St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-29
nineteenth CLASS.
Bennett Seminary Holds Its
Nineteenth Annual Com
menoement.
The Graves of the Dead Sol
dierS to Be Decorated To-
Morrow.
North Side Citizens to Discuss
the knoka Motor This
Evening.
The Eighteenth Annual Con-
vention Of Catholic Total
Abstinence Societies.

Abstinence SOClStl0S.
Bennett seminary passed its nine
teenth mile post yesterday. and last
evening in Westminster church large
audience gathered to listen to the grad
uating exercises of the nineteenth class.
Miss Kenyon occupied the platform
as principal of the faculty for
the last time, as she retires this
year to give way to worthy successor,
DR.. Gregory, of Lake Forrest, Ill. On
her right hand sat Hon. E. NJ. Wilson,
president of the board of directors, and
Oh the left Rev. DID,. Burrell, who has
taken an active interest i'll the seminary
since his passionate at Westminster
began. The six young ladies who con-
stitute the class of 1889, beauti-
fully attired in white, were seat
ed in front of the pulpit,
and as their turns came upon the pro-
gramme assembled the platform and
read their graduating essays. which
were all of an unusually Interesting
character. After the invocation by DR..
Burrell, the Sa!utatcry was delivered
by Miss Ella Alma Grimes, who. III
handsomely chosen words. welcomed
the friends of the seminary to the
evenings exercises. Miss Lolita Marie
Grandelmyer followed her with an essay
entitled Conquest, Not Conversion"
She took as her theme the statement
that men who could not be permanently
coerced by force to accept a religious
system, which she illustrated by the
failure of Moors and Turks in Europe.
Miss Irma Sophia Mueller in her essay
advised her hearers to study Not
Books Alone, but Men," The modern
world. she thought, was ruled by men
of action rather than readers of books.
The great leaders of our times were
students of men and Of events,
his intimate knowledge of human char
acter, and like Hanley. who might have
read books for years without learning
any new facts about Africa, but vino as
a typical man Of action conquered the
dark continent. After an organ solo,
''Scbumbert's Serenade," Miss Grimes,
the saiutatOrian read her essay, an acute,
discussion of certain modern social phe-
nOmena, under the crisp caption OF
''Venus." The difference between
veneered and solid brick building she
explained was revealed when confla-
grafton showed whether the framework
was erected to support the brick or the
wall to sustain the framework. The
heap of ruins was the veneered, the
gaunt, towering wall was the solid.
The genuineness of character she
tested in the same way. Reputation
was what others thought of us, clarac-
ter what God knows of us. The veneer
ing of social and political life was
peeled off by Miss Grimes in trenchant
manner. The essay was recognized
easily as good deal more original and
orally are, and was read in a musical
voice that was heard throughout the
audience room.
Modern Manias" was the theme of
Miss Rosa Rachel Grandelmyer's essay.
The fair speaker discovered plenty of
them, reaching from the old nianias for
speculation to the recently acquired
craze for the development of natural
gas wells in Ohio and Indiana. She did
not spare to criticise modern eccentric
tiles OF dress, nor, Womanlike, refrain
from giving the Jenness Miller
dress reform craze a parting shot.
In curious and interesting allegOry,
entitled ''Pericles Abroad" Miss Han
nah Grubb Petit found the vehicle for
4 prettily drawn contrast between an
Gent and modern architecture, the an
cient with singie-storied temples con-
trasting strongly with the tall enclosed
piles of modern times.
The yaledictOry addresses and an
essay on "The Uses of the IDEALS" by
Miss Blanche Sarah King, closed the
students part Of the programme.
Ic
essayist declared, not even the child.
The business man would be indeed in
a gloomy valley if he placed no ideal
before him, The ideal was the highest
importance to the soldier, the poet, the
painter, the scholar, the scientist; even
the school girl had her ideal, which
lightened her common duties and bright
ened her way toward the future. The
graduating class of 1889 had formed
their ideals of what a school course
should be, they had followed them, and
they rejoiced with their friends that
they had realized. In closing Miss
King addressed the customary words Of
thanks to the officers of the school and
to her classmates.
While the Organist played serenade.
six ushers in dress suits busted them
selves carrying the many gifts of flow
erS, WHICH nad Deen slowed In the BACK
of the church, to the sfair graduates.
every one of whom was overwhelmed
with baskets of rare flowers. Such a
profusion of flowers has rarely been
seen even at a commencement. Many
more substantial gifts. such as books
and pictures, were also sent to the grad
yates.
DR.. Russell, after another organ solo,
delivered short address. in which he
devoted some time to complimenting
Miss Kenyon on her past career as
principal of the seminary and expressed
the regret of the board at her leaving
the headship of the school. Address
ing the class. he congratulated
them on their arrival at the
end of their school life with
such credit. and babe them godspeed in
their future life. Hon. E. M. Wilson,
as president of the board, presented the
young ladies their diplomas, accom-
panying each with few words of COLI
graduation and comment on the per-
formances that showed that he had
picked the meat out Of the essays as they
were read. The exercises were closed
after 10 with the benediction by DR..
Burrell.