The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-08
HAMLINITES MADE MERRY
RoLLICKING CLASS DAY ExER-
CISES HELD LAST EVENING

Past and Future Presented In Tab
leaux, While the Class Itself Re-
spoke the Present In It's Fullest
Realism-Presents Were Matie
to- Each Member of the FacuIty-
Military Comrades Remembered.
1T the popularity of the class of '9S,
OF Hamline university, were to be
measured by the number of people that
attended the class day exercises last
night, then it is unbounded, for the
university chapel where the exercises
were held, was packed with the friends
and relatives Of the members Of the
class. and fully hundred were COM
PEELED to stand in the doorways and the
adjoining halls.
The members of the class covered
themselves with glory and gained en-
thusiastic applause in giving the pro-
Sramme that they had arranged. An
effort had been made to make the ex-
ercises entertaining to the visitors as
well as students of the university and
this was more than successful, al
though there were the usual number CT
Jokes and witty and pointed sayings
| about the members of the class, that
could not be understood except by the
| students.
The programme for the evening was
| divided into three parts, the first and
second given over to the fun of the
| evening, and the last to the more seri-
| Gus OF the class day exercises.
In the first part of the programme A.
j.. Richardson and Maude E. Wallace
| appeared before the curtained rostrum
| as two serious seniors with an ambition
to learn something of the past lives Of
| some OF their classmates. In this they
were assisted by George r. Kinsman,
| as rather Time, who caused to be re-
Vealed to them a number of tableaux
| The first of these tableaux represented
| 'Babyhood" AS the curtain was drawn
Mary E. Grayling sat in the center of
the rostrum rocking a cradle slowly,
While she hummed a sweet little lullaby.
The second tableau sent the audience
| off in peal Of laughter for as the
| curtain was drawn, two of the members
of the class, A. G. Fawcett and Elmer
Richardson, We're discovered seated on
an old board fence by the side of the
little red school house that they had
attended before their advent at Ham
line The scene had been so arranged
that only their heads and hands were
visible, while the rest of their bodies
| appeared on canvas. In a moment one
of their school mates of the earlier
days, Laura A. McClay, appeared and
pelted them with mud balls, while they
called her all sorts of queer names.
The curtain closed just as the school
house window opened and the teacher,
Mabel H. McKinstry, summoned her
pupils to- their daily task.
The final tableau was entitled "Fresh
Arrivals" and represented four young
| foreigners, Chester Fl. Tether, Paul
Peterson, Byron Mork and George P.
Watson, just arriving at Castle Car
| den from the old country. They were
attired in costumes that one might ex-
pect to see on ''fresh arrivals" and en-
tertained the audience with a few
minutes talk in Swedish dialect.
| During the interval between the first
and second parts Of the progr anime Miss
| Anstis G. Stebbins gave a vocal solo,
Burst, Ye Buds" in way that won
her round Of applause from the audi
ence.
| AS the curtain was drawn for the
| second part Of the programme, Miss
Beatrice L. Ridgway was shown as a
Gypsy maiden. She gave a most pleas
! ing rendition of Berigmani's Flower
! Girl" and as she finished the two .seri-
Gus seniors again appeared on the
| scene. This time they were DESTROYS
| of knowing something of the future Of
! their classmates, and after the hand
Of the Gypsy had been crossed with sill
| yer she gave them the desired infor-
nation in the form Of tableaux, in
|
| of the class, was portrayed as wood
sawyer; D. w. Stebbins as a mission
airy; B. A. Shuman, as a street VEN
der; r. o. Lawrason and L. M. Puffer,
as hot sports; c. E. Payne, as a bold
highwayman; Silas A. Cook, as Latin
| professor, and Hugh Crossen, as
| farmer.
At the close of the second part Miss
Ridgway gave two splendidly rendered
! vocal solos, your Hand in Nine
| (Roecke) and Summer Song" Tolison).
| The third part of the programme
opened with the singing Of the class
| song by the entire class, and this was
| followed with Echoes of the Past" by
Paul A. Barkaloo, in which he gave a
| rough sketch of the class during the
| four years that they had been at Ham
| line. He spoke Of the freshman year,
| when they had been compelled to suf-
| fer the insults and slurs of their
schoolmates in the upper classes, of the
| sophomore year, when a number of the
| class had resigned. Some he said, had
! gone home to till the earth, some had
| left for financial reasons, and some
| had fallen in love and had to 60 In
| the junior year the class had begun to
realize the serious part of school life
| and fun was put to one side and the
last two years devoted ito the hard
study that must come at some time
The ceremony of burning the school
books came next, and in this the en-
tire class participated. Miss Adria
Shuck stood at the side Of a black
yawning furnace, and, as the members
of the class passed before her, she took
their books and cast them into the open
door. When the last had passed by her
the match was applied, and the Gin
struments of torture Were no more.
Guy L. Caldwell, the president of, the
| class, paid a loving tribute to D. Ii.
Whitney and r. w. Terry, the two
| members of the class that resigned to
take up arms in defense of their coun-
try. At the close of his remarks Presi-
| dent Caldwell read letters from both
Mr.. Whitney and Mr.. Terry, who are
at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, in
| which they expressed regret that they
could not be present to take aprt in the
| exercises.
One of the most touching parts of
| the programme was the presentation to
Dr. Bridgman and the members of the
| faculty with presents from the class in
appreciation of their efforts in behalf
of the class. The presentation was
made by o. J. Stirratt. To Dr. Bridg-
| man was given a handsome statue Of
Victory" The others that were re-
menabered with appropriate keepsakes
were Prof Bachelor, DR.. Osborn,
| Mile Ritter Prof. Drew, Miss Barker,
| Prof. Thompson, DIR. Innis, DR.. Culver.
Mr. Clare, Prof Griffin and Mr.. Spear
| After the members of the faculty