The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-06-19
THE GRADUATES READY
All Arrangements Made for the
Final Exercises.
SALE OF TICKETS LARGE.
Gra mmar School Exercises to be Held
Tomorrow Night and the High
school Exercises on FRI
day Night,
SALE OF TICKETS LARGE

School life will soon be ended for many
Of our young men and women. Armed
with their diplomas they will confidently
go forth into the world to win fame and
fortune Some will, perhaps, realize their
most sanguine expectations but the many
will find their paths paved with difficult
ties, discouragements and defeats The
way in which they shall meet these OBJ
stacles will determine the measure of their
success in life. The world was never so
full of opportunities as it is today. While
the competitors are more numerous than
they were fifty years ago, the prizes to be
won are more plentiful and valuable. In
every line of human activity and endeavor
are to be found rich reward. They await
those who earn them.
Tomorrow the public schools of this
borough will close for the term and tomor-
row evening the graduating exercises of
the grammar schools will be held. The
motto of this class is "No gains without
pains, and there will doubtless be large
attendance at Fergusons theatre by friends
and relatives to measure the pains the
graduates have been taking to make the
gains the exercises imply.
The program is very lengthy one, the
class being very large, and will mbrace
forty-nine members Its magnitude can
be better realized when it is stated that
there will be twenty declamations, eigh-
teen essays, five choruses, three quartettes
three vocal solos and a duet, the whole
concluding with the presentation of diplo-
mas and remarks by members of the School
Board and others.
OF course these exercises will not ter
inmate the school life of all the graduates
There is higher plane to which many of
them aspire before taking leave of the
generous advantages the local public school
system affords and that plane rests upon
graduation from the High school. 1t is
not known how many of this class will
continue to this goal but it is quite certain
that a majority of them will. One of the
charactistics of the people of Shenandoah
is a perseverance in the line of giving their
children good, common school education;
difficult it may be for the heads of some
families to meet the daily requirements of
life, the son or daughter and sometimes
both, are found advancing to the higher
grades of the schools. Still there are
cases where families find that to keep their
children in the High school ranks entails
an expense greater than they can bear and
it has frequently happened that after grad
uating from the grammar schools many
scholars have dropped out and taken fare
well from their classmates to embark upon
the more practical fields of life This year,
however, may develop quite change in
this respect as the free text book law has
considerably reduced the expense Of keep
ing children in the High school.
Following the graduating exercises of
the grammar schools comes the seventeenth
annual commencement of the Shenandoah
High School. twill be held in Ferguson
theatre on Friday evening next. Charts
for the sale of reserved seats for both events
have been open several days and the adj
vanced sales is large. People who have
not secured seats should take hint and dc
so at once. They are on sale at the library
rooms in the West street school building.
The program for the High School exercises
is not as long as that prepared for the pre-
ceding evening and, of course, the enter
tainment will be of higher grade They
always are. More importance is attached
to the event. There is more elaborate dis
] q, +s,
and the general accomplishments are more
of the collegiate order than those that
mark the graduating exercises of the lower
grade.
The members of the High school class OF
'95 number thirty-two, They are james
Creary, Cornelius Campbell, Emma Gun.
ter, Gertie Muir, Allen Seltzer Albert
Beck Harry 'Hearn, Tobias Hochlerner
Lille Llewellyn, Annie Fox, Martin
Dewitt, Harry Gable, Katie Dougherty
Mary Burke, Mary Grihiths Frank Conry
Agnes Leckie, Annie Flaherty, Carrie
Folmer, Maggie Shane, Lizzie North and
Mary Mulhearn. 1t is understood that al
least half of the class will apply for adj
mission to the State Normal Schools with
the intention of becoming school teachers
The program for Friday evening will
consist of orations, essays, recitations
vocal solos, quartettes and choruses mum
bering thirty. The salutatory Grafton viii
be delivered by Cornelius b, Campbell
Miss Annie f. Flaherty has been assigned
to give the class recitation and the vale
dictory will be delivered by James ID
Creary.
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