Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-23
VERY MUCH IN EARNEST,
Normal School Students
Graduate.
The Exercises Yesterday at the Opera
House.
A Most Creditable Showing Made List
OF the Class-Notes About
Other Commence
ments.

'No more room," said the ushers in
the Grand opera house at 2 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. Not only was every
seat in the theater filed, but every
inch of standing-room was occupied to
the very swinging doors, which fairly
bulged out with the crowding mass OF
humanity which they had admitted.
The corridors, the galleries and the ap-
proaches were all closely packed with
people. On the stage, seated in tiers,
were the se esenty-one graduates of the
state normal school, almost smothered
in piles of flowers. Behind the foot
lights the baskets, bouquets and
punches of flowers had been arranged in
big bank, which formed charming
foreground to the group of female lowell
ness, arraye in white. The stronger
sex, painfully in the minority among
the graduates, contributed to the beau
tiful picture only contrast by their
more somber garments, like beauty
spot on the velvet cheek of a maiden.
The young people who, having COM
pleted their educational curriculum, are
now on the eve of the battle of life,
formed collection OF bright, handsome.
intellectual faces which might easily
inspire such pride as was displayed on
the countenances of their relatives and
friends in the audience. The names Of
the graduates are as follows: Carrie M.
Arnold, Maggie Brown, Minnie Camp
bell, Bertha Chamberlain, Matte Clark,
Louise R. Clarke. Harriet ii. Conklin,
Annice Cook, Marian Cook, Nellie
Davis, Yetta F. Dexter, Sadie Dickson,
Edward Dolland, William w. Donnell,
| Robert L. Durham. William N. Ent,
Edith H. Field, Eleanor G.. Finch, Eu-
nice M. Finch, Jeannette Fox, Eva
| Griswold, G. Marie Halvorsen, Florence
E. Hard, Bessie E. Harris, Lizzie F..
Hassheider, Emma A. Haughawout,
Anna L. Holmes, Carrie j.,
Holmes, Flora G.. Howes, Maud
P. Hewlett, Mary E. Jonston, An
nies B. Keller, Henry Kerr, Ida A.
Knall, Mabelle L. Lent, Emma E. Lille,
Mira Lord, Clara E. Lum. Mary f. Matt
land, Mary s. Mccoy, George w. Mon.
roe, Linella Morgan, Regina Nauerth,
Eta v. Neibel, Anna E. Noble, Mary
G.. Overman, Sadie T. Pepper, Burney
Porter, Clara NJ. Preston, Stella Price,
Sarah L. Putnam, Clara g. Rannells,
| Cora A. Reavis, Clara l.. Robertson, Eva
A. lockwood, Carrie B. Ecull, Nellie ].
st. Clair, M. Emma Taylor, Hadassah
Thomas, Mary E. Thompson, Gertrude
| E. Ticknor, Pearle Tritt, Rosa NJ. Tyler,
Emma Waglie, Agnes M. Wallace, Hem
rietta Welte, Annie F. Williams, Lillian
A. Williamson, Virginia B. Williamson,
Jennie B. Wylie, Stella E. Young.
The exercises of the commencement
we're opened by the Hamilton Quartette
club with Schubert's Quintette au Salon,
opus 80. The young ladies who had
been selected tor the honors then read
to their admiring listeners the products
of their fertile brains, which, after weeks
of embarrassing anxiety and at the ex-
pense of quantities of midnight oil had
assumed the forms of the sweet girl
graduates essay and poem. Edith H.
Field read philosophical essay on
Public Opinion"; Mary g. Overman a
geological poem, IA Story in Stone" /;
Annice Cook an optimistic essay on
pheasant People,; Mary F. Maitland a
literary essay on California in Fiction" /;
Eunice M. Finch q common-sense essay
on "Plain Living and High Thinking,
and Nellie ]. st. Clair soft, purring
essay entitled sDolce Far Niente''.
| The programme was varied by musical
numbers interpolated. Miss Katherine
| w. Kimball sang the aria Pur dicesti, by
Antonio Lotti; the school chorus rem
dered the Image of the Rose of Reich
ardt, and B. Bierlich, the we'll known
cello virtuoso, played Chopin's nocturne,
opus 8, No. 2.
| Amid the applause Of the audience,
each graduate then received her, or his,
diploma, and the exercises closed with
the singing of the class song, written by
Miss Yetta F. Dexter, one Of the grad
yates. 1t is a production Of great merit,
| as the HERALD's readers will agree. The
text is this:
| Softly, Ah, softly,
| Sir 8 OF the past years,
As Ger us swiftly the thronging memories
Past times are ever dear,
| Thoughts of each fading year
Linger, and softly their rosy tints reveal.
Softly, ah, softly,
fling Of the morrow
| Sing softly.
| Gladly, All, gladly,
| Sing Of the future
Hope psids: 5s our guide ss we climb the mountain
| May the new path be bright.
| With clear, golden light,
Ana ah;ao II our hearts may sweet peace and JOY
| Softly. ali softly,
| Sing OF the partings,
Now that az classmates we meet again no more.
Sing softly
/