The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-02
READY FOR THE WORLD
Fifty-Five High School Pupils
Finish Their Labors.
PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY
Close of the Exercises at the Auditorium.
The Renaissance, Alice Kemper.
Newton, Charles Ross-The
Press, Henry Hopkins.

To-day So pupils of the high school
will bid goodbye to the school room
and venture out into the world to make
marks for themselves, backed up by a
good knowledge of books and the things
that are necessary in the guidance of
the ambitious all along the path lead
ing up to fame. 1t is commencement
day and the exercises will be held in
the Grand opera house. The following
is the programme for this afternoon:
Music, orchestra; overture, orchas-
ira; practical Chemistry" Emelen
Trewin; Territorial Expansion" Ben
jamin Hanson; music, orchestra; An
tonic" Grace Wilson; imperialism,
Ancient and Modern" John Bernard
Lynch: music, High School Mandolin
and Guitar club; address, presentation
of diplomas, Hon. Henry Mueller, pres
ident of board of education; music, or
chestra; music and class reception to
which all friends are cordially invited.
The colors of the class are crimson
and gold. John Bernard Lynch is vale
dictorian and Emelen Trewin is saluta-
torian. The following are the officers
of the High School club: President,
Robert Garfield Kyle; vicc-president,
Anna Blanche knowlton; secretary,
: Sarah McManis; treasurer, Guy Dav-
idson.
Following is the class roster for 1893;
Arthur Kennedy Atkins, Clyde
Brown, Alfred John Balmforth, Chris
tine Taylor Agnes Brebner, Jennie Ben
nett, Lillian May Bretherton, Eleanor
Margaret Crowley, Alice Alaphonses
Conway. Edwin Reed Corbin, Elizabeth
Maud Cooke, Mary Elizabeth Dawson,
Ralph Dawson, Eva Ella Dunstan, Cor
,,n1s Doh
Graney, Hannah Graney, Florence
Hicks, Henry Chester Hopkins. Edna
Henderson, Agnes Ruth Holland, Ben
jamn Hanson, Maude Rose Heimbach,
ellie Maude Hamlyn, Laura Anne
Jackson, Guy Hamilton Job, Bessie
Barton Johns, Robert Garfield Kyle,
Margaret Alice Kemper, Annie Blanche
Knowlton, Mary Genevieve Kellett,
John Bernard Lynch, Alice Lowry
Julia LAUREL. Sarah McManis, Joseph
inc Cornelia Mulville, Anna Margaret
Meade, Katie Meade, Berthold Mayer
Mary Elizabeth MacLane, Gertrude
Nichols, William Ogle, Lille Ruby Rey-
nolds, Charles v. .. u Ross, Elizabeth
Phoebe Rogers,i A1da} Louise Ritter, En-
ma Margaret Savage, Cora Augusta
Smith, Emelen Trewin, Anna Christina
Thiernan, jamie Webster, Mary Char
lotte Williams, Mabel Emily Wrath,
Grace Mildred Wilson, Ella Mae
Wraight, Lathrope Dunn Wallace (died
April 20, 1899.
Yesterday afternoon was the close of
the exercises in the High school audi
forum. FOR three weeks three or more
orations and essays have been delivered
each afternoon by the graduates. Yes
terday afternoon the following essays
were read:
The Renaissance Kemper.
From the bepinninr tn the end of the
18th century the balance was trembling
between two kinds of culture, and the
fate of the school boy depended on the
result. In this century men first got a
correct conception of the globe they in
habited. Hitherto they had no knowl-
edge of geography, The revival OF
learning influenced alike literature
painting. sculpture, architecture and
every branch of knowledge.
1t is difficult to attach too much i'm
portance to this great revolution. Fol
three centuries the schools of Europe
remained what the Renaissance haG
made them. Strictly speaking, the
Renaissance was, on the one hand, the
transition from the medieval to the
modern era, on the other, the change
of the intellectual and moral attitude O.
the western nations by which the tran
sition was chara eteriZed. The earlies
traces of the Renaissance We're fount
in Italy and every country derived it.
Renaissance from there, each having
peculiar characteristics of its own.
The Italian Renaissance was at it!
height at the end of the 18th and earl,
in the 18th centuries. Il was greatly
aided by the Byzantine scholars bring
ing into Italy the literature of ancien
Greece.
The Renaissance virtually closed, a: