Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
CURRY'S COMMENCEMENT.
Enjoyable Graduation Exercises at the
Grand Opera House - A Very Large
Audience Present and the Enormous
Glass Acuuits Itself Most CreditabIy.

Local talent, consisting of representative
members of the Curry University gradu-
ating class drew an audience at the Grand
Opera House last evening uneQualled before
during the season in numbers and elegance.
Shortly after O'Clock the theater began to
ill, and so rapidly did the people arrive
that by s o'clock the main body of the audi
torium, the boxes and the balconies were
packed to their utmost limit, and those who
came afterward found standing room in the
aisles and corridors.
The curtain rolling up was the signal for
enthusiastic and prolonged applause, for in
a simulated forest of cool shady trees, with
electric lights so arranged that brilliant sun
shine seemed to simmer and tremple through
the leaves, were seated the l62 graduates-the
Young ladies arrayed in bewltchlng creations
OF white and feather fans and the young
gentlemen equally elegant in their attire.
The faculty of the University with the
trustees and prominent clergymen occupied
chairs to the front and left of the stage.
When the applause had simply become an
echo, President j. Clark Williams requested
Chaplain Mcguire Ito! open the programme
The Merry Wives of Windsor" a piano
duet-overtUre rendered by Misses Emma
WoelfeI and Hattie Nichol was a happy and
pleasing beginning OF the exercises, and
that the performance was creditable could
be seen by the smile on Prof Bissel's face,
who instructs the piano pupils.
Brilliant Young Salutatorian.
Mr. Walter Otto Amsler next came for
ward and enlisted the sympathy of his lis
teners at once in the Trend OF Nations
from his standpoint. Mr.. Amsler was the
salutatOrian of the class, and is Young gen.
tlemau of clear concise and bright IDEAS
He was remarkably clever in his address SO
pronouncedly so that inquiries made con-
cerning him developed the fact that but
three years ago he was in knickerbockers
and Is now but Is years of age.
The Crown in the Heart" was the subj &c
selected by Miss Anna Ernestein Kunm
upon which to weave some of the prettiest
thoughts in polished language regarding
contentment. Miss Emma Griffiths personi-
fed Hearts Delight" by singing a song
with that title. The young LADY appeared in
good voice and ravishingly pretty gown
that displayed pretty neck and arms.
Bouquets almost as large as herself were
presented Miss Griffith.
Mr.. Richard S. Hoffman represented the
business college and appropriately talked
upon Business Ethics" Mr.. Hoffman was
mastery in his address, and said, among
many witty and pungent things: cit is not
whether the country is large enough to hold
the nations, or whether there is enough sol
to grow cereals, but have we honesty and
integrity enough to control fhe business of
9atiOns?"
Msss Theodore Marshall, the young lady
from Kansas, recited in her own inimitable
manner "The Boat Race" and received q
storm of applause. "The Interpreters" gave
q wide range for the pen Of Miss Ella Moore
Brown, and many prominent in law, science
and literature were paid pretty tributes by
the speaker
Misses Tillie Macintosh and Bertha
Moore, in a vocal duet 81 Pescatori" !" were
introduced to the audience, and the ac-
quaintance was continued further by Miss
Macintosh in "The Mariner Mothers
Prayer with violin obligato by Miss Kath-
crime Ball, and flute obligato by Mr.. Thomas
3. Atterbury, Jr.
Miss Catherine Alicia Carney with
Thoughts in the Shadows" evolved very
pretty and forcible argument, reinforced by
illustrations, to prove that thoughts in
spired by Sickness death, sorrow or trouble
Of any kind were the most worthy place
in the literature of the country.
Hearty Cheers for James G. Blaine.
'The Diplomatic Pen" was exactly the