The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
GRADUATES ARE
GIVEN DIPLOMAS
COMMISSIONERS OF EDUCA-
TION Is READ

annual high school commencement
exercises. The stage was prettily
decorated with the national flag,
flowers and the school colors. The
nine graduates, John j. Campbell,
Irene Violet Carey. Neil Rhodes
Collins, Ileene G. Greenough, Ed
win J.. Nash. Valentine G.. Odds.
Edward H. Potthoff. Beulah Ryan
and Maxwell NJ. Titlow, were pre-
scented with diplomas by Mrs. j..
Howard Greenough after a brief
address.
The commencement address vas
delivered by Benjamin j. Henley.
The valedictory address was made
by Maxwell M. Titlow, who took as
his theme the vast amount of work
that lies before the young men
graduating from schools in this
country at the present time and
the many ways in which they can
be of service. His subject was a
live issue. interesting, and was well
received.
The salutatorian, Edward H. Pott-
hoff, the first speaker, greeted the
audience on behalf of the class
and thanked the faculty for it's
labors in graduating the class. He
also recited a brief history of the
members in their school work and
the pet whims of each were ex-
planned in a thorough manner.
The invocation was pronounced
by Rev. j.. B.. Dermody and the
exercises were closed with the bene-
diction of Rev. Fred C. Thomson.
Music for the commencement was
furnished by a six-piece orchestra
and two numbers were rendered by
the high school chorus, both of
which were %applauded. The music,
both vocal and instrumental, was
a pleasing feature of the exercises.
The class prophesy was made by
Beulah Ryan, the class will vas
read by Edwin j. Nash and the
contents of the class scrap bag, an
original feature, were distributed
by Violet Carey.
The farewell address was made
by Superintendent w. H. Weslar,
who after Introductory remarks,
read a communication from p. p.
Claxton, United States commissioner
of education, urging that at this
particular time high school gradu-
ates continue their education in uni
versities so that their training may
be of service to the world in re-
construction to follow the war. This
letter, extracts from which follow,
was sent out some time ago with
the request hat it be read at every
high school commencement in the
country. 1t is addressed to pupils
in public and private high schools
in the United States. Commissioner
Claxton's letter says:
There are in the high schools of
the United States this year more
than 100000 of boys and girls.
and somewhat more than 200 600
of them will graduate this month
and next. In an ordinary year 90,-
900 or more of these would next
fall enter college, normal school or
technical school to be prepared for
such service to society, state and ma
ton as can be rendered only by
those who have received education
beyond that which the high schools
can give.
MANY college presidents and
nthnro fna, chat ON nnnarnt nf mr.
entrance into the war few boys and
girls will enter college next fall
and that the total college attendance
will be very small.
"The number ought, however, to
be much larger than usual; and,
as commissioner of education of
the United States, / wish to urge
all boys and girls who graduate
from high schools this spring and
who can possibly do so, to enter
some institution of higher learning
next fall-college or normal school
or technical or vocational school of
some kind. There should be more
students in the schools next year
than yer before.
The more mature young men
are, the more serviceable they are
in the army. The selective draft
will take only those between Fl
and 80. In the total of 10000, 900
people of productive age in the Uni
ted States the 100000 students in
colleges and normal schools and
technical and vocational schools of
high grade constitute only about
one-half of one per cent.
More than half of these live in
cities and canno be employed in
agricultural production except as a
few of them may find work on the
farms during the summer. Their
going to college will not lower the
productive capacity of the country
as a whole in any appreciable de-
gree.