New Britain herald., 1926-03-18
49 GRADUATE AT
 '. M. NIGHT SCHOOL
Five Glasses Finish Courses
 Conducted During Winter

Forty-nlne men graduated from the Y. M, c, A. night school at c joint banquet of five different class. ! es last evening. and 25 more are OK, pected to graduate in n few months 1 out of 8 total of 100 who have beer studying there this winter. The classes which graduated last even, ing were the business correspon- dance class taught by Walter R, Fletcher the accountancy class taught by Thure ", Bengston, the class in salesmanship taught by w. w. Leland, public speaking taught by Rev. Vernon l., Phillips, and the course in sign writing taught by Al Malmgren.
 The meeting was opened with re- marks by Attorney Mortimer II. Camp, president of the board of d. rectors Of the Y. M. c. A., and was followed by brief addresses by the instructors, The diplomas were pre- scented by Roher Whitman, mem- Der of the educational committee, and a student in one of the classes. Remarks also were made by Frank B. Rau. William J. Gooby and F. l.. Carlson, students.
 The address of the evening, given by General Secretary Clarence II. Barnes, was on "The Romance of Vocation" The address was as fol. lows;
 For most of you the educational classes which have just closed rep resent moro than a night school study. In them you returned 10 your earlier days when you were getting more ideas out of books and study than you probable have in later years. Once one breaks the habit of study he finds it increas- ingly difficult to return to books. and if these hours spent In the classroom or in reading over the les sons have helped you to get back into mental condition when it Is pleasant to receive ideas from other mediums than newspapers and mag azines, your work will be of espe- cial value to you.
 "Thcse are called practical cours. rs. and are so designated, I pre- sume, because they are expected to contribute towards mans equip mcnt for making living. We be- licve that they will do this very thing for you, for they have proved Of value to other men in the past who pursued such studies. So you may be- able to measure their value in dollars and cents.
 There is another standard of value by which you can assess them. Any study should open up 10 you new avenues of thought, and even so prosaic a course as accountancy, has tingo of romance. Then men who have studied under Mir. Bengs. ton will have a new appreciation of figures. In them they will see cou- pressed materials. manufacturing processes, human labor, wages and profits and losses. They are the magic by which industry and com- merce trace the course of their pro- luct.
 "The men in Mir. Flotchers class will have learned how business talks on paper, by the use of short, con- cise, clear words and phrases, which convey a definite and readily under stood language. They will note that his is not the language of the poets, 3utnone the less contains an essence of romance.
 In MT. Malmgren's group men will have learned how better to ap- prcciatc art. Their own hands have produced some thing that has more than practical value, for in the strokes of their brushes there is the beginning of the beautiful
 "Under Mir. Philips, men have been taught the art of speaking. They will now better appreciate the value of the spoken word and it's influence as moving power in the motives of men.
 "I7inally the men in the salesman ship class, under MT. Leland, have Q larger view of salesman ship than that contained in the idea of selling an article and taking q customers money. They will tell you that everyone l. q salesman, The public speaker is selling his ideas, or trying to move people to think as he does. He will think of the ac- nountant as q man who is selling his service of figures. The sign writer is m artist who is making his product sell the goods. He will think of the business correspondent as man who is using the written word to do what the public speaker does by word of mouth.
 "rhs is the practical aspect of