The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-21
. FAREWELL TO '93.
TWENTY-FIVE MORE STUDENTS
JOIN THE ALUMNI.
The Nineteenth Annual Commencement
OF the Wellington High School
Thursday and Friday evenings.
Ihe Glass is Greeted by Large Crowds and
Everything Passes OF Smoothly
cellent Productions Delivered.

1he Class Is Greeted by Large Crowds and
Everything Passes OF smoothly.--Ex.
cellent Productions Delivered.
The graduating exercises of the nine
| teenth annual commencement of the Wei.
lington high school took place in the ope-
ra house last week Thursday and Friday
evenings. Rain threatened both evenings
but seemed to in no way diminish the size
of the crowd which every year gathers to
bid welcome and God. speed 10 the gradu.
ating class. 1t is safe to say that more
dense, expectant of appreciative audience
never filed the opera house than that
which greeted the class of '93; nor did a
more thoroughly satisfied one ever eaye
its doors than that which rendered to the
class Its best wishes when the exercises
were over. Every wish had been gratifed
every expectation had been met. The
interest was at no time allowed to fag and
the entertainment was unmarried by a
break, or tedious wait or tiresome speech,
essay or orstion.
The music was under the leadership of
Geo. w. Barnes, of New London, who has
been instructor during the past year. The
selections were Of high order and rem.
dered in manner that showed careful
training. No one from outside OF the
schools was asked 10 assist, as Mr.. Barnes
preferred to have the schools take the
whole responsibility, In order to prove
that they were able to carry the parts
assigned them.
The stage was never more tastefully
decorated. Over the center hung the
class motto, "Know, Do, Be-" Or the
right and left were banks of flowers and
ferns, and on one side OF the back entrance
was palm and on the other. framed in
by MOSES, the figures '93. All was ar.
ranged 10 best reveal the bright faces and
neat, rich attire of the graduates as they
advanced to meet the footliphts and the
crowd.
The class was composed Of twenty-five
M. .uberEsAnine girls and sixteen boys
Taking their graduating productions as
reflection Of their school work-they have
been thorough, close students, though the
usual monotony of school work has not
been unmixed with sparks of genius in
lighter vein that serve to drive D. Care
away.
THURSDAY EVENING.
The exercises we're opened with an an
them by the school entitled "Giye Thanks
to God" Rev. A. q. Wall INVOKED the
divine blessing upon all present, and es-
pecially upon the bright young men and
women who composed the class of '93.
The honors Of salutatorian fell TO Miss
Edith Brink, who In graceful, uncon-
scious manner extended 10 the audience
the hearty welcome of the class. Taking
for her subject "Daybreak" she drew a
beautifully worded picture Of a midsum-
mer dawn and produced some neat SMILES
between it and the dawn of modern ideas.
In the debate on "Manual Training in
Connection with our Public Schools,
which followed, Eugene Cushion, for the
affirmative showed the advantages to be
gained in extending to every boy and
girl an equal opportunity to learn the ele.
ments of skilled manual work. 1t has
not and will not tend to make them less
proficient in books; that it would result
In more master mechanics; that by giving
an insight into the intricacies of trades
work, they would elevate In the popular
esteem those who make their money by
the muscle and the mind.
Frank Hollenbach, for the negative,
proved by statistics that very small per
cent Of the students Of manual training
schools ever carried on the work begun
there. He argued that thorough knowl.
edge Of one trade was more essential than
a slight knowledge of many; that the
legitimate purpose Of the public school
was the training Of the mind Rd not the
turning out Of pupils who knew little Of
this trade and little Of that and were
more likely TO become jacks at all trades
than masters Of any,
Nellie Wells, in an Grafton on "0ur
National Flower" referred to the floral |
emblems Of the various nations of the |
world. For America she preferred the |
maize, as II was Indigenous to this country |
and strongly emblematic of the peaceful,
not over pretentious vigor and thrift Of
TIC American people.
The instrumental trio by Clare Harvey,
veva and Bernise Leach was heartily ap-
plauded.
George e, Robishaw in an oration en-
titled Does 1t Payp questioned the poll
BY of giving taste Of education to the
many without rendering equally easy fa-
cilities for niger and more substantial |
for those whom nature but not
circumstances had fitted for it. The pop
nlar cry is educate the masses, but nature |
prompts the mass to follow, not 10 lead, !