with
the narrow purpose of self satisfaction
will have an Improbable career. The
world is built on service and unless
the graduate is willing to contribute
his ideals and industry to the good
of the whole his record will count for
little.
The most efficient service cannot
be given without preparation. The
world was never in greater need Of
the hopeful ideals of youth than at
present. 1t is continually calling for
trained men and women. The gradu-
ate who trains for his work will &C.
complish the most. By all means the
graduates of the high school should
supplement their work with training
in college or special schools. Pre-.
pare to give your best. The world
always has place to use the man
and woman who bravely gives the
best they have.
Life promises much to the gradu-
ates now. They are at the very
height of their idealism. Relentless
experience has not broken them and
there is still material for building
air castles. We call them air castles
because frequently they are built of
hope only, yet they are valuable
Youth must dream to achieve.
Soon the great event will have pas
sed. Your diploma will not magically
bring position to you. You will be
reduced to the common rank, but with
training, which if the best, will be
of great value to you. If your years
of preparation have given you broad
er sympathy and stamped you with
a love for your fellow man that is
not above helping a man from the
gutter and an unselfishness that con-
dones, rather than censures, you have
splendid equipment. If years among
books have destroyed the kinship you
once felt for every living thing on
Gods earth. your education has been
wasted. Unless you are able to 20
into the world with the human touch,
meet mankind and leave the impress
of forceful, radient and courageous
life, your preparation was misdirect-
eo.
ITALY'S ENTRANCE.