The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-08
This Is the Time When Graduates
Are Entering a New Sphere of Life
Commencement Week Festivities Berey-ng Chicago Manu.
Poly Prep, Riverdale Wheaton and Elsewhee-Other
School and College News

THURSDAY afternoon at Horace
Mann School for Boys, New York
city, very impressive commence
uent exercises were held In the Horace
Mann gym when twenty-three boys
were graduated.
The boys filed In to the strains OF
Mendelssohn's War March and were
followed by the faculty. after which the
Rev. Raymond Collyer Knox, chaplain
OF Columbia University, led in a short
prayer.
After hymn sung by the audisnce
the Rev. Percy Butler wightman,
pastor Of University Heights Presby-
terrain Church, gave an interesting ad-
dress to the boys. He said that in
France since our boys went over there.
L. S. A. has meant Usefulness, Self
sacrifice and Ambition. He spoke of
unworthy objects of ambition. such as
mere money getting, or power for me
sake OF power, and OF worthy objects
as making the lives about US happier,
more comfortable-the enrichment of
the world.
Medals were awarded Winston Co-des
as the best student OF the Junior
school; to Robert Durham, IL years
old of the senior school-the youngest
boy of the seniors-and to Donald Sned-
den OF the graduating class as the best
school citizen, Mrs. Williams of the
faculty giving an interesting little talk
on the Best Citizen"
A large medallion profile of a dear
young face stood on one OF the chairs
on the platform-in memory Of Henry
Doherty Morrey. member OF the
graduating class who two years ago met
with fatal trolley accident. shortly
after having saved two women from
drowning. risking his own life in the act.
He was Is and had been In the school
since a small boy, having been always
an influence for good among the boys.
Mr.. Prettyman, the principal. spoke
very touehingly Of the missing member
OF the class, saying that the medallion
Is to be hung In bronze in the school
and that Mr.. and Mrs Morrell had pre-
sented $4,000 in bonds to the school as
a memorial scholarship fund. This will
give an education TO one boy each year
who otherwise could not have it. and as
long as the school exists.
The graduating class then through
Robert Pulleyn presented to Mr.. Pretty
man for the school a very fat looking
envelope with which the class wished
Mr.. Prettyman to select a picture for
the school in memory az the class Of
10. Pulleyn said that the class felt that
they knew so little about pictures that
NHes ~ bcSe " fSoNV eaiS cSiSS-
ton to the school.
James Earl Russell. LID. dean Of
Teachers College presided.
After another hymn and benediction
the boys and the faculty marched out
and later met their friends in the eudi-
cnce under a large tent placed over one
OF the tennis courts. where most de-
licious refreshments were served.
The graduates we're Charles p. Be-
orl Ir
ward ,Bosworth Copperton. Irving &.
Dribben, Walter Scott Fa--ell. Nurrill
Goddard. Jr., Ernst Rollemann Habicht,
Edward T. Hetzler, Charles Nicholas
Howard. Harold Philip Thurman. Don
aid Joseph Mayer. William Louis Merz-
bach, z. Gardner Prime, Robert Pulleyn.
Theodore Rosenwald, Jr., Reginald Car
rington-Short. Jr., Donald Snedden, Os-
car D. Thies, Jr., George Frederick
Tinker, William H. Van Benschoten. Jr.
Clarence Kahn Whitehill, Henry Booth
Wightman. Ellis H. Wilmer.