You will leave school behind and tackle the world as budding men and women.

You will begin soon to grapple with the work, the problems, the toil---the tears and the joys that come with the beginnings of grown-up life.
Those of you who are to be favored with a chance to go further in your education, and who will be schoolboys and schoolgirls yet a while, I most sincerely congratulate.

For those who, on the other hand, will step straight from Exhibition Hall into the world of work---aye, and the world of deeds and triumphs, too---I bid you to be of good cheer and courage! "Be bold, true and loyal! If you have any wonder, any misgivings as to what the world and life may have in store for you, I tell you that these are questions that you will decide mainly for yourselves.
It's the hardest thing in this universe to down any man or woman who faces grown-up life with a good and honest claim on the good things of existence.

Yet on this subject one word more.

Uprightness of heart, of word and deed are not alone sufficient.