St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-12
Commencement Exercises
Marked by an Intellectual
Pyrotechnie Display.
Milford House the Scene Of a
Delightfully."- Entertaining
Society Tea.
The Postmaster Of South St.
Paul Said to Be in a Little
Difficulty.

cred there last evening to see the high
school class of '91 graduated. There
was not an unkind critic in all that
crowd of friends, ,kinsman and acquaint-
ances. AS the long-awaited time drew
near everybodY's eye was fixed on
the stage, with its rows of empty
chairs, its green palms. and above all, lin
bold relief against the great organ, the
smilax hung class banner. At last
the whisper went through the house,
| There they are!" and to the stirring
music of Suppe's Light Cavalry" over
| ture, the class of '91 entered. Nothing
could be prettier than the stage then.
The boys, feeling the Importance
Of an intelligent minority, made
dignified appearance, and the
| girls in their white dresses were as
| sweet as girl graduates ought to be.
| Nearly all of them carried punches of
roses, with here and there a corsage
| boQuet Or rose tucked Spanish fashion
| in the hair behind the ear. The white
| fans f1uttered like butterflies i'll glow
ing garden, and every one in the class
| looked important and happy.
Miss Lillian Moore was very graceful
| ana sweet as she advanced to welcome
-
| she said few words in behalf of the
| girls. since the boys were too speak for
| themselves. She spoke very cleverly of
| the advantage of higher education to
| women and the wisdom of making them
| independent. Her plea was listened to
| attentively, and won round of richly
deserved applause.
Stephen Barber Soule's essay. "Sci-
entific Studies," betrayed careful study
and deep religious feeling. He told of
the deep humility that comes from
high education in science. He closed
by defining true education as coming
into intelligent consciousness of our
selves and our environments.
w. Oakley Stout followed with gen.
uine surprise. His Grafton
Was in Verse,
and very good verse it was. too. The
delivery was excellent, the singing
delicate. His subject was, II Should
Smile," and he told of the power of
smile. How Hudilras and Don Quixote
helped kill puritanic absurdities and
chivalric nonsense. He touched on the
recent difficulty with Italy, Oh dudes,
on congress, and numerous other
things. He thought farmers would
do less harm if thev remain
ed on their farms and let city politics
alone. His closing lines were:
For every smile
Another star is born in heaven;
Another flower to earth is given;
And, when the smiling flowers die.
Ihelr souls mount upward to the sky,
And forming there radiant bow,
In heavens pastures ever grow.
After music Miss Nellie Frances Girls
void delivered aEremarkable Grafton on
The Race Problem" She spoke with
great spirit and feeling in a clear. low
pitched voice. She spoke of the aston
ishlng progress made by the negro in
the last thirty years. She said:
'Show me race fond of music, and will
show you people capable of the highest
culture and refinement"
10 the negro race we must look for
our future great composers. When the
negroes are given equal rights ana
chances the race problem will solve
itself. Let color be forgotten, and merit
be the standard, and the race problem
will disappear as mist bofore the rising
sun. That the thunderS of applause
which rose as Miss Griswold finished
did not
Raise the Roof,
was surprise to everybody. 1t seemed
as if the audience would never have
done clapping.
Reuben Daniels Liliman's Grafton,
The New Life" followed. 1t displayed
deep thought and knowledge political
history. History, he said, is record of
changes. The fate of nations is to be
Either they loved luxury, and ab-
horred learning, or they loved
learning and despised physical
comfort: The highest stage Of civiliza-
ton will be that in which all mere man.
ual labor is done by machinery. Men
are beginning to realize that there is
more in life than mere money getting.
He ended by saying that in the future
| the great triumvirate of the Nineteenth
century would be Browning, Ruskin
and Carlyle, the heroes of the soul.
Hugh Tyler Halbert's speech, "Our
National Came" was a very original
production. 1t likened congress to a
base bali diamond, when the Republican
| and Democratic mines fought, while all
the world looked on. He touched on re-
cent political events in way that
| brought down the house. He told
how Umpire Reed decreed that
to knock ball over the fence
gave man only three bases,
| whereupon the Democratic nine object
ed and refused TO play, forfeiting the
game to the Republicans,9 to 0. He told
| of Pitcher Mckinley and his .tariffic
iils q NOll LIGHTLY applause
| Blaine's name brought forth laughter
| and applause. The Grafton was con-
cluded with some very we'll timed re-
marks Oh the
Useless Red Tape
and wire-pulling of modern cofgres-
sional proceedings.
Miss Phihua Elopa Reeves essay.
Under the Shadow" was very practi-
cal. She told of Galileo and Milton as
examples of searchers after truth, and
men OF undaunted courage, and closed
| with these words:
''There stand the champions of truth and
| justice though the darkness falls, and the
| storm beats, till your nature is stirred in the
depths where only the plummet of God can
| sound"
| Fred Marvin gave an easy colloouiaI
speech on 'Men and Women in Bust
ness" He boldly championed the cause
OF woman's suffrage, and told of the ad-
vance of the sex, for which he accounted
by theory announced as original with
himself. He was very entertaining in
his remarks, and sensible, as well. The
woman's suffrage agitation, he said,
was 1.-The same old chestnut for which
oul forefathers fought-'Taxation with
out representation is tyranny" His
| unique championship won him hearty
| applause.
Don't Be Clam'' was Walter Can
nom 's.subject.a and he handled itln mas
terly way. He told how slow the world
| is to adopt new ideas. He said:
Some would have US think that in the
past alone were the good old times" The
race is degenerating, they say. We are going
| from bad to worse. We are on the way from
! total depravity to 'totaIern depravity. III
| The pessimisStic Diogenes who believe this
| would but for moment turn from his poor
lantern to the glorious sunlight about him.
| once would stand straight and really breathe
| But he will not do it. He has no faith in