Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-25

The Twsnty.Seyenth AuHuni commencement
Al the Academy Of immaculate
Conception.
The month OF June, With its glory Of
buds and bloom. its wealth Of brilliant
and tender foliage, Is most appro-
the season in the educational year
selected for our scholastic commence
II is at this period that our young
men and maid ems, the latter known by the
time. honored title OF "sweet girl gradu-
arrive at the climax OF their gran
deur and glory. The civilized world gladly
keeps up this custom Of commencement
when youth sets cut so bravely and gal
lantIy on the universal road. II Is good
for the young, the middie.aged and the old
to be brought once a year at least into
these bright assemblages, where hope
stands Whispering Its enhancing story to
every ear, and confidence and courage are
twin dlvinitiea that beam from every eye.
The flowers of romance and sentiment are
brushed of and tramp.ed In the confict
soon enough; the illusion and glamour OF
commencement day disappear all too
rapidly under the rough realities Of
life. 1t is not i'll for us IL Standing
by these young people we can renew
for a moment only some OF our
earlier feelings as we look into their earn
est and enthusiastic faces while they see
visions aud dream dreams that are better
than the future can hold. What matters
1t II the embryo orator and statesman does
settle all the perplexities of history, or the
destiny Of the whole universe, to bis own
complete satisfaction in the course OF a
fifteen minute address, or il that enchant-
ing young creature in that lovely gown in
sists upon solving in one short essay, all
the problems, social and political, which
affect her sex. The commencement season
has its lesson and its value for the gradu-
ates of twenty and thirty years ago, as
well as for those Of to-day, and the jaded
and battle. SCARED may find 10 these gath
erings OF the flower of the state and the
household, not their lost youth, indeed,
but some OF the many noble aud generous
which adorn their W school
days, and, finding these, gain more than
they have won in all the years that have
The large attendance at the closing eg-
ercises connected with the twenty -sev-
enth annual commencement of the Con-
veft of the Immaculate Conception, last
evening, attested the high esteem and gen.
eral interest felt for this superior institu-
ton of learning. The program was at
tractive and we'll rendered. rejecting
credit alike upon teachers and pupils. 1t
as follows:
Misses e. Gailegos. T. saiaxar, W. Cox, III.
Martinez, M. Trainer, III. Heineman.
Peterkin Paul. Concert RECITATION. .Mtnims
Chorus Mother can this the Glory be?'
................... wilson
DRAMA IN THREE AcTs.-"MERIAN."
ACT I.
blooming Meadows Instrumental
ACTu.
Bring Me Sweet Blossoms, Song and Chorus,
sullivan
ACT III.
Partnership Recitation ....... IL. Gilmore
Misses M. CASSIDY, M. Wilson, 6.
Sullivan, II. Prigmore.
T Tani z Haikafer. o1ar'ette
PARADISE and the Peri........... .Pantomime
venLre q
49,. Misses ii. Prigmore. ii. Heineman
Following its completion, genial Father
Defouri introduced the audience to an at
~tractive scene arranged in the placita
without, where most delicious refreshments
in the form of the finest kinds of ice creams,
sherbet, cake and lemonade, were dispensed
at a mere nominal figure, by lovely
young ladies, at tables arranged under gay
festoons of Chinese lanterns. Misses Mar
guerite Pend aries, Ophel'a Hsnriques,
Mary La Rue and Clara BlumenthaI, com.
posed a bevy of fair assistants, whom the
reporter noticed augmenting the number
of fair ones which the convent itself
shrines within its walls. Needless to say
that under such superintendence It's
dishes of Ice cream were soon dispensed
of, and orders for "more" could not be
met.
The evening was In every way a success
and II O'Clock was the earliest hour at
which any one thought of leaving. Good
byes were exchanged among the pupils,
but they were not sad partings, for all
were merry over the anticipation of a
long and happy vacation. May the good
too, have q happy and restful
holiday, after their long season Of arduous
duties connected with the school room.
And may the mex scholastic year open an
era Of greater prosperity than ever before
for the Academy of the immaculate Con
OF Las Vegas, under the direction
Of the honored and efficient Sister Eu.
pc rIor Magdalene.
Revs. +. r. Henneberry, of San Fran
cisco; Picard, of Sapello; Rivera, Of Wat.
rous; Alverne, Of Puerto de Luna; Rev.
Padre, Of Isleta and Revs. De FOUR,
1Keefe and Olier, of this place, attended
he Sietsrs' entertainment. last evening.
Ind were highly well pleased with it. they |
80 expressing themselves to one and all.
Jake Block has . few summer shirts left
hat you can have at a bargain. 2t2-1t
A serenadiDg party last night, between
% and - O'Clock, made music Sfor those
'esidents Of the hill who were yet awake,
,r were easily awakened.
T $1,000 " HH |