Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-06-21
Creditable Commencement Exercise!
Of the Glass Of '95, at the
Atheneum Last Night.
-Four Graduates Present Interesting
Discourses, Upon Their Compile
pleti0n of the School Course.
Pleasant Banquet Held in A. 0. U. w.
Hall by the School Alumni
Association.
Graduating Exercises.

The class of '95 was launched from
the high school Friday night, under the
most favorable of auspices. The Athen-
cum, where occurred their commence
ment exercises, was crowded With those
who came to witness the graduation of
the High school class, and the stage
from which the several graduates made
their addresses was tastefully and artis-
tically decorated. On each side and in
front, the stage was draped with the
American flag, while along the sides
there was a handsome arrangement of
plants and flowers to complete the
decoration. Above, and at the rear of
the stage, was the class motto, in white,
upon a black MISUNDERSTANDING
Yet to be Cleaned" The four graduates
sat together at the right of the stage,
while opposite them, at the left, were
Mrs. E. j. Vert, the assistant principal
of the school, Joseph Hare, president of
the school board, and Rev. A. Durrie.
The exercises we're begun at about
$3.50, with a piano solo, which was arts.
tically executed by Miss Elsie Gieeeler.
Following this was an earnest invocation
of the divine blessing and guidance
by Rev. Durrie. The first of the grad
yates to address the audience was Theo.
dore Taylor, whose Grafton, "Lincoln,"
evinced careful preparation, the ideas
conveyed being we'll brought out. He
associated Lincoln and Washington as
equally conspicuous figures in the his
tory OF the nation, placing them first
above all others. He told of the homely
surroundings of Lincoln's early life, his
rising by his own unaided efforts above
the environments of his youth, his care
full and conscientious study of such
works as opportunity threw in his way,
and his final elevation to the proudest
eminence of position in the land. He
drew a very pretty lesson Of the posi-
bilities of earnest and steadfast effort,
in closing, and was heartily applauded.
A solo by Miss Freddie Bartholomew
followed, and was rendered very sweetly
by that young lady, whose clear and hex-
IDLE voice is always pleasant to hear.
"Liberty's Voyage to America" was
the second graduating effort, and the
subject was thoughtfully handled in a
very creditable essay by Miss Jennie
Attrill. She told of the migration from
home of the Puritans and early settlers
of the new world, at a time when liberty
of thought and action we're denied them
in the land of their birth, and their seek
ing Of freedom and equality in a new
land. Of the struggles and trials for
the maintenance of liberty in all ages
and at all times, she presented a careful
review, and her tribute to liberty in the
Standardization of thought and free
Dom to follow the dictates of mind and
conscience, unfettered by the narrow
limits of superstition and ignorance
was very prettily wrought out. Her
tanner was self-possessed, and she read
with feeling and expression.
Miss Lavette Gray's recitation Of "Mr.
Brown Has His Hair Cut" was somewhat
out of the usual order of graduating
efforts, but. was not the less interesting
for that reason. She recited with a
facility Of expression and characterize
tion which o her the immediate good
will of her audience, and her selection
was received with the most cordial of
applause.
Miss Lillian Robinson, in an Grafton
Beyond the Alps Lies Italy" was the
last of the graduates to speak. Her ad-
dress was one of the best Of the evening
an honest, earnest appeal for conscien-
tious effort in all things. She spoke of
the absolute necessity of a fxlty of
purpose, and an intentness of will. The
skies of ambition may be clouded for a
time, but the sunshine of earnestness
will dispel them. The obstacles and
hardships of life are the Alps, beyond
which lies the Italy of achievement.
At the close of this Grafton, was a very
touchingly rendered farewell sopg by the
class, after which President Hare, in a
few appropriate words presented the
diplomas. Prof. Vert was unavoidably
absent, being out of the city, and Mrs.
Vert read the remarks which he had in.
tended to make to the class-they being
in the nature of an exhortation to better
and higher things, and a continuance of
earnest and faithful work through life.
THE BANQUET.
After the commencement exercises
had been finished, the alumni, members
of the school board. teachers, and a
number of'invited guests repaired to the
A. 0. U. W. hall, where occurred the
second annual banquet of the alumni
In the hall proper, a long table, extend.
ing from end to end, was daintliy spread
and at this about forty sat, and dis.
cussed the repast which had been pre-.