The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-28
A BIG DAY IN The SCHOOLS.
The High School and Grammar School
Commandments.

NulllHibuOSuItulOs
The Grammar School Exercises at
Hunter Hall This Afternoon, and
the High School Graduations at the
Theater ro-night-A. r. Lawton, Jr.,
to Deliver the Address-The Col
ored School Exercises Tomorrow
Night.
To-day is the great day of the year
with the children of the public schools
and their parents and their principals and
teachers as well. The exercises of the
graduating classes of the grammar
schools and the high schools will be held
to-day. The graduation exercises of the
grammar schools will take place at
Hunter hall at 4: 80 o'clock.
Each school will be represented by one
graduate, who will take part in the exer-
cises. All the graduates of the grammar
schools, 147 in number, will be in attend
ance, the graduates of each school attend
ing in body. The colors by which the
graduates of each school will be distin-
guished are as follows: Barnard street,
white; Cathedral, Nile green; Chatham
No. l, blue; Chatham No. 2, old gold
Henry street, heliotrope; Massie, pink;
St. Patrick's, crimson. The programme
is as follows:
Music.
Destinations and REGULATIONS.
Chatham School No. ,.
"Columbia's Emblem" 49,. John H. Furse
Henry Street school
Music.
Miss Hulda's Offer "....... Bessie Krauss
Massie School.
Patriotism (Meagher) .. Daniel j. Hogan
Cathedral School.
"Unswares, ~. -. Mabel Pearl Freeman
Barnard Street School.
Abraham g Sacrifice of Isaac, Cora E, Wells
Chatham School No. l.
Music.
Valedictory. James Aloysius Lysaught
St. Patrick'S School.
Presentation of Diplomas, Col. Geo. A. Mercer
President Board of Public Education.
Finale.
Music under the Direction of Prof. w. N.
Smith.
The valedictory, by James Lysaught. of
St Patrick's school, will be an original
poem composed by Mr.. Arthur j. O'Hara,
principal of the school.
THE HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISES.
The theater will be crowded tonight to
| witness the commencement exercises of
| the high school. The year has been a
very successful one with the high
school, OF the large class of
thirty pupils who finished the year
all were successful in graduating
The high school commandments are
always occasions of great interest,
| and this years commencement will be no
! exception TO the rule. Those of the grad
yates who obtained readers places will
make their best efforts tonight, and they
are sure to meet with deserved applause
| from their relatives and friends.
The address to the graduates will be
| delivered by Mr.. A. r. Lawton, Jr, and
those who know Mr.. Lawton best expect
something highly entertaining and inter
esting from him.
The programme of exercises is as fol-
| lows:
Invocation...... ....... Rev. A NJ Williams
| Song-"Apple Blossoms"
| Salutatory. ............. -. Lillian E. Symons
Croakers. ............ Joseph ID. Myers
PRACTICAL Womanhood. ... Eliza6eth F. Miller
0n i'A'0 song-aoer the H HHaS f. furrer
! Self Confidence Maggie A. C. Blomquist
Is Lie Ever Unsuitable. George c. Hayward
'''''- song-"The Old Chatham u Bell i.''n1fUS
| Moral Courage ...... .... Maggie A. Williams
Should Women Vote-AfRrmative. Joseph
Elsinger; negative, Margaret A Chandler.
Song-"Good-night But Not Goodbye"
Valedictory to Schoolmates-Isaac s. Fergu-
| son.
| Response-MagnuS Haas, OF Second Grade
| Boys.
Valedictory to School Authorites-Carrie B.
McAllister.
Responsiveness Shumate, of Second Grade
| Girls
Graduation Hymn.
| Address TO Graduates-Mr. A. r. Lawton Jr
| Presentation of Diplomas-Col. George A.
Mercer, President Board Public Education.
THE CoLoRED SCHOOLS.
The graduation exercises of the East
| Broad and West Broad street schools
will take place at the Second African
Baptist church on Greene square to-mor-
row night. The exercises will consist of
recitations and declarations by the gradu-
ates of the two schools with singing nv
the children of both schools. The pro
gramme is as follows:
Prayer.
Anthem-"Praise We the Lord"
| Greeting ...................R ebecca A. STYLES
East Broad Street School 40
West Broad Street School
Song-"Away to the Daisies"
| Cripple Ben" ......... Sarah A. Sheftall
| THE Brahman's Lesson "
.....................J. Edmonia Granderson
West Broad Street School
song-r :. to the Meadow"
~ West Broad Street School cHt 81. ff'"'l'e
THE Boy Who Went From Home; y
East Broad Street School.
Song-"Cold Blows the Blast"
| Character and Achievement"
.........:-............ Priscilla E. Marks
West Broad street School
| Resisting Mother Love-.
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. James w. Edwards
| East Broad Street School
SonR-''1he Harvest Time"
Farewell ....:.....:.. Lizzie H. Anderson
East Broad Street School
| Response to Farewell. ....... Nettie Houston
East Broad Street School.
| Song-"The Rain"
| Address. ..................Re Rev r. II. Downs
| Presentation OF Diplomas. Supt. w. H. Baker
| Class Song.
Benediction.
The graduates of the schools are as fol-
lows: East Broad Street School, James
| Z. Ross, principal. Samuel King, Robert
Spaulding, Charles Sheftall Beniamin
! Cashin, James Edwards, Moses BRYAN
Clarence Moore, George Rain, Frederick
Houston, Annie Airline, Rebecca A,
Styles Meta Cashin, Sarah A. SheftaU
! Ophelia Walton, Matilda Bulloch. Clo,
tide Robinson. Nellie Giles. Emma Lee
Clarissa Hamilton, Eta Mcintosh, Caro-,
| line Hamilton.
West Broad Street School, ]. H. c.
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