The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-03
ANACONDA NEWS.
THEY ENTER UPON LIFE
The Glass of 1893 Acquits Itself
Nobly.
ESSAYS WERE EXCELLENT
Before . Brilliant Audience. Seven High
School Graduates Recsive Their d.
plomas-The Event Was q Most
Happy One Throughout.
..I will ascend by stems

81 will ascend by steps,"
Such is the motto under which the class
of 1898 of the Anaconda High school took
an important step last night-the step
from the life of the school boy and the
school girl to the life where the real work
of men and women begins.
The exercises were held at the Marga-
ret thester and were of a highly interest
ing character. TIL house was packed to
the doors by a brilliant audience and the
o~rations were received with great warmth
and favor. The graduates were the re-
cipients of a great number of hansome
presents. and floral tributes were rendered
them in abundance. Between the essays
the orchestra rendered several selections
of excellent music.
The essays themselves were of a much
more meritorious character than those
usually delivered upon such occasions. the
old, stereotyped subjects being passed
over for new and original ideas. The in
corporation of the thoughts of the pupils
into expression showed that careful study
had been expended upon the papers, and
in many instances the ideas would have
done credit to the minds of older stu
dents. Professor Stapleton and the High
school teachers. the Misses Livingston.
Mathes and Sutherland. WIFI occupied
seats upon the stage, may well feel proud
of the High school class of 1898,
The graduates are: Anne ". Burke,
Anna s. Devine. Jane L. Evans, william
l.. Burton. Anna f. Davidson, Margaret
J. Maloney and Edna +. Neal.
Long before the hour for the opening
of the exercises arrived the theater was
filled to its utmost. Hundreds of ladies
inc children who arrived after Sis were
obliged to either turn away disappoint-
- Al
best they might. The parents and
friends of the graduates and their fell
low pupils began to gather as early as
a quarter to 8 o'clock, and they con-
tinued coming until long after the exer-
cises had begun. Scores carried huge
bouquets of beautiful flowers, which
were afterwards rendered as tokens of
esteem to the young people to whom, for
the most part, last nights beautiful and
appropriate exercises marked the closing
of their lives as school children and the
beginning of their real lives as men and
women-
When the curtain arose it disclosed to
view the graduating class and the men,
bers of the board of school trustees seat
ed upon the stage in two circles. The
young aides of the class were hand
somely gowned and looked beautiful in
the strong light of the stages hundreds
Of incandescents. Happiness was de-
picted upon the countenances of them
all and the moments they spent upon
the stage of the Margaret last evening
will linger in their memories as mons
the happiest of their lives.
When the curtain rose the audience
greeted the class with a generous out
burst of applause. which continued for
some moments. The superb Margaret
theater orchestra struck up the beauti-
full march, Bride Elect" one of Sousa's
best. Upon the conclusion of the music
Miss Anna s. Devine delivered the salu-
tatory. as follows:
After a year of hard study, another
anniversary has come and the class of
'9S gives welcome n greeting to
friends and citizens of Anaconda. Four
years have passed, and tonight we
stand before you, proud of our progressS
and the reward awaiting us. All our
thoughts are happy ones, bright with
the visions of the past. anxious for the
future. We sincerely hope that you
may greet many another class from the
Anaconda High school, and with loving
thoughts of the kindness we have re-
ceived from you, we give to you, friends,
teachers and comrades, a last, fond
greeting"
After this came her essay on 1.-The
Newspaper as An Educator" Following
is a synopsis of the paper:
During the days of Rome's suprem-
acy news was sent to the capital by
special messenger, and while the bar
barians probably had not so well or
ganized a service, still they must have
used the same means for the transmits
sion of all important tidings. When the
world began to waken from what is
known as the sleep of the dark ages,
all people felt the quickening of the
faculties, and as one result we find the
invention of the printing press and the
publication of what was known as
pamphlets for the defending of relig-
ious views and opinions. In this way
our modern newspaper had its
growth. In the early part of the 18th
century were printed in
Germany. Belgium n England. They
were first printed by s~tationers as a
regular part of their trade; then the
news letters were printed. and. finally,
we have records of weekly newspapers.
Almost from the first they were used
as a means of attacking or defending
opinions. The English speaking people
first permitted freedom of speech and
of the press. thus accomplishing what
has been done by no other people. A
censor of the press is Unknown in
Great Britain and America, but is oft
en- found in republican France. The
Russian and German governments
have never succeeded in suppressing
papers they did not want circulated.
At first the growth of newspapers was