The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-06-18
COMMENCEMENT,
Twenty Fourth Annual Com
mencement of the Logan
High School.

Amid a blaze of light, bower OF
bloom, and the mellow rythm OF
sweet music. the Glass of SO on last
Monday night babe farewell to child
hood and faced the first great scene
OF its maturity with elaborate saluta-
ton.
The performance was fanltiess
from beginning to end, and the
young people deserve great credit
for tie finished manner in which they
acquitted themselves. The addresses
were brief, but pertinent, and touch
ed upon nearly every theme involved
in the philosophy of the world; thus
demonstrating, in spite of what
hoary. headed inbecility may urge to
the contrary, that young people real
ly dare to think upon the more SER
ious phases of existence, and reail y
dare to show that they have just
appreciation of it all, by expressing
those thoughts to an incredulous pub
lie.
In support Of this truth, Mr..
Samuel B. Brooke proved himself
an ardent champion of down-trodden
youth, himself openly guilty OF what
the immortal Pitt has termed ''the
atrocious crime of beirg young
man." But Mr.. Brooke spoke fear
lessly and forcibly, and in the end,
which was weighed more than well,
his audience could not avoid feeling
that only sin it's May-morn, is
youth ripest for exploits and mighty
enterprises"
The psychological side of nature
was discussed by more than one
young orator and in various ways.
Miss Margeret e. Lytle's graceful
allegory, picturing the course of
human life in botanical guise, was a
gem of thought and rhetoric. To her
the greatest achievements of man.
kind are as the golden fruit of a
beautiful tree, while a wasted life
bears only harvest Of ashes, verit-
able, apples of Sodom.
Mr.. Clarence G. McCray spoke in
a mastery manner of the "Windows
Of Life" thus depicting the different
avenues of knowledge, and the value
of good books as sunlight in every
home. His figures were original,
and his peroration exceptionally well
drawn.
The subject of Miss Margaret
Kittsmiller's address was "True
Nobility" The young lady was
easy in her manner and her fair face
glowed with the light of intelligence
as she reasoned cleverly and properly
that nobility in the hnman race is
only true when it is not affected for
show or the hope of reward.
Mr.. P. James Marshall first pro-
pounded the query "Who Plays?"
and then proceeded to crafty the
wonder of his audience with a highly
philosophical discourse upon the
harmony of a useful life and the dis
cord of neglected or misused advant-
ages. 1t was a good Grafton and the
young man delivered it we'll.
Miss Bessie A. Palmer talked simp-
ly and from her. heart, about a sub
ject that is of very serious import to
the selfish world. She thinks that
what we are, we should be, and what
ever we do, is best. For there is in
evitable reward or inevitable punish
ment awaiting our every act of virtue
or iniquity, in this world of checker
ed shade and sunshine.
Mr.. George Louis Hartman's was
an unpretentious subject, but of
ponderous moment when weighed in
the balance of reason. The atom
opposed to the universe, No atom,
no exIstence-is the sum of it all.
Mr.. Hartman asked in conclusion:
"What is insignificance?" And the
only answer that can be given, is
'Immeasurable significance"
Another question, skilltully an
swered by an orator of '96, was
"Should we have a model?" Miss
Ida E. Hartley believes that every
generation needs one, and the object
lesson COuGdllSu Ill utT dDle dlluIesS
teaches that beginners should take
example from the genius that strove
and conquered life's battles before
them, and that every one should read
and profit by what good books ad-
wise.
The scientific orations were well
expomded. Miss Margaret II. Beck
er canvassed the entire ground that
has been covered by modern inven-
ton, and showed how wonderfully
the forces of nature, mystic and elus-
i've, have been subjugated by the
will of man.
Mr.. Frank Magee Wright, Ike an
earnest disciple of the immortal Bel
lamY, stepped over the bounds of our
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