The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-22

The Academy of Music last evening pre-
sented an animated scene. 1t was the
eventful night of the commencement ex-
ercises of the Jersey City High School,
Shortly before eight o'clock the carriages
began to arrive and the crowd on the OPP
posite side of the street watched thu
white gowned figures of the ever interest
ing girl graduates alight. while the less
fortunate pedestrians swarmed into the
Academy.
The evening was cool, but it was neces-
sary to go utdoo to realize this, so
dense was the crowd in the theatre.
Promptly at eight o'clock the curtain was
raised, disclosing the graduates. the
Board of Education, the speakers of the
evening, Principal Hopkins, and last, but
not least, the chorus of about two hun
bred trained voices. Flowers were 20
have been omitted, and the graduates had
been previously instructed to SO advise
their friends, but from the appearance of
the front of the stage, they must nave dis
obeyed orders. At any rate the flowers
added beauty to the scenery
After the overture L Cid,' by Wag-
ner's orchestra, there was an invocation
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waymanr by the orchestra came next and
then Superintendent of Schools Henry
Snyder made the opening address. Mr..
Snyder's address was brief and to the
point. He spoke of the pride felt in the
class by their friends, teachers and the
Board of Education, of how scholastic
education was to develop character as
well as brains. and held up to the gradu-
ates Gladstone and Hobson as examples
of nobility of nature and education of
character.
torian. In her address she spoke of the
time in each scholars life that is re-
membered with great pride. graduation,
and welcomed the Mayor, the Board of
Education, Mr.. Snyder, Mr.. Hopkins, the
faculty and the audience, all in a pleasing
and appropriate manner She then spoke
of freedom and how it was being crushed
out by politics, trusts, etc, the latter part
of her address taking the form of an
Grafton rather than a saIutatory essay.
Miss Title Pierson was next. Her sub
ject was keys She began by saying:-
THE law of nature is a law of unfolding.
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and to it all there is a key. Think of the
seasons and what a grand example they
give us. From winter when all nature
is locked up, to summer when she is free.
All this forms one grand lock, the key to
which is in the hands of our Creator,
from which she went on to show how in
the growth of a child there was a key to
all its nature. First in the hands of the
mother, then the teachers, and as the
child grew to be a man in his own and
the hands of knowledge.
II Would That My Love" by Men
deissohn, was sung by the chorus, and
Miss Mary Benson delivered her essay on
Honesty" Miss Benson showed by her
discourse that while Honesty is the best
policy" it embodies all thai is noble and
cal composer, the author and preacher
who preferred to live on starvation
wages thar compose, write or say what
said she. seems Gods plan for the uni
verse. The vegetable kingdom is hon
est. Lilies do not try to appear roses,
and peas never thought of growing IN
apple trees until put there by the hand of
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Animals are honest. 1t is reserved for
man to be dishonest, to pretend to be
what he is not; to sell himself for gold
and to refuse to give his best efforts to
the world because he cannot see his re-
ward. Be honest, because by so being
we are fit to live hereafter in the pure
light of Gods Heaven"
eth Spring. by Moderate, was rem
dered by the chorus, and Miss Florence
Ethel Ballard gave her essay on THE
Woman in BAsiness." .By business"
said she, 1--WE mean the judicious employ
ment of every faculty. The woman of
today toll not, neither do they spin,' and
yet they have no more leisure than the
women of yore." She then went on to
show the progress of women in the line Of
business during the past twenty-five
years. How she was now as essential
and Indispensable to the business world as
man. proving in the past, as she would
in the future, his business equal" After
this essay the orchestra played selections
from THE Telephone Girl"
Miss Mary B. Ranken was next on the
programme. Her essay was What is the
Real Good It was very pretty in both
Its flow of language and ideas. She liken-
ed life to the flow Of a river to which a
young maiden puts the question. What is
the real good? Not receiving an answer,
the maiden seeks a philosopher who tells
her it is in knowledge. Not satisfied, she
seeks others, teachers, learned men,
beauty, love, art and even the butterfly
OF fashion. Still unsatisfied she returns
to the river to find that the real good
is in herself, in her own heart. She has
the implements to form her character, the
chisel to hue, but the work must be done
by the unseen eye.
sSwing Song and "Serenade' were rem
deTed by the chorus, and Miss Eva Du
Bots Glassford came forward. Her es-
say was 'Embiems.'' 1t was very good
and decidedly original. She showed how
from the beginning OF the world people
had been swayed more BY efnblems than
By anything else, speaking Of the Egyp-
tians and their idols, the signs Of the
various religious, and he flags Of the
different nations Of the globe, fpr which
thousands of men had died. she mefstion-
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