The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-07
HIGH-SCHOOL DEBUTANTES.
The Members of the January Glass Drop
Their Courtesies to the World.

Promptly at o'clock, last evening, at Ply
mouth Church. the January class of 1885 of the
High-school twelve in number, took their places,
under Principal Grants guidance, on the ros-
trum. The overture TO 'Tanered' was given by
VIM. Fl. Clarke on the organ. The invocation fol-
lowed by Rev Reuben Jeffrey, and the eleven
young ladies' attired in white and decorated with
flowers, said their brief say, and auttered forth
into the softly-fallinS SHOWS of the eager and
waiting world
Everything was in apple pie order. There was
no hating or prompting-all went with the &C
curacy of q military drill. There was no crying.
no encoring, no flowers, NO nonsense-just
eleven "girl graduates" standing with re-
luctant feet and with the only boy in the class
as end-man. The graduates and their subjects.
with the interludes of music, came as follows:
Essay-"Raise the Standard" .Maude Robinson
Essay-'Consider the End" .--- Agnes J. Young
MusicAir du Dauphin ----- -Roeckel
Essay The Marble Waiteth' .-.-..- Ivy A; Roberts
Ter GTa Hnd LA R ps MesD
Musio-o overture to Poet and Peasant, - Suppe
Essay" Liberty Enlightening the World
Essay-'Ruins" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mary Hayes
Essay-'Men and Trees" ......... Emma L. Bacon
Music-Gavotte Secret Love" Retsch
Easay-''rhe Prancng of the Colts" Grace Phillips
Oration'W Is, Is Right" Geo. A Resener, jr
Music-Fanfare Militaire. ----.-.-.-----.- Lemmens
All spoke easily and confidently; The enuncia-
ton was excellent, and no essay was over six
minutes long The standard was raised" the
evil considered. the hobbies dissected, perse-
verance commended, the image hewn from the
marble, the gilded hand of unjust wealth con-
deinned, liberty applauded at the proper place,
ruins resurrected, men and trees compared, our
possibilities canvassed, the 'prancing colts" of
o. w. Holmes trotted around the arena and the
proper construction put on Popes maxim that
whatever is is right The welcome organ
gave them a closing military salute Principal
Grant said. I'm behalf of the president OF the
Board of Education present the January class
Of 1885 of the Indianapolis High-school their
diplomas, with which brief utterauce, and the
benediction by the Rev. Jeffery, the exercises
closed as promptly and orderly as though the
class had simply been dismissed from their
assembly room at school to their homes.
The essays were all good, and better for their
brevity. They were serious and didactic
Markedly earnest and reverent were those of
Miss Hasely and Master Reisener Only Miss
Grace Phillips dared to crack joke or elicit a
smile. and she put the whole audience in light
and cheerful mood by her serio comic treatment
particular.
Except the essay on men and trees, not an il
lustration or figure was drawn from the natural
world or common life, and the sentiment seemed
all ,pervading that the proper study of man
kind is man." The audience was quiet and APP
preciative; enthusiastic in spots as each group
Of friends applauded the effort of its favorlte.
The next crop of High-school flowers will come
futtering down in the middle of June, and
though nature may be in more smiling mood,
she will not greet more earnest, faithful and
hopeful class than the twelve signs of the educa-
tlonal zodiac that graduated last night.