The Saint Paul globe., 1898-06-07

class of '9S of Manchester academy were
held in the assembly hall at the college
last night before an audience, made IN
OF the friends and relatives of the seven
graduates, that filed the hall to over
| flowing.
The platform, which had been cur-
taiheo on, was prettily decorated with
tne class colors and potted palms and
pants. The four young ladies of the
graduating class were attired in pure
Whlte commencement gowns and each
carried huge bunch Of roses. and as
they sat on the platform with their
three young men classmates and Pres
| ident Downing, the scene presented was
a pretty one.
The exercises began with a cornet
SOLO by Mr.. E. Bolton, and after the
! lnVocatlon5 pronounced by Rev. c. w
Davis, the first grafton was given Inv
Helen Margaret Wallace. Her subject
was our New Inheritance" She dWeIt
| prleHy With the school life of her com,
pdhlons and herself and called atten-
| cloh 10 the fact that while it was tho
intention of nearly all to go on, with
the college work some were going out
IN the world to make their Way She
! spoke OF the many great men and wom
en- That had begun life in a humble
way and had steadily mounted the lad
der OF tame until they had gained the
topmost round and she believed that it
would be wise move that the Young
men and women of todav take ono oP
lheSe famous men and women as an
example and follow them as nearly as
POSSIBLE In the lives that thew had Ied
In cioslng she referred to Frances Will
| lard' Gladstone and Clara Barton and
Huhloer OF others, giving a short
| sketch of the life of each.
Following Miss Wallace the class bic
tory was read by C. Roy MilIspaugb.
Inc story of the life of the class and
the many little incidents that will al
ways i've in the memory of it's mem
Ders was told in an entertaining way.
Each member came in for a share Of
the time of the historian Their good
9uaiI.les were dWelt on and their pecu-
| llarltles were presented amusingIy.
After a prettily rendered vocal Solo
py Mrs. Graves, the two remaining
Girls OF the class, Myrtle Benson and
Huloan Eckern, gave a clever LITTLE
farce entitled "How Girls STUDY" One
OF the young ladies had received an
invitation from the other to spend the
evening with her, with the understand
| ing that they would study the lessons
OF tomorrow together 1t is needless
TO say that the greater part of the
evening was taken up in gossip, while
| the mereSt reference was made to the
studies, and when the last book had
been picked up from one side of the
| table and carefully laid down on the
cther side after casual glance over
It's pages. the visitor announced her in
tentlon of going, and thanked her
friend for assisting her in mastering
! the lessons of the morrow. The sketch
| was cleverly worked out and won the
| enthusiastic applause of the audience
as the young ladies left the platform
John Edward Chrystal was next on
the programme and gave a short
speech on Academy Life" He said in
| part: This month of June is a most
appropriate one for such occasions as
this, for 1t is just the time of year that
the grass is greenest and the birds
| sing the sweetest and all nature is lust
budding. Everything is in harmony
| with the occasion. Commencement
| means that something has been accom-
| pllshed and also that much still re-
! mains to be done, and that there is
| yet much to gain. We, the students of
| Manchester, are proud of this institu-
ton, and we feel that we could not
! have selected a better place in which
to obtain that something that leads up
| to commencement and fits us for the
| something that we have yet to gain
| For the past three years we have been
referred to as 'preps,' but we are not
ashamed of that fact, for many of
our so-called superiors were once
,preps, although they seem to have
forgotten it. We were not able to en-
ter college from the cradle, and so the
academy has been a blessing to Us,
and next year when we join the col
| lege men and women there will be
| others in our places that will have to
undergo the humility OF being called
'preps.' There is one thing of which
yx-n y Nd l.
| our literary society. 1t has been a
splendid thing for Us and will long
be remembered by US. AS we leave
the academy we wish it all the success
that is justly due it, and 1 voice the
sentiment of the class when 1 say that
the lives we have led here will be
among the pleasant times of our early
life that we will recall in the years TO
| come"
The class prophecy was given by
| Mabel Emma Dunlap. The future of
the class had been revealed 10 Miss
| Dunlap in dream that she assured the
audience had really come to her. Not
one had been missed AMI the story Of
the after lives Of her classm ltes was
told by Miss Dunlap in a most enter
tanning way. One was to be the happy
wife Of a farmer, another the wife Of a
| foreign missionary, and still arother
! was discovered in foreign lsnd work
Among the young men Miss Dunlap
had discovered one OCCUPYING the pulpit
of a large church, ano h=r had become
a politician of rerown, and the 'a-t had
| been revealed as the governor general
of one OF the Philippine islands. In
closing Miss Dunlap told her audi nee
that she, herself, was destined TO be
an old maid of the worst typo.
The final Grafton was given by L u 8
G. Jongerell His subject was the Re
sronsibility cf the United States as
One Of the Great Powers" He spoke CT
the fact that the ideal nation has un-
dergone a remarkable change, in that,
in the old days the object of the great
nation waS to successfully acquire ter
ritory while today the deal nation was
the one that used lis influence in beh If
| Of others less able to care for them
selves He cited the United Sta es as
an example of this ideal nation, say ing
that it had grown from nothing II be
the first country of the Western h mis-
phere. The p.irc pal on VIII ch the na-
tion was formed was being carried cut
at the present time in the war with
SpaiD This country had rotnirS 10
gain, and wanted nothing, but VIII he
cry OF distress was heard, had g!Sdly
entered great war that the cry of di--
tress might be silenced.
At the close OF Mr.. JonSensePs ora
ton, Prof. Downing, president OF this
academy, presented the members of the
graduating class with their diplomas.
He preceded the presen. alton with =
brief, but appropriate little speech, III
which he thanked the class for their
efforts in their own behalf. for he knew
that they would reflect credit on the
academy. In closing he said: Your
futures are in your own fan6s, be care
full of the pitfalls and byways, and 1
feel sure that you will NEST with sue