The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-10
%THIRTY-ONEG GRADUATES
Receive Diplomas from the Normal School
The Largest Glass Ever Graduated
From a South Dakota Institution
Of Learning-Prof. Beede's
Address.

AhO ewOAAsA ohAuuA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
exercises of the Normal school took
place this forenoon and an audience that
comfortably filled the opera house was
present. The class exercises Of the
graduates took place last evening to q
larger audience in the rendition of q play
founded on French social customs Of
two centuries ago in which not only the
acting but the costumes Of the partici-
pants were very fine. To-day the gradu-
ates appeared at their best in the most
approved costume OF the present day.
They occupied the platform with Presi-
dent Beadle, Prof. Aaron Beede, Of Red
field, speaker Of the day, and Rev. w. A.
Taylor who invoked the divine blessing.
Flowers appropriately filled the wings of
the stage and overhead wrought in
natural leaf work which stretched clear
across the stage, hung the motto: "Sen-
iors to-day; tomorrow citizens"
The string band of this city, Messrs.
Halstead, Wood, Murray and Huxford
delighted the audience with the several
pieces played and the address of Prof.
Aaron Beede, Dean Of the Redfeld
College, was racy and pointed. as it
easy" was the title Of the address, and
this question as applied in general and
to the teacher in particular be essayed
to answer. Success be claimed possible
for everybody, except idiots and fools,
and easy OF attainment il the condl-
tions of success are complied with. His
own experience IN teaching in the Red
River valley twenty years ago furnished
mary happy illustrations Of the thought
he wished to impress and the learned
gentlemen can turn a joke aver on him.
self in a very pleasant way that keeps
his audience in the best of humor.
After eulogizing Normal training as a
necessary condition OF successful teach
ing he marked the elements Of success
as depending upon three things-action,
siezing present opportunity and accom-
plishing work by energy. Oppor-
tunities are greater to-day than IN
the time Of our fathers or ever before.
Energy will improve the opportunity at
command. "You, members of the
graduating class, are born for success. -
The presentation of diplomas IN q
short address by President Beadle
full Of cheer and commentator,
followed by the benediction, closed the
exercises Of the day. There were thirty
one members in the graduating class as
follows; titles Of theses appended:
Emma E. Booher, Spring Green, Wis,
My ideal teacher; Frank Leslie Burnett,
Madison, The value Of attention; Mary
Clarke, Mellete, Tennyson's In Memoir
am; Mira H. Clarke, Mellette, Another
phase Of the soft iron age; Verna B.
Crowl, Milbank, Training of the hand;
Mira Emma French, Rockford, ILL.,, We
know with all that we have known;
Emily Glatz, Madison, The moral value
OF history teaching; Adelaide Herrick,
Madison, The theory Of culture epochs;
Katherine Hoffman, Yankton, Moral ef-
feet of li~terature;. Mary A. Hoover, Do
land, Race sympathy; Myrtle v. Hutch
ison, Pierre, The power IN the voice;
Owen H. Jones, Madison, Law or war;;
Dana Lewis, Roscoe, Helps to the early