Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-06-09
One COURSE ENDED.
COMMENCEMENT COMES WITH
ALL ITS BEAUTY.
Proud Parents and Interested Spec
tators Enjoy the Graduating Glass
Essays-The Juniors Assist Well,

Outlined against lace draped back
grounds, with banks of flowers to right
and left and large audience in front,
the graduating class Of the high school,
with members of the junior class,
teachers and ministers surrounding
them, made pretty picture last night
at the opera house. The change of the
high school course from three years to
four made II necessary that there be
one year without graduates. Last
year should have been that time but
many OF the class could not attend
school longer aud took certificates Of
the work actually done Only two,
Emily Merrill and Emma Parent, per
severed and they last night received
the FIRST diplomas issued for the full
four years course. These admit to the
State University and make prize well
worth working for.
The program last evening was as
follows:
JUNIOR CLASS ENERCtsEs.
Music. ..,,....,, ......,.....,,...., Orchestra
Invocation ,.........., 90. REV, j. 4 Mayor
Music.....,...,.,.. .... 80, ....... ,Orchcstrn
Essny-"Tho Land of tho Czars" Alma Brown
Pluvlus bnd Pones"..........
.."......,.,,....,........ Edward smith
Instrumental solo-"Songs without
Wofds'..,.,,..,......... Mabel Allen
Oration-"Modorn Maggie. Fmnk Eorthcuft
lissay-"A Day In st, Augustino".....
.....,......,,......, 80. .Esthor Patterson
Omtion-"Yoing Men In History" "......
...................,.,......, Arthur Colby
Vocal solo-"slng, Smile and slumhor"
,,,,...,,....,...,,,.,,.,, Emily Merrill
oration-'A Moiamorph osis". .,..,Jacob Fair
Essay-"Our Anabasis" May Bmckhart
SENIOR EXERCISES.
Muslc',...',. ,..s.,......,,..,.,.,,, Orchestra
lGssay-"Valor In Womanhood"E Emma Parent
Es'ay-"Our Inheritance. ,Emily Mcrrii
muHlc'''' .,,,s....,,,..,,...,,.... .OTchestu
Presentation of diplomas.
benediotion,,,,,.,,,.,,Re Rev. E, \, o, Bennett
Space forbds an extended notice OF
each one on the program. All acquitted
themselves with credit aud received
hearty applause from the audience.
The graduating essays were notable
for their excellence. Miss Parent in
"Valor in Womanhood" called atten.
ton to the fact that in all nations
fortitude is the guard and support of
virtue. Crucial tests are not necessarily
involved in great suffering. Woman
has shown her bravery in hundred
ways, In the hospitals, in the homes
and even on the fields of battle. She
closed by saying: "Women through
Divine aid must save this land. Every
woman by her virtue or her vice, hy
her folly or her wisdom, by Ler levity
or her dignity, is adding something to
our national elevation or degradation
No nation is likely to be DESTROYED If
woman is brave enough fulfil ber mis-.
sion,"
"Our Inheritance" by Miss Merrill
was an exceedingly well written his
tory and eulogy of America during the
i
past 400 years. She told something of
Columbus, his struggles and his discov
cries and then of the wonderful advance
OF the land he found. Turning to the
Worlds Fair she deprecated Sunday
opening and urged "a higher morality in
the nation. This inheritance is ours
to care for, enlarge and hand down.
Let US therefore discharge the duty
nobly and well that historians may lnd
In us the same spirit which actuated
him whose life and work is and ever
will be stimulous to our best en-,
deavor."
Many floral gifts were received
Supt, W. W. Reed delivered little
lecture on the lack of boys in gradual
ing classes and urged them to 20 I,
school and parents to compel schoo
attendance.
The school year is ended and Supt
Reed and his capable corps of teachers
may be proud of what has been accom-
plished,