The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-23
TACKLE THE WORLD
EXCELLENT GLASS OF GRADUATES
FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL


Wisdom and Sagacity--They are
Greeted With Wonderful Crowd.
Which Bestows Lavish Applause, I'M
partiany--Every Imaginable Thing Suit
able for a Commencement Address Is
Decorations Were Profuse.
The audience which greeted the class
of 1895 of the High school in their grad
uating exercises at the auditorium was
the largest ever assembled in that
building. over two thousand people
We're crowded upon the floor. even to
the back of standing room, so that a
crowded stream had to turn away from
the OVERLOOKING building.
The junior class had the large build
ing handsomely decorated. Flags and
pendant lanterns appeared among the
red. white and black streamers which
We're draped from the center of the
building to the sides where they blend
ed with the national colors, and to the
stage which was gracefully festooned
IN white anw gold, the class colors, while
the class motto: "Fortiter, Fideliter,
feliciter," appeared in white letters on
a gold background. Provisions of
tropical ferns were tastefully arranged
along the front, while the three pillars
Were decorated in roses ana daisies.
All presented the appearance of a
great May pole.
WHEN PRIDE RULED.
And the occasion was as joyful as a
May day. And every mothers heart
beat with a feeling of mingled JOY and
pride as her son or daughter passed
in the procession Of bright and intel
lgent young graduates to his place on
the stage.
AS the last strains of the High school
chorus died away i'm the beautiful song
"Trip, Trip" and the applause which
greeted them subsidized the invocation
of the blessing of Almighty God on the
evenings exercises and the future life
of the class and the school was made
by Rev. +. u. Ward in appropriate
words
In a cheerful. confident tone and
manner, Florence Buckeridge deliv-
cred the following discourse on "Ac-
cept the Inevitable Without Repining:
In times Of peril the Musselman is
won't 10 say: Allah is good; what will
he. viii be" And with this assurance
VIII go calmly into the greatest danger.
In the trial and strife of the busy
world where all men are working and
struggling succeeding or failing. the
consolation Of the Mussuiman is often
the best that can be given, bat sym
patty in this form is always most eff
fective if self administered
Everyone knows how comforting is
the advice of that ever-present person
who would go to the starving Nebraska
farmer and tell him not To groan and
heWail his sad fate. but to cheer his
cold and hungry family with the as
surance that this state of affairs is in
evitable. and therefore, he should meet
1t without repining.
How are the words of the man who
goes To the bruised and disheartened
survivor of a cyclone and. while watch
ing him pick uD the remnants of his
household goods among which he ever
and anon finds an ear or "A piece of nose
which gives evidence that at some time
during the storm some member of his
samily passed over that spot. and
while he slowly and lahoriously pushes
the cyclone cellar off the roof of the
house. tells him that he should ponder
of the much Sadder fate which might
have befallen him. and while he is
searching among the debris for the
missing ear and his false teeth. tells
him to be cheerful and accept the in
evitable without repining.
MS lllllAltudl WOULD 20 10 Il maj
suffering with the grippe and. while
watching with satisfaction the convul
siye twitchings of his victims face
which looks and feels like a Christmas
pudding, he would tell the sufferer
whose pulse is running a race with tn:
cold chills which have a course up his
spine, to he cheerful and accept tbs
Inevitable without repining.
The Populist party has shown it!
in, II
which il accepted the inevitable. anC
quietly faded away into the shadOwy
past.
What a contrast In the way in which
the Democrats met their fate; what z
series Of expressions their faces did
wear; first a cynical smile of incred-
-ulity, then as the truth became undis-
putable a blank stare of surprise, which
gradually merged into a look of dis
gust. and now the only way YOU car
tell Democrats is by their sour faces
Then beware Oh. Republicans. tha'
This be not your fate two years hence
and good friends. if tonight the ghos
of the great julius Caesar walks he
fore YOU with all his ghostly wounds
If Martin Luther sounds his doCtrin,
in your awe stricken ear. or if the
immortal Shakespeare arises to lister
10 a sharp criticism Of his collected
works. or if Domesthenios is aroused
by the eloauence of a powerful rival
he not alarmed-aCcept it as the in
evitable without repining.'
FROM DICKENS TO DEBS.
Mary HELEN McNeese pictured Il
the audience Agnes" as found II
David Copperfield. She claimed Agne:
as the ideal of womanhood. and con
cluded 10y saying that the true woman
waits her reward. mot in plaudits o
~
delivery was easy.
Art" was the theme Of Addi,
Thomas Grafton. She reviewed ii {
clear and distinct voice the vict0rie!
of art up 10 the present time. claiming
as the highest art that Of right living
the building Of n noble character.
Laura May Hadley with graceful
gestures and well modulated voice
told of Echoes" not only in noun
tains. but in human hearts. echoes q
selfshness and echoes Of sympathy
concluding with a beautiful reference
10 Christ.
The earnest and clear voice Of HarrI
c.. Hoar was next heard holding on
"a Plausible View Of the way L
settle the labor troubles. After brie
historical summary. he advocated re
form among labor leaders and a Iabo
commission in each state.
Vester Charlton's subject was ''Wh'
Will Take the Lead" She had pleas
ing way of showing that man Is SiveI
naturally to lead. referring IN praise Z
lincoln. Grant. Francis Willard an'
others. She also claimed the right o
women 10 lead and concluded: Let al
aspire to take the lead.
Push" was explained 10 the neces
sary quality to success Of man III
by Gertrude Hessey Swain. she san
among other things that man mus
have character. faith and ability, nu
he must absolutely have push Her de
livery was straight forward.
era duating in Heaven" consisted i
q beautiful account in legendary form