St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-22
Graduating Exercises of the
High School at the Opera
House.
An American Girl Wins the
First Honops with a Prize,
Essay. Il
Fine Exhibition of st. PauI's
Educational System Be-
fore Many Friends.

with the admiring friends and relatives
OF the graduates, who found in them &
sympathetic and appreciative audience.
The four boxes were filed with
happy Juniors, who read in the satisfied
faces OF their schoolmates On the stage
the prophecy: GAS you are now SO we
shall be.''
The stage was banked on either side
With pink peonieS. and suspended at the
rear was the class banner of blue plush,
On which was painted the year of the
class and the motto i'll Greek, From
possibility to reality"
While the Philharmonic orchestra
rendered an overture, the graduating
class, teachers Of the High school and
board OF school inspectors took their
places on the stage. Before introduce
ing the salutatorian Prof. Gilbert an
nounced that the race for the Salutatory
had been tea fact, he said, that was
not SO remarkable, as the two young la
dies who came out even had settled the
DIFFICULTY WITHOUT A QUARREL,
Miss Laura Grant preferring an es-
say, thus leaving the opening address
to Miss Hope Mcdonald.
Miss Mcdonald, who is one of the
youngest members of the class, was
girlishly attired in white China silk and
with a corSage bouquet of la France
roses. Her essay was gracefully deliv-
cred. In it she likened her class to the
children who stand behind the window
pane taking a circumScribed view of
the passing world, and welcomed the
friends assembled before them to take
last look with them through the window
school days had framed about them.
James Frederick Austin followed
with an GRAFTON, 'Going, Going" His
dignified bearing and earnest manner
gave added weight to the eloquent plea
he made for philanthrophy VS.. selfish
ness as an actuating principle of human
life.
Miss RhOda Smith, charming in
white crepe gown with corsage bou-
quet OF pink roses, chose for the sub
Ject of her essay, 1.-THE Greatest
Classic" She advocated the study
of classics in general, claiming that
it was equaled by nothing
in developing the mind, and demon
strated conelusively that 1.-The greatest
OF all classics was the Bible" ''The
title of scholar does not belong to the
man who is unacQuainted with it." she
claimed, and asserted that the step
taken towards introducing the Bible
into the literary course of certain East
ern colleges is but an evidence of the
TREND OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION.
A pleasing variety was given to the
entertainment by waltz rendered tby
the orchestra. After this Miss Mary E.
Josephine Golfer delivered an essay. the
subject of which was SAT the Foot of
Mount Parnassus." Her spirituelle
face, set off to advantage by the white
Swiss dress she wore, made her poetic
effort dOubly effective. She pictured
shepherdeSS at the foot of Mount Par
naSSus, constantly tempted by the I'M
mOrtalS to penetrate their clOud-hidden
domain, aud as constantly resisting the
longingS of her soul that she might tend
her sheep and bring harmony into the
lowly lives about her.
Mr.. John Herman RandalFs Grafton,
'The Beggars are Coming to Town."
was in marked contrast to the dainty
bit of imagery that had preceded it.
Mr.. Randall showed powers of satire
that suggested Sydney Smith as he rep
resented Washington the scene of a
great feast where
ALL THE DELEGATES OF POLITICAL
FAVOR
are served, and to which all the beg
gars from this and foreign countries go
troOping. He showed Russian nihiliSts,
French communists, German anarchists
drawing near and begging for some
plum OF position-a small bite of
power, and lust and farSighted gov
ernment' crying, ''POor brothers! Your
cause is a needy one; we will bring the
matter up before the next congress-"
He declared it was a frightful spec
tacle, but that the i'll they Willed to ac-
complish would be
CHECKED BY THE DOG, PUBLIC OPIN-
that is always barking at the beggars as
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called forth by Mr.. Randall'S mastery
effort swelled again at the appearance
of Miss Laura Churchill Traut. The
young lady was prettily attired in white
China silk, with a cOrSage bouquet of
La France roses. The subject of her
essay was "Chilled.' She expressed
ironical sympathy for the chilling of
young aspiration, and asserted that any
aspiration worthy to succeed is only
stimulated by all the chilling
influences an unappreciative world
can bring to bear upon it. .'Ridicule,"
she said. lis like bracing wind, and
satire has ushered many a needed re-
form into the world"
Miss Alice Marion Robbins was the
ideal ''sweet girl graduate Her frail
beauty was admirably dressed in white
embroidered null, and she wore bou-
quet of La France roses. The subject of
her essay was Telescope and Micro
scope" Her delivery was charming
one could not conceive of anything she
did that would be otherwise. She
showed the telescope to be the instru-
ment which enables man to more fully
exercise his Unborn tendency to rever-
ence things above him, and the micro
scope, an aid to the DEVELOPMENT of
| REVERENCE OF THINGS BENEATH HIM.
An hVrtl \, IL
| lowed by an essay. "The American
| Girl" by Miss Mabel Fletcher Austin.
| She captured her audience, both by her
| blonde loneliness, graceful manner and
| pith Of her essay. She plainly an
nounced her disapproval of the tendency
of both pulpit and press to drag
the American girl up for refor-
nation as often SIS once a
| year, attributing to her follies
| and vices that are not hers. She demon
strated the fact that the American girl
is quite as much credit to her coun-
try as is her brother, and drew a paral-
lei between her and her foreign cousin
to the disadvantage of the latter.
ssWhile American girls are filling up
| colleges. foreign girls are still going to
boarding school, where they gain vast
amount of finish.
AND vASTLACK OF KNOWLEDGE.
She entered plea for the society girl,
declaring that "a good heart can beat
| just as strongly beneath satin as be-
| meath calico, and that there are numer-
Gus society young women who can bake
bread in the morning, read philosophy
in the afternoon and dance the german
all night" She further said that girls
do not enter a profession because
they are disappointed in love, they
are not engrossed with the
idea of voting, and they are not men
haters. She predicted, however, that the
ballot would one day be theirs, though
she insisted that their strongest intiu-