The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-30
SCHOOL LIFE IS OVER
Commencement Exercises For
County Pupils.
CONDUCTED In THEATRE
WITNESSED BY LARGE CROWD
OF PARENTS AND FRIENDS.
Interesting Programme Participated
In By Representatives of the Va
rious MISREPRESENTATION of
Diplomas By superintendent Van
Cott-Prof. Paul's Grafton.

ercises of the Salt Lake county public
school took place yesterday morning
beginning at 10:45 o'clock, in the Salt
Lake theatre. An audience consisting
of trustees, parents, teachers, pupils
and friends comfortably filled the low
er floor and the first and second bal
comics.
When the curtain rose a plain but
tasty arrangement of national colors on
the background of the stage was ex-
posed to view. Many beautiful flowers
were neatly placed on either end of the
footlights, attracting the favorable
comment of the audience The grad
yates, eighty-seven in number, repre-
senting nineteen districts. occupied
chairs on the stage, and showed up &c
good advantage, the girls appearing in
white dresses. the boys in neat suits
of black
Begiss With a Chorus
The exercises began with chorus
SOFTLY Nesting Mid the Flowers, u
given in a very satisfactory manner by
twenty girls and twenty boys from the
Waterloo school and gotten up under
the direction of Miss Argyle Gabbott
They carried wreaths made of flowers
and gave a pretty dance, which re-
Elected credit upon themselves and their
instructress.
Richard Horne of Mill Creek then
pronounced the invocation, which was
followed by Tessie earn of district 80
Sugar, who read a well-conceived pa
per, entitled 1.-The Pioneers" In it the
hardships of emigration were dwelt
upon, especially concerning those gone
through by the Utah pioneers, and the
speaker concluded with patriotic ex-
hortation on the character and deeds
of the early settlers of Utah.
Forward" was an interesting paper,
given by Kearney Stephenson of dis
trict 26, Murray, and was listened to
slant effort ever - be made, with truth
as the guiding star, was the theme of
this paper.
Ten little girls from Big Cottonwood,
district rs. followed, rendering a song,
entitled THE Dance of the Faries," and
received hearty applause from the au-
dience.
next recited 1.-THE Drummer Boy" and
did it quite artistically in well-modu-
lated, distinct tones.
Tambourine Drill.
The next event was a tambourine
drill, which eight little girls from dis
trict 40, Farmers ward. performed in
yellow dresses, trimmed in white and
black, and carried tambourines, which
clinked musically in time with the
piano.
The soldiers Pardon" by Lillian
Snow of district %, Draper, was a
recitation which received a clever inter-
probation at the hands of its giver.
Ten young ladies, graduates of dis
trict %, Sugar, next appeared before
I,a ierl,t nd hoo fr,f
chorus.
The "Oration on Reading" by Eman-
uel NJ. Olson, graduate of district 81,
West Jordan, extolled the particular
value to be eotten from reading. and
was a careful comment OH what are
the best books for young people to
read.
district 40, Farmers ward, was filled
with excellent advice to his classmates.
interspersed with tender recollections
of school days, and parting words of
gratitude to teachers.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Superintendent Oscar Van Colt then
presented the graduates with their di-
plomas. In his address, the superin-
tendent praised his charges for the
patience and effort displayed in acquir-
ing educations. and spoke of this, their
first commencement day, as being but
the day to renew resolutions, to fix a
base for further effort, with some we'll
defined purpose in view; to prepare for
labor in a harder field.
The final commencement day would
arrive when the knowledge stored up
in bygone years had begun to be adj
vantage to the student and mankind.
Mr.. Van Colt urged upon the grad
yates the folly of stopping at the
height just reached, and exhorted
them to continue climbing until the
summit is gained of the peak which
stands in the chosen pathway.
The address to the graduates was de-
livered by Professor J. II. Paul, and
was a very logical and eloquent ora
ton Professor Paul compared the
young men to trees just set out, full of
life and vigor, and eager for the COM
ing growth. The young ladies re-
minded him of rosebuds, which were
just about to open in the bloom of full
life and beauty.
There is a time for sowing. which
had now arrived for these young men
and women. The time for reaping