The morning call., 1893-05-20
RADIANT MAIDENS.
Graduation of the Girls
High School.
No Essays but Plenty of Music and
University Advice-The Girls
Love the City.

"For fear that the president OF the
Board Of Education might want to keep
them all l present them to their fathers
and mothers"
A shadow of disappointment swept
across the clean-shaven face of f. A. Hyde
last night as 5evcnty-one radiant maidens
were thus rudely snatched from his grasp.
John SWEET was the gallant knight-errant
who rescued the galaxy of beauty which
adorned the platform.
The young ladies were the graduates of
the Girls High School of the class of 49,
They hal just been presented by their
principal. Elisha Brooks. to the Board of
Education as the first body OF students to
graduate from the new building on Scott
street, and Superintendent SWEET came for
ward as the executive officer of the School
department to speak for Its president and
to distribute the Diplomas.
The names of the graduates are as fol-
lows:
Frances Aaron, die II. All n. Florence
Baron, Florenc1 Eleanor Boynton. Grace
Calsher, Lucy Minerva CALI Mary Addle Gail,
Mabel q. Chandler, Oiive Maud ChemnaM.
jeanette A Clabrough, Blanche Coblentz,
Gertrude FL. Cohen. Alice Coleman. Mary Cook,
Cora Louise Derby, Cecelia Caroline Engdahl,
Bertha Fahrenkrug. Daisy Margaret Fizger
aid, Monica Fleming. Annie Mills Fraser. Hat
lie K. Geist, Emma Gray Gormiey. Frances
Harriet Gray, Mabee Cogwin Hat, Leonora
Day. Alice HeI Dst. Jennis May HewIetf, Jen-
ME Belshaw Hinds, Charlotte Eliz abeth Hof-
mann, Tillle HOlins. Laura Bernice Holt,
Emma NJ. Kahn, Eliese Hannah Kaiser,
Mamie A. Kelly. Nellie Catherine Keudrick,
Virginia n; Klenk. Louise Helen Koch, Nells
Robinson Lawrence. Ella Augusta Leaihers.
Josephine Troutman Lenhari, Hortense l.
Levy. N Mildred red A. Levy; Margaret Gabriel
Lillian Moran, Margaret Frances O'BrIen.
Madelelne Garnet ONeili. Elizabeth O'Sul-
Ilvan, Ida May Perl. Elizabeth BrowneIl Prich-
ard, Lala Susie RICHARDS. Adele Rohrbacner.
Carrie Rosenberg, Marion Ethel Smith, Anah
Frederca StaIkey, Gertrude Starkweather.
Gertrude T. Stoh, Ella Gertrude Sullivan.
Thompson. Catherine Zlta Walsh. Susie Alice
Wafd,. Sylvia Waters. Ida. Wolfe; speeial
students - Faith T. Gameitz, JGlia Hyman,
Dora Schiling, Violet May Sharp. Elizabeth 4. .
Z. Tau'phaus, Edith May Thompson
The exercises which preceded this cere-
mony were very simple. No graduate
spoke word. The cloud Of tule with
balloon sleeves burst into song three times
during the evening and looked pretty the
remainder OF the time. Ali the talking
| was done by two college professors from
the University of California and Messrs
Hyde. Swett and Brooks.
Mr. Hyde. VINO presided, wore highly
CLOSED and broad shirt fronHn harmony
with the graduation dresses. He glanced
| at the ceiling where the rude rafters were
concealed by Circus Maxmus canvas
loaned for tho occasion, and at the rough
brick and mortar decorated with white AID
yellow streamers of cheese cioth. and told
the girls they had saved the Board OF
Education $4,000 by their artistic labors
in thus finishing the assembly hall.
Then he in II oduced DR.. Martin Kellogg,
president of the University of California,
who spoke of the development OF curiosity
as an element of human progress. Civili-
cation, he said, was impossible without the
desire to learn, He advised the graduates
| that the process Of acquiring knowledge
| ought not to cease with the end of their
| high school work. The University of Cali
| fornia held its doors wide open 10 promo to
| the higher education of women. The
| phrase higher education" he did not like
| however. Ho preferred to call it larger
knowledge. -
With the remark that no education
could be too high or broad for women Mr..
Hyde introduced Professor George II.
Howison, whose programmed address was
Girls Fl gh School" and tho "H igher Edu-
cation of Women" Tbs gentleman spoke
for nearly an hour on the Importance OF
learning the classical languages. more
particularly Latin. His address was a
thesis on the subject. but he spoke so long
that the peoplc IN the back seats began to
stamp their feet with imuatience and what
sounded at first like distant torreDts fall
swelod finally into the roar of a deafening
cataract when Professor HOwison took the
hint and sat down.
August Hinrichs directed ths music al
exercises. aud the orchestra played some
selections from Robin Ho0d" in so raw
ishing manner that the vast audience
persisted In demanding an encore.
One Of the chief attractions of the even
ing was the studio, where Professor Gold
stein teaches the girls to draw. The
parents and friends hncked into this
apartment and viewed with pride the ex-
h! bition Of ri dtsplay ON the tahlas