The record-union., 1894-07-27
GRADUATES FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL.
They Gave Their Closing Exercises
Last Night.
A Crowded House Greets Ihem-Ex-
ercIses by Other schools
Yesterday.

pit to dome by the citizens who take such
pride in the institution.
The programme opened with the sing
ing OF the ''Star-spangled Banner by the
class of '94, which was finely rendered.
An eloquent invocation by Rev. J. ID.
Reider followed.
Miss Theodore Willis then delivered
the salutatory essay, ''Milestones." she
alluded to the days when the old-tash-
ioned stage coach went numbering over
hill and dale with its passengers, who
counted the nilestones by the roadside as
they neared their journeys end, weary
with the travel of the day.
The golden milestone to them was the
one that brought them to their comfort
able homes. The golden milestone to
many of our celebrated men of letters has
been different incidents which awakened
them to a realization of their powers and
capabilities. In their school life the
graduate had passed one by one the vari-
Gus milestones that marked the different
grades, till they had now arrived at the
end OF their school life and stood upon
the threshold of new life, with untried
paths spreading before them. WhiTher
they would lead him was in the hands of
future to the end. She welcomed the
friends who had come to meet the class
on this, to them, momentous occasion.
Miss Annie Glenn's essay on ''Trites"
followed. If we look at the heavens,
studded with glittering stars and the
milky way, we are reminded that the
great telescopes tell us that the latter is
made up of millions of stars, so minute
TO our sight that they seem inseparable.
The sunlight that floods the world IS
made OF unieSt rays. Just as the progress
oil the material world is due TO its atoms,
so the progress of the mental world is
due TO trities. Newton and the apple,
Calico and the candelier, from trites
gave the world great laws OF physics.
The artist. after choosing his subject,
Goes not leave US TO guess its meaning,
but carries out each curve and line till his
meaning is clear.
Nature paiuts the smallest leaf with the
same fidelity she molds the giant oak
with. The things we live for, that we en-
joy, are all trihes. They make Us friends
or enemies, joy or misery. Our greatness
or pettiness depends on our ability to
properly estimate trit1es. Every gener-
Gus wish, every noble thought, although
it may give US no material benefit, broad
ems our life.
Henry 5. Geisendorfer, in his talk on
Manual Training" said the city had
$4,000 inhabitants. OF these the High
School graduates annually one to each
1,0G9. The grammar school graduates
about one-third OF their pupils, and about
half OF these drop out without going
higher.
Would not the introduction of manual
training arouse new interest and give the
boy chance to train his eye and hand
Its purpose is to enable him TO find out
Tor himself for what he is best fitted.
There are 1000 manual training schools
in Germany, 100 in Austria, ninety in
Switzerland and many in France, Eng
land ana Russia. The effect III France is
noticeable in lis progress in trades and
sciences, in which il has taken first place.
Manual training does not teach trade,
but the rudiments OF a trade, and does
not interfere with other branches of
education. 1t gives a knowledge Of the
laws Of mechanics much broader than the
shop does. Many trades have to-day
organized to prevent the admission of ap-
prentices ana shops have also done so.
Our boys have 10 wait for a chance to
get employment IN idleness, and 1t often
ruins them, either through bad company
or vicious amuSements. The manual
training school would occupy their time
and save them. It's adoption Is only
matter OF time, for wherever 1t has been
tried il has proved a success.
Miss Ida Flemmiug's essay was on
1.-The Girl OF the Future" and if it is
correct in its prophecy the country will
have reason to be proud OF her. She Will
develop her mind with good books, study
with the love OF learning and the culture
OF her understanding. She Will have
knowledge OF physiology and physics
TO teach her how To live and take care of
her body as we'll as her mind. The abb
surdity of the idea that education units
a girl tor domestic duties will be shown
by the girl of the future. She will be
taught system and all the arts necessary
to make home comfortable and happy.
She will be what her Creator intended
"a perfect woman, nobly planned"
Physical exercise will develop her mus
cles and constitution. and she Will not be
pale and languid, but rosy and healthy;
independent, but gentle and lovable; free
in manner, but modest IN behavior; low
ing and sympathetic ana enjoying life;
charitable ia thought as well as in deed.
She will be being truly American,
mindful of the great privileges she enjoys
in her nativity and not concealing her
true spirit in order to conform TO some
European fad: true friend and lover of
the beautiful
A song by the class was followed by a
fine recitation of The Lady of Shalott,"
by Miss Gertie j. Perry, which evoked
the applause of her audience.
Miss Alice l.. Curtis, in her essay on
"Christ IN Art said that his birth gave
an impetus to art and 10 the imagination
of artists. Artists always introduced an
element of beauty into their pictures of
the Virgin and Child which stood out
distinctly. It is seen in RaphaeFs Ma
donnas. From the picture of Christ
among the doctors until those of his later
life we have none, as we know little of it.
Although there are many pictures of
1.-The Last supper" we hardly ever
speak of any except the one by Da Vinci.
We have also the "Crucihxlon" and
"Bearing the Cross"
Miss Carrie Georges essay was on
"Charity in Thought" She said that
man is prone TO rashly pass judgm ant on
his brother. An ugly face, a delormed
shane. the odd cut of coat often arouses
prejudice. but may hide the soul of an
angel. We should learn TO study man by
his character. This is nodded by cir
cunastauces; that of home is most inn
portant in its bearing. Poverty and deg
radiation, q bad father or mother, evil
companions, lack of facilities for edu-
catiOn-all have their influence. Each
man is endowed by nature with some Pc
cullar gilt or talent. Without this men
would be savages Each man has diff
ferent standard by which to judge the
world. We DO not complain of the various
forms Of nature-how much more should
We show charity to the man who carries
out the law OF diversity. Put the pitiful
hand OF charity over the frailties of our
fellow men and hide them. The nobler
man is. the broader is his charity for
others.
The High School Orchestra played the
reception Overture in a style that
brought out long continued applause.
after which Principal Pond explained
that the reason why William Mem.
Huh's essay on ''The Silver Question:
was omitted, lay in the fact that having
to go out with the militia be had been un-
ahie TO perfect 1t.