The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-12-04
SHAKESPEARE AND SENIORS
From Last Weeks High School
Booster"

Booster"
Shakespeare and Seniors" or "a
Modern Version of Mark Antony's
Speech" might have been the title of
the very interesting and unusual
speech which was given in Senior
Chapel last Friday The speech was
as follows:
Friends, pupils, Seniors, lend me
your ears;
I come to greet the Seniors and to
praise them.
The evil that men do lives after
them. The good is oft inferred with
their bones. Let it not be thus with
Seniors.
We have all heard that Seniors are
ambitious-if it were not so it were a
grevious fault for honor comes not
without ambition. Here, under leave
of the Juniors and the rest-for a
Junior is an honorable man-so are
they all-all honorable men-come l
to speak as the Senior Sponsor
They are my friends-quiet and
studious for me-
But the Juniors say they are niosy
in the study hall.
And a Junior is an honorable man
The Seniors have brought honors
to Liberal High,
And pride for them does every
every bosom fill:
No wonder then the Seniors seem
ambitious.
When they have worried the teach
ers thew have went
Ambition should be made of stern
er stuff.
I speak not to disprove what Jun
what | know-You all have loved the
Seniors once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you now to
praise them?
o judgment thou art fled to
british beasts, and Sophomores have
lost their reason.
Bear with me; my heart is in the
South side there with the Seniors and
| must pause till it comes back to me.
For twelve long years the wisdom
of the Seniors has been known to all
the world; now come we here, tho
late, to do them reverence.
Hear me for my cause, and be still
that you may hear.
Believe me for mine honor, and
have respect for mine honor that we
may believe.
Censure me in your wisdom, and
awake your senses, that you may bet
ter judge. If there be any in this
assembly, any enemy of the Seniors
to him say: my confidence in
your judgment must decrease. If
then that enemy demand why speak
against him-this is my answer: Not
that l love you less, but that love
the Senior more.
| will not do you wrong
| rather choose to wrong the great
to wrong myself and the Seniors
tthan l will wrong the Freshmen and
the Sophomores. But here's a parch-
ment with the seal of the Seniors;
found it in a desk. 1t is statement
of class glory and renown. Let but
the Juniors hear this testament
whch-pardon me- do not mean
to read, and they would go and ask
forgiveness of the Seniors and beg
that they might learn the ways of
honor; yea, beg hair of them for
memory, and dying, mention it with
their will and say, that they had talk
ed with a Senior.
Have patience, gentle friends,
must not keep you waiting. 1t is
meet that you should know how the
Seniors have prospered. 1t is good to
know that you may follow in their
footsteps, and thus make of life one
" grand sweet song.
If you have tears prepare to shed
them now. You all do know the Sen
Tor athletes-you oft have marked
the grace and beauty of the girls.
Their teachers praise the knowledge
of them all. o! now you weep: and
perceive you feel the dint of pity
that you yourselves cannot attain
the dignity of the Seniors.
Kind souls, what, weep you when
you but hear of Senior excellence?
Look you there-there they are
themselves-ranked as you see above
the Juniors. Good friends, sweet
friends, let me not stir you up to
such a sudden flood of humility.
What the Seniors have done, you
may be able to attain. They are
wise and helpful and will no doubt,