Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-06-25

Luo buAANOEeHAy NANAOAoOa VI
High Schools took place yesterday
afternoon at Chapin's Hall. The hall
was crowded, chiefly by ladies', the futtsring
Of whosefans was like tho noise of flying fooks
Of birds. Flowers rare and beautiful adorned
the platform, while the graduates were
shOwered with bOquets beautiful and nu-
msrous. The young ladies who were to
graduate were beautifully dressed in white,
and looked too fresh and fair for young Ia
dies that have gone through the long cam
paign Of study necessary to graduate. They
looked commencement day. The memories
of the days gone by, tempered the joy at
feeling they were done with school books
and school days.
The following are the officers of the Board
of Education
President-John q. Sargent.
Ssorstsry-L. D. Hudson.
uporintendsnt-AnsOn Smyth, A. NJ.
The following are the names of the gradu-
ates y:
GRADUATES OF EAST HIGH SCHOOL.
Henry Falrlamb Clark, Catherine Hannah New
man, Martha Ann Hewett, Edmund Mould Num-
sen, Emily MehetRbel Hulburd, Marcus Rosen-
water, William Roscoe Hobbie, Caroline NJ. Sew
erance Pichands, Theodosia Alster Lyons,
Annie Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Augusta Msther
Csrohne Putnam Sked, John Howard Webster.
GRADUATES OF THE WEST HIGH SCHOOL.
Helen c. La Courage, Millie A.eiA 'derson, EN-
ma N; Parcel, Hattie A. Swift, Libbie Psrkin,
Anna B. Thome-
PROGRAMME.
PRAYER.
MUSIC.
oRAT1os-Let there be Light.
EssAT-Hiddsn Treasures.
Martha A. Hewett
Essay WomaHs Work is Nsusr Done.
Emily L. Hurlburd,
EssAT-LJfting the Veil.
Helen G. La Gourgue.
EssAT-TTiass.
EssAT-7Rs Golden Ags.
EssAY-Mystsry.
Kittie H Newman.
osATION-Ths Roman Soldier.
William E. Hobbie.
EssAY-Wbat Neat.
EmmaN. PARCEL.
EssAT-AdUaneing BdckTards.
Libbie Parkin.
KUsIC.
GRAFTON.
Edmund N. Numsen. !"
nExcused.
EssAT-Ths Rising Generation.
EssAE-LinEsin in the Chain Of Life.
Mile A. sanderson.
ORArIoE-Pgeasares of the Imagination.
Marcus Rosenwater.
MUSIC.
Essay What's all this ForT
Annie E. Spencer,
EssAY-SRGd0lOs on the Picture Of Peace.
Hstlie A. Swift.
Assay Truth Stranger than Fiction.
Anna B. Thome.
Henry F. Clark.
MUSIC.
Address by the President.
FERMENTATION OF DIPLOMAS.
Doxology.
BRNEDIOrIoN.
II would be unjust to speak in critical
detail Of the character of the exercises. The
young ladies and gentlemen who appsarsd,
some possibly for the first time, before the
public, did not present themselves as sub
jscts of criticism, but rather to offer their
friends some slight testimony in the form
Of an OratiOn or an essay, indicating what
the training ofOur City Schools can do for the
youth of the City.
The sffsct of the war On the sympathies of
our schools was manifest, in the frequent re-
ference made to the sad and pathetic re-
alitiss Of our great civil conflict.
Tho exercises were interesting, also, as
showing what kind of thoughts find lodge
ment in their minds, in passing through our
schools. To think, is the chief object of
education. It is therefore gratifying to the
friends of our city schools to know that a
liberal independence of thought was ex-
hibited in the productions of the graduating
,lasa, and that the essays and orations were
marked by vigOr of theught unusual in per-
IONS so young as were the graduates.
The necessity of thorough vocal training
vas manifest in the fsil%rs of several of the
IOung ladies to be heard.
The Grafton of J. Howard Webster showed
n excellent fund of thought and very
hoice delivery. Experience will enable him
o take high rank as public speaker. Hid
len Treasures contained variety of thoughts
n what are as yet matters almost wholly
nexplicabIe. Lifting the Veil, was vision
ntO the future after the war is over. Miss
"a Gourgus drew very pleasant picture f
he days of peace that await the country.
Miss TheOdOsis A. Lyons, after discours-
ng very correctly on the value of small
hings, of what many esteem tribes, was al
nOst buried in boquets in token of the ap-
Of the audience.
The Golden Age, by Miss Ellen A. Mathsr,
isprOved the common deIusiOn that st some
ime there was golden age better and
Oblsr than what the Present is or what the
'uture promises. The true Golden Age is be-
'ond the grave. Miss Mather's essay was
astsfully prepared and read with much self
ossession.
Although William R. HObbie did excellent
1stice to the stern Roman soldier, We |
hOught he should not have forgotten soldiers |
lore than Roman.
Millie A. Ssnderson read very pretty es-
~ on Links in the Chain of Life. She was |
OlloWed by Marcus RossnWstsr in an ora
on which did the young gentleman much
rsdit. Marcus ROsenwstsr is an example Of |
hat four years of hard study may do for q
Oy whOss heart is in the work. His OratiOn
rOmisss much fer him. Let him, however,
OF begin his speeches with SO long SON
moe IS he did yesterday.
Miss Carrie P. sksd told the audience
bout the superstitiOuS signs Of our good an
'stOrs, and which even now prevail in some
uaEtsrs. The essay Of Miss Thoms exhibit
very good taste and Judgment
srtainly life furnishes what is vastly more