The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-17

TaG pas, week has been IL, voted Ia com.
mencemenIs, not only in this CITY. but al
almost every point in Texas and the
states where the ambitious seminary. ~
academy" or college points it's cupola
sky-vard. Heartily glad that the worry.
turmoil and heat of the occasion are over
ones mind intuitiyely reyerts to the ,hickly
crowding triumphs and pleasures of that
week, for here were quailed the cup of
youthful success without any Of the bitter
dregs that turks in the tiagons OF the here
after. The crowded hall, brilliant with the
dainty coors of the fair; the subdued
chime OF feminine voices; the soft swish OF
the fans; the rostrum with its semi.circle
OF graduates, OF whom We are one; our
place IN the programme is reached
We step forward, thrilling with the
delicious excitement of the moment which
would be ectacy ITSELF were it not for the
spectre of failure that is continually circlipp
within our vision; a bold plunge into the
subject, slight chill and we vigorously
strike for the other shore; then the thun.
ders OF honest and energetic app lause.
mingled with the stacatto clapping OF tiny
hands ana the ear-spliting tribute of the
small boy-there is not discordan, note to
Us in this pHon OF praise; then the multi.
colored ram of floral tributes, and as we
stoop to gather the harvest, forgetting
bsccalaureate dignity and ball room grace
for the nonce-wefeel as though we have won
our spurs in this our first brush with the
realities, This picture, with all its delight.
: ful shadings, floats before our vision as 40
lay upon the plane of practicabiity, sorelv
stricken by some shaft that had pierced
through crevice OF an armor that all had
believed impregnable, even as the muir.
mur OF fountains rings in the ears of the
real soldier, wounded unto death on the
field OF his country. But we started TO
write OF the sweet girl graduate, aud of her
advent into society Clad in snowy white
an angel bright and far, rs she reads her
rbbon-tied vaedictory in the sweetest OF
monotones, and as we listen to its un.
broken cadences, we would suppose that
she had solved the mystery of existence,
and that lite's race would be a walk.oyer
With the correct Paris pronunciation, with
the latest rulings of the autocrats
OF grammar at her fingers ends, with sou
attuned to the melodies of the masters, and
with all the munutig excelently detailed
and gathered into her sensorium as neatly
as the laces are packed, strata on strata il
her mammoth trunk. All, sweet are
her dreams OF conquest in the realms o
pussy anu :. grahu IL he
nopg anu continues $,
un.l aose IN n's youIn ialls 70 WIN nef, anc
S9es Teop,"S ; ~ .ns mnuerhtss' WINE GIT
eugeu age WIN nesVy purse ana q heat
Oh gray outo,us III tne market OF hearts,anC
saSue's 81, .ne ,leasuIes LOT us own. An'
WIEN otuei VARS nave come, ana sh'
sis lopeu III eAterlence, wondering wher'
~ Ine n"pes nave gone the sign IS caaeh
up anu ooin ..st o"aru spot marking th'
way as u'u .ne uagsefs III ,he ar -th
way sue hiuS' go al iaS,, ANA yet II is To,
pLope' lu'.''nrn. What matters 1t Il
aue" .no EYER Is cool anu ,ne hopes al
gone "hen lhr creeping shadows and thu
se.V,'R w" yen Va ,ie euu, 20 resret VII
E eve p."t''se W 81, AZ WAGNER III IN
Iuu..u' au ',u eouu' .le tears sheu o!
nearly younS io'e' ne that iaiIeu 10 VIII
he'' -
Nh. THE FAST WEEK
nni,nS VIC past Meeh tne sociai sPhre
"aa snoeaeu anu .he cohlmerciai cotnmu
Ivy y Tent ia.u ,nournlns over one OF thos
r naa!,,i,a even.s thaI are sometimes :
p,eJ'p .h upon US TOT, IN the mystl
;u,oii thefe came ine occulstion Oh iavoi
asy nsnu, snai uisSaapp.arrsu py Peath
eclpse, Wheh the Ire OF captain j. l.. Lee
naru ielt Us anu Ill ieit tnat spiendi
p.e'aI had iallen rom the galaxy. But i
sne snaGo" vi tne Hreat slhtction, ever
the eanno. synsoie .ne Iee,iues una
Wv, wv sau DeIeaseiheht oese.s. anu we ura'
s nS ~ ~ 'a.m w s'"'y III s''e"ee '"e iesso
'N' ,Ie SERMON. =. Ia. Gill;,
roa, p,easan. eyent Oh ,as. oaooa,h after
ayon was an r'aopIa,ely prepared ulhhei
et 'ortn ny Mr. Inaries a rratt the neN
s ,a az w the mon uepot, uoulu ulhlne
roo d w tne guests present the reporte
n;nh, uo'g u, sne iolioSwlns. iron, parne'
I'oS'' P d.; Sohn iIon W;, uieorse peHter; esq
Ms a. ilies, esq" "U n,i'I aualI, Jane
oiSer anu o. r. n,iiot., ossiaes man
SSIn se"''e'neo VI u's'iusu'sheu citi@eh
sup ,,,,,. ~ .s..,o
rma S, M TI Tny Was Tpn''T W Gay a
,a,,nn ~, roa av,.,p'e, ine heorew eongre
sp.lnkle OF lhe newer ialth aus
Trl'enuq1 10 witness tne touohihg services
i, ~" III; saoyl, nuE. neniy ovnuh,' was gram
tn ~ n.s pries.ly mih'straii9n ana most ~
wrr1h.nIs group 3l Sanulu IVES reeeiVeu IN
,sin "SoOm', ey YELL i,esn anu Us ano,eht ns IN
iTsluooW Ineir names are as ioliow'
ScH iies'e r Iouun'' oaIah nyhan, EuWIh ! !
I'm. an.m' S Snar es APplepom, oeionlon
Mn n ''"oh H. Aeoo anu maurice
A.. III. MI.
ril enon'"S q" ."o nst a itsuy v
;; tnn Cuu.ou, he,' ". a. ohl'tn oIlicls
n "Y rare event occur,su III the matrih'
maa AZ" sW, uouole weuulng, Tue ohurc
,rioni nIaeu " overnoMins MIN wilhesse'
, ,n,,us anu acqualntanUes, Ane hlsn COZ
M',,ia 'g parues were MISSES SieHHale an
p..n aSer, uaugn,ets Vi mrs. mary
,r MNeu, anu Messss' Eooett l. iooie an
An T,, y, Lltuenelu;
nuussuay evening tne hlumnn annlve,
o sny V. tne gra1Mates OF the Dalias renal
SSoi,Ssse rom lS,I 10 tne present ume, wa
1874 mv,u M .ne college, MT 1ohh II. Eilo
n 'ael VI ceremonies. me exercises we,
Vjyyneu WNn prayer oy hev. pr. oonul
n nIer wls the ioiow,ng prograinme WI
, V;S,'uNeu openlhg auuress, vy MISE NM MA
H. ,'Na' uuo, iaie Moon, Wy niIsses TX
~ me'a ana Emma ioungi reeltM,on, Jei
sn v nfyNesi 3 hue, oy MISS hhignt' voc,
ITho' yahie Dear ey MISS lem ,ecitauoi
, nv pal1heaued Mar, oy MISS runenes
, ,Uys, SOLO, oy MISS Emma vppennein
i,alou, tne hailroau hraih' miss Neipe
S.uhen,a quo, misses ulops ~