Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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THE HYAK. 11 But I do not believe it, and I hope you will never come to believe it. Total depravity is a worn out doctrine,— wore out because it never was true. While life lasts there remains at least capacity for good and there is hope that the good may yet overcome the evil. Human life lias taken on a new aspect since our Great Exemplar entered into it and lived it. Think often of His courage, which we too may share. ‘Be of good cheer, I have over- come then ‘Hold fast the good,’ that following in His steps you too may overcome evil with good. I said but a moment ago that it was not my good fortune to be initiated into the mysteries of your sorority, and consequently I cannot know the meaning of those mystic letters, Delta Pi,— but I remember enough Greek, at least, to know that these letters in plain English are D. F., and I sup- pose I am at liberty to tell that whatever else they may stand for they cer- tainly stand for ‘Don’t Pout,’ and ‘Don’t Pine,’ ‘Don’t,’ because they never did anybody any good any where or any how. Possibly also they stand for Do, Patiently, and Perservingly. Do your part. And if this happens to be their meaning, or anything like it, then with all my heart, I say ‘Hold it fast,’— for it contains the true secret of the real success of life, — for it is what will certainly remain, though all else be taken from you. Then I must tell you if you are to hold fast this good you must some how manage to hold fast the enthusiasms, the bouyant hopes, and the ideals of these days which you are now leaving. In short you must keep young. And dear Oliver Wendell Holmes, who, somebody has said, was still young at eighty, has left us the secret of it. And this is it, ‘It is faith in some- thing and enthusiasm for somebody that makes life worth living.’ To which another, who was also still young, it makes no difference how many birthdays he has had, has added, ‘This faith may take on manifold forms but in essence it is always the same— the soul’s grasp of what is higher than itself, a conviction of a spiritual order, pure and holy, reg- nant in the universe, which though at present invisible, will in the end make its triumph known.’ But after all you do not have to go so far afield for a shining example of one who has drunk from the fountain of perpetual youth, and not only professes, but lives such a faith. You know whom I mean,— but I must tell you that a Commencement address here in this school with no mention of dear Mrs. Raynor, would be worse than Hamlet with Hamlet left out.

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THE HYAK. 13 Will you bear with me for just one more counsel, and that is that to hold fast the good means finally to hold to fast to the Eternal Goodness who nil your life through holds you in His love and keeping. He it is who gives you your life with all its opportunities and advantages. He it is who has marked out for each the path, and upon each has laid a claim for service. To accept gladly and willingly this service and to follow when He pointeth the way, is to hold fast the good here and always. And now, my dear girls, my address is done. In the words of the story which I have told I am not going to detain you any longer for I know you are very anxious to receive these diplomas and crosses. But I will not say farewell. I will only make my own the Roadmender’s parting cheer, 1 cry you Godspeed to the next milestone and beyond Speech of Welcome Class Prophecy . . . CLASS DAY PROGRAM . Nellie Parker “THE REVENGE OF ' SHARI-IIOT-SU” A Japanese Comedy in two acts. Cast of Characters Shari-hot-su Sama Martha Chapin Kioto, a young Japanese Edna Keylor Harold Armstrong, a young American Winifred Higgins Mrs. Beaconstreet, from Boston Alice Stoddard Nina, her daughter Jeannette Thorne Moig-ui-fa, called Cherry Blossom Sara Wheeler Toy-ama, the mother of Moig-ui-fa Mary Atkinson Planting of the Tree Class Song Amelia White Presentation of Spade Grace McDonald Receiving of Spade Frieda Foard