The San Francisco call., 1896-06-10
The Seniors to Hold a Novel
High Jinks This After
noon.
GRAMMAR GRADE RECEPTION.
Features of the Coming Closing Exer'
cises of the Normal and Other
Schools,

Friday week, the 10Th inst, the public
schools of San Francisco will close for
their midsummer vacation of six weeks,
and will reopen on Monday. August 3. A
much-needed rest will be taken during
this period by the thousand teachers and
the $4,000 pupils Some will go into the
country and others will stay at home, but
all will profit by this welcome breathing
spell, and be thus prepared, at the begin
ming of next term, to resume their labors
with renewed energy. Some novel features
are comprised in the closing exercises this
yesr.
The studio of the Girls High School was
formally opened yesterday by the students
of the art class, who received their friends
from to P. NJ, showed them their pic
lures and served them with light refresh
ments The suite of rooms comprising
the studio was tastefully decorated with
plants, flowers, Japanese lanterns, classic
casts, etc. Pictures in water colors, pastel,
charcoal, ETC., were grouped upon the
walls and standing upon easels. There
were excellent views of Fort Point,
Angel Island and various stiil-life studies.
Franz NJ. Goldstein is the teacher of draw
ing, and considering that the time of the
girls is limited to three short lessons
week, their progress is truly wonderful.
Following are the names OF the girls hav-
ing specimens of their artistic skill on
exhibition:
Samter, Tessie Swift, Heloise Williams, Lucille
McBoyle, Marion Kitchener, Alice Duffy,
Amanda Ebert, Charlotte Parks, Elizabeth
Leggett, Alice Gilbert, Maud Pratt, Mabel
BUnKer, Dorothy Meininger, Stella Shrek,
Emile Peck and Ettie Weller.
A novel exercise will be held this after
noon at the Girls High School The
seniors will hold what they facetiousy
term "a high jinks." 1t will be an
esoteric affair all classes are to be dis
missed, and tie girls will be permitted to
take full possession of the school. Fare
wells will be said, songs will be sung, and
the seniors will roam around the class
rooms, chatting with their teachers and
schoOlmates and talking over remi.
niscences of the past year.
The closing exercises of the graduating
class of '96 will take place tomorrow even
ing in the auditorium, when about 100
girls will be handed their diplomas by
Superintendent Babcock. The programme
this year will vary essentially from those
OF former years. There will neither be any
salutatory nor valedictory. All traditional
essays. orations, etc., will be omitted, and
the time will be devoted to orchestral
music, class choruses and the presentation
of diplomas. The graduates will also dress
far less extravagantlv than has been the
custom in former times. The stage will be
elaborately decorated by the students with
flowers, plants, pictures and furniture and
bric-a-brac borrowed from the leading
stores
The undergraduate classes will en- ntertaln
the pupils OF the ninth grammar grades,
with their parents and friends, next Fri
day at L: 80 P NJ. at the Girls High School.
The auditorium will be occupied next
Monday afternoon by the Hamilton Gram
mar School, Tuesday evening by the San
Francisco Normal School, Wednesday after
noon by the Denman Grammar School
and Thursday evening by the John SWEET
ing exercises.
The Lincoln Grammar and many other
schools will have their exercises at their
own homes, but they will be far less elab-
crate than formerly