The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-05-27
MANKATo FREE Press.
GOT THEIR SHEEPSKINS.
The Normal Turns Out Glass OF For
ty'seven Young Ladies and
Gentlemen.
How They Looked and What They
Said.

Said.
MankatO delights to do honor 10
the young people who each spring
complete the courses in her schools
and throw aside long scholastic life
to enter the broader field OF bread
winning. AS usual, the unreserved
seats at the opera house were taken
long before the hour of the opening
number on the program, and by eight
o'clock the house was packed. Hack
after hack rolled up with their loads
of white-robed 'sweet girl gradu-
ates," who glided around behind the
curtain and took their assigned seats
on the stage, with their gentlemen
classmates. The faculty, school Of
ficials, choir and invited guests. in
Guiding Mayor Willard, aided the
large class to fill the stage. No one
could mistake the graduates, in their
white dresses and black Prince AL
berts. The following is list of mem
bers with their residences:
SENIOR CLASS.
Petina a. Bergh, Madison.
Grace B. Clark, Mankato.
VIM. Hoscheid, st. James.
Ivan A. Parry, Mankato.
Mabel A. Pond, Kasson.
Mary L. Smith, Waseca.
Alfred Torngren, Mankato.
Mary Bogue, Castle Rock,
Viola Brown, Brownton.
Layinnie Hagen, GAINESVILLE.
Mary Humiston, Worthington.
Mary NJ. Jansen, Albert Lea.
Sarah A. Jansen, Albert Lea.
Albert Pfaender, New Ulm.
Total II.
ELEMENTARY Glass.
Blanche A. Burleigh, Luverne.
Lura A. Gaudall, Minneapolis.
Eta Mcpherson, Brainerd.
Harriet E. Morford, Owatonna.
Libbie A. Award, Vernon Center.
Fannie b. Bailey, South Troy.
Carrie A. Bennett, Tivoli.
Myrtle E. Brown, Amboy.
c. NJ. Christensen, Bath.
Lois A. Crosby, Dawson.
Luella Crow, Smiths Mill.
May c. Dougherty, Mankato.
Walter Darling, Mankato.
W. E. Freeman, Mankato.
Onie Hagen, GAINESVILLE,
Elmer E. Harrison, New Richland.
Georgia Hatch, Pipestone,
Elbridge B. Healy, Grapeland.
Edith A. Kassing, Waseca.
Agnes F. Kelly, New Richland.
Hannah C. Lennstrom. Vernon Center.
Ira F. Loomis, Marshall.
Jennie NJ. Macbeth, Mankato.
Lizzie NJ. Miller, Brainerd.
Myrtle Oliver. Garden City.
o. NJ Peabody, Mankato.
frankie Perkins, South Troy.
Frederick Schoenbeck, Mankato-
Jennie l.. Smith, Wood Lake.
Title G. Torston, Springfield.
Effie B. Turrittin, Kasota.
Emma Wickershelm, Idlewild.
Total 50.
Grand total, AZ.
The boxes were banked with fra
grant flowers, and were gracefully
Topped with bunting, in which the
class colors of white and gold predom-
mated. The class motto, 'From Pos
sibility to Realization, twas stretched
above the stage in gilded letters.
The graduates wore beautiful
bouquets, and the ladies presented an
especially charming appearance.
1t was some minutes after eight
O'Clock when the Concordia orchestra
led by J. B. Vanderworker, struck up,
and it was fully half-past eight when
the curtain rose.
Rev. f. NJ. Rule pronounced an
earnest invocation.
The large choir, under the effec-
tive leadership of Miss Griffin, adj
vanced and sung "Fairyland Waltz"
in a most excellent manner, accom-
panied by the orchestra.
The first number on the program
was an Grafton by Elmer E. Harrison,
on "The Race Problem" Three
fourths of the negroes, he said, live in
the southern states, and in two de-
cades at the rate of increase of the
past they will be in the majority
there. Morally, physically and So
cially they are inferior to the whites.
1t becomes necessary to deny them
the right of suffrage where they out
number the whites. Negro suprem-
acy means the ruin of the country
ruled by him, as is shown in Hayti, as
well as in some southern states af-
ter the war; The union of the two
races is revolving to the instincts u
both races, and there must be race
distinction. The removal of the o.
900, 900 blacks to Africa would be i'm
possible as we'll as a crime. In the
schools of the south lies the solution
of the question, widely scattered
though they are. When the blacks
become educated and intelligent the
right of suffrage can be given back
to them without danger. Take suf-
frage from the ignorant white as we'll
as the negro. This is the only prac-
tical, probable and sure solution. He
spoke earnestly and without apparent
effort.
symbolism in Art" was the SUBJ
ject of an essay read by Miss Petina
Bergh. She said the Egyptian forms
of art are symbolical of the religion
OF the ancient inhabitants of that
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