The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-05-18
81 SENIORS WIN
SCHOOL DIPLOMAS
PRESIDENT PENROSE OF WHIT.
MAN DELIVERS ADDRESS
1000 ATTEND

last night at the commencement ex
ercises held in the University of Idah,
auditorium at which DR.. S. B. L. Pen
rose, president of Whitman college de
livered the commencement address
The university auditorium was fillet
with a crowd of more than 1000 peo
pie.
''Have you learned to think fol
yourselves, have you been converted
have you made the free voluntary
choice of good for goods sake, ant
have you found and chosen your life's
ideals,' were questions asked the
members of the graduating class by
Dr.. Penrose in his able address. II
you have, the taxpayers, the people
who have sacrificed that you may
have received an education, will not
be sorry, but will be willing to spend
0,100 times more. Carry the spirit
of manhood and womanhOOd, right IN
the sight of man and right In the
sight of God-God's erernal revela-
Penr0se Delivers Address
In part DR.. Penrose's address fol
lows:
<sAll of us are still being educated
I congratulate this class upon the op-
portunity to meet in the assembly hall
OF the University of Idaho. How for
tunate it is that the graduates Of the
high school of the college town may
be impressed with the outgrowth, the
continuity, the beauty and glory OF
education.
"It is fitting that this class take
an inventory of themselves. / am go
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to an examination. am anxious to
find out what kind Of education is
carried on here in Idaho as their prin-
cipal, Fulton Gale, is one of my old
boys, graduate of Whitman college.
Learn to Think Straight
sThese students know more than
any person on earth 25 or 80 years
ago. They know immeasurably more
than the greatest minds of the an
cient Greeks And SO | ask them not
what they know but have they learned
to think. Have they learned to solve
problems for themselves? Theirs
should be, not a process of learning,
but a process Of seeing things with
their own eyes, gaining for themsel-
yes the solution Of their problems. l
admire the girl who knows what is
wrong with the loaf of bread or the
boy who know why the automobile
stops They have learned to think Tor
themselves.
american education will take
long step forward when it is realized
that the business of the high school
is not to cram the minds OF the boys
and girls with information but to train
them to think for themselves and so
solve problems for themselves. Col
1eges and universities are going to
become more and more stringent. They
are going to ask that high school stu
dents show that they begun to think
for themselves.
Good For Goods Sake
"Have these students been convert
ed yet? Something more is needed
than the mere formation of habits. The
old theory that the formation OF good
habits assures success is only partially
true Students should have the right
OF volitiOn to choose their habits.
Have these students deliberately chos-
en- the goodness for which they were
trained? Being an American means
the deliberate choice OF the spirit and
light that makes America.
'aThe educational system which docs
not train the likes and d1slikes Is
poor educational system. Train your
boys and girls to love the good man
or woman when the good man or wo-
man appears, to love good music in
stead of poor music and to love good
pictures instead Of poor NOV
ing pictures. The trouble with Amer
leans is that we are vulgar In our likes
= .~1f II hou list tho n0WAr 1
of aesthetic discrimination. tremble
for the future unless the high school
and college students learn to love the
good and hate the despicable. If
these students chose for themselves
the good they shall love the good.
They should put beneath the ocean OF
their contempt the law breaker and
The evader Of right principles.
Ideals of Man and God
sfHave these students formed their
Ideals? Can these boys tell of the
men they would like to be? Can these
girls tell of the women they would
ike to be? Their ideals of manhood
md womanhood should be the ideals
If man and God. They should carry
he spirit of manhood, womanhood-
Sod's eternal revelation"
The 81 members of the graduating
lass marched into the auditorium and
seats of honor on the stage to the
music of the professional" furnish
ID by the Moscow high school Orches-
ra, John w. Dickinson, leader. Each
,irl graduate wore a corsage bouquet
N her party dress and the boys wore
Jingle white carnations in their la
,els. The stage was attractively de-
orated in flowers.
The Moscow high school girls
horus sang "Open Wide the Gates
t Spring" (Forman) and the. Bridal :
,horus' (Cowen) The Moscow high q
chool orchestra played "On the Beau 9
iful Blue Danube" (Strauss) ! The G
nyocation and benediction were pro-
lounced by the Rev. A. Andre, pastor
+ the Swedish Lutheran church.
SOulen Presents Diplomas
Phi. Soulen, superintendent of the :
Ioscow city schools in speaking to !
he class said that sincerity and