The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-02
G. CONGRATULATIONS and Good Luck

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Bismarcks schools this week are
graduating a fine group of young
men and women who have completed
their scholastic work in this city and
will now look about for new fields of
endeavor.
Some will go to college, pursuing
the trails which the thirst for knowl-
edge opens to them.
Others will seek places in COM
merce, business and industry,
Drawing at once the world from which
they have been partially sheltered
during their years in school.
All of them will find that they
must unlearn, sooner or later, some
of the things they learned in school,
for the world is not much like
classroom, even though it is, itself,
the greatest classroom ever known.
All of them will learn to place new
emphasis upon and dependence in
other of the truths which have been
taught to them. They will learn again
and understand, possibly for the first
time, "all that glitters is not gold
and a score of other homilies which
have come down to us through the
ages. A year from now they will be-
gin to know why their elders are not
SO cock-sure about the world and the
things and people in it. They will
have acquired new tolerance which
is foreign to the very nature of
youth.
A year hence they will have found
new interests, a wider acquaintance,
additional experiences, new senses Of
achievement, futility or defeat as the
case may be. In short, they will have
begun to acquire the education which
comes only from the school of cxpe-
rience which all of us have known.
Those who begin to fend for them
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the competition is keener and the
going tougher now than it has been
for a generation. They will find their
powers, particularly those Of charac-
ter, tested to the utmost.
But most of them will win. We
say this with confidence because we
know that the boys and girls of Bis
marck are as fine as those to be
found anywhere. Our confidence is
further bolstered by the fact that
they have been properly trained to
meet modern problems. But over and
above all is the fact that they are the
sons and daughters Of parents who
have built this city to what it is.
They have in their veins the blood
which has made for competence and
success in the past.
Many older persons would, if OPP
portunity were open to them, shield
these young folks from the cruelties,
the unfairness and the hardships
which they certainly will encounter,
but even if this were possible the
graduates themselves would have
none Of it. They are entitled to their
own share of experiences, for better
or for worse, and the rest of us can
only occupy ourselves with our own
affairs and let them attend to theirs.
We can, of course, extend help
ing hand here and there and all who
have the opportunity should do so,
but the game of life which these
young folks face, they will, after all,
win or lose for themselves.
But, even with the world as we
know it to be, we bid them God-speed
with hope and confidence and we
envy, more than a little, the fine
spirit with which these young folks
of 1892 begin the race.
To the graduates of Bismarck and
st. Mary's high schools, the nursing
classes at the local hospitals and the
students at the federal Indian school,
The Tribune says with all sincerity.
"congratulations-and good luck"