Professor W. S. Perry

Services In memory of tlie late Trof. W. S. IVrry rrr beid in the cbapel of ilit' high school Friday &t2o'clock. On the stage were si the school board, the teachers of the schools of the city and raembers ol the clergy. The Missea Clara Josle Jacobs aii'l Miss Fanny Xoung, of the School of Musie, sang a duel wlth piano awMinpanhneoi by Miss Virginia FisU.1. of the School of Music. Rev. J. ■!. Gelston offiered prayer, and after a song by ïlss ïoung, tlio preeidant of the board, Mrs. Bttch, spoke of the sterling Chrlstlau character 0L tbi ■ d! whlcn shone like ;i bright star in our school life, anti wbich made its influeace feit wiili all men. As a teacher he left a monument in tliis city and state more lasting and durable th;in marUe and brass. Miss L. G. Downs, who represented the ward schools, said thai Prof. Perry's name Is placed oí) the galaxy of great educators in this land. His ifort to brlng the niind .r the teacher upon every detail had its effect. It was the I Ms great sucoess. The speaker s.iid the deceased n-aa a hroad man. [Ie save the little on as mach ■ is thé grown pupil. He wishetl tl er to rule wíth au iron h ind .■ fed with a veJvi i glove. rin teacher feil tliat her superintendent belièved that eharaeterbuilding should be a chief fenture In the edueation of tiie cliild. Father Kelly, of St 37homas ehnreh. said he liad been invited to say a few words at these exetcises in behalf or St. Thon;-i school. It, seei.iod to hini that the vacaui ehair before liim contaiued more evidenee in it ti.au anything h" could say. lt epoke of one dc-parted who liad a noble cnaractor. The deceased was broad enough in his range as an educatoT to ertciiii pass chlldren of all cluflses, sects and denonnnatiins. He i=av ondy the eliiki and iis intollectual iinprovement. Prof. Peny had frequently viiird si. Thomas' school and had evldencftd great intóresl ín its worb aiul its sucess. Those wlio Instrut-I itliers ar like stars th.-n slilne througii al! eternity. Prof. Perry had buikled bis star. Father Kelly believed tliai the school board should al sonie time fiml II expedient -o eicvt .i chape] to the menv ory of Prof. Pervy. 'Ir. G eist on, a gradúate of the high school, folliiucd Father Kelly and spoke at length of the itifluence whicïi the personality of Prof. Perry 1i;h1 left not only on the pupii but on the parcnt as well. Prof. Perry had ai' alca In life. To edncate and Improve hih fellow-men was liis niission. In orde) to do thls, n mail nm be a good man, a. pure man, a Christlao man, ,-unl such a one was Trof. Perry. ïiie speaker feit that a solaT light Bad gone out. Prof. A. H. PatteugHl pe for rhc terichers of the high school. The speaker sald that the achoöl was bis ïiie. He nevei1 spared htaself in anj way. He worked Incéssantly for tht. success of ihe schools, aud when he "svas strlcken down it was the ]hysica body. not the mental faeutttes thai way. Mrs. Dr. Sunderland, Üie nex peaker, pnM a glorLág tribute to tht ir.emory of the deceased teacher. Shr poke earnestly. feelingly, of the pur" wil of the teacher in whose com memoratlo.i these servloeK M'i' ïieiu. beid, fntwlned Itaeli around the sou ei the little one. breathing purltj nd truth and knowledge. Miss Jacobs san.y "The Better Land' and Father Kelly pronounced tlie ben edietion. Standing In the presenee of n srea-1 pablle loss, the teachers of the school desire to aW their tribute oL reverent grief tor ;i trusted trien. 1 lost and a noble man (allen; anti to express their sense of profound appreciatóon of a gmit life llved in their midst, simply, and without ostenta!! íor so niany years. The bigbeet attrïbutes oL greatness moet always be tnoral and spiritual. Loyalt.y to duty in home, eburch, TOhool amd city, brave ehainpionlng of nniopular causes whlch seemed to foim rlght, unsiinieii sei-vdee where service vas lm-. qulel perslstonce in ■wiiat appealed to him as worthy to be done, these are some of the mor.:! characterlstics and virtues tor whleb all who knew Prof. Perry have don.' nd will continue to do him honor. Aa teachers of the high schpol we would add another to iliis list. W have seen his life from a peculia vantage ground. Wc have seen it i the trying liglit of evsryday work through three, six, ten, flfteen, twenty and in the case of one of our numfcer through tweaty-four consecutlvfe years, under circumstance? where bams, if tuey existed, must sooner v? later "have revealed themaelvee, and moral defecls have been detected. In tl search-lig-ht of this daily Interourse the predominant trait of Prof. Perry's character, as we have seen it, fca ever been revereace - reverenee toward God, toward truth and right, toward human Ufe In all lts phases', ur especially toward human souls as aman souls, No opinión of fellow teacher was vit ignored, no rfcijiies! of any pupil ver was siMiim.'irily dlsmissed, no hort-coming wis ever coEdemned ■iiliout Investigación, no effori toward ei'pTin of even the worst pupil ever icked symp&thy and encourageineat, o good work was ever passed by 'ithout pecognition. Hei was :i rare ml who stood in the presence of 1 1 i-r othiT human soul ms ■.!](■ wïio u-i gfíve .-i i .-iiiiui for his personal ifluence i'.i moülding hu aan lives and liaractei's. As friends and f"ilv teachers hose woi'k la nol yëi done, we coukl isli for ourselves nul fór all-eduiiors nu hlg'lier spiritual fiirnishing ir OH!' lliiih calling Of Mioinilcrs (.f oung life, thought aml ldLals, uha.n iis sa-uio spirit of reverence for _ill ilogs true, Iwmest, Jusl ;n of k""1 epute, luit espeoially reverence for ie souls of uïiich thes ■ virtues may ecome attrlbntes. In belialf of the high school teachers. .t. g. r.vrrivNciiYL. E. R. StXDKKI.AXD, L. I'. ,TO KI.V.N. Oonimtttee.