St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-25
AMID MUSIC AND FLOWERS
Sixteen Young People Step From the
High school.


Sixteen Young People Step From the
High school.
Nine young ladies and seven young gem
temen last night acquired the full rlght
and title to address the st. Paul high school
as alma mater. while more than as many
hundred people, friends of themselves and
the institution, were present to see them DO
it. This privilege, at the end OF long years
of study, was conferred in the Grand opera
house amid profusion OF flowers ana
strains of music that shed mild incense
like perfume over the last act of their
school DAYS. The exercises opened at
SIS o'clock and were unusually in
teresting. The stage was graced
with many flowers, there being
quantities of ported plants and bouquets
scattered about upon it. The graduates
and the teachers of the high school sat
upon the stage. while intimate friends and
classmates of those who were to take the
diplomas filled the boxes. Just without the
boxes, near the stage, were large DankS OF
roses with the figures 'S5 in other roses OF a
different color Bouquets and white dresses
We're everywhere. The young ladies looked
about as sweet as sweet young ladies can
look and took the many flowers sent up to
them with due modeSty. The house was
crowded to its full capacity, both galleries
being filled to the last seat. SelbertS Or
chestra furnished music and lent variety to
the exercises which were entertaining
throughout. The class is spoken OF as one OF
the best ever graduating from the high school
both in scholarship and general character.
Following were the graduates:
English Course. ID. Armstrong, MISS
Florence Farchild.
Classical Course-Julian Willard, G. A. Say
age, w. r. Williams, Margaret Sewal.
General Course-Katharine S. Banning,
Hattie B. Golfer, Henry B. Fisher, Frank
Hertz Elizabeth NJ. LOOMS, Helena Mann,
Lurline McLaurine, Fred E. Powers, Bertha
d. Robbins, Hattie Robbins.
THE EXERCISES.
The salutatory address, brief and with a
simple common-sense welcome in it, was
delivered by Miss Margaret Sewall. She
asked the indulgence of the audience, ''for,"
said she, IF some of the things that may
be said seem old to you, you must remem-
Der that they are new to u.s." Her short
essay was given very enthusiastic recep-
ton.
c. A. Savage took as the subject of his
Grafton Greek and mathematics as require
ments for college education. He spoke
naturally and presented his ideas in clear
and forcible style. In opening he alluded
to the celebrated paper of Charles Francis
Adams, entitled the College Fetish, and
the action of Harvard college authorities in
making Greek optional. Since these events
the educated world, he said, had become
interested in the question of whether the
course was a proper one. Without giving
an absolute answer the speaker proceeded
to draw a picture of a student with no apti
tude or natural ability, who is forced by
rigid curriculum to tackle the tedious course
OF mathematics preparatory to college eX-
aminationS. Often the dislike of algebra
and geometry was so great as to cause abSO-
lutte suffering. Moreover, he believed the
study Of branches SO distasteful was an in
jury to the student, being waste of time
and having tendency to discourage intel
lectual work He believed that the action
in making Greek optional was a step in the
right direction, and thought mathematics
should be made so in preparatory work.
Miss Lurline McIaurine, spoke. after the
orchestra had rendered selection, upon
Personal Influence. In suitable in
that st was probably well that all do not
have the ambition and ability to rise to the
top. 1t is contrary to nature to expect all
the milk in the pan to rise to the top. Con-
tinuing. she said, among other things, that
it was hard for ladies especially. to select
that peculiar path in which each might be
NEST useful. There is danger of minding
simply our own selfish purposes and frivo-
lous desires, and the speaker made the
statement that often "a young lady FORCES
the first links of the chain that shall for
ever bind her, in the
TERRIBLE EMOTIONS
from which emanate the style of her grad
-uating dress" She took occasion to give
her classmates and ALL some good advice,
based on the statement that if all may not
become shining lights, each may exert an
influence that will never cease.
Under the theme of Socialism Miss
Florence Fairchild discussed somewhat the
condition among men in the United States.
She believed in the older states the supply
of labor was in excess of the demand and
out of this fact has arisen Socialism, the
principles of which she then elucidated. The
proposition of the Socialist to divide up the
lands upon basis of equality she believed
to be absurd. AS well might there be
equality in all other things. On this prin-
ciple all should walk or all should ride, all
should be rich or all poor. Equality, she
said, could not be obtained, or if obtained,
maintained. The different elements in
mems constitutions and educations render
this impossible. In some way, and the
speaker said she would not try to say just
how. idle men must be given employment
Possibly it might be well in time of pros
perity to delay the construction of public
works until hard times came that the la
boring men might be employed She spoke
very clearly her views and made her
points with the force of a logican.
After the orchestra had rendered a selec-
ton from 'EMignon" Miss Bertha D. Robbins,
a sweet young lady with a pleasant voice,
spoke ON the commonplace. She believed
that nothing, be it ever SO small or weak or
l0wly or unnoticed, but has it's beauty and
It's use 1t is upon the plainly useful that
the world depends for its progress.
WoMANs PLACE
is sometimes looked upon as insignificant:
If done in the true womanly spirit it be-
comes exalted. The models for the sub
FINEST MadonnaS have been obscure pleas
ant women. The fine gold comes from the
rough earth. The common and uncommon
are nearly linked together. Her essay was
most heartily applauded and she was al
most buried under the bouquets that friends
sent up.
j. d. Armstrong had a very original ora
ton on Speculation. In opening he made
the statement that ''all the worlds stock
exchange and all the men and women
merely operators" He then parapfrrased
the seven ages of Shakespeare on
the basis of his text He believed
there was speculation in everything,
in politics. in religion in literature as well
rs IN the wheat pit of the stock exchange
After making hits at the way Western
towns grow. he made the statement that
the whole United States is but a bubble,
built upon boom principles, swelled by the
rapid inpouring of all the nationalities of