The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-18
MOST BRILLIANT CLOSING
EXERCISES OF HIGH SCHOOL
WITH ESSED LAST NIGHT
receiving OF us.

With thirty-four graduates receiving
diplomas and number or members OF
the other classes carrying off school
honors and receiving class medals and
other distinctions, the commencement
OF the Pensacola High School Justified
the claim that this closes one OF the
most successful years In the school
history.
The address to the class of rs was
made by William Fisher who dwelt
upon the present need of service-not
only service in its more limited sense
to the individuN and to the community
but in its larges sense and deeper
meaning-service to the country and TO
humanity.
In emphasizing the necessity that each
individual faces in choosing for him
self, defining life in new and untried
ways, Mr.. Fisher drew a parallel with
the student facing life with fresh i'm
pulses translated into service. ana the
nation, new, untried. as yet, in many
of the great international problems,
but all the stronger, all the more alert,
all the fresher for the conflict.
Mr.. Fisher said: You have entered
upon your work at the end of period
which has produced great economic
and moral changes, and you are enter
ing upon a new era, which has marvel
Gus possibilities for growth. 1t is no
mean task you have before you. and
y on will need to meet the work Of the
world many of the fundamentals oil
life. The first I would give you is al
most acknowledgements. average in
telligence and work will insure suc-I
cess. Add to these rhe trained mind,
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But you must remember that the mind
will not stay trained, without training.
any more than the muscles of the body
will retain their strength without exer
else. Use your minds-disuse will blot
out all the advancement of the pasoi
twelve years. i
Another thing that you will need iii
you are to win success is concentration.
Without concentration of mind, concen
tration of effort, all work is futile. |
Keep your mind trained, cultivate the
ability to concentrate
las you go out from the school into
the larger world, you must not ex-
pect life to be series of interesting
events, pleasant incidents, great oppor-
tunities. Opportunity is not tagged, I'll
will come to you unmarked Tolstoyl
has told US that the most important
events of our lives come to us in the
regular routine of the days work. In
later years we may look back and de-
tect how the most trivial-seeming
events have shaped our destinies.
But the main lessons that / would
asq you to remember is this: The real
meaning Of life Is service. Perhaps
the members of the graduating class
are not quite old enough to remember
the time when the American million
ARE in Paris was figured in the car
toens and comic press OF the country
Today all that is changed. Today the
South American millionaire has take J.
his place. There is a reason for this.
An economic reason. At that time this
country was undeveloped, its resources
seemed iimitless, its timber, its mines.
its produce of every kind had hardly
been touched. That stage has passed.
All resources are in process of develop
men. We are at a time in the history
OF our nation when wealth win neithe
come or go easily. The only way to
make a success today is TO labor. to
serve. to produce for your country and
for humanity.
Even Big Business has discovered
thls. Big Business realizes that service
real service, even unselfish service navsI
because in life demands this OF each