Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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President’s Address. LAURENCE SCHAEFFER BITNER. T ADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The graduating class of the Millersville State Normal School extends to you all the most cordial welcome which is in its power to offer. We are glad to welcome you here—come to see what a few years of school life can do for the young student in developing him in many ways. It is only just to both class and institution that we should to-day meet for the last time as a united class, to give proof of what we gained while here. Yet, believing that you are expectantly waiting to hear what is yet to come, the meat of the program, as it were, and would waste but little time over this word of welcome—a mere introduction as a means of getting us better acquainted—I will detain you but a few short moments. We hope that you will be able to enter into the spirit of our exercises to-day, yet if anything should seem to you unkind or malicious, remember that it is our day—Class Day—and look at that which pleases you ill in the light of one who can sympathize with our thoughts and feelings. Indeed, all that we to-day do or say is with the best and kindest of intentions; and so, “with malice toward none and charity for all,” we unite as a class in bidding you a heartfelt welcome to these our exercises. Q. When is Laurence Bitner a quail? A. When he is in front of 325 whistling “Bob-White.” Miss Wertz has an abundance of names. She answers to twenty-three different ones. Mr. Swope (translating Virgil)—And now a light tip of light shone from the vertex of Julus.”

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...Program... $ MUSIC—March. PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS, . . Laurence S. Bitner. CLASS ORATION, . Grover C. Chandlee. PIANO SOLO--Selected , . Florence R. Reiser. CLASS POEM—“ Conquer Self..........Read by M. Florence Ely. RECITATION—The Quaker,.......................Bess Jennings. CLASS HISTORY...........................Willis W. Hackman. VOCAL SOLO—Spring’s Awakening.”—C. B. Haivley . . Maude Hostettbr. CLASS PROPHECY, IVY ORATION, . Benjamin K. Lehman. VIOLIN SOLO......................................Beethoven. (a.) Andante, from First Symphony—Beethoven. (b.) La Cinquantaine—Gabriel Marie. Horace M. Hull. STATISTICIAN,.................................M. Jeanette Conklin. RECITATION—The King’s Pardon—In the Colonial Days, Grace Castner. MANTLE ORATION, PIANO SOLO—Polacca Brilliante Katherine Hobach. . Karl M. Von IVeber. PRESENTATION ORATORS: GRACE CASTNER, . . . CORA LAFFERTY, HERBERT ROEDER.

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Class Oration. GROVER C. CHANDLEE. npHERE are two principles that govern all society. The first ' ■ is the principle of self-care and self-love. Every man is given charge of his own body, and the shaping of his life. As a result of this, there rests upon each individual the solemn obligation to make the most possible of himself. He is to store his mind with weapons against the day of battle which comes in every man’s life. But, although a man is responsible for his own growth and happiness, he is equally responsible for the growth and happiness of others. Just so much as he has secured his personal enrichment, so much is it his duty to secure the advantages of those about him. Love of one’s self at the expense of one’s fellows is criminal; but, on the other hand, to love one’s neighbors more than one’s self is self-destruction. Society is composed of individuals, but the aim of society is elimination of individualism. A destruction threatening the rights of many threatens the foundations of human happiness. This compels us to recognize that the weakness and injury of one are the weakness and injury of all. The law of the survival of the fittest applies very well. Thus, if a man possesses much wealth, he can achieve much. More opportunities are offered to the man of wealth than to the poor man. This rule will also apply in education; the more a man knows the more he can know. Every difficulty that we overcome gives us power to overcome the next difficulty. Sir William Jones tells us that he gave five years to mastering his first language, while he mastered his fourth dialect in six weeks. But as a successful man becomes more successful, so also will a weak man become weaker. If a man who seeks employment is shabby and old, this will increase, and his chances of securing employment will decrease. To-day society is recognizing the duty of the strong to the