The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-27
lie audience, and every light remark is

the audience, and every light remark is
| bound to be heard and to hurt somebody
Ii would be good plan. if you cannot
refrain from criticism, to stay away alto
gether.
One of the girl graduates gave IN.
Quad" the first place among the American
humorists.
There was lack of over-confdence in
the subject matter of all the essays yester-
day, and consequently an abundance of
good sense. The young men seemed to
realize, which is not a common thing with
graduates, that they could not attain sue
cess by simply reaching out their hand
but that they had long hard struggle be-
fore them, and success was ten and TWEEN
ty years, and probably forty years off.
A good judge said yesterday afternoon
that there were at least three orations by
the young men graduates which were de-
livered better than half the young lawyers
and politicians in town could do it.
There is a tendency to discourage
young men who are graduating
Older men will tell them that
their resolutions to amount to something
are the ARREST dreams and in twelve
months they are liable to be working in IA
soap factory These pessimistic views,
however, do not hold good Jesse Stone
graduated from the Wichita High school
a few years ago. Today he is the private
physician of an eastern multi-millionaire.
He gets an enormous salary besides many
valuable presents. He spent the winter in
Florida and this summer will accompany
his employer to Europe.
The young lady who had the excellent
essay on Bread has six brothers who are
laboring men.
There were fifteen different opinions in
the audience as to which was the prettiest
girl on the stage. There were fifteen girl
graduates.
Both audiences forenoon and afternoon,
yesterday, were what actors call cold
They were not enthusiastic and did not
applaud at all except at the end of the ad-
dress. which is more formal than compli-
mentary. 1t is very difficult to appear be-
fore ''cold' audience.
Professor Shull had been on the Wich-
tia graduating stage more than any other
person present. This was the sixth gradu-
ating class which had Commenced" IN
der his care.
1t was the best graduating class that has
ever appeared in Wichita. The girls were
all sweet and intellectual and the boys
bright and promising. A man who could
have gone there and looked upon their
bright faces and heard their cheerful,
hopeful words, and not gone away hap
pier, more contented man, would have
been worse cynic than Diogones.
Only one diamond shone with any no.
ticable brilliancy from the stage and that
was worn by young lady who was
dressed in pink.
One of the young lady graduates wore
handsome yellow slippers that were really
''out of sight" for unlike the average girl
of sixteen she kept them covered with her
skirts and only at one time during the
afternoon could they be seen. Her feet
were not made in the Chicago mould
either.
One of the young lady graduates was
dressed in mourning colors. Death claimed
one of her relatives short time ago.
Amos McLain spoke about the serpent
of monopoly squeezing the life out of the
American eagle IN such manneraS would
have earned for him the applause of all
the third partyites in Kansas if they could
have heard him. He pictured the serpent
coiling around the poor eagle so vividly
that a cold chill ran down the back of Ia If
the audience.
Secretary Irwin of the school board man
ifested considerable executive ability. At
ore time the holders of checks to seats
were in a chaotic condition, and in five
minutes. by the watch, he had reduced
everything to order again.
The average age of the graduates was
Is years, months and 10 days.
The gentlemen graduates have the fol-
lowing professional preferences: Six desire
to be lawyers, two would like to become
newspaper men, the ambition OF one is to
be a successful merchant, one would like
to become a preacher If he thought he
could reach the altitude of Beecher, one
has an ambition to become novelist and
the ambition OF another is to be civil en-
gineer.
The graduates were all native born
Americans and represented three religions.
Catholic and Hebrew. One of
the graduates is said to be a confirmed
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