St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-30

Gem selections. :. Miss Kelly's room
Song g...................Hi High School ouartette
Recitation on-..-.........., Miss Peabodys room
Recitation E. Miss Motifs room
Recitation. Miss Woodbury. room
Song-"My Love Is My ColumbIa''-
Ascension Church chorus
Recitationour Flag Miss ao Dorm Dorm
Essay on Sheridan .............M Miss BIodgett
Recitation. 80. Miss Addie Card
Speech. ...ReY. Mr.. Willard
Song. ....................... -. Hlgh Scnool
Speech. ...... Rev. McAfee
Song. Miss Noit's room
Remarks s.................. :. ID. c. Bryant
Columbia Chorus
Benedction. Rev. NJ. Willard
The recitations by Miss Effie Herring
and Miss Ada Carl were certainly well
done. and the song by Master Foster
Bridges was delightfully."- cute. The
singing merited much praise, and the
portions of it that were done by the
school showed what excellent work
Prof. Langdon is accomplishing, Rev.
q. T. McAfee left college to enter the
army before he was out of his teens.a
was in it four years and three months.
In his address he pictured battle from
the time when the soldiers feel it in the
air that fierce fight is coming to the
buryng OF the dead, as only those who
have been in one could do. The spirit
Of the battlefield filed him again. and
when he gave words 20 the patriotism
that makes the soldier brave death. the
children were so stirred that they burst
into applause. The children of '9l have
souls that would make them soldiers
of '61. Prof. Bryant gave fit
ting close to the exercises by reading
letter he had received from an hon
al Of In 81
Doran. in which approval of such
celebration was expressed and the pres
entation made of large flag, that was
then hanging above the platform of the
church and today will wave from the
top of the Humboldt school building.
Mr.. Doran was in Southern prisons
tWenty-seven months and escaped by
the Fat car, on which he was being
taken from one prison to another, being
unintentionally run among Union
troops.
Il he examinations somewhat inter-
fered with the exercises AT the high
school, and, as a consequence, they
were limited as to time The feature of
the exercises was the discussion be-
tween Hugh Halbert and Alexander
Caldwell. Halbert spoke upon Memo
rial day from the standpoint of a
NOrtherner and Caldwell from that of a
Southerner. Mr.. Halbert argued that
Memorial day should be day of re-
joiclng that the Union had been main
tanned; while, Oh the other hand, Mr..
Caldwell maintained that, although
the old animositieS between the North
and South had long since passed away,
and all rejoice in the fact that we have
a united country, to-day should be day
of mourning for those who had fallen on
both sides during the struggle. Helen
Sargent and Jessie Neill explained the
object of the Mount Vernon association,
urging all the students to take stock
therein. Harry Williams, Clarence
Halbert and Stephen SOule concluded
the programme with patriotic recita-
tiOnS.
The exercises at the manual training
school were most elaborate. Prof. c. A.
Bennett presided. the school glee club
opening the programme with the old
war song, Marching Through Georgia"
Capt. Castle delivered very interest
ing address on The Meaning of Memo
rial Day." "The Soldiers FAREWELL
and other songs were rendered by the
students. and the exercises closed with
the singing of America"
Inc exercises at many of the schools
were given in the class rooms. Such
was the case at Webster school. The
class rooms were very prettily deco
rated, especially in the rooms presided
over by Miss Strong and Miss Smith.
Recitations. songs and readings were
given; among others, by Stuart Fuller,
Alice Perry, Patty Foster, Fred Braden,
Orton JOY. Ethel Smith, Sadie Smith,
Margaret Routh. Leslie Shandrew,
Bertha Foster and Madeline Liggett. In
the Robert A. Smith school, Hawthorne
school and Franklin schools the eXer-
ciSes were very interesting.