Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-21
Adieu! A glance of fond regret We cast on scenes where once we met And dreamed in sunny days of yore, The dreams we'll dream on earth no more.
 

The large assembly retired much pleased with the afternoons programme and feeling rewarded for their efforts in attending. Many 1 stopped on the way down to look in rooms ? and f, where some 1,6OO specimens of draw | ing executed by pupils in the district under l Prof. Balls instruction are arranged on exhi- bition. A large number of them are exceed ingly creditable to the pupils, the district and their very efficient and able ins structor. Bos- ton, with it's 35,OOO school children, after ] wandering and groping under an erroneous system of drawing instruction, and having 1 half a dozen or more instructors and a direc- tor in chief, at large salaries, has adopted the method which our New Haven schools have 1 long had the benefit of, thanks to Prof. Ball. system which does not depend upon guiding | dots or other meretricious aids to drawing, but insists upon the training of the eye and the cultivation of independence and self-re- liance in the art. The High School exhibits are all shown in one room. There are hibits from all departments of the institu ton. The exhibit will doubtless attract many visitors to-day and evening. The ef l forts of the pupils in both the High and Grammar schools have each the name of the pupil attached and in the grammar school exhibit the ages of the pupils are also at- tached.
 The graduation exercises take place this evening at High School Hall. The great de- mand for the tickets of admission assures an overhowing house if the weather permits, and the hall, large it is, is insufficient to accommodate all who have applied for tickets. The programme for this evening as follows:
 l. Music-Tune Your Harps.. .............-- Handel
 From the Oratorio of Judas Maccabaeus.
 ESSaV T OOua M
 B. Oration-Mary Stuart Upon the Scafold.
 Thomas M Cahin.
 A. Music-A Spring Song .Pinsuti
 5. Essay-Principle and Circumstance.
 - Joseph H Townsend
 WitS obGao sos 6T of Senior sss 8. Literature, Sentimental and Practical. Miss Eleanor A. Peck
 g. Essay-lndividuality-Mi Mary E. Andrew.
 Solos in unison by members of senior Class. F. Essay-The Graces of Life-Miss Mollie Nader 13. Musicals the Heart Pants -Mendelssohn l5. Essay -Work-Miss Alice M Merriman.
 With valedictory Address.
 16. Music-Hail, Bright Abode. Wagner
 March from Tannhauser.
 r. Conferring diplomas by Superintendent Parish. 1s Music-draduating Song, ''Al is Well," original 1s. Music-Closing Hymn, 'Ere the Parting Word is / Spoken. .-........ Haydn
 The Alumni Association meet Friday even- ing, and after reports listen to an address from Prof. R. F. Leighton, of Brooklyn, N. Y, on ''The system of education in ancient Rome."
 On Friday evening there will be large and fashionable assembly of graduates and mem- bers at Loomis' Temple of Music, when trip ping the light fantastic will be the order of the hour, with excellent music and catering by MT. Radcliffe. Enough tickets, it is re- ported, have been disposed. of-price two dollars-to insure successful affair.
 Last night the class of 1880, High School held their first annual reunion at Redcliffe's, disposing of fine supper, after which came literary exercises. MT. E. Otis Hovey, of Fair Haven East, and Miss Fannie M. Ull- l man gave the history of the class for the 1 year, and poem was read by Miss Lottie Cor ham. The regular toats were as follows: Class of ,s0 James w. Cain 1 H. H. S..........,..... Miss Hattie Barker 1 Our Teachers Miss Mary A. Maltby | E. s.. Miss N Louise Burle1gh Our ColIeg1ans -EoWara A. "rlsnt | AIuInnl. -.O. 0reuner Our Absent Miss Carrie A. Parsons Ir1enn1al.- MES l.. Deila 0ates
 The class committee were Misses Julia M. | Morrissey, s. Lizzie Briggs and James ". Cain, TN cba