St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-15
OUT IN The WORLD.
An Unusually Large Class Of
Graduates From the High
School.
Girls Largely in the Majority
Among the Scores Of
Scholars.
Class Day Exercises at the
Peoples Church in Every
Way a Success.
Long Established Scholastic
Customs Honored by the
Graduates.

tllan crowd or happy, Well-dreSSeQ,
bright-looking boys and girls. There IS
something so hopeful and contagious IN
the sight of their young sfaces and their
evident feeling that all the ages have
been waiting for this especial hour, and
that they hold the key to all possible
success, and possess the amor that
shall guard from the shafts of evil des-
tiny; that the sight makes old hearts
beat with sympathy and old eyes in
dulgent to all their pretty egotism.
Such a sight was that of the class of
'93 st. Paul high school graduates who
held their class day exercises at the
Peoples church at 2:20. The class is
large one, having 120 members, ana
judging from yesterdays performances,
a very bright one. The gathered class
on the platform made pretty picture,
there were about five girls 10 every boy,
and this preponderance Of the sex who
wear pretty summer gowns in all the
delicate shades of color that fashion al
lows this summer, with their garnature
of floating ribbon and fragrant flowers,
was to the bettering of the looks of the
class at least. There were just boys
enough to give an accent to the scene
decreed that all maSculines who have
reached years of discression shall wear
Oh all occasions. There always is this
PrepOnderance of Girls
in the public school classes, for many
reasons. The programme prepared was
good one, aud though on first sight
seeming long one, it was so we'll con-
Quoted, each performer did so promptly
his or her part that there was not one
single dragging from beginning to end.
1t would seem bit ungraciouS to and
fault when so much was most excellent,
but there were those in the audience
who complained that the speakers
talked so low that they could not hear
enough that was said to be able to keep
run of the subjects. Those near the
platform, however, were enthusiastic in
their praises OF the various speakers.
For the first time a graduating class
from our high school had girl president
in Miss Hattie Merrill who made bright
address, speaking OF ner pleasure in the
delightful relations that had subSisted
between the members of the class from
first to last. She transferred to the
juniors the scalping knife that has been
the price and possession of each sue
ceeding senior class for years. The
banner of orange hue she gave to the
freshman class to be held as talisman
till the day on which they, too, should
stand where the seniors now stood in
'96. The freshmen as freshman should
receive the sacred trust in silence, and
Gertrude heine made the junior response
In happy style. She acknowledged the
seriousness of the tasks that this latest
edition of the work begun by Tubal
foit
Sented, and promised for her class that
none of its work should be neglected.
Glass Representatives.
The class statistics were we'll re-
ported by Miss Pearl Teeple. Accord
ing to this charming StatisticIan, this
class, taken III the aggregate, is the
Iallest, the heaviest and the best-looking
one, as we'll as the oldest, that has ever
left the high school.
That dread secret society of which the
lower classes have heard, the Pi Delta
Sigma, was well chronicIed by Henry
'. Boyer: The Juniors having been
weighed In tine balance and found
wanting" in the courage necessary to
the perpetuation OF this grim society, it
was bequeathed to the sopohmores. with
many words of serious warning as to the
of the charge.
Henry j. Castle appeared with an ap-
palling length of scroll OIL which he had
Inscribed the class history, but so
racily were these dry facts stated and
so audibly were they read that no one
wished the record shorter.
The class artist, Miss Grace Hawkins |
Flower. scored a delightful success in
the portrayal and sketch of each of the
class whese salient points were such as {
to make them tempting bits for her |
clever pencil.
As class poet George C. Dunlap ap-
peared to be at home. The ghost whose |
Opportune appearance seems to be at |
the poets command, aiding his natural
poetic ability, gave to the class more |
than usually good poem.
The Boadiceans, the secret society |
that holds the fealty of the feminine |
portion of the class, was ably repre- |
Sented by Miss Bertha Firth, who told |
of the various vlcissitudes through |
which her beloved society had passed to |
members of the society greeted her final |
words with the society cry, which is |
curious reproduction of its name.
The address to lower classes was |
given by Ernest w. Lewis, and was a
recapitulation of all the good
advice that the seniors had heard and |
up in the last four years. and |
most graciously told.
Miss Margaret Castles gift of |
prophecy was evoked for the benefit of |
her mates, and was a very clever bit of |
prophetic lore, and was we'll read; in
deed, it was one of the very best things
OH the programme.
Not to leave the future of the prophet
ess undecided, Melvin E. Coleman took
a peep in the future, and promises the
best of successes to the busy pen that |
has foretold the future of the class.
The class song written by Miss Mabel |
and sung to the tune of |
''Auld Lang Syne," closed the class |
day of '93.