The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-23
GLASSES OF 1885
From the UniOn Schools and
the III. F. 9.
Brilliant Commencement Excr
cises Largely Attended.
The Meeting Of the College Alumn@ aud
the University Of the Matthews
Monumental Week Full Of
Preparation and Pleasure.
UNION SCHOOL.

UNION SCHOOL.
Just where the golden skies Of child |
hood open into the broader canopy OF
life, stands graduation, triumphal
arch, woven Of feeting rainbows. There
is transient bliss about the finale of
school efforts that all possessors Of the
parchment roll will cherish among
pleasant memories. Briefly blessed are
they who experience the delightful SEN
sation of ringing applause and stacks OF
boquets. Every year new faces appear
before the footlights, new voices are
heard from the platform, and new
thoughts fall upon the eager audience.
The oldest inhabitant can not recol-
lect time when the commencement
exercises OF the Union School did not
attract an immense audience, and their
temperature usually bears striking re-
semblance to that of an eternal alumni
which many are supposed to join after
graduating from life's college of vicissi-
tude. The class of 's6 is composed of
two young ladies and seven young gen.
tlemen, who will be long remembered as
participants in the excellent entertain
ment of last Wednesday evening. Heavy
clouds hung low over this portion of
Christendom and the rain fell, mostly
on the people, who gradually trans
mitted it to the ground. But notwith-
standing the weather, Music Hall was
packed. The entire population seemed
to be present. Tall hats shot up from
all quarters like collapsed circus-tents,
hugging their center.poles. These be-
loved head-ornaments seem to be tele-
scopic-the harder you try to see, the
higher tower the hats. Fans fluttered
like the wings Of younglings in a pigeon
cote, and yet one could not have kept
cool with brace Of animated wind
mills. The stage, richly draped with
lace and arranged with excellent taste,
looked like small slice from an ideal
palace. Banks of flowers on either side
of the stage breathed forth delicate
aroma. The piano responded to the
skilful fingers of Messrs. Reed and
Bowers, and with it's pretty aecompani.
ment the graduates fled up to take their
seats on the elegant upholstery. DR.. G.
w. Ketcham invoked Divine favor upon
the exercises of the evening. The
beautiful strains of "Priest's March
swelled upon the sultry atmosphere and
found appreciative tympanums. A
quartette composed of Nessrs. Shaw,
Nelson, Callahan, and Pierson, followed
with fine rendition Of "The Knights
Farewell" which like the selection pre-.
ceding it and every other part Of the
, program was received with enthusiast,
, clapping of hands and stamping Of feet
, Milton Harcourt Mclean stepped
before the footlights to tell US how "Ths
Aim Makes the Life" His clear expo
sition of the principles underlying
human effort and experience proved
that his study of the subject had moi
been superficial. The arrow aimed at 9
good angle speeds far from the bow
. string, but the one aimed low mus
spend its force in the earth.
Mather Scarborough's topic was
, England and Victoria" and the speect
. displayed knowledge of history and
sparkled with subtle humor. Tributes
were Justly paid to the wise rule of thai
! queen upon whose domain old So
never blinks, and to the excellent organ
: ization of the Britism army. The pug
, nacious disposition of the rampant lior
: was spoken of and instances were cited
8 where the lion had "roared at thu
> wrong man."
,, "speak, Oh Speak to Me Again" wa.
. the title of pretty plaintive solo by
, Mr.. Frank Reed.
American Railways were reviewed
from their earliest existence by Gatcf
Brown, and the history of their ad
q vancement was sketched from the tina
q when the first specimen stretched itssl
out like PROSTATE ladder, to the pres
: ent day when the parallel lines of stee
d span continents. forming an importan
' factor in the traffic of the world.
Sidney Eckley's dissertation on tn
: Destruction of Our Native Birds" fur
. nished cause for survey of the tai
:, hats in the neighborhood. Out O
: necessity they had all been seen before
. but the additional inspection was II
j. ascertain how many dead birds wer
n represented on this occasion. Mr.. Eek
2 10y has the elements of an Audubon
j. and is competent to give reason TO
!. his beliefs. n.H..
70 More music.
"What's in Name p was the quel
!. ton propounded and admirably an
h swered by Martha Utman. The subjec
o was handled in . unique way whicl
proved that Q name was of some conse
! quence, Mr.. w. Shakespeare to the COZ
Is trary, notwithstanding. ..
y Dick Brown followed and told u
! more about Pathways OF the Gres
!. Deep" than we could remember. Tn
!. subject was q nautical one, and thougl
It q trife too learned for land-lubberl
y showed much resear,h. If the write
!. ever gets to be President, Dick sha