Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-08

in Wilmington, who was educated under
Mr.. Harlan and who had studied under
great artists in this country aud
abroad, and he adde1 that Clawson
Hammitt was indeed the man to paint
the portrait of the houored superin.
tendent. (Grsat applause.)
Reyerting them to tho subject OF the
painting DR.. Chandler eaid that Mr..
Harlan was simple, wholesouled, modest
and sincere, with no ambition but to
do his duty. lie closed by presenting
the portrait to President Baird Of the
Board OF Education. Mr.. Baird ac-
cepted 1t with brief but appropriate
words.
Miss Eleanor 3. Forman's essay,
1.-THE Americans of To. day Make the
America OF Tomorrow, was beauti-
fully given by Miss Elizabeth B. Hell
lings. In it the influence OF the schools
on. citizenship, and the power OF the
pressi were discussed. The need is for
better and not for more citizens. and
for men willing to help the people at
large to be better citizens. With the
establishment of a Court Of Arbitra-
ton and the progress of higher educa-
tion the man must be a pessimist in
deed who does not SEE that the future
of A America will be near Utopia.
Following this came tine comforting
OF diplomas upon the graduates by
President Baird, the whole class coming
to the front of the stage, and then the
class song, 1.-THE High School Bells
No More Are Ringing" sung by the
class under the leadership of }. L.
Clymer. The programme concluded
with march by the orchestra. Then
the stage became a scene of busting
life ms congratulations were showered
upon the graduates by their friends,
and former grads mingled with the
crowd and spoke enthusiastically OF
the SUCCESS of the commencement.
LIST OF GRADUATES a
The graduates were:
February clasa-Misses Mary Car
Isle Baugb, Martha a. Conway, Carrie
l.. Cooper, Sadie Fayette Coursen,
| Averala Crozsan, Agnes q. Crumlish.
Jenness Merrel Driscoll, Sybilla Strait
ner Feldmeier, Eleanor Brynherg For
man, Harriet Dorsey Hammond,
Georgieuo Lewis Hickman. Elizabeth
La Rue Hellings, Clara Gibson Jack,
Edith May johnson, Alice Eta Law
renee, Norma Watts LeitGh, Helena
Turner Mask, Arabella G. McLear,
Sara Cecilia McFadden. Ella McIutire,
Helen Ford Megaw, Iona Mills. Caro-
lyn Clayton Pierce. Susan W. RRmbo,
Hannah Fulton Reed, Mary Elizabeth
Sayers, Anna Wallace Simmons, Helen
". Speakman, Edna Emile Talley.
Elizabeth Reyhold Tatuall. Elsie B.
Thomas, Harriet Boulden Walters and
Elizabeth Stroud Wyatt. aud &. Em
NETT Aams, Charles Leslie Bonham,
Jesse Il. BraunsteIn, Herbert L.
Brown, Harry Dunn Eiason, Walter q.
Frederick. J. Bayard Hearn. Alfred p.
Hope, Harry i. Hyland, Paul X. Kill
liam, Allison Nailor KINNEY, Roy S.
Latimer, Henry Goodman McComb,
George Jackman Middleton, Ahner Ray
Overdeer, Charles f. Perkins. Robert
Walter Simmons. Charming lie Roy
Simmons, Ralph Franklin Swartz and
William II. Swift.
June cass-Misses Estele Moore
Council, Mary Elizabeth Doto, Clara
Frances Dougherty, Mary Watson
Eastburn. Margaret Veronica Feeney,
Frances Robinson Forman, Anna Viola
liaisett. Maple Flowers Hamilton,
Jennie Hansell. Bessie Edith Hartford,
Martha Estelle Hebb, Anna Broughton
Hume, Elizabeth Burling johnson,
Daisy Emma Rembls, L. Gertrude
King. Anna Kathleen Lacy, Sarah
Frances Martin, Sarah Burns Miller,
Mabel O'Connor, Bertha Vera PEN
nell, Lucretia Mott Reed, Mary Agnes
Ryan, Martha Chapman Shaw, Rosa
Mask Thompson, Mary Eleanor
Thompson, Sarah Mabel Walter, Jennie
Meta Weaver Winifred Weldiu and
Louise Deacon Van Trump, ana Robert
Gilbert Bruce, Harry r. Carbon. George
Lou Coppage, FRANK S. Matchutt.
Samuel j. OFT, Herbert Everett Penley
and Clifton Tyre Vansant.