Wichita eagle., 1888-05-26

doors" She referred to the pleasures and
benefits coming from literature. Down
| into the rocks we learn the history OF the
world. In the strata are found the history
of the vegetable and animal life. Every
| where we find evidences of life. Tyranny
had gradually been forced to give place to
| freedom. This idea had gained
in the colleges Of the United States
until many are today allowing coeducation.
| A few years ago the argument OF the
bachelor, Marry your girls off, was &C
cepted as unanswerable, but not so today.
After duet by Misses Angie Herring
and Clara Dunbar, Miss Maggie Guthrie
read as essay on ''The River and the Sea-
Each one should observe the most promis-
ing of their faculties and try to study in
that line to excel. From this plan the
best results could be expected. 1t is i'm
possible for one to be proficient in every
thing, but the idea OF special
lists was gaining ground. The mind doing
the most satisfactory work had been APP
piled to some special line. All could do
some part Just as the riil that reached the
river which possessed powers that are util-
lied in the factories.
YALEDICTORY.
Miss Angie Herring was accorded the
honor Of delivering the valedictory, which
was one of the most creditable perform
ances Of the evening. 1t had been careful
Iy prepared and her efforts were highly ap-
preciated by the audience. After treating
the subject, Gods Mills" in highly
! creditable manner, she said:
This is but drop in the sea OF educa-
tional work, yet we trust that the public
schools Of our city have been instrumental
! in bringing about some part OF our great
increase in population and wealth.
Our wise and efficient board of educa-
| ton together with our able Superlntend-
| ent have exerted every energy to supply
rooms and teachers to accommodate the
! rapidly increasing members. As we note
the many new buildings just erected we
can perhaps understand and appreciate to
some extent the arduous duties that have
been theirs to perform. We tonight as a
class. can testify to this kind watch care
in general and especially i'll securing
for our high school such able instructors
Four years ago the entire duties OF
/ this department devolved upon one teach
Ell. From that time the number has been
steadily increased until, during the past
year. we have had four instructors TO
guide us in the way of learning and under
| their combined management we have been
able to consider this one of the most sue
cessful years of our school. Although
many changes have taken place and though
! the mystic tie which uniteS teacher and
| pupil has been broken aSunder TO be joined
! to other instructors who have been senC to
us. vet as each September found us gath
! cred in the school room one familiar face
greeted us and one familiar voice babe US
welcome The memory of his kindly care
and precepts shall ever remain with us,
and though duty should call us far from
the scenes that have become so dear, their
| influence Will be as a star guiding us over
all dark and slippery places. Our other
teachers, though with US only the last
year, have also become very dear and the
upright example of their lives are living
| monument to us that
1--WE may make our lines sublime;
And departing leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands OF time"
Dear Teachers:-You have doubtless
! listened many times TO the good byes" OF
different classes, yet we scarcely think
that they experienc ed deeper sorrow than
! that with which we leave you. Words
| prove all inadequate to express 1t. W hen
! in the future you see in Us the OutgroWth
of the principles you have sought to instill
| in our minds. You may perhaps be able
to understand how deeply have those prln-
ciples entered our souls, and how great the
| affection you have inspired in our hearts
May the kind Father who has kept you so
! long be still your strength and support
and may aid and encouragement such as
we have received long act as beacon
| lights to those who shall follow in our foot
| steps With wishes that the remainder of
your life may be as fair as the part during
which you have been associated with US,
| we bid you farewell.
| Dear Classmates;
| The parting with you is one which seems
indeed the parting of brothers and sisters.
Some Of us have worked together through
many years of our school life. Others
! from different parts of the union have
Joined US, even in the last year. And now
| our course is completed; and though but
! beginning to the great education OF life,
| yet we are here to separate, and each to
! take I'D the separate work which stands
awaiting him.
! Throughout the entire course Of our
| school work we have had this spirit III
view; yet its fulfillment is not without
| pain when we consider that even the last
! hour in which we shall be united as class
| is fast waning. In the few moments that
! are left let us leave the past, with all It's
difficulties and attachments: the present,
with its Sorrowful parting and look into
the future with all its bright promises.
4 spacious court room arises before me.
| In its seat of highest honor see
the head of our little band: Clothed
| in a robe that distinguishes him from
the ordinary judge, / see him dispensing
with an equal hand that which is often SO
rarely found-justice. THE Nineteenth
| Century" with its great men. Its social
| and political achievements has passed
away, but as an outgrOwth OF the know
! ledge it has given us, we find him gifted
with clear vision. which looks up toward
! the mountains or down INTO the abyss, and
| there discerns and separates the true from
! the untrue Linked together with the
mental requirements we find moral de
velopment fuller than the preceding years
could possibly have shown.
/ And where is she whose witty sayings
! have so often served to tighten the dull
| hours of school lite? This question is not
| hard to answer. The vision OF an elegantly
furnished chapel comes before us and we
| find our pen scarcely able TO picture the
| beauty of the scene. the genius OF painter
and sculptor smiles from the gllded walls
| and the soft carpets betray not the presence
/ of those assembled. Only the rustic of
feminine Garments and the ever busy hum
| of voices is heard This suddenly
ceases when with pleasant ''good-morn-
| ing for all, their preceptresS enters
! Here we find the answer TO our question.
! We recognize at once the influence OF the
/ life which IS SO pure, for no uncut dia-
/ mondn is she. but one that shines with q
! luster peculiarly her own and shedding
rays of light upon those around her she IS
/ making the young lives entrusted 10 her
/ care corner stones polished alter the sim
! ilitude of a palace
| In a beautiful study book-liued and pic
! ture-hung, at manuscript strevn table |
( see the next of our number. Her pen, the
merit of which we learned early in the
] course OF our school life is busily engaged
upon a work which viii, rs its predeces-
sors have done, stir the minds Of thinking
masses Her efforts have helped TO broad
1 en- the way for the march of time, as