The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-05-31
The Normal Graduating
Exercises Pass Off
Without a
Hitch.
The Theatre Presents a
Scene of Beauty Sci
dom Witnessed.

Graduating exercises have never
failing charm, and the ''sweet girl
graduate" owns the spring time OF
the year as truly as she lives in the
spring time of life. The crowded
theatre today looked upon flutter of
white by gas light, and saw sixty
eight young students, mostly young
ladies, with thin sprinkling of
young gentlemen, ushered out of
school lite into the world "For Truth
and Humanity" as their motto reads.
The auditors listened not to youth
full elequence descanting on pa
triotism and art, solving all
the problems of life, and displaying
''book larnin'" to the edification of
their elders. Instead, they listened
to a scholarly and well-digested adj
dress from one of the leading minis
tiers of the state. This address was
most excellent, and, to judge from re-
marks made afterwards, it was fully
enjoyed.
Many of the graduates received
beautiful floral testimonials from
friends. The class numbers 16 gentle
men and 81 ladies; "a in the advanced
course, 43 in the elementary, and one
in the new kindergarten course.
The curtain rolled up at few
moments after ten o'clock, and dis
played scene that was certainly at
tractive in the extreme. The stage
was arranged with raised seats, the
foreground being occupied by the
graduating class, while chorus of
forty voices filed in the rear. I'M
mediately in front on the left sat
those taking part in the program,
while the faculty occupied boxes.
The ladies of the class were dressed
in white and wore profuse decorations
of flowers, looking very dainty and
pretty.
The opera house was crowded, first
the balcony by those having no re-
served seats, and then the parQuet
and dress circle by those who had re-
served their seats. The audience was
as fashionable one as was ever gath
cred in the theatre, and included
many from outside of the city who
had come greater or less distances to
witness the graduation of friends or
relatives.
The graduating class is as follows:
SENIOR CLAss-7Carrie Ivanette Allen Worth
Corrina Bowen, Minneapolis; Margaret May
Brophy, Mankato: Mamie Campbell, Garden
City; Rosa May Cox, Farmland, Ind; Ella
son, Redwood Falls; Mary Rebecca johnson,
Alden: Martin Ludwig jacobson, Hadley; Ida
Koch, New Ulm: Mary Irene Lange, .Spaulding:
Bertha May Ludcke, st. Peter: Mary Eleanor
Moffat, Worthington: Clara augusta Perkins,
Princeton; Miles Porter, Lake Crystal; Bert
Russell, St. Paul. Daisy sheehan, Lake Wash ,s
Maria Turrittin, Kasota; Amanda Wagner,
New Richmond. Carl Frederick Weinberger,
Springfield: Otto Wicherski, New Ulm.
KINDERGARTEN CLASS-Katie Pemberton
Webb, Austin.
ELEMENTARY CLASS = Dorathea Hensine
Aalund, Minneapolis: Alma Jochman Ames,
Hutchinson; Julius Amundson Hanska; Jo-
sephine Barton, Garden City: Jessie May Beer,
Redwood Falls; Camilla Benson. Morristown:
John BePentson, Alma City; Jacob The9 2l2i
bago City Amelia Marie BONN, St Peter; Ida
Belle Burghart, Golden Gate. August Burk,
Nora Ross, Carter, Minnesota, S. D.; Helen
Coffin, Mankato: Asa Ballard Conger, Taunton
Grace Dougherty, Mankato; Elenora Hallman,
Mankato; Elsie Marie Hanson, Albert Lea;
Minnie Adeline johnson, Judson; Cecilia Mar
garet Kelly, Mankato: Sara Celena Knights,
Buffalo,; Katherine Kohler, Waconia; Florence
Alice May McBroom, Sherman; Philip James
Mccormick, Norwood; Matilda McOuat. ST.
Peter; Jane McRae, Sleepy Eye: Nettie Mid
tim: Josephine Paulson,, Linden; Fannie
Pitcher, Mankato; Grace Margaret Rogers Al
bert Lea; Katherine Mary Rowell, Minneapo-
Sanberg, Blakely: Frank Albert Sandin, Sher-
burn: Clara Matthews Savage, Montgomery,
Sherman Beaufort; Harvey Simeon. Smith,
Waseca: Ella Theresa Sullivan, Smithville;
Eva May VanArnam, Amboy.
The exercises were opened by an
invocation by Rev. F. M. Washburn,
of the Congregational church.
The chorus then advanced to the
front of the stage and sang 'To Thee,
o Country" with finish that prov
ed the excellence of the instruction
which it had received from Miss
Griffin. The harmony of the voices
was perfect.
Rev. Marion d. Shutter, D. D., of
Minneapolis, gave, the annual address,
his subject being ''The Mission of
the Poet" Emerson says that ''the
birth of poet is the principal event
in chronology" said Mr.. Shutter. The
poet executes his mission in that
which never passes away. He strikes
his harp and mankind receives an I'M