Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
Brilliant Commencement Exercises
Held Last Evening on Both
Sides of the Allegheny.
A NIGHT OF SCHOLASTIC EVENTS.
Teachers and Pupils of the Twin Cities
Preparing to Enjoy Their Well
Earned Vacation.
LITTLE PEOPLE TAtKLE BIG SUBJECTS.
Weighty Questions Of State Settled Easily By Girls
and Boys.

The school terms are pretty generally
closed. In some institutions examinations
are still in progress, but after this week
pupils will be at liberty to sniff the scent OF
June roses without the nightmare of lessons
to con or irascible teachers to make afraid.
In consequence, the young folks are as
happy as pigs in clover, and may sunburn
themselves with impunity for whole months,
and lay in n stock of vitality for the next ten
months ordeal The girls will be at liberty
10 organize lawn fetes and the boys to dis
cuss baseball, football, tennis, cricket etc.
None of these games have gotten
an overmastering hold in this city,
except baseball, and Superintendent
Luckey thanks his stars that it is the only
infiction that interferes with school routine
10 a serious extent. Being inclined to
obesity and scantness of breath, Mr.. Luckey
has probably less Indictment toward ath-
letic games than some lean people. He,
however. does not carry his antagonism to
the point of quarreling with lovers of ath-
letic exercises.
4 Harvest of Commandments.
For some time TO come the commence
ments will occupy the attention of gradu-
ating classes who will feel that throbbing of
the heart they ne'er will feel again, not
often. at least, after they begin the real
battle of life and find that apples of Sodom
thickly strew the pathway of that life that
is real and earnest, and though the grave
may not be its goal, in their estimation, yet
its disappointments are only overcome by
here and there a traveller.
The teachers will enjoy their vacation
variously and some unusually conscientious
ones vicariously. Some will go to summer
resorts and some will stay st home from
choice and others from necessity. Some are
languishing on beds of pain while others are
strictly in the swim and will have all the
pleasure their means allow.
The complexion of the peoples colleges
viii not be greatly changed at the autumnal
equinox. The Second ward school, the Old
South, loses two teachers, Misses Coles and
Haley, and their places will be filled by
Misses Jones and Wilson. Miss Lindsey, Of
the Grant school, is tossing on a sick bed.
Principal Johnston, of the Eleventh ward,
has resigned and gone to the Seventh ward,
Allegheny. His place will be filled by Miss
Mackrel. Miss frwins place win be taken
by Miss Rambo.
Mr.. Riddle, principal of the Thirteenth
ward school, retires. His successor has not
been chosen.
One Radical Change of Discipline.
In the Fourteenth ward Miss Hively has
resigned to take charge of the education of a
husband, and her place has not been filed.
The Fifteenth ward loses Miss Funden-
DuTK, VINO goes 10 tue SCuOOl ds q
teacher of history, and Miss Hettie Fox, of
No. l. is transferred to Howard school, Six
teenth ward.
In the Twenty-second ward Principal Nc
Cabe retires and his place will be taken by
Mr.. Ellwood. Miss Nelson also retires
In the Twenty-third ward Miss Martin re-
tires.
On the Southside, with the exception of
the Bedford and Allen districts, the school
boards have not held elections.
The result of the examinations shows 55S
applicants for admission to the High School
ii is safe to say that some of them will fall by
the wayside, but Superintendent Luckey
seemed to think that a considerable portion
OF the aspirants will make the rifle.
There will be a multitude of picnics dur
ing the vacation, and among those who go
to see that the youngsters are not bitten by
toads or snakes there will be eyes that look
love to eyes that speak again, as Byron
might say. The High School will picnic at
1dlewild near Latrobe, on Friday.
The Central Board of Education has not
fixed the time for the fall session of the
schools to commence but the date is ex-
pected to be August 81, which will beat the
kids out of day or two of tun, but that
day falls on Monday.