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Show PROF. PERRY G. SNOW'S ADDRESS TO GRADUATES Mr. Chairman, Graduating Class, Patrons of Beaver County High school. 1 appear before you this pveningfi with mingled feelings of fear and pleasure. Fear that I possibly may take time from something that mn; be of more interest, and pleasure in the aopportunlty of meeting you who have completed a particular piece of ' work. You have, as it were, passed another mile post In your life work j I come here not to tell you tha1 yen are at the commencement of a life when you are to become serious Tor you are serious else you could ' not have accomplished this thing. 1 come not to tell you how to live "ntirely for you are learning that lay by day. j I come not to preach to you or lie deliver to you a sermon, for I I think you have had your preachings and your sermons, but if not, I leave them for your preachers. 1 come to congratulate you on the splendid work you have accomplished. accomplish-ed. I come with a simple messngp of life and living. if you would live your life to the j fullest extent, it must be one of ser-1 ser-1 vice. Service justifies the expendl-'r) expendl-'r) of time, money, effort, patio-...d patio-...d all other things expended. Service Ser-vice is the mark of efficiency and efficiency Is expected of everyone. If you would make yourBelf your life felt in your community, you must serve in a mannor needed. You must make good. You must be converted that a thing worth doing, a thing that must he done ls a thing worth doing well. You perhaps have heard the old story of the mnn who he-cause he-cause of the popularity and favor he had won from his fellows Incurred the displeasure of the Magistrate of the town. You, perhaps recall how 'hot Magistrate, to be avenged, set this man to sweeping the streets, which was then considered a degrading degrad-ing position. Do you recall how this humble man put Into that work his soul, his being, to the extent that he not only did not lose the favor which ho had won. hut that he had it unto many times? And the position of the street sweeper became the most sought after of all the positions the own had to offer. You may make your work, your life what you will. To deliver a messago effectively, you must he convinced of the value of that message, and it must be given giv-en from the heart. To teach well vnu must have something to tench and it must be taught for the love and respect for the thing you are 'caching and for s"rvlce nnd prln-uple prln-uple and not primarily for financial 'easons. Teachers who teach for money mon-ey simply keep school. They do not 'each. To my mind this is one of 'he prime factors in solving the prob lem ot wny Home or us are failures as teachers. This Idea ls not confined confin-ed to teaching alone. I recall at this lime the case of a young man who en 'ored a medical training some years -ince. During the first week at the school he boasted that when he hail completed his training, four years hence, he would locate In a certain place, he would charge so and so. he would collect In advance. He would not serve for the sake of service. ser-vice. This young mnn did the thing for a time, that he boasted. But oeople demand service and thej young man with ability nnd training train-ing and the opportunity for service was forced to move frequently. I recall the time this idea of to-, day first canie to me. It came nbout in a silly little fashion. But prlncl-ides prlncl-ides and truths are often Introduced into the mind and reinforced by silly sil-ly things It whs at n circus. A fellow fel-low was selling peanuts, "Five cents. - ni.-kel. n half dim"." A person sitting' sit-ting' near l.v asked for a bag of nuts for which he paid five rents. Tbnt "is not enough nnd be next paid the 'ii'kel. following which he was nsk- d for the half dime. He became dis-i i-iisto,). threw the nuts to the ground ' nd promised to pay the half dime' tomorrow. A few days later he was' a-ke, if he had pairl the price He' a'erl ihat he had not hnt that his word was still good and that he! 'oiihl pay tomorrow. It was not '"'il that moment that I realized hat tomorrow never comes and that it is only today that we m:,v M.rv-.. If von have anything to do do it ow. do It well. This simple rule Is insurance against future Inconvenience. Inconveni-ence. Only recently a student cam to my office to enquire concerning 'be entrance requirments for Harvard Har-vard University. A young man of gooil moral character, Intelligent, agreeable. Harvard requires that a student shall be In Iho upper third of his class In order In be admitted. This young man went away, and later, lat-er, when I was nlone. returned nnd in a sad manner staled that he guess ed that his record would prevent him from entering Harvard. Opportunity w-as at hand hut could not be tnkon advantage nf. lie confessed that he had come lo school with the Idea thai he could slip past without much effort. He thoiighl Hint he could "Get nwny with It easy." If you hnvn anything to do, do it now. do It well. "Gird up your will, till your puls thrill. And you dare lo your very houI; Do something, more than ninke a noise Let your spirit leap Into flame. As you plunge with a irv, I'll do or die' Then you'll he playing the fcnme." I hope that all you graduates herd ibis evening will nnd it possible to 1:0 on through the college and thn University. I Invite you all to Join 11s and go on wllh that grand army of young manhood and womanhood to greater heights, to greater attainments, attain-ments, to greater possibilities for service, ser-vice, and all unto this splendid thing that you have done until now. The greater the training the greater thn respontihllilv ;,n, it,,, greater thn pfsihilily for Joy. Your oi.nortunitles have been "renter than tho-e or your parents, (continued ou pugu k ) (continued from page 1) ml he, ause of this fact the state ex- ects in ore of you. Are you going to stop and lose out Iter this splendid beginning? Live hat you may not have to "Count thai day lost whose low, 'e-cending sun. views from vnur and no wurihy action done." Live every day. Live all the day. 'I" mil become so serious that you -row old while yet young, or that on forget lo live every day. Tie heerful. people as fellowmen. 'ff prudent. P,e thrifty. He moderate moder-ate in dress as well as in habit. Cherish Cher-ish those friends who are tried and 'rue. In closing permit me to repeat the "ords of PoloniiiK to his son as the ''Her was about to enter his ship for ''is life work. Polonius entering a ""in iff the palace is surprised to hi'1 efill I here, and orders him oft: "I!ut there; My blessings with thee 'nd these few precepts in my mem- "ry ' ee thou character. Give thy thots no longiie. "or any unproportioned thought its act. ' thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.. The rrienns thott b?st and their adoption ad-option tried. ' Crapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel lint, do not dull thy palm with entertainment enter-tainment Of each new-hatched unfledged com- rad, lieware Of entrance to a quarrel, hut being ill. 'ienr't that Hie opposed may beware of thee. Hive -very man thy ear, but few thy voice; "v" ''"'' man's censure, but reserve thy judgment Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy 'fift not expressed in fancy; rich, not g;i udy, l-'or the apparel oft proclaims the man. Wither a borrower nor a lender be Kor a loa not't loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. hus-bandry. Put this above all; to thine ownself be true And it needs must follow as the night the day. Thou canst not Ihen be false to any man." |