Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1921-06-10
EDUCATOR SPEAKS ON
VALUE OF EDUCATION
Dean Haggerty Says United States
Will Spend More Rather Than
Less On Schools

OOu ludSlne lot a minute that
too much money is being spent on
the public schools of the country.
Think rather of the wealth that is
being poured into the state from
these schools"
These are the words of DR.. H. M.
Haggerty, dean of the College of Edu-
cation of the University of Minnesota
who delivered the main address at the
Commencement exercises of the Nor
ris high school last Friday evening
DR.. Haggerty thinks that the grad
uates leaving our schools every year
are we'll worth any money the state
spends ON them. The 81, 1,00O,O0O,OOO
the United States spends on public
education does not seem large, ac-
cording to DR.. Haggerty when the
amount is compared to the sums
spent on cosmetics, furs, or cigarettes
He quoted statistics to show that
$3.50, 100000 is spent on face pow
ders and other cosmetics in the
United States every year, $3O0,OOO,-
900 on furs, S8OO,OOO,OOO on cigar
cites, 100000 on cigars, $780,
100000 on other tobaccos and snuff,
$500, 100000 on jewelry and $780,
100000 on other luxurious services.
Commenting on the fact that Min
nesota now spends $348 on educa-
tion per child, a liberal sum COM
pared to $63 spent by Alabama, but
not so liberal when compared to $637
spent by Montana, DR.. Haggerty says
more rather than less on its schools.
He traced the educational history of
the United States from pioneer days
to modern times, showing how we
had grown from nation with an
average second grade education to a.
nation with an average seventh grade
education. He looks forward with
hope to time when the average citi-
zen will have high school and even
a college education.
Superintendent Theodore Utne in
presenting the graduating class, said
the class of 1921 was in a special
sense his own, for they and he start
ed their work together in Norris and
had been in close association with
y
| Miss Bernice Richardson in her
valedictory emphasized the fact that
to the members of the graduating
class, graduation was indeed only a
commencement, the beginning of
| the service they intended to render
humanity. She used her title the
words of Magda in Suderman's play
J.
Am t. Miss Estelle Watzke, saluta-
torian spoke on work and Habit,
stressing the Importance of good
habits.
FIR. Putnam presented the diplom-
as in place of J. H. Adams who was
out of town Miss Hazel Cosgrove
sang "Canoe Song" and Misses Mil
dred Leuty, Julia LeSage and Bernice
Richardson sang lullaby. Rev. H.
H. Symons of the Congregational
church gave the invocation. Kip
ling's "Recessional" sung by the
members of the class closed the pro-
gram.
The graduates are af follows:
ACADEMIC
Edna Ericsson
Eva F, Hays
Bernice S. Johnson
Raymond G. LeSage
Mildred Roberta Leuty
Lawrence Morrison
Lulu Genevieve Nelson
Bernice Richardson
William A. Ringness
Mildred Viola Searle
H. Thelma Smith
Mabel A Stevenson
Estella Jaunita WatZke
COMMERCIAL
Elsie L. BuSS
Hazel Frances Cosgrove
Agnes Bertha Erdahl
Anna Margaret Hendrickson
Marion A. Larson
Julia L. G. LeSage
Kathryn G. Sirr
Arvilla G. Zahl
NORMAL TRAINING
Stella Frances Baysinger
Wilhelmine F. Beiser
Melvie Louise Chapman
Daisy Eva Dornquast
Edna Alma Ernst
Bertha Mildred Johnson
Maud Ethel Prickett
Charlotte M. e. Stark
Elm Cecilia Wilson