The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-25
COMMHNCEMENTS.
All the Pupils in All the
Schools Are Getting
Ready.
PROGRAMME AT HAsBRoUCK's.
What the High School, st. Peters
College and the Stevens Insti-
tute Will Do.

tute Will Do.
The commencement season is nearly a
month distant yet; but its impulse and
influence are felt in all school circles.
Scarcely student of the higher classes
at least but is cramming for the examina-
tion of a fortnight hence that is to de-
termine his fate for year; and the
prospective lady graduate has at least be-
gun TO think of the color, and cut, and
texture of the garment in which she
is to read her thesis in the presence of an
admiring throng.
What palpitations and dutterings there
must be in the bosom of the youthful
commencement orator already What
hope of triumph, and what fear of failure!
With mingled joy and trepidation he
dreams of the moment when his proud ad-
vance to the footlights shall throw a
throng of beautiful maidens and enthu-
siastic youth and steady old men and sym
pathetic matrons into delirium of ap-
plausel And then, suppose he lacks the
courage to face the crowd at the crucial
moment! And suppose he doesn't step
bravely forward! And suppose the crowd
doesn't rise to receive him!
But then he must brace himself for the
ordeal; and, as to the applause, he must
arrange for that beforehand.
The sweet girl graduate has an easier
path to victory er ,144
She need have no fearsl 1t is sure tri-
umph for her! The gallantry her pres
ence commands will win her the plaudits
she Graves. And then she can arrange
for another salvo by having the orthodox
bouquet handed up over the footlights at
the opportune moment!
ATTHE HIGH SCHOOL.
Of course the chief of the school COM
mencements hereabouts is that of the
High School ~
Principal Sweeney says that forty-four
pupils will be graduated from the aca-
demic course this year and that there
win be fourteen graduates from the COM
mercial course. The only exercises aside
from examinations will be those held at
the Academy of Music on the evening of
June 10. and the reception at the High
School after the exercises are over The
usual full dress style will be expected, no
matter how poor the parents of the gra-
duates are, and the usual amount of
music and dancing, besides feasting, will
AT HAsBRoUCK's.
The commencement exercises at Has
brouck's Institute will be even more
elaborate this year than heretofre, if that
is possible, and much time has been ex-
pended by the faculty to make them sue
cessful. The programme is as follows
Sunday, June 16, commencement sermon,
by the Rev. G. B. Herr, at his church on
the Hill Monday evening following, the
n1n soyarnicac nf tho School of MTlciQ
will be held. This is always largely at
tended by friends Of the pupils.
On Wednesday, 10Th, the after
noon will be devoted to the
undergraduates exercises, and on Thurs
day the school commencement will take
place at the Tabernacle. The following
evening the graduates will hold their re-
ception at the school, and it is expected O
large number of people will be present.
The last day of the commencement exer-
cises will be on Saturday. ed, when the
Art Schools exhibitions will be placed on
view. The drawings are all from the pen
ellis of the pupils.
The class to graduate this year consists
of thirteen boys and sixteen girls, the
largest ever graduated, with one excep-
tion. About half of the boys will go to
college, and one girl will go to the Smith
College, to complete their education.
AT ST. PETERS COLLEGE.
st. Peters College is a new institution,
and the first graduates will leave it's walls
this summer. Commencement season has
already practically commenced there.
Glass exercises are in progress, .and
notices of them have appeared from time
to time in these columns. The final ex-
animation of students will commence
about June 10, and the commencement
exercises proper will take place at the
Academy of Music, on June rs. There
will be four graduates, and the exercises
will consist of three Latin and thirteen
English addresses.
IN HoBoKEg.
The commencement exercises of Stew
ems Institute of Technology will take
place on June "a at Jacobs Theatre.
One of the professors will deliver an id
dress on the Theses" )" and there will be a
salutatory speech. BY whom they will be
given is at present not known, as they
have to be selected by the class Of 'S9, and
confirmed by the faculty. Professor
Morton, president of the institute has not
yet had any names submitted to him for
approval
The Stevens Institute Glee and Banjo
clubs will take part in the exercises
Principal Elston, of the Hoboken High
School, said that the closing exercises will
take place at Jacobs Theatre on June ~.
There will be salutatory and valedictory
addresses by the class--the names not vet
being known--and by himself and the
president of the Board of Education,
There will be good musical programme,
OF which the class song will be the most
irtarastipy o. faatllrn