New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-06-05
GRADUATES CHOSE
War TINE THEMES
MoTTOS AND ESSAYS REFLECT
HOPE OF RECONSTRUCTION
TIME TO COME
REV KEsTER POINTS OUT THE
NECESSITY FOR LIVING
UP TO IDEALS ..

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women who stepped out of New Ulm's
High School last Friday to enter upon
the more arduous duties before them,
keep in mind what DR.. R. B. Kester
told them and act upon those suggestions,
they will be doing their part in making
the world safe and sane for Democracy,
and the money spent by the taxpayers,
according to the speaker, $3.50 for each
individual or approximately $4,000 for
the education Of the entire class will
not have been spent in vain.
| DIR. Kester told the graduates tn:
there must be no contradiction between
professions and deeds; that when this
! Republic was born we protested that all
people are born equal, and yet at the same
time kept a large number of them SUBJ
jugated as slaves, and it was necessary
to have bloody war to right that
wrong and make our professions no
hollow mockery. Altho he did not
say so in SO many words, the speaker
left the impression with the audience, that
at the present time our deeds do not
measure up to our professions; that there
are social inequalities and that these
must be righted if we wish to escape
another strife similar to the Civil War.
The. speaker admonished the graduates
to fight the jungle spirit which always
tries to keep back the progress of the
world; that at the present time the
jungle spirit manifests itself thru the
money-bags. That altho it might seem
that the jungle spirit would gain the
upper hand, the tide Of progress can not
be kept back and he expressed the con-
/ victtffon tsh8vssafter this, world war is over,
our map will have the boundaries wiped
out and that we will consider ourselves
citizens of the whole world.
DR.. Kester cited many happenings
in this world which at their tine and
place were considered wonders and
which now are considered merely COM
mon-place, all accomplished thru edu-
cation, whose object it is to make things
zeal. Schools are founded for the pur-
pose of acquainting us with things real
and each individual must make his own
world, each one must assemble his own
materials for that purpose.
= The graduating class Of 1918, one of
the largest that has ever gone forth from
the New Ulm High School, has every
reason to feel satisfied with their Com
mencement exercises. The musical num-
bers were good and so were the addresses.
There were two graduates in the Latin
Course, eleven in the Scientific Course,
twenty-fou in the English Course, foul
rost graduates completing teacher train
ing course and two in. the Commercial
Course. This is the first time in the
history of the school that there are
graduates from the Commercial Course.
Supt. Hess announced that Otto
Dougher has not been with the class for
some time, but was permitted to graduate
because he had satisfactorily passed the
entrance examination to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. He also an
nounced that the dresses for the girl
graduates this year cost $2.35 each as
against $2.49 the year previous. Alice
Pfeiffer who won fourth place. in the
bread baking contest at the State FAN
last year, was awarded bronze medal
and it was turned over to her Friday
evening. -. ~. ~ ...-
The evenings program was what might
be called a war program. The motto of
the class "Out Of the Training Camp
into the Trenches indicated this and
both salutstorians and both vale
dictorians referred to the world conflict
in their addresses. The first salutatory
was delivered by Emily Z. R. Groebner.
She thanked the teachers and parents
for their kind assistance during the
past four years and said that tho they
could now express their gratitude only
in words, they hoped to be able to do 50
more effectively later on in deeds.
She advocated the use Of the schools for
community purposes and sensed the
new spirit which is already manifesting
itself and said the goal Of the school
must be realization Of the new national
IDEAL; Ss
Helen Barth had taken for her theme
81 Necessity for Education In the
early days education was considered
luxury, she said, and only q limited snum-
Der, the rich and those in power, had an
to secure, an education.