St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-20
Fifteen Graduates Turned Loose From
the Minneapolis High School
Last Evening.
A Large Meeting Held in the Interest of
the Minneapolis Catholic Orphan
Boys Asylum.
Exciting City Hall Conference Over
the Paving Fight on Second
Avenue South.
Boydfsh Sentenced and Guillotte Ac
-To-Day's Picn1c--
General News.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.
commencement Exercises at Ply
mouth Church Last Evening.

commencement Exercises at Ply
mouth Church Last Evening.
The high school of Minneapolis, that
successful alma mater, was safely delivered
of fifteen more graduates last night, foul
promising young men and eleven bright
young ladies. The interesting ceremony
took place at Plymouth church, the audlto-
rum of which was made gay with mowers
and crowded with the friends OF educatlon.
The graduates, with the school ohclaIs, &c
cupied the platform, behind Whlcn DanZ ;
orchestra was ensconced, a gorgeous snleld
bearing the class motto rising hlgn IN the
rear. The only criticism that might De
made is that the class chose for motto thai
worn and weatherbeaten old cnestnut,
''Finis corenet opus"
The program opened with prayer and a
pair of musical selections. after which the
salutatorian, Joseph Wilson Cochran, Jr.,
was introduced. After delivering the
customary address of welcome, he began an
Grafton on the Elements OF Life IN Minnie
apolis. a loval address in which he paid
liberal tribute to the queen city of the
Northwest for enterprise, education and
general cosmopolitaniSm that characterized
it, closing with the patriotic sentiment,
America is America, and Minneapolis her
best exponent" The valedictory followed
Immediately, and was delivered by Miss
Mary Bell Day. Is There Room? was the
subject of her essay, and she took the ground
that in the great struggle for existence there
was standing ground for all, and only those
we're crowded to the wall who had untitled
themselves to push forward-a species OF
survival of the fittest. The customary fare
wells were spoken modestly and neatly,
and the entire effort was characterized by
The utmost grace.
DIR. DANA'S ADDRESS.
This ended the exercises on the part OF
the class. NJ MEG. Dana, d. D., OF st.
Paul. delivered what might be called bac-
calaureate address, very pleased, polished
and scholarly dissertation on The APP
peal of the Hour to Educated Youth. He
said the masses of the world
who were afflicted with poverty,
those who were dragged down by
ignorance and those who had Jagged behind
in the great sphere, struggle and become
embittered, looked to the educated youth
for leadership, and those leaders they
would find in the young men and women
turned out by just such institutions as this
school. In the course of his ornate address
the speaker very glowingly complmented
Minneapolis, the northwestern metropolis,
and quoted the words of the newly-arrived
Irishman: LAS sure as l live Minneapolis
shall be my birth place." When he con-
Guided Supt. Tousley, with few pleas
ant remarks, delivered the diplomas to the
graduating class and ended the exercises,
THE GRADUATES.
The graduates are as follows: Latin
English course-Joseph Wilson Cochran,
Jr.. Florence, Kirkland. Bertha Lincoln,
Hattie Mabel Plummer, Jessie Snyder, Ed
ward Martin Spaulding, Edward Whipple
Spottswood. Helen Edith Waters. Gertrude
White. Edith Williams and William Smell
Wingate. English course-Mary Bell Day,
Annie Mary Heap, Gladys Skinner and
Minnie Almirah Turnbull. Miss Heap took
the first and Miss Day the second honors,
the valedictorian and salutatorian having
been selected by the class.