Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-26
Graduating Exercises of the
High School.
Young People Presented with
Diplomas.
Pupils Art Exhibition at the Univer-
sity.
Closing Exercises at the Academy of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary-Events
to Come.

high school were held at the Los Ange.
les theater, and proved to be one of the
most successful events in the annals o1
that successful institution. Long before
the appointed hour every available seat
IN the house was taken, and at O'Clock
when the curtain rose, disclosing the
class OF 80 seated in a semicircle on the
stage, even standing room was at a
premium, the aisles being packed with
spectators to degree of discomfort.
Suspended in the center of the stage
was a beautiful floral design, in
which was worked the appropriate class
motto: Non Nobis Solum,' and a
number of tastefully arranged ever
greens and palm leaves served their pur-
pose OF adding an artistic touch to the
otherwise pleasing effect admirably.
The exercises commenced with Mo-
zart's overture to Die Zauberfote
which was very creditably rendered by
the high school orchestra composed of
the following: Messrs. Pemberton.
Stevens, Norman Martin, Fred. Martin.
Gilmore, Grosser, George Wilson, Glenn.
wilson, Misses Austin and Brousseau.
Mr.; A: b. Pomeroy, president of the
board of education, then delivered the
following address:
After congratulating the graduates and
the teachers, he said:
The past year has been one of marked
advance in all departments of our school
work. The generous voting by our citi-
zens during the past year OF 5000, 900 of
bonds for school purposes has given the
Doard the means to provide large addi-
tional accommodations for our school
children. We earnestly hope that the
halliday school will be a thing of the
past. A large number of eligible sites
have been purchased, and fourteen new
and commodious school houses have
been built, or are in process of compile
tlon. During vacation additions will be
built to four others, thereby doubling
their accommodations. The marked
improvements in plans and interior ar
rangements of the new school houses and
their good and substantial construction
will commend itself to all. The new
nigh school building now in process of
erection is also building which will be
credit to our beautiful city, and will
compare most favorably with any in the
state.
1t is expected that the new buildings
and additions will accommodate at least
thirty-fve hundred children, and when
the schools open in the middle of next
September it will be on full-dav time.
- We hope then to have ready for use 40
school rooms, with corps of 40 teach
ers, and expect over seven thousand
children to be in attendance.
The wonderful increase in value of orr
city school property can be appreciated
when it is known that fair valuation Of
its lands, buildings and furniture. in
cluding those ordered and provided for
by funds on hand, will exceed the sum
OF seven hundred thousand dollars.
Notwithstanding the great depression
IN business matters and the apparent or
actual decrease in our population, the
school attendance has been constantly
increasing. The average increase
in enrolment this year over
last is 4S0, and the aver
age increase in regular attendance is
almost IN the same ratio. Our school
census reported 10.667 children between
the ages OF and II years, and 4,72S
under years of age
he then reviewed at length the work
OF the board of education during the
year.
Mr.. Henry Hay followed with the sal
utatory, which was delivered by that
young gentleman in remarkably clear
and pleasing voice, and he showed him
self to be an orator of no mean caliber.
"The Aristocracy of Weal+h - ava.
sn lyzea ntS by Mr.. John.n n.snan Gilmore Gill re was
hn,, an interesting dissertation upon the
"o4ors attendant upon honest labor,
ana justly merited the applause with
winch his auditors greeted the grafton
at its close.
on Mlss nId p;a.y May c: Holl' .nas 'Leaves From.
Chaucer,s "ereI, no *, "a pleasing sketch OF
a recention "D q .eerbury Tales" met with
fyine to ber >nat must have been graft
her due Though it was no more than
tion as the author Of the compost
Aft
en- ,eH the choral march, "Le Guerrier
reg by the class, Miss Grace Hubbard
which was absolutely refreshing in it's
simplicity. She referred to the silvery
voice of the rippling brook, the musical
roar of the sea, the gentle zephyrs which
made Eolian harps of the forest, the
songs Of birds, the hum of insects, and
the various sounds produced by animals,
as the different notes in the creator S
hafps, playing heavenly symphonies. 1t
was these sounds which inspired poets
to their noblest efforts, and it was not at
all to be wondered at.
Mr. Norman R. Martin in an Grafton
entitled "African Resources recalled
the fact that Egypt in her palmy days
was one of the most highly civilized ma
tions of the world, but that since her de-
cline, the resources of the great CONT
nent of Africa had never, until recent
years, been developed.
The great explorers, Livingston and
Stanley had revolutionized the conti-
nent, however ,and there was every pros
pect that, in the near future, Africa
would soon rise to high eminence among
the nations of the world and would nc
longer be known as the Ozark Cont
nent."
"The Aztec Nymph," a remarkably
interesting version of an old Mexican
fairy-tale, as told by Miss Anna d. Aus
tin, the belle of the class, was exceed
ingly well received.
A chorus OF ladies' voices was heard
to great advantage in Weber's Hunts
mans Chorus" and "The Fisherman's
Return" from o Pescator
Taking for his subject ''The Present
Aspect of Civilization" Mr.. Henry Hay
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