The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-17
Twice THE MUSES..
Eighteen Girl Graduates
to Leave the High
School This Month.
MISS SUTPHIN VALEDICToRIAN.
Commercial Students and Their
William Byrnes at
the Head-Honor List.

It is almost time for another class to
graduate from the Jersey City High
School. Twice year the school course
comes to climax, and after night OF
oratory at the Academy OF Music, the
recent seniors are shot out into the cold
world, where they manage to get along
quite we'll without living up to the prom
ises made in their graduating essays.
There are eighteen members in the
Glass of 1898, January-a small number
even for the half year, which is time
for small classes. There were htty-nine
who entered in January, 1889. by which
it will be seen that about thirty-one per
cent, the usual proportion, completed
the course At that time forty-fonf
entered the tive years. commercial course,
of which number nine graduated IN
January, 1891, the first of this course to
graduate on the half year. The COM
mercials who graduate this month en-
tered in January, 1891, thirty-three
strong. and leave nine in number.
A GARDEN OF GIRLS.
Newspaper men writing up the CONF
mencement exercises will be permitted TO
say anything they please about sweet
girl graduates" rosebud garden OF
girls.o and the rest of the stock quota
tions in use on such occasions chat conf
pletely ignore those members OF the class
who are not girls. For in this case they
will be literally true. Every one OF the
graduates will be girls, valedtctor1an.
salutatorian, honor pupils and all, so that
people who have anything to say about
women not wanting the higher educa-
| tion will please say IL somewhere else.
| They are the Misses Grace Cameron, Meta
rx HroVa forIn
| Cooper. Jeanne Morrow, Kate Lynch
| Grace Vernon, Laura Jackson, Carrie
| Zimmerman, Kate Jennings, Florence
Stiles, Miriam Scott, Kate Sutphin, Lulu
| Hitler, Hattie Hansell, Belle Lindsay
and Jessie Post.
The first honor goes to Miss Kate Sut-
phiu, the valedictoriaH, Who is also the
| first in history, in science and in Latin.
| remarkable record. Beside all this Miss
| Sutphin has that personal popularity
| which so seldom falls to the lot OF vale
dictoran. IL is not so easy TO keep
! friends with people and keep seyersl
places ahead OF them in class, too. MISS
| Sutphin is a member of the Alpha Sigma.
| the girls fraternity of the school, and
| mas within its walls reputation for re-
| fresning originality of thought and
capacity for wor9 that leads her into
joining every class ia sight. she VIII
| deliver an essay on character"
ESSAYS AND EssAYrsTs.
| Miss Helen Cooper, the salutatorjan, is
| a graduate from the classical course, aud
| tied with Miss Sutphin for first place In
| ATTN. Besides this. Prof. Lowin 5.
Thompson has much to say about her
1 talent for drawing and designing, in
which she wins the highest nonor. She
has gone through the course of manual
| training given in the school whereby one
| learns to take leaf, line and lead
| pencil aud make a fr1eze out of the COM
bination. and while she can 90 great
| many things besides drawing, this special
| talent should be mentioned. She will
! talk of Poets and Poetry" and welcome
| the audience.
| Miss Lulu Hitler, a golden-haired
| blonde, quiet and studious, but fond OF
| dancing and the bright side of life out
| side of school hours, will take the mathe-
matics medal, which carries with it a
| great degree of dignity in the school.
| Miss Miriam Scott is little Bit OF girl,
| with dark eyes that just dance, and 3
| general air of liveliness that makes i5
| rather of a surprise to learn that she
| kept still long enough to win the hrs6
honor in English. which includes gram
mar, rhetoric and composition and liters-
ture. Miss Florence Stiles is the class
| heroine, and no one in the school is likely
1 10 forget how she crushed out with her
hands the fire from q blazing curtain, one
i night while amateur theatricalS were
i ii,
averied a catastrophe which it is NOS
pleasant to dwell upon. With i've hum
dred people packed in a room up innum-
| cradle flights of stairs, with only four
doors, two of these reached by almost
| perpendicular flights, fire would not be
| usefu! article in preventing panic. Miss
Stiles did not have a medal given her by
tho school, but she is to win one anyway
for first rank in German. Miss Hattie
HauselI has first rank in German, and
will tell the audience about The Ad-
| vance in the Education OF Girls" She Is
also the champion in pedagogy, that uses
full science whose name always gets tne
better of notabilities who award the
medals. They usually say. "For hrsI
rank In ped-peda-oh, some heathenish
thing or other never heard Of"
Miss Lynch will SPEAK of mCommerce;m,,
| Miss Morrow, OF Ideal Womanhood;"
Miss Scott, ruins" a desolate. grave
yardy topic that sounds interesting; Miss
| Jennings, "Ambition;" Miss Thinner
man, "Fads and Fancles of the Present.
Day." a subject on which she is qualified
by experience to treat; Miss jackson,
Benefits of Reading; MISS Lindsay; y
Dreams" probably not those indulged
in during study hour In the assem- bly,
room on hot days; Miss Vernon. "Oppor.
tunities" Miss Post, Natures Voices;
Miss Stiles, "Cranks." The dear old
''beauty essay without which no COM
menceme0I Woutu D6 CoilDl0tS OVnoS "
the surface in Miss Killers ''The Beauti-
full =" and things as they are get the usual
slap In 1.-THE Tyranny of Fashion" by
Miss hathaway. Miss Cameron, tue
daughter of a clergyman and one Of the
brightest girls in the school, will talk or
"Woman's Place In the S hool."
A MASCULINE ANNEX.
Away off III the back OF the stage there
will be nine young mep-thrown In he
shade. as usual, by the white gowns and
the duttering fans on view In front.
These are Messrs. VIM. G. Byrnes, John
A. CARING, Robert A. Deats. Peter James,
William Mahoney, George r. Middleton,
VIM. II. Richerich, Henry 5. Spiilner
and James Campbell. members OF the
commeicia course, 'commerks, In
school parlance. William Byrnes leads
the class with per cent. OF ~, Henry
Spillner a close second.
or he four years class, there Were:-
No. not tardy during the course. ...........
No. present every session. ...-..-...,......
No. neither absent nor tardy .......-......
No. entering College, June 1898. .......-...
No intending to teach ch..-.................. "a {
Average age members graduating ........ u
Average per cent in scholarship. p......-.. "a. Az
o rae C mmt re a C as, there were:
No. not tardy during the course ...,.......
NO. present every seSSi n :. -. .........es3 .
| No. neither absent nor tardy. y....At.-......
| Average age of members graduating...... l6
Average per cent in scholarship. ......... 50 .43
Hudson Circuit Court.