The Mankato free press., 1923-06-08
LARGEST CLASS In HISTORY OF
MANKATO HIGH SCHOOL WAS -
= GRADUATED LAST EVENING

he had outraged the moral laws ex-
claims tomorrow and tomorrow and
tomorrow, creeps in the unpety pace
from day to day. To the last syll.
able of recorded time, and all our
yesterdays but light the way OF fools
to dusty death. Like Pinero's Sec
ond Mrs. Tanqueray's who cries out
as she reaches her self inflicted
! death the future is but the past en- :
! tering through another door Such
souls are so busy seeking to escape
their yesterdays, that they have no
! tomorrow.
Perhaps. however, there are
more that belong to the second cate
gory-those whose tomorrow is 60
ing to be yesterday. Chief mourn
ers at the hearse Of Time, they are
ever like Lots wife, looking back
ture are based upon a revival OF
the good old days, William James
declares that the greatest conflict
in life is between old foggism and
new fangleism'. To such who are
always reverting ID the past. Time
becomes no milestone but mill :
kStone. They look not for guideposts
but for bedposts of the Procrustrean
order. Then there are Hhose who
like the Gentle Cynic' of the scrip
ture, there are those who maintain
a cyclic view of history "As 1t was
in the beginning, is now and ever
shall be world without end So say
these to whom life must ever need
be cold meat" served UP TO success
sive generations. Yet tie poets, the
| seers have always held to the con-
trary. Tennyson says our little sys-
TENS have their day. Lowell insists
that new occasions teach new duties.
Time makes even good uncouth and
| Browning would leave time to apes
the best is yet to be. Those who
! have spoken from the trammels of
the past that they really have a to.
morrow. or course we must beware
| OF extremes even in this We must
avoid being such pensioners for the
| future that we to heavily, mortgage
the present. Parents who ever live
IN the prospect of enjoying the chill =
dren pay too heavily for such post
poned felicities. -
You VIII remember in Mater
lincks The Bethrothal that Destiny
who stalks In the first act as a col
ossus crying Il am enevitable, / am
! invulnerable, ] am inexcorable,
shrinks in each successive scene un :
| til Light takes him up in her arms
at last shrunken to the size Of rag
! doll. So also with US who have no
Tomorrow. There. opens up a new
sense Of the control Of Destiny. The
past world: saw a limited world of
feudalism, Of castles, of divine right
of kings. Ours is an unlimited world,
constrained only by the secent re
| spect for the opinions OF mankind.
To you young people shall come the
task OF building a better day. The
land of promise lies ahead of you.
The land flowing with milk and
honey Of glorious possibilities is
| yours. AS you travel the wilderness
1t is toward the sunrise. God give you
| courage to venture the Tomorrow
To the young Joshua, succeeding the
great leader comes the cry .As | was
| with Noses, so will be with thee
As / was-so will Be-. The same
suide-a different guidance. the
same Saviour different salvation.
0 youth whose hope is high, Who
doth to truth aspire whether now TO
live or die, o look not back or fire. 4"
Those Who Were Handed Diplomas
Those who received diplomas last
night were: -. :. .
Anderson, Elmer T.; Antoine Cur.
tbs; Aurit, Valentine H.; Ayars
Wenonah Daily; Bagley, Mae Lu-
cille; Baker, Mary Caroline; Balk
will, Helen; Barker, June Louise:
Barkuloo, Gladys Annette: Barnum
Gertrude Dorothy; Berndt, Harold
John; Bode, Cornelia Marie; Boie
Maurine Lottie; Boie,, Mildred
Louise; Boyum, J. Benjamin; Bug.
CERT, Louise J. E.; Cahoon. Mabel
Claire; Cain, Lawrence Siman; Carl
strom, Ruth M; Criswell, Mabel j.;
Cutkosky, Ella l.; Day, Grant A;
Deets' Leelsnau June; Dodge; Mil,
Farmer, John Afford, Jr.; Finger,
Sylvester: Fleckenstein, Emmanuel
j.; Femming, Ralph George; Full
er Fern "; Gender, Paul Leon
Gerlich. Daisy c.: Goddard, Roswell
P; Grandstaff, Marie L.: Greve. Fan /.
ny R.; Hall, John Oliver; Hanson
Edna o.; Healy, Ray Deloss; Heg-
gerness, Gladys c.; Heiden, Horace
! H.; Hendley, Phebe; Henry. John
H.: Hiersche, Lois E.; Hoium, Har-
riett: Hubbard. Rensselaer, Dean;
James, olwen c.; Jefferson,
Jr.; Jones, Myra; Kass, Magda-
lene NJ; Kaul, Lille NJ; Kelly
| NilSC D. -hCIsCsS LAOyu SdSSluo ,
Kettler, Elsa s.; Kimble, Mildred
Alice; Lampart, Carl F.; Leonard
Joseph Edward; Liebrecht Dorothy
Anna; Litchfield, Ella G.; Lusk, Lu-
lille Mary; McCarl, Robert B.; Nc:
Govern. Kathleen; Macbeth. Ruth
MADISON. Maxine, Manthei, Hattie
y: Maxson, Margery P; Miller
Floyd j.; Minor, Nellie Mae; Morse
<. Louise; Nimerfro. Beatrice; Nitz-
<owski. Norman Holtze; OConnor
Kathleen Marie; Oyer, Doris Car
men: Olander, Roger A.; Olson
Clarence Rudolph; Page, Lois Gen
evieve; Palmer, Harry; Paswalk
Maude NJ; Peterson. Frederick c.;
Peterson, Leona c.: Peterson. Roma
B.; Peterson. Wilbur E.; Pfau, John
| Alden: Pinney. Catherine L; Quinn
by, Flora Margurritte; Rarnspott
Martha D.; Rhodes, Raymond G.;
Rood, Chester c.; Russell, Ralph
R.; Schmitz, Leo E.; Scott, Alice j.;
Stockmann, Cecilia H.; Stoddard
Evelyn Irene; Stott, Irene; Taylor
Eloise; Thomas, Mary A.; Trafton
LEROY Haven; Uppstrom, Julia; Var
Buren, Buelah Mae; veum. John
Edgar, Jr.; visselman, Edna A;
Wind, Helen NJ; Watts, Rachel May;
Watts, Ruth Marcella; Welsh, Gladys
lC.; Westmayer. Ray "; Williams
MID Year Graduates. January 10
1923: Block, YinA Mary; Crandall,
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