Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-05-26
HIGH COMPL
FOR COATES ADDRESS
President of Eastern Pleases
Stanford By His Talk To
High School Graduates

The Stanford Interior Journal paid
high compliment to an address Presi-
dent T. ]. Coates, of Eastern Nor
NAL, delivered to the graduates of the
Stanford High School the other day.
1t said of him:
DIR. Coates Great Address
The address of DR.. T. ]. Coates,
president of the Eastern kentucky
Normal School at Richmond, before
the graduates of the Stanford High
School at the opera house Wednes-
day night was so chock full of good
things that we regret that we are
unable to print it in full. Every
word of it was good "horse" sense
and if the young ladies and gentle
men, to whom it was delivered, live
up to the suggestions and adnoni-
tiOns given by the noted educator
they will make their presence felt,
1t matters not where they cast their
lot, nor what vocation they choose
in the years that are to come The
doctor told of the many advantages
of education, how the children of
today are blessed beyond that of the
generations before them, how neces-
sary an education is that we may
enjoy the good things of this life.
after securing an education it is
necessary to work that it may be
properly enjoyed 1t is sin to let our
talents and our accomplishments be
idIe," said he, adding that every
good citizen must have something to
do, and keep doing it, He did not
say that an idle mind is the DEVILS
work shop, but many drew that in
ference. He told of the greater pub
lie school in the United States-way
up in MinneSota-where he went
through a desire to better fit him
self for his work in Kentucky. He
work at the forge, in the factories,
and from other vCcatiOnS, TO the
class room and read Virgil better
than he had ever heard it anywhere
"They had the right idea of things.
A man who can read Virgil should
also not only know how to work, but
work., said the speaker. DR.. Coates
was glad to see as many graduates
as were before him, but wondered
where the rest of the class is. "Four
young men and eight young women;
where are the other four boys? Yes,
where are the other 36 that started
with these? It is the absent ones
that We should worry about," said
he. He paid Stanford a pretty
compliment and was profuse in his
pleasing remarks about cur court
house. 81 stood at length before it
this afternoon and felt proud for
you people that you have such a
magnificent Temple Of Justice The
work of art is plainly seen in its
architecture and those graceful col
umns remind me of the noted build
ings told OF in history" said he. At
the conclusion of his magnificent adj
dress, DIR. Coates turned to the
graduates and for five minutes or
more plead with them that in all
things, they make men and women
true to the name Of themselves. He
hoped they would all go higher in
educational lines, but if there were
any who did not have the good for
tune to go to college, he hoped they
would make the best of the educa-
ton already received at the Stanford
Graded and High School and make
records for themselves that their in
structors and friends would be
proud of. There is little Of the or
ator about DIR. Coates, but his ad-
dress was so interesting and con-
tained so much food for thought
that it will be remembered in the
years that are to come by all who
heard it. Prof. Cancer is tc be. con-
graduated on securing the services
of one so well fitted to edify and en-
tertain and to bring a message 81
fraught with the better things o.
life.
Death of Mrs. Anderson