Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-06-24


subject OF the Grafton by Edward Pro-
vost. Mr.. Provost said that accounting
is inseparably related to economies and
law, and that it is coming more and more
to play very important part in world
business Extravaganza due to unskilled
and incompetent management of tho
business of the world is causing all sorts
of trouble these days. Waste and ineffi.
cheney are everywhere. keeping up the
cost of living and causing our economic
standards to be founded upon a false
basis 1t is time that these conditions
were changed, that the cause of all This
trouble is traced out. Men who arc thor.
oughly trained in accounting can do this
can find the waste and the extravaRance
in all this inflated condition Of aTairs
and point out the way to avoid IT, The
business world needs men who are able
to think straight. to separate the real
and the essential from the non-essential.
ana TO give definite statement of bust
ness conditions. This requires thoroughly
trained men. for business is a comr1ev
intricate, scientific life these DAVIS No
rule of thumb will pass in business IN.
day. The colleges should nav moro alton.
ton to the training of thorough business
men-accurate capable men whose ain, 4,
lie is to help keep the business of tho
world going straight.
Miss NJ. Adelaide Bombard's essav was
on Florence Nightingale" The sneaker
said that in this. the Centennial vcar or
Florence Nightingales birth. we are inc,
coming to realize what her life meant IN
the world. During the last five wears wa
have seen her spirit move on with tn,
Red Cross. which performed such valiant
service on the fields of France. Miss
IntY ,I.f.,.. Il a
ence Nightingale telling how. at an early
age. this great nurse began to surround
herself with injured animals and caro- for
them. Then she studied nursing and
when the Crimean war broke out in 1854
Miss Nightingale organized n band of rs
nurses and went TO the front with tho
England army. So heavy was the work
ana so few the workers. that Miss
Nightingale oftened worked for "A hours
at a stretch. without either food or sleep
Beloved by the soldiers. who grieyed
everywhere when she was taken i'll. she
| recovered and staid through to the end
of the war, but went back to England an
invalid for the rest of her life Her work
was done, but the spirit of it was to live
| lorg after her in the work of the Red
Cross.
"The Use OF Electricity Aboard Shin
Carleton Andrews. The speaker told of
the many wonderful inventions which
have come into use in connection with
electricity on shipboard including
illumination, the searchlight wireless
tcleSraphy and telephony. the annunciator
or engine room telegraph, and the new
gyroscopic compass which always points
due north and is not affected by use on
steel ships, as were the old-fashoned
| compasses. Then there are many other
smaller appliances which have come into
use with electricity, making life more
worth while on shipboard. These ap-
planes save man-power and greatly
improve efficiency. In closing. Mr..
Andrews told something about electrically
driven ships,
The closing essay was entitled War
Poetry" and was given by Miss Barbara
Peasc. Telling something Of the effects
of the war upon the poetry of the age,
Miss Pease chose some of the most worth
while poems of the war period, most of
them written by poets like Rupert Brook
and Alan Secgar who were in the midst
| of the great war, many of them giving
up their lives in the struggle Through
| these poems Miss Peasc traced tendencies
which expressed the feelings of the times,
| feelings which were genuine because they
| came direct from the hearts of the men
who wrote them.
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED
Principal John f.. Coburn of Buring
ton High School, spoke briefly before the
presentation of the diplomas. He said
that the teachers, who have been the lead
ers of these boys and girls during four
years of high school, now have to step
| back, as is the case when each class
goes forth. and ask these young people
to go ahead of them and take up the
| leadership in the world of affairs. 1t
is not without feeling of regret. said
| Mr. Colburn. that the teachers came to
this parting but there is also a feeling
of satisfaction in sending out these young
people to the community. There is. also,
| great inspiration in dealing always with
the young. for enthusiasm lives forever
| in young hearts. They have their lives
before them. In closing. Mr.. Coburn
said, speaking to the people in the audi
ence and to Burlington as a whole:
| Congratulate yourselves that those
boys and girls are coming out to be a
part of the citiZenry of this State"
In presenting the diplomas to the grad
yates. Superintendent NJ. y. Chttenden
said, in brief This diploma carries with
it all the honor and the privileges that
is everywhere accorded a high school
| graduate. We sincerely hope that you
will live up to this honor and privilege
and that you will, in large measure
contribute to the advancement of civil
ization. We send you forth with best
wishes" The names of the graduates
follow
Classical coursc-Laura Tyler Buck.
ham. Elizabeth Florence Chittenden
Philip Taylor McGreevy.
Sub-classcal course-Bertha Harriet
Adams. Lillian Florence Agel LELAND
Miner Brown, Catherine Celestine Cartier
Marion Estele Donoway. Abraham
Pearley Feen, Frederick Wells Fletcher
Edith Corneia Hopkins. Edward Gilman
Howe Josephine Elizabeth Howe. Marion
Frances Kidder, Edith Kinsley Iadd
Doris Caroline Mcneil. Myrtle Irene
Minckler, Clarence Giffin Newton, Mary
Kathryn Newton, Barbara Pease. Rober
Thompson Platka. Gertrude Elizabeth
Radike, Theresa Howe Reynolds. Doro
thy Marion Kicker, Dorothea Patriots
Ryan, Jennie Schneider. Mildred Margare
Shepard Ruth Cole Spear. Ruth Mildred
Sturtevant, Marcia Dodds Tudhope
Elizabeth Gordon Warner Mary Margare
Whalen.
Technical course-Edward Meili Kreb
ser. Frederick Joseph O'Brien, Johr
Harold Sikora.
Joseph Louis Anger, Harry Myer Baker
Louis Herman Baker, Mary Estaleer
Beckwith John Avery Billings. William
; Capistrand. Kendall Lucan Chaplin, Es
Dominick Corey Carl Buel Day Dori,
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