The Mankato free press., 1923-06-08

opening number was the Class
| March, the graduate marching from
the rear to the forward end OF the
| building taking their places on the
stage which mad been elevated for
the occasion. The girls looking
charming in their white, regulation,
MILDLY blouses with black ties. They
wore no flowers. Miss Edna Silber
played the War march of the Priests
from Alfalfa" for the class march.
Rev. ". P. Clark offered the invo-
cation. The high school girls CHOIR
US sang Might from Pan, by Bliss
in good voices. Principal Guy Smith
maze an excellent talk in his pre-
ence. Mrs. B. D. Smith, president
of the board of education, presented
the diplomas. The high school chorus
under the direction Of Miss Helen
Campbell sang Bridal Chorus from
THE Rose Maiden, after which the
audience sang America" as clos.
ing number. In his presentation OF
the class Mr.. Smith announced the
names of the honor winners for the
season. Miss Maurine Boie was the
valedictorian and Miss Mildred Boie.
salutatorian. These two charming
young sisters, who happened to have
the good luck to be born twins, re-
| ceived the highest honors Tor their
idiligent work and efforts. The schol-
arship honors were won by Maurine
Boie. Mildred Boie, Beatrice Miner
fro, Ella Litchfield, Maxine Madison,
Joe Leonard, Kathleen McGovern,
Edna Hanson, Elsa Kettler. Ella
Cutkosy and Louise Morse. For gen
eral merit, Myra Jones, Leona Pc
terson, John Pfau, Mary Thomas
and Leroy Trafton., For the Ma
tional Honor Society, Maurine Boie,
Mildred Boie, Edna Hanson. Horace
Heiden, Sylvia jefferson. Ella Litch =
field, Ruth Macbeth, Margery Max
SON. Louise Morse. , Wilbur Peter
sen, Leona Peterson and Mary Tho
mas. Edgar Veum received an ap-
nointment to West Point. The prin-
cipal address of the evening was
given by DR.. ". P. Lemon of the
Andrews Presbyterian church, who
said:
e.. "In these days OF new groups and
fresh alignments Of society, there is
being formed still another union,
based upon the educational stan
dards of the times. Here and there
is to be a commencement on the
part Of those who have marsed their
individualities in common training
who are to face their fellows with
an equipment which is calculated to
keep them contribute, TO the com
mon veal. These should ever be
an element of romance as we'll as
reality in our estimation of those
who, with the unearned increment of
the past. are about to seek a fresh
! for new meanings in the mystery OF
life. The problems and .perplexir :
ties are about IN he faced by new
roup Of young, humans who are
standing upon the shoulders OF past
generations for the solution of those
ills that flesh is heir to, and so they
deserve the special recognition of
time and place for new creation
with in society. Divisions are com :
mon to the race. Carlyle, in a cynl-
cal mood, divided his fellow country
men into fifty million-mostly fools.
Lamb made rough distinction OF
humansi as borrowers and lenders.
The world is divided up into geogra-
phical units as nations, and society
finds itself ever gravitating toward
dominant interests that creates fac
tions. Galsworthy in his recent play
'loyalties' seeks to teach how great
is the need of adjustment and CORE
lation between the many artificial
distinctions of the human family and
certain we are that the world stands
in dire need of finding the greatest
common denomination.
I'VE have more things in common
than we have in difference, and per-
haps the greatest business of our day
and generation is to divert the en-
ergies expended in controversy|for
use in the task Of rebuilding bet
ter world. Notwithstanding the dang
ers Of classification, we would essay
this evening another division of man
kind and wonder to which this grad :
uating class shall belong. It would
seem to US that speaking broadly
our generation like those that pre-
ceded us, cam be divided under the
captuns: Those who have no to-
morrow. Those whose tomorrow
shall be a yesterday. Those who
really have. a tomorrow. Strictly
speaking of course, life would be
Impossible, without a tomorrow
The essential difference between the
lower world and that Of humans con
sists in the power OF. the latter to
conserve and perpetuate. Birds have
only man has been able to save the
music and message of his fellows
for posterity. Bees and beavers have
wrought wonders by reason and in
stinct, but unlike the noblest work
of God, their efforts have passed in
Ito oblivion. Business, with its world
lof credit, could not exist without a
tomorrow. Science goes upon the
assumption of such continuity. Edu-
cation proceeds upon the axiom that
the errors of the past can be elm
J mated and religion leans hard upon
the future for a solution of life. Yet
are there not these who practically
J exist without a tomorrow. The
material minded who are obessed by
the visible to whom the world is in
terpreted in terms Of quantity rather
than quality. Think Of Tennyson's
Northern Farmer to whom the
world was but a sounding board to
reyerberate the word Property, Pro
perty from his horses hoofs. Think
Of the Rich Dove of the New Tes-
;tament who lays up much goods fol
: his soul, Just as If the same
could be fed upon furniture. Again
the short minded, who subordinates
principals and ideals to quick re-
turns, are examples Of men and
women practically devoid Of 'tomor
row.. Esau like they sell their birth
, right for appetite. Impatient souls
, damaged and without disciples, who
! are governed by expendiency and
Ike Passions and Patience. They
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