Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-22

| afternoon. The exercises at each school were largely attended and the | programs were enthusiastically re- cetved by the delighted parents and | friends of the graduates
 | Broadway School.
 The program carried out dn the sen | for room at Broadway school was as | follows:
 Salute to the Flag; music, Star l Spangled Banner; declamation, An Ap- peal to the Nation. President Wilson, I Albert Quinti1ian; essay, The Attack 1 recitation, Wayne at Stony Point l ScoHard, Helen J. Munz; music, Bab- cite of Beaujolais, Victor Herbert;
 Reclamation, Abraham Davenport, l Whittier, Eugene A. Rou1eau; recita- | tion, The P1ow. Ogilvie, A. Rosina Rog- | Ter: recitation, Adelaide Returns from | the Country, Carlotta Perry, Natalie A. 1 Macpherson; music, Old Black Joe,
 Farcia, Hubbard, Harold S. Prentice;
 declamation, The Bell of Liberty,
 Headley, willard c. Asbury; recita- tion, Love of Country, Scott, school;
 music, The Union Jack, Adams: decla-
 nation, Extract from Second 1nau- gural, President Wilson, Richard Fan
 ming; recitation, Columbia's Banner, Proctor, Rose Greenberger; music,
 America Triumphant. Demarest; pres
 entation of diplomas, Dr. P. J. Cassidy,
 member of school committed; music,
 America.
 Dr. Cassidy who presented the di- plomas addressed the class as fol- lows:
 This afternoons exercises complete for for you the course of study re-
 qufred by those in charge of the town schools. Five years ago this month the first class to finish the course, un-
 der the management of the consoli dated districts committee, the first class to show the effect of the at tempt to shorten the curriculum, pass
 ed out from this room as graduates of the Broadway Grammar school of the Norwich schools. Some of Us remem=
 Der that it was quite a large class, being formed by the junction of the
 ninth grade with part of the upper
 eighth graders. Since that year there
 has been no ninth grade, yet there has
 been no apparent lack of efficiency due
 to immaturity shown by the pupils
 that have continued on, with educa-
 tionaI effort in the other scholastic in
 stitutions in the town.
 This class of 1917 presents the pe-
 culiarity of a predominating number
 of boys, has thirty scholars that have
 been perfect in attendance during the
 entire year, 34 per cent. of the whole
 of it's members, one boy, Duro, who
 has been absent only one half day dur
 ing the entire time of his nine years in
 the schools. Willard c. Ashbury and
 Florence M. Buckley have been distin-
 guished as being worthy of receiving
 certificates of honorable mention for
 the essays written and presented by
 them for judgment in the contest in
 stituted by the Connecticut Society of
 Colonial Danes
 Children, you have done well for
 yourselves, for your teachers, for your
 parents; you have shown that you
 were both able and willing to accept
 and absorb the foundations of a gen eral education that have been laid out for you. You have shown a desire to
 be able to do things that required manual dexterfty in connection with the governing mind The boys, in work with the carpenters and cabi- net-maker's tools have done very we'll wish the parents would all sec the work in the shop But the girls mothers, you need not be afraid to entrust your girls with the work of preparing and serving a mighty nice dinner and you may be sure that they also know the food values of the diff ferent preparations as welt as how to prepare them, more than that they know the need of economy. Therefore, to repeat, it seems that this group of S9 may be said to be prepared to con tinue, to take up Life's further bur dens. That these burdens are to be great cannot be denied, greater than ever before, owing to certain eNgen- cies that have arisen during the past year. One year ago I made the dog matic statement that every war was caused by the Dollar" lust Up to that time, that statement could not have been controverted. But at the present time our own country, our United States, has entered into the most gigantic, most hateful struggle that history has ever recorded, not for gain, not for conquest but fer the freedom and liberty of the human race, for the defense of non-miIitar- ism against militarisn, for the sake of humanity as against machine-like efficiency. Why? Allow me zofa of Daniel Webster: Let us endeavor l to comprehend, in all its magnitude, i and to feel in all its importance the | part assigned to us in the great dra- | ma of human affairs. We are placed ] at the head of the system of repre- | sentative and popular governments | Thus far, our example shows that such | governments are compatible not only | with responsibility and power, but 1 with repose, with peace, with secur- Ity of personal rights, with good laws l and a just administration
 Believing these statements to be | rue, and no citizen of this country, nay, no resident on it's soil. will deny 1 even portion of one. and believing hat this mighty fabric Is in imminent | Hanger of being rent asunder by a strong mtlitarist power, absolute cold ogiv gives the answer to the ques- ion Why" What the ultimate end 'r when it will be, can be truly said 0 be very problematic. For a sue ,essfu1 outcome of our endeavor the Ibsolute necessity of the aid of each tnd everyone of us who worship this ,reat fabric of freedom must be must 'e recognized. The aid in personnel if the front line forces, in the far Il ,reater army of those who must pro-
 luce and conserve the necessities for hat front line force Is a tremendous hing to consider. Here in this school he need has been seen and the bur en assumed. Not only have you en- [sted yourselves in the army of pro- uction and conservation but one. fairbanks has offered his person to he United States by making appli- ation for enrolment in the navy ser ice as apprentice. It is the dearest ope of all of us that the actual grap- le of Death may not be necessary ut if it must come let us remember nat our object is first, and always he preservation of our country and 3 the end that that country may re- 1 lain a vast and splendid monument { wisdom, of peace and of liberty up- n which the world may gaze with s dmiration forever IT
 The members of the class follow. I