The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-06-16
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
KEMPER HALL CLASS OF 1898
PASSES INTO HISTORY.
ADDRESS BY REV. E. M. sTIREs
salutatory is Delivered By Miss Florence
Wells and Miss Edith Brown Gives
the valedictory-Large Audi
ence In Attendance.

- Ills was commandments Qdy DIT
Aemper hall and Armitage hall was
crowded to'its capacity when the pro
gram opened by Miss Butler and Mr..
KoDrad playing the Tanhauser March
by Wagner, during which the class
bearing alott their banner, on which
was inscribed the arms of the school
and the class motto, q Multum in
Parvo," entered. The stage was
beautifully decorated with Marguer-
ties, the school flower. and over
the center of the hall were draped
two large American flags. Miss
Agnes Slosson played the senate
No, l, by Grey, in very charming
manner, and Miss Florence Wells, of
Racine, followed with the salutatory
Ad Juventum, from Horace, and the
young lady acclaimed the old Latin ode
with as much grace as a Roman mat
rom. The valedictory was given b.
Miss Edith Brown, who chose as her
subject The Poet and the Child.
Drawing illustrations from the great
English poets the valedictorian showed
the relation of the child life and early
training to the later life of the mature
man and woman. In closing Miss
Brown paid very touching tribute to
the life and pleasures of Kemper Hall.
! To teachers and classmates alike she
bade fond farewell, hoping that in
the future the good influences of Kem-
per Hall would show forth in the noble
! lives of the class of '98. The Rev.
Ernst Millmore Stires. rector of Grace
Church, Chicago, delivered the annual
address, choosing as his subject " Am
bition." In opening his remarks he
spoke of the growing influence of
church schools and the great power for
good that each was welding.
| Ambition, said the speaker, is a good
thing, but it is too often abused. There
are TWO kinds Of ambition; one seeks
for things in themselves. An ambition
for power for powers sake, an ambition
for moneys sake. Such an ambition is
selfish and wrong. The other ambition
is the one that seeks to do things as a
means to achieving higher aims. Such
an ambition loves honorable rivalry
and sacks to do in the least conspiCu
Gus manner those things which will be
the greatest benefit to mankind. This
is the true ambition and it should form
a place in every Etrue man or woman.
Make the lives otAothers purer, sweeter
and nobler by your living was the ad-
vice of the speaker to the class. KEN
per Hall withEits beautiful surround
ings and air of refinement has taught
the beauties of life and the students
who go out from under it's protecting
walls have learned1to see things in a
new way. FouriEyears of study has
taught the young ladies how to under
stand the God givensgifts and they go
out to woman's work and woman's
warfare with an enlarged vision of the
pleasures and responsibilities of life.
The highest ambition OF woman is to be
good, to be wise and to be useful.
The highest wisdom Is learned
through obedience and he is
the wisest man who obeys
the most wise laws. The way
OF wisdom is the way of obedience. ITO
be good is common" is too often too be
said, declared the speaker, for to be
good is magnifcently heroic. Not the
man who drifts along with the current
lis worthy of praise, but he who holds
/ his head above the torrent and fights
ahead for fixed point with the waves
breaking over him, is the truly heroic.
The world needs useful women.
Those who are willing to take what
powers they have and lay them at the
feet of their master. The eminent
respectable negative life is the most
hateful existence possible. What God
made women for was to live positive
lives for the glory of their Creator and
the good of their fellow beings. After
the address the class song was sung
and the diplomas and prizes were dis
tributed.
This was followed by the usual class
exercises and the laying of the class
stone. The following received degrees:
Edith Murray Brown, KenOsha; Theo-
dosia Hunt Cary, st. Paul. Mimi; Car
RE Hosford Crapser, Chicago; Lucia
Rogers, Mason City, Iowa; Agnes Slos-
son, Kenosha; Ethel Vyvan Spence,
Milwaukee; Grace Althea Swallow,
Chicago; Grace Van Ingen, KenOsha;
Florence Ada Wells, Racine, Wis;
Helen Louise Whitmore, Gardiner, Me-;
Mary Alice Wright, Lancaster, Wis.
Kemper Hall Teachers Entertain.
The teachers at Kemper hall gave a
very charming reception on Tuesday