Daily Republican., 1879-06-25
GAsTRONOMIUAL GRADUATES
They Indulge in . s. Big Feed -
How the AlumDi Works q Han.
Quet-Paplts and Pedag OF ues In
Pacific Pr0fasiOn A Flow Of

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Soul.
Last evening some twenty graduates
Of the Boys High school out of fifty
three members forming the Alumni as
ssmbled in the Clayton House. The
occasion was meant to be reunion
but through an unwise application o
shortsighted economical proclivities Of
a number, it was unfortunately only q
successfully carried out deternin alton
on the part of minority including the
officers Of the alumni. The Executive
Committee were Messrs. Charles Rey-
nolds, J. Harmer Rile, M. D., and
Stewart Almond. For such an objec,
no better committee could have been
appointed and notwithstanding the
unprecedented opposition they encoun.
tered, they succeeded in giving re-
union which for completeness and style
surpassed all former efforts.
AT nine o'clock the association with
the invited guests, among them being
President Eckel, Superintendent Har-
Ian, Professor Wiley, Rev. DR.. Steven.
son, Mr.. Jno. H. Adams, Henry Conrad
and Rev. Mr.. Keye occupied the dining
room. After an address of welcome
from John N. Carswell and a prayer by
Kew. Mr.. Keye, the Alumni and their
friends fell to.
The members of the Alumni present
were Messrs. John N. Carswell, J. Har-
mer Rile, M. d., John d. Kurtz, H. H.
Billany and Lilburn Chandler of the
class of'74; Walter Bacon, w. C. Muir
gatroyd, Frank Merrihew, w. Stewart
Almond, John Palmer, Jr., Charles
Reynolds, Jr., of class '76s Charles A..
Rudolph, w. B. Carswell, John Il.
Greiner, B. +. Mcdaniel of class IT;
Joseph N. Harman of class '7s; Warren
II. Farra, s. Norris Fogg, l.. E. Quigg
and W. c. Pierce of class 10.
The graduates through the varied
vicissitudes of their short careers as re-
sponsible worldlings may have forgotten
the exactions of the curriculum. They
may have ceased, with scholastic
thorouganess, the consideration of ques-
tions in the abstract; dropped forever
the head. aching, brain distracting
Observation-Disclosures of school day
happiness. All that they may have
forgotten but the way those twenty
graduates got outside of as many plates
of fat oysters and delicious turtle soup
plainly indicated that one Fundamental
branch of their early education at least
had not been neglected. Clayton House
never did better in setting a table, and
those twenty students with unanim-
ity wonderful to behold, began at
menu and continued to lizard Boil
ed sheep head lobster sauce, ""Tender-
loin of beef with Mushrooms" and
"broiled spring chicken on toast"
A feast for an epicure
That table was stricken with the
force of d famine. The guests whose
digestive apparatus fairly yearned at
the sight, looked on in amazement. The
Invasion went on and chicken after
chicken, soup after soup, and fish after
fish disappeared with rapidity born
only of high pressure. When "izzard'
was reached an effort was made to get
back to "menu," but they broke down.
Sorr)wfully and sadly, they broke
down! With the last leg OF soft shell
crab disappeared the look Of determin-
alton, and with sigh of regret, as they
looked at the pastry and dessert so
conveniently near, they gave up the
contest. The attack lasted just one
hour.
T0ASTS AND SPEECHES.
After the graduates had somewhat re-
covered President Carswell stated that
the time had arrived for tOasts aud an
nounced the first of the evening" sour
High School," which was responded to
by Prof. S. J. Wiley, who stated that
it was subject with which he as we'll
az many of those before him were ac-
quainted. He referred to their school
day lives and said that if they had learn
ed anything in that time that would
be profitable not onl y to themselves but
to others, he would think his years of
labor as their instructor, will not have
been in vain. As to the success of the
High School a look down along the rows
at the tables speaks for itself. He said
he would be glad to see some of the old
and have them again visit
the rooms around which linger so many
fond recollections; and to examine again
and note the number of dement's scored
through the weeks. He closed with a
hearty well wish for the society's sue
cess and counseled a forgiving spirit
and harmonic action.
"Our school systematic Foster
mother of our successful merchants"
to by Henry Eckel, President
If the Board of Education. The Board
If Education he said was body that
,ould speak for itself; and consequently
le would allude briefly to the education
II institutions of the city. He spoke of
hem aud their success and also of the
means that would encourage and
trengthen the work. 81 think as |
ook around me-" he continued, "and
eel as though | was a'little out of place,
When went to school there were no
uch things as alumni associations;
here were no high schools; John Quin
'ey Adams had not then been elected
President of the United States and
an remember the old Conestoga wagons
IS they rolled onward in their long tire
ONE way.
We had nothing that we have now.
All of this improvement-this vast pro-
ress in art and science has come
through the thoughts of young minds
f the American youth. And in going
little farther l would just ike to say
his: that whatever there is in this ex-
ansion of the intellect it must be the