The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-06-02
Is Hi GRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
commencement Exercises At Opera
House Tuesday Evening Con-
clude Commencement Week

iiOuoS iuCoudy SNSIluB. LII. Il. ID.
Bryan of Colgate University, delivered
the commencement address, and his
address was one, of the best that has
been delivered to a graduating class.
An easy speaker, he held the atten-
ton of his audience to his final word.
The Gospel of Work" was the sub
ject he choose for his address.
The exercises were opened by music
by the High School orchestra, follow
ed by the Sa%lutatorian address by
Helen Osterhaus. A selection by the
Glee Club was followed by the Vale
dictorian address by Frances Tucker.
After the address of the evening, and
another selection by the Glee Club,
the thirteen graduates were presented
with their diplomas by Supt. H. p.
Cooper.
Following are the salutatorian and
Valedictorian addresses:
SalutatOrian Address
Now is the browning hour of all u
year,
End of our toll, aim of our hope and
fear,
Now as we toll along u steep ascent
We reach the pleasant fields of Hearts
Content.
Not yet the end of striving but a grace
Won from the law of toil-a breathing
space;
For still we strive amain and still
ascend,
Nor of our climbing hope to make an
end.
The seasons pass, year yields to year
And still the measure of our being
Nttc Ntyn gil.
With high e%ndeavor, dreaming of no
rest,
no late withdrawal-craven and un-
blest,
Into a slothful age of pleasured ease,
Nay, rather on those later years to
seize
For loftier efforts, unremitting strife,
Stern battles waged on all the ills of
life.
We are commencing tonight to take
the responsibilities of life and it shall
be with us whether we make it a
deadly bore-a mere dull routine of
drudgery, or the most interesting and
absorbing game capable of enlisting
all our energy and enthusiasm we
have to put into it. When someone
condoled with president Roosevelt on
the hard work of his office he replied
ooh, | like my job" An educator has
said Education teaches one to do
better the things he would do any
way" Modern education has 3 phases
first it gives us physical training thru
games and athletics, second it gives
us practical training thru the courses
of normal training, manual training,
commercial work, and home econom-
les. These facilities aid us in making
our living. Lastly it gives us social
training thru music, English, history
and those subjects which tend to
make us, better citizens and fit us for
life as members of society. We do
all these things in life by means of an
education better than we could do
them without it.
Thru the daily routine of the school
work, thru the cooperation with each
other, thru the persistent application
to the difficult and sometimes disag-
reeable task, little by little we lay the
foundation of the character which fits
us for our part. All the qualities
which mean success are not the result
of a sudden growth but the product
of gradual development. The most
valuable of these qualities is the abil-
ity to play the games of life that is
to throw our whole personality into
a thing and carry there to a finish
and make a success of it. The people
who accomplish things are the people
who do this.
Playing a good game on the athlet-
ic field requires training-playing the
game of life requires education. SO
in these years which we are finishing
up, we have been trying to learn to
play the game, to meet life fairly and
squarely and 10 pass on to others this
ideal of making the most of our lives.
There's a breathen hush in the close
tonight,
Ten to one and the match to win,
A humping pitch, a binding Light
An hour to play and the last man in.
And its not for the sake of a ribboned
coat,
Nor the selfish hope of a seasons fame
But his captains hand on his shoulder
smote
"Play up! Play up! and play the
game"
The sand of the desert is sodden red,
Red with the wreck of the square that
broke,
The Cuttings TANNED. the Colonel
dead.
The regiment blind with dust and
smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his
banks,
And England's far and honor a name,
But the voice of a schoolboy rallies
the ranks
"Play up. Play up and play the camel
This Is the word that year by year,
While in her place the school is set,
Every one of her SONS must hear,
And non that hear 1t dare forget,
This they all with a joyful mend,
Bear thru life like a torch on flame
And falling fling to the host behind
play up. Play up and play the camel
valedlctorian Address
We. as a class, come to say a few
words of kindly farewell before We
part. We are not glad to go. yet we
cannot stay in High School forever.
We realize that our hign school lays