The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-27
COMMENCEMENT.
An Immense Crowd Greet the Twenty
Seven Graduates Of the High School
at the Opera House.
The Exercises Said to be the Most Sue
oeSsful Ever Held in the City.
A Full and Detailed Account.

| Grand opera house held larger, more re-
fined or cultivated audience than yester-
day to witness the commencement exer-
cises of the High school. The stage was
artistically adorned with blooming plants
and an elaborate display of flowers OF al
most every hue and color. These sent
their sweet perfume out over the vast
crowd. up to the balcony, up into the gal
lery, and, mingling their sweetness with
that OF the bCquets worn by the ladies all
through the house, fiattered in waves of
delicious fragrance upon every breath,
| gladdened with their beauty every eye.
Intoxicated the senses and lulled into calm
delight all anxiety and expectation.
At precisely 10 O'Clock, with the build
ing quivering with the delightful music
OF Shaw's orshestra, the graduating class
headed by DR.. Stephenson, and Professor
Shull came marching in and took posi-
ton on the stage. Rev. Hartley of the NJ
T. church offered an invocation of earnest
pathetic power for the blessing of God
upon the class and the ceremonies of the
occasion. The boxes were occupied by the
teachers of the school and of the normal
class.
IAC SOuuS NClO Iu SlcStHb
and becoming costumes with boquets of
roses and their bright eyes, and fair
bushes made additional glamour of
beauty and loveliness to the tints of the
flowers. and the Wilderness of the lilies,
decorating the stage.
Miss Mary Randall was the first to APP
pear and she had for her Grafton With
out the Sound of Hammer or AK" This
eel ,oI -lo
spoke Of the temple standing in the land of
| Judea, covered with the record OF thirty
centuries, telling history SO replete with
fate and the rise and fall of PHILOSOPHERS
and religions that the silent power of her
mighty columns taught the lesson of her
building. Yet without the Sound of
Hammer or AK" She portrayed the dew
| gems, the growing grass, the colors of the
leaf, the music of the ripping brook-sll
as silent powers, working their influence
| for mans good. and happiness. She showed
| that thought was the power controlling
the world and moving the princi.
pies and ideas eventually to redeem
and disenthrall the world from
the gross, the impure aud usher
! in the mystic influence born ut Gethse-
mena, this and not the Sound of Hammer
or AK" Miss Randall was eloquent i'll her
| delivery aud received great applause.
! Clydus c. Brown spoke on the 'Crusad-
! ers" and showed himself master of history
/ in drawing from it the motives and prin ci-
| pies underlying the work of man. The
crusaders were moved by superstition and
n desire for revenge. lie then drew PIC
| ture of Palestine with its clustering mem
cries of Christ and the walks he made holy
along the shores of the Gallilee His de-
| livery WAS strong, forcible and impressive.
Miss Zella V. Snyder chose for her sub
! iect, "Shine Out Starsp' This was beyond
| question the most beautiful in its thought
and delivered with grace and beauty of eX-
| symbols or figures of the goodness OF
! God, of beauty, of impulse. In cOnclu-
! sion she said, this thought widens our life
to grand proportions: hv IS influence we
| feel the life that is too narrow, and seek
! for higher things, for the life of duty and
| labor is better than the life of sensual
| pleasure and we are not content until we
enter the life of faith, where joy and duty
are brought together. and what seemed
! toll and labor is removed and we can abide
| in the ever increasing light of knowledg re
! and wisdom. For without this reflected
! light we are too often content 10 sit in the
| gray dawn of intellect ual development
and wonder at the marvellous words OF
| those who have achieved. Teachers we
| thank you for guiding us into the light of
those bright stars of knowledge and wis
| dom, and as you have done unto us. may
| God do unto you. Glass mates;
stars of our school days earnest
studies and hopes, shine out
each in the brightness of gathered knowl-
edge and wisdom, to reflect still more
| brightly III all your spheres of life, and to
chain of friendship ever hold US in loves
sweet sympathy. and as we go forth upon
| life's great stage of play may we shine
out stars"
Miss Lillian s. Kinkade was next, with
! ''LOngfellow's Village Maidens" for her
subject. This beautiful picture by Long
/ fellow was carefully viewed, and all its
color of character, grace and sweetness
most expressively portrayed by Miss Lii
| liam. She has gathered a 'stone house" OF
| gems 10 beautify the ideal woman. and in
! language well spoken gives this ideal a
real existence in the three pictures of
! home life. She talks like a philoso-
| pher and speaks like an orator
! and no doubt out of the bright realisms of
| life she will, as did Kathrine in Holland S
pen picture, have a fine philosophy TO
! guide her steps" This was most cred
| liable production
Erwin A. Taft GRATED on "Autocracy
and Anarchy" This was fine disserta-
! ton on the ruthless and abhorent princi-
! pies or systems So dangerous to society
and government He showed the dread
! ful results of their evil work in Turkey,
| Russia aud France He pictured the
/ bloody scenes under the red flag OF COM
! mune, and how antagonistlc to growth and
prosperity were these giants OF wrong.
! Mr.. Taft spoke clearly, forcibly and with
! full knowledge of the matter he had ''ln
hand" he will make a strong speaker
with practice and has much natural
! ability in this line.
! Miss Rebecca Wonderly read an essay on
! painting and Sculpture" Love of the
! beautiful is born OF the love ofimitation.
! Miss Wonderly gave Il rapid history OF the
arts and how they were pracJiced In au-
| cient DAYS by the early nations, AMI TO
| what extent by the Egyptians, PerslauS,
| Greeks, etc SO perfect WAS some OF the
work in sculpture by the Greeks that the
/ marble presenting The human form in
such perfection. needed only the breath OF
/ life TO complete the perfection OF God ;
/ choicest creature, man. As CIVILIZATION
and religion advances, more beautiful and
perfect Is painting, more natural ana
! complete is sculpture; for as these inhu-
ences are felt there is more harmony aud
| closer imitation OF nature and special en-
| joymeut derived from producing the works
! OF God.
Mr. Amos McLain spoke on "Monopo-
lies" MouoDolies have ever been grasp
ing and born OF avarlce. ana desire Tor
gain. The nations Ot the past whose
glory has departed aad whose temples de-
caved lost their power by an incessaut de
sire to gain aud add new acquisitions TO
their empires or kingdoms. He demon
strated this by the history OF Rome ami
also showed, when that power degenerat-
ed she did so then the acknowledged mis-
tress or the civilized world and no longer
J had Hannabei to teach her the art OF war
! by keeping her engaged TO retain his sup
remacy. Our country wrested the power
! Of inhicting this evil upon Us from GREAT
/ Britain, and we must guard our pros
perity By keeping il or them down IL our
/ land and make Tree the labor and puT-
| snits of he tn,lar and The moor. IMls was