Show valedictory address BY HELEN JACKSON reputation is what aliat tile the world thinks a man mail Is character Is what he really Is anyone can play shuttle cock with a mans finans reputation his character is ills alone and no one can injure it except he himself many men acquire in standing ng guard over their reputation while their character gives them no concern often man makes new ants lit in his cliar character acter in ills attempt to cut a deep deceptive ornament on oil the scabbard of ills his reputation imputation Is what a man discards when he leaves life for tin mortality ills ilia character is what he takes with him the man who wears an oppressive pompous air of dignity because he has accomplished some little work of importance because lie he is vested with a i brief mantle of authority loses sight of the true perspective ot of life lie ile Is destitute lie takes himself seriously it Is a thousand dollar reputation on two dollar character the man mail chois who as guilty of envy Is it victim of the oldest vice in the history of the world the meanest and most cOn contemptible contempt aible of human traits it began in the garden of eden will when satan envied adam and eve it caused the downfall of man mail and the first murder envy la Is the mud that inferiority throws tit at success envy Is reputation but emulation Is character mutilation emulation regards the success of another as tin an objective lesson it seeks to attain the same heights by the until path it discovers not to hurt hurl down own from ills his he hb who points out the way of attainment let it us keep the sword of emulation ever brightened and sharpened in the battle of honest effort when people be become conic envious it is often provable tor for them to turn the truth into a falsehood brunel the great engineer said spite and III nature tire aie among the most expensive luxuries of life tr truth is a rock foundation of character cliar acter and foar tt after truth sincerity inest yme come from froin ati bui heart or it will make no for no amount of polish can dispense with and individuality life would lose much of its interest and variety as well as its manliness and robustness of character prince IS kusmark Ismark lU one of the greatest statesmen of the nineteenth century remarked that during his whole life lie ho had not had twenty four hours of happiness though he be had had bad 83 years of wealth fame honor ence prosperity tind triumph happiness Is the greatest paradox in nature it can grow grow in any soul and live under any condition it delies environment it comes from within and it consists not of having not hot of possessing but of being and enjoying man la Is creator of his own happiness and it can exist with trial sorrow borrow and poverty helen kellers difficult life symbolizes hy by her mastery of the soul the zenith of true happiness she lilt hiis attained this glory by service to others if c bismark had hern been more helpful to all individuals he would have been happier to the teachers teacher who have guided our youthful steps along the intellectual highway anti and taught us how to mold miny many pitfalls we extend our i Kinks tn iii later inter years when wo we have wandered far from the scenes of our early training we will ever remember I 1 and pill im tire sure with incila increasing 4 appreciation the great part yon have h I 1 in our lives we wish each of f you years of health and usefulness ind if ive ie ever meet on oil the great hi hili high li way of me life may we he true friends friend s to the Seli school ool board who so carefully looked out for our physical comfort ns ils well nell as our intellectual growth we extend our warmest thanks the host best wishes of our graduation class clas will always be with you ion sly my friends with the closing of these exercises today we shall case cease toe to exist x as a class and it be becomes contes my duty to say farewell for man many years wf t aap 11 iap I 1 ve looked forward to this lay day when aben we would he bp proud graduates but lit now that tilt the hour bour has conn come to part pant a feeling of comes over us we nye know that plat from tilts tills time on oil wo w shill lead different lives from tho those so of the past we may visit obese scenes rc enes ngali lint a change will haac stolen over them and only in fancy will they appear the sanio same some of the happiest flags dm of hiir lives alty have been spent within those walls among those e wp we love lore so well veil and ns as lonz long n life lasts they will vill never ile be forgar ten |