The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-06-15
NOW ON THE CRUEL WORLD
The HIGH School Commencement
Exercises a Superb
Success.

Class of Seven Members Are Given
Sheepskins by presi-
dent King.
Class Colors--
Heliotrope and Cream.
The local world welcomed the high
school class of '93 last Friday evening
as it was turned out of school and cast
upon the uncertain waves of life. The
opera house was packed with relatives
and friends to witness the event. The
stage was bowery Of beautiful flow
ers and creeping vines, enriched by
numerous boquets and baskets of flow
ers direct from the florist, and sent up
by admirers. A tiny fence, with an
open gate, was stretched across the
front of the stage, and over it, sus-
pended from the ceiling was the class
motto "Ad Portos." Shortly before
9 o'clock the graduates, lastly attired
in silks, wearing natural flowers, and
white slippers, filed on to the stage.
They were followed by the local teach
ers and members of the school board,
all of them receiving hearty applause
Rev. L. L. Hanscom delivered the op-
ening prayer. Misses Forbush and
Darling played a piano duet, after
which Emily Wilson, without intro
duction stepped to the gates, and
formerly opened the class exercises.
She first addressed the audience and
her classmates in Latin, and then com
menced her essay on Chivalry, her
musical voice not even being marred
by tremor. Reviewing it, she said,
that in the middle ages only, we have
authentic history of chivalry.
Allied with it we find the feudal sys-
tenn. The nobility of that time were
corrupt, the people debased, but yet
romance has thrown its most attrac-
tive mantle over that time. Chivalry
arose from two peculiarities-the great
pride taken in the profession of arms,
and the high regard and delicate gal
lantry the Teutons paid to- woman.
Attendant on chivalry we find poetry;
o,oL o,,ooo.c ~ t>o %Io ~ox,o~.1:.. +
the other Poetry melted men to i'm
itate the deeds of fabulous heroes,
which promised to -perpetuate their
own. Chivalry was brought to ma
turity and hlossomed in it's full splen-
dor during the crusades. The infu-
ence was good and ennobling. It
softened warfare in a barbarous age;
it taught adherence to ones woffd
and to all engagements. The dark
side is the broken lance and shattered
helmet, the plume heavy and drag
gled with blood, the torn banner dyed
with the same crimson stain; the no
BILE form PROSTATE in the dust. JOY
fully, may we utter over chivalry's
PROSTATE form crest in peace" The
Knight of medieavival times is the
prototype of the true gentleman of to-
day, an improvement on the past. 1t
is better to be good man than great
man, for far more has been accom-
plished by kind word than by all
the pomp and glitter of the age of
chivalry. May each and every youth,
as he passes on the threshold of life,
resolve to so live, and do, and act that
he may justly deserve the title of gen.
tleman. No knight ever displayed
more heroism than the man, who to-
day, stands up for his convictions, who
dares to do right in an evil world, to
protect innocence and virtue. nnd ex-
pose vice and shame. Then let the
young man who is desirous of show
ing his heroism and gallantry, buckle
on the sword of the true gentleman
and go FORTH to do battle for virtue,
honor and the right.
In a clear, sweet feminine voice
Susie J. Abbott delivered her oration
on ''The Hand" the most wonderful
piece of human mechanism known
Miss Abbott opened eloquently on
natural beauty, and then traced ami
NAL imitation of the hand in the mon
key, ape, gorilla, chimpanzee. She
spoke of its strength, the peculiarities
of the fingers, their powers and the
cause of their movements. The
sense of touch in the hand of man
claims the superiority over all senses
in any animal. The pulse cannot be
felt with the tongue, owing to the lat
ter's softness of texture. By the sense
of touch, enables the physician to de-
tect the affections beneath the sur
face. The silk weavers of Bengal dis
tinguish 20 different degrees of fine
ness in cocoons by touch.
Miss Abbott held up the acuteness
of the feelings of the blind, the work
of painters, of lexicographers,of print
ers, as examples of the power of the
hand. Concluding, she said: