The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-18

They do say that the present graduating
class is the prettiest class, taken as a
whole or individually, that ever went
through the High School
Of course that only applies to the fem
inine half of the class, but the feminine
half outnunbers the masculine half by
thirty-seven to ten. 3 siAMAff
have seen a good many classes my
self, and, excepting the class of '76-the
first one-I can safely say that no other
ever approached it in the loveliness of
face and figure Of the members, any more
than any ever surpassed it in the earnest
ness of purpose of the scholars.
SOME WILL BE TEACHERS.
Thirty of the graduates or, at the least,
twenty EIGHT, for two are in doubt-will
go to the Training School next year. AL
most all of these intend to be teachers in
the public schools of Jersey City, and it
has been proved by experience that no
better teachers can be found than those
who have themselves passed with honor
through the studies they are to teach
to others.
Prominent among those who will follow
this course are Miss Louise III. Seely, Miss
Vida j. Mains, Miss Katharine Louise
Beck and Miss Minnie Landham. Their
respective standings at graduation are
second, third, fifth and sixth.
Miss Seily is the youngest, having lived
but seventeen years She is at present
very anxious to become a teacher. If her
power of ilnparting knowledge is nearly
equal to her facility of acquiring it, she
should make a mark as an Instructor.
Miss Mains is the Oldest of the four,
being nineteen years old. Her earnest
ness of purpose is undoubted and her
understanding of mathematics is thor
ough She is said by her teachers to be
able to explain problem as well as they
can themselves.
Miss Beck, who lacks three months of
being eighteen years old, is one of the
prettiest girls in the class. She has a
glory of blonde hair, and if she ever has
children to teach she will do as much by
her gentle manners as by her readiness at
clearing away the tangles that oppress
the juvenile mind when the knotty prob
lens of school questions threaten to over
whelm them. n fs+ 5e
Miss Landham is the musician of the
quartette. She is a month older than
Miss Beck, and she thinks that life is a
those just ended in the High School and
those to come in the Training School, will
no more than fit her.
SHE WILL WRITE BOOKS.
Miss Lulu Grace Farrant, who leads the
class, and will deliver the valedictory adj
dress. is going through the Training
School as q further preparation for
course in college, with the intention of
eventually pursuing a literary career
Miss Farrant has done a good deal of val
liable reading, and her mind is already
stored with fund of information that
will be of vast service to her. Beside this,
she is an accomplished musician and has
great artistic taste.
That Miss Farrant is not presumptuous
in her selection of q career, is made quite
apparent by the essay that she so -hur-
riedly wrote for the medal offered by
President Feeney of the Police Board for
the best composition upon the subject of
Newspapers which was printed In full
in this weeks SUNDAY MORNING NEWS.
That essay was written in schoolroom,
in the midst of two hundred and fifty
buzzing scholars, and in the very hardest
period of preparation for examinations
and OF finishing her address of farewell to
the High School. Miss Farrant should
have a brilliant future as a writer
TO BE AN ENGINEER.
Mr.. James Craig, whose older brother
Burdette also graduated from the High
School, and is now one of the rising youno .
physicians of the city, has been pondering
over the question of his future life, and
has come to the conclusion that as a civil
engineer he will have the best chance of
success Mr.. Craig is very young, and
may change his mind, but 1t is not prob
able. He has a natural bent for mathe-
matics, especially in mathematics applied
to his hobby, civil engineering, but he
says that he wants to know something of
the practical end of the profession before
he goes any further in the schools, SO he
will enter the office of civil engineer ut
least for year. He does not Intend to
have solely the learning that can be ac-
quired from books. He does not intend to
neglect theory, however, and will prob
ably go to q technical school when he has
found exactly what he needs most in the
way of theory.
Mr.. Frederick Edward Ferris is going
to college and thinks that he will even
student, standing fourth in his class at
graduation, and displays analytical facui-
ties that will be very useful to him in the
legal profession. AS he is but seventeen
years old, tits possible that he will change
his mind before the. day comes for him to
graduate from college. but he saws that
there is no chance of that.
HE WILL PRESCRIBE FOR THE SICK.
Mr.. William Borkland is going to make
q physician of himself He is nineteen
and half years old and probably means
what he says. All through his course he
has excelled in the natural sciences. such
as botany, zoology, chemistry, anatomy
centered in subjects bearing upon his
chosen calling and he is very much in
earnest.
There are two sisters-two very pretty
girls. by the way-who have gone through |
school together, and who are going to |
college for the sole purpose of improving |
their minds and fitting themselves to be |
ornamental, as well as useful, members |
of society. They are the Misses Laura Al. |
and Alice 4. Whyte. Miss Laura Is |
nineteen years old and her sister is two |
years younger, but the difference is no |
more apparent in their appearance than 1t |
is in their attainments.
SOME WILL RULE AT HOME.
Several of the young ladies, just bios
somfng from school girls into woman
hood, are neither going to the Training
School nor to college. Some people won
der what they win do. They are Miss
Isabel i. Gordon, Miss Emma Elizabeth |
Moxham, Miss Kitty NJ. Mitchell and Miss
Tillie Schaub.
i know what they will do-they win get
married, one and all, and fulfill the object |
of their existence They will be the gentle
rulers of their households, the guides to
their children, and models for other girls
as they grow up.