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suffering we can not comprehend the ills of others or be aught hut out­ siders when men and women and children are in need of our sympathy and our help. And in some strange way pain is often one of the greatest
teachers. She brings strength and wisdom; she opens the eyes of the soul.
It must seem to you that far from being a fairy godmother on your Commencement Day I am the evil fairy who causes all the troubles of the after yeai^s. But my wish is only that you may have in abundance your share of life, and that you may live it royally, content with only the best that you have to give to yourselves and to your fellow-citi/ens on our
planet. No mean wish, after all.
And now, members of the Class of 192-6, I have another wish to make— for those whom you are leaving. It Is that you may come back often to share your joys and your sorrows with us, who lo\’e you well and who will miss you greatly.
The graduates were: Jean Bassett, Dorothy Bugbee, Julia Scott Butterfield, Caroline Christy, Mary Harriet Collins, Ruth Ferris, Else Kroll, Margaret Ludwig, Florence Meeker, Virginia Murray, Margaret
O’Neil, Jeannette Sim, Shirley Way, and Sarah Maud Weyerhaeuser.
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