St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-05
SENIOR Glass DAY.
The Familiar Exercises and Per.
fOrmances of That Day.

The class day exercises at the uni
versity Yesterday filled the chapel with
friends of the students. The exercises
were of unusual excellence, mingling
college fun with songs and one
or two serious speeches. The first
thing was class history, a
semi-serious document which gave a
running account OF the great events of
the college course of $50. Miss Jessie
Mcmillan sang the beautiful solo, "Lit-
tie Fisher Maiden,' and was presented
with two handsome baskets of flowers.
The time-honored prophecy was read
by Miss Matte Elwell, who, in gently
humorous vein, predicted alarming tut
ures for some of her book comrades.
The happiest hits were upon Messrs.
Triggs, K. c. Babcock, Moffett and
Henry johnson. The latter was repre-
daily. who did even the work Of the
devil.
1.-THE retraction song" in which A.
E. Giddings tried his vocal powers.
proved great favorite, and was en-
cored until the author came out and
sang verse, the burden of which was
that he feared to sing any more lest he
have to retract what he had already
sung. The song was full of illusions
to the recent tempest in teapot that
furnished the Ariel food for
one poem and several apologies.
Henry johnson made Semi-burleSQue
<of the class Grafton in an attempt to
trace the ancestry Of college professors.
He said they were originally Chinese
foot pads. He hoped that they would
grow in wisdom until they learned to
keep it to themselves, and that in the
dissolution of their mutual relations
thea would retire to a shade where
Waters read the class poem, graceful
by the fair anthor. The statistics by
A. E. Giddings showed a marvellous
diversity of form and feature
in the members of the class. The
most important facts developed
were that the class weighed ALA
pounds and was 154 feet tall
and had cost parents and guardians
something like $42, 6S4, which they will
doubtless get back very soon with in
terest. Matrimonially the statistician
found little activity in the class. Most
of the members he supposed were in
the market, and two of them he knew
were in the soup.
Mr.. Cheney read the treasurer's re-
port, in which the expenses and per
contras were largely apochryphal. 1t
made good deal of fun, however, es-
pecia]ly when he read an item for buy
shot," BILLY" is Mr.. Ladue. the sa-
lutatorian, and, though rather small,
quite dignifed.
The most serious literary effort of the
day was o. l.. Triggs' Grafton in present
ing the class scholarship to Prof. H. P.
Judson, of the department of history.
Mr.. TriggS used well chosen and fluent
words in presenting the memorial. and
Prof. JudsOn happily responded.
Miss KATRINA StrOhmeier, with the
aid of the class, which brought in the
refrain. sang the class lament at part
ing from its alma mater. The class
knife, which has been handed down
from year to year since 1877,
was next transferred by Mr..
FAIRIES, president of the senior class, to
h. p. Bailey, president of the junior
class. Both made speeches in eulOgy
of each other and the knife, and then
Mr.. Conger. the chaplain of the juniors,
introduced feature which was evil
IDENTIFY a surprise to the grave and rev.
presentation OF an ancient ''buS" nut,
which recalled some joke of former
times forcibly to all the students
present.
The class sang the farewell song
written by Miss Mary S. Weber, the
first stanZa of which ran:
Farewell, beloved companions, that round
our lives have thrown
An influence deep, eternal as oceans bound
less zonei
Fond 'ry fain would linger, mid scenes
of vanished years,
When life was full of gladness, no thought Of
idle tears,
Yet thus in life it's ever, broken must be
fond ties;
Fen now our songs Of triumph change into
parting signs.
The class adjourned to that norton of