The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-05
HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS
Opened Their commencement
Exercises Last Night.
VIII Close This Evening, Grad
uating Nineteen.
The Orations and Essays Were Of q
High Order of Merit.

ucation made new departure this
/ year and the large graduating class
was divided. enc part having it's eNer-
cises one night and the other the next.
This was done on account of the large
class this year. numbering twentS-nine
in all, and in order that each graduate
might have the chance to appear. The
first installment of the commencement
n occurred last night, while the second
one win be tonight.
Assembly hail can accommodate q
] large crowd and last nights attend
ance was a good one. The exercises
OF the evening We're opened by the
Aeolian Mandolin club. Clark O. Daley,
\ the salutatorian and the first speaker
! OF the evening delivered an GRAFTON en-
titled THE Great Pacidcator,' - in which
/ Henry Clay was the central figure. Mr.
Daley was enthusiastic in his treat
ment and commentator Of the great
statesman, and his Grafton was one Of
I the best Of the evening.
Miss Jessie Donnen applied the sub
I ject of her essay, Which way Does
I the Weather Vane POint2" to the ten
dency of man to suit his actions and
4 deeds to the constantly changing times.
The subject Of Miss Clara Johnson's
essay was THE Revival Of Poetry
/ The essayist considered the decline in
{
1 changes of the modern age She said
/ there We're many pretenders in the field
/ of poetry, but few poets who were
real.
At the conclusion of Miss Johnson's
1 essay the programme was varied by an
+ instrumental solo by Lee @. Forbes.
after which Miss Mabel Pond read an
essay on THE Power of an Ideal" Miss
/ Pond thought there should be an ideal
\ to insure success in life, and that this
4 ideal came ia early life, first seeming
as a dream, but afterward real, and
I welding a great influence ia ones
/ makeup and future.
Otis w. Dalton's Grafton on 'The Re
/ latiOn of Genius to Insanity" followed
The speaker made the declaration that
4 the one Of necessity is the inseparable
/ companion of the other, and that scien-
lists agreed on this. Scientists, he said
/ are universally OF the opinion that the
! highest intellectual advancement is
+ closely associated with a certain mental
I arrangement either mild or strong, but
! always present.
] Sidney Lanier, the poet, was highly
J spoken of by Miss Ina Shaw in her es-
I say on Two Of Our Minor Poets as
/ one whose works are not universally
known, yet whose productions are thrill
I ling and faucinating.
/ Miss Bessie Durham next gave an
/ Instrumental solo, which was followed
I by Miss Sue Skinner with an essay on
/ Words The main thought was that
! words are of more consequence than
but few people realize Some words
/ viii never perish, but viii always be
4 perpetuated.
Thomas NJ. James delivered an ora
/ ton on The Charaster of Daniel De-
1 ronda." The speaker considered the
I principal character of George Elliott's
/ vel known book as the most idealistic
I in fiction.
Miss Lucy Blood.s ESSAY was entitled
ST Inc l,ra
/ of sunshine is q small thing, but it's in
huence may accomplish indeseribabIe
good.
Miss Felicia Davis followed with an
/ essay on Perseverance" which she
called the quality most essential tc
one of the mast interesting of an
the essays was that Of Miss Edna
I Haywood on THE World Of Tonor-
! row This is a progressive age" said
! Miss Haywood. but the continuance of
/ disturbing circumstances proves that
the best is not vet reached The world
{ OF tomorrow viii be so advanced. and
50 peaceful, that look backwards win
make the past appear as only half civ
I ilfzed. ~
The relation of flowers to literature
was the thought In the very pretty es-
say OF Miss Mildred Shaw on Some
thing of Anthology"
The Voices Of Nature was the sub.
Ject treated by Miss Maude Findlay
I who said that nature is never Old vet
/ never new. Yet, she said nature is
suited to every condition of life.
Miss Bessie Eabcock read an essay
on Phoebe" speaking of the bird Of
/ that name; its arrived in early spring.
its contributions to that season. and its
relation to Phoebus, the god of Itera-
ture.
Eugene F. Ware was complimented
when Miss Ruth Barrett took the sub
Ject of her essay, Hitch Your Wagon
to the Stars, the last number on the
programme Speaking of the natural
/ citation Of young people on the OCCASION
Of cOmmenceme nt and their idea of
soaring far into the realms of impossi-
bIhties and unnatural worlds she said
they would probably be advised to
hitch on to the stars. but in the end
the mules would be Of far more infinite
The. programme for tonight follows:
Music.
Invocation.
/ Music.
Grafton. The North and the South. %
Charles r. Whitmer.
Essay The Mission Of the Misses. ,"
Myrtle G. Callahan
Essay, Daughters of America Tan
ra Beverly
Instrumental solo, Lee clinton Forbes
Essay Idiots" Edith Worden
Grafton, Shadows of a Great Con
hict," Fred Iserman
Instrunental solo, Clara Johnson.
Slass oration, America for Aner1-
story Uncle DanI,'' Lillian Nc
Essay. The Mission Of the Pioneer. )
Helen Clark.
Music, Aeoliau Mandolin club
grafton, Without Which-Nothing,s %
E 5sf Y. - our National Songs" Mar
Essay. Our National Defensez."
INSTRUMENTAL solo. Otis w. Dalton.
Essay, Intellectual TeIescopes . VI
ola NcCOlm
Essay and valedietory Hitch Your