Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-06-28
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Perrysburg High School, June 81, 1879

through the whole Of the exercises, aud felt re-
paid for the Inconvenience. The rooms and
stage werO srtislicelly aud tastily decorated.
The following is the programme Of exercises,
the Msumee String Band furnishing portion Of
the music;
MUSIC. PRAYER. MUSIC.
salutatory A. Ross.
This Too Must Pass Away,
ANNA A, SHANNON.
MUSIC.
The Love Of the Beautiful,
MARION II. Curtis.
The Ideal aud The Real,
MAGGIE RoAcu.
MUSIC
Rome WAS not Built in Day, toration,)
HENRY A. Ross.
Wonders Of the 10th Century,
EuPuEMIA 8. RoBsRrsoN.
MUSIC.
Nothing but Leaves, with valedctory,)
SARAH P. LINDSAY.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Juvenile Address to the Graduates,
JENNIE SWEET, ANNA u. UIHTH-Prim. Dept.
MUSIC.
Commencement Address,
g. P. TAYLOR, Supt.
BEHEDioTIoN.
The exercises of the evening, as will be seen
by the above programme, were opened with
Silutatory by HSNRY A. Ross, which was well
llculated to secure for the class q favorable
hearing. II was delivered in we'll chosen lam
guage, and did him credit, Notwithstanding some
embarrassment, natural t. so young man in
opening the exercises of his class, before so
large an audience.
The essays we're all so excellent that we would
be glad to publish them entire but for want Of
rnOm, will have to cOnhne ourselves to a short
notice of each. We we're struck with the solid
and practical character Of the themes as being
very different from the sensational, or catch sub
jecls, so frequently chosen on such occasions.
"THIs TOO MUST PASS AWAY
By Miss ANNA A. SHANNON, was very well treat
|, for so young writer. She illustrated her
subject with instances well selected, Of empires {,
cities and work. Of art, which had posed,
| apparently, all the elements Of durability, and
yet had "passed away"--as well as with those
more familiar illustrations, drawn from tho con-
stantly changing aspects of nature and Of hu-
man life. The application Of her subject was
appropriate and impressive
fTHE IDEAL AND THE REAL"
Was treated by Miss MA0eIE RoAoH with q
thuughtfulness, and clesrnsss scarcely to be ex-
peoted, when we consider the nature Of the sub
| ject. Her definition Of the 'ideAl" as embracing
all that is beautiful and aesthetic in culture, was
most satisfactory, Her alluson TO WASHING
TON ALLsToE, the poet, painter and writer, was
a well deserved tribute ofprase to the memory
of the man who devoted his life to the worship OF
the beautiful.
She compared the dreams Of the youth in col
lsgs, with the realities of his mature manhood
and closed in language most happily ehos en.
with the old mans dream Of a reunion with his
loved and gone before. in that beautiful world
where the "ideal and the real" will be so blended
together, that the heart will have nothing more
to wish, the fancy nothing more to create.
IN "rHs LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL"
By Miss MARION H. CURTIS, were many beauti-
thoughts, beautifully expressed. The writer
commenced by showing that 'sonsibility to the
beautiful" belongs to all human beings. 1t
helps to adorn the palace and the cottage. There
are the beauties of physical nature, and those OF
intellectual and moral qualities and actions.
This sense OF the beautiful adds greatly to the
sum of human happiness in all its department.
Of high and low; its unvaryiug tendency is to
elevate human character by silent but all pow
erful influence so that often the surest way tC
raise the degraded is by bettering their external
physical condition. Beautiful thoughts and
emotions are closely allied to good ones and ca
silly emerge into them. The Importance of cul-
tivatiug love OF the beautiful was held up in a
strong light.
"RoMs WAS NOT BUILT IN DAY."
Was very skilfully handled, in an GRAFTON, BY
! Mr.. HKNKY A. Ross. The gradual growth o
Rome To power, wealth aud greatness, through
centuries, was taken as the type Of all grea
works, ply sicai and moral, teaching US patient
? industry and perseverng hope. Wealth is bull
: up by additions, day by day, of cents and dol
lars continued through many long years--intel'
igesee, by gaining one idea at time through
, whole lifs-and character and reputation b.
, small accreiions of good principles and nobl
deeds. lie closed with avery appropriate sp
pcation of his subject to his sehoolmates regard
, ing their education.
' "TBE WONDERS OF TIE SINETEEETH CENTURY.
J.. BY Miss EuPHENIA 8. RoBERTsOs, was intro
duced by comparing the discoveries aud marvel
4 Gus achievements of the different ages to th
stars in the armament --thinly scattered in som
il places, IN others thckly clustered in shinn
groups-that while many past ages had given
: the world wonders in science and in art whicl
Il bad never been surpassed, it had certainly bee
r given to this age to produce the brightest son
stellaton Of all that is usefal In both. Her man
mar Of treating the subject indicated an inelliRen
nowedge Of it, which could not fail to make
pleasing impression upon the audience. W.
, assure her that so far as she and her classmate
4 are concerned, that p,"ibl' ''miohine that 10
}. turn out fine graduating essays" was not much
/. needed.
2 "NoTHIEG But LEAvEs,"
o By Miss SARAu p. LINDSAY, was treated in 4
very original way. She introduced it in tha
e agreeable conversational style that ID always 8
n attractive in an essay. She was walking Wit
y the owner in fus orchard-On expressing he
!, admiration of beautiful tree, was told by he
# friend that it had been a Rroa. disappointment