The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-17
wAsco INDEPENDENT ACADEMY.

WASCO NISDEPENDENT ACADEMY.
ates---A Successful Year.
Commencement exercises of Wasco
Independent academy began on Sunday
evening with baccalaureate sermon by
Rev. G. r. Burnside, of Buffalo, n. Y.
from the text-"Be ye perfect, even as
your Father in heaven is perfect Matt.
5:4S. In his impressive way. MIR. Burn
side set forth the esOne Perfect Life''
and exhorted each to do his best to imi-
tate His spirit and follow his example.
The Congregational church choir con-
tributed much to the pleasure and profit
of the exercise by their excellent music.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
were given to examinations.
The alumni gave the graduating class
a supper on Monday evening, which was
an occasion of much pleasure to the par
Elephants.
1t seldom falls to our lot to report so
pleasing an event as that which took
place in the auditorium of the Court
house last evening, the occasion heing
the exercises of the graduating class for
the year 1S91-92. BY eight O'Clock the
large hall was filed to overhowing.
while those who came little late, were
unable to obtain admittance. 1t was
with considerable pride we noticed so
many representative citizens of our town,
while number of visitors from distant
cities in the East, were also happily
conspicuous by their presence.
The exercises began promptly at s
O'clock, and as Rev. Mr.. Curtis had not
yet arrived, prayer was.ofered by Rev.
George r. Burnside. Then came music
by Mrs. Huntington, Miss Slutz, MIR.
Crandail and Mr.. Burlingame.
Miss Frances Ettie Rowe followed
with an excellently written essay en-
titled Three Centuries of Education. .
After a short interval Mr.. Geo. Burlin-
game sang solo and was warmly ap-
plauded.
The essay of Miss Olive Taylor, on
1.-THE Life and Times of Homer is
worthy of great praise and cannot fail
to excite deeper interest when we are
told that "seven cities now claim Homer
dead, in which the living Homer begged
for bread"
The instrumental solo of Miss Aimee
Newman also deserves good share o.
our applause. while the Grafton of Mr.
Albert Patrick O'Leary on .sThe Acquis.
ition of Oregon" was the great treat o.
the evening.
This, by the way, is noteworthy in.
stance of home education in the higher
branches of study. Mr.. O'Leary will
always be more largely indebted to- iths
opportunities and infiuenees Of: Wasce
academy than to any other factor in his
education. Besides an excellent stand
ing in his classes as student, an inter
est in home, history, and public affairs
has been acquired, and the academ,
last night gave him the opportunity tx
take position before the people of hi
native city from which he probably vii
never recede. o@ s
The academy has enabled him t.
choose his standard, and his career as
man must be marked by the same earn
est effort that gave to him his achieve
ment as boy.
We understand the influence of th
Wasco academy is to be still further ex
tended by his becoming student o
Brown University, the alma mater o
Prof. Ingalls.
In this way, the early training of tn
child and the boy continues in tn
youth, and throughout his experience a
man, young O'Leary will, we are sure
claim Wasco academy as the institution
which exerted the greatest and best in
fuence upon his Life.