The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-05-25

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ton was indeed drawing nearer to
what it should be.
commencement Exercises 5th st.
Highs chOol 5mO 18th 1872.
How it Seemed to an "Oid Foqy,"
BY invitation of the Superin-
tendent, ! was present to see and
hear ut the close Of school term,
or what is very inappropriately
termed the Commencement Exer-
cises,' when four pupils should
graduate from the Richmond
High School. 1t had been thirty
years since l welded little brief
authority in Public School; so
this was novelty, and, | wanted
to see the vastimprovement claim
ed by the modern Swans, to sec
if the increased pay-increasel
facilities, DC: DC. showed proper
returns. .os
Well; first, Music-page so and
SOL think it was called Morning
Prayer but the big machine called
q piano put IN not only an ap>
pearance but opened the battle and
though the words may have been
good-sound destroyed sense, but
I suppose the music was good
A standing prayer followed, well
executed and I thought quite ap-
propriate. Then followed more
music. The Lord is my Shepherd
shall not want. The title was all
I could hear, balance lost in sound
feared many did not mind the
Shepherds Crook and could not
hear his voice. Then followed LIST
Essay.-could not hear much of
delivery not good aud entirely
too low for large hall; understood
it to be something about work and
Iprehaps about the great problem
Of the age of-'How not to do it.
2d-Essay-Could only hear
snatches Of it-parts of sentences,
&C., from which I concluded i,
was something about the knowl.
edge Of the senses. One sentence
l think I heard was that Sound
effects US more than sense which
I thought sound maxim and quite
appropriate to the occasion. Th,
position of the reader was bad
head down-chin too low, DC
The Essay was no doubt good.
3rd-Essay. young lady-th
same stiff bow, or maybe it was
q curtesy-her enunciation wa
some better-heard at interval
only-subject seemed good hear
this, sall things in Nature have
york to perform,-has not man
I thought he had work to per
form, or else how would the mod
ern young lady flourish, who, Xix
Solomon's lilies of the valley, 'to
not, neither spin,' &c. The Els
say seemed full Of hopeful aspira
tions Of youth, and pious thoughts
quite creditable to the composcl
but Of course exhibited signs {
unripened experience, and yer
decidedly opposed to female sufre
age, and inclined rather 10 lin
women's sphere of usefulness
+ could not help asking myself,
her education such as. to fit her f,
| her various duties? The answt
, was, No. The Essay ended wit
the quotation well, done the
, good and faithful servant &c
. which showed the writer had til
use Of tho Bible either in publ
schools or home instruction
Then came the last Essay, by
young lady. A Slight bow to Il
audience. Enunciatioa decided
better than the last-yet tone or
voice not loud cnough-only suit
r to a partor circle-her voice oft.
, at important poin.s, falling so IL
+ as to become almost inaudi!
i Could not keep the run Of the E
0 say, good parlor reader, but t
q low for a large hall. One senten
> or part of is-'If one could flores
q all the disappointments he wou
9 meet in this world, he won
9 give up in dispair.' 1 thong
!. good, though not new. Aga
there are noble ends in lifo-whit
I supposed was intended to
@ aims. Again, Ambition is goo
&C., was an assertion / could I
10 assent to, not finding any su
e maxim in the great Book Ag.
!, 'shc political horizan is darA'-N
r an expression coming from
Of young female graduate, which
m dictates the coming American v
Or men. The whole Essay, as far
d. l..n6nxafood mr. rafhor Ion I'd :.