The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-05-20

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.

The committee to which the articles OF
the senior class at Coburn institute at
Waterville were submitted has chosen the
following speakers for commencement:
| Misses Perry, Allen, Doyle. Lewis,
Towne and Williams, and Messrs. Butler,
Daggett, Staples, Thayer, Thomas and
have been awarded: Grafton, Lewis q.
Lord prophecy, Grace Il. Estes; address
| to undergraduates, Bertram Smith /;
poem, Bessie A. Nichols; history, Carl
G. Piper; ode, Frank W. Moody.
HEBRON ACADEMY.
| Hebron Academy has not fallen into the
custom toward which many of our high
schools and academies are tending, that
| of placing athletics, amusements and
other things of like character, before her
literary attainments.
Ontthe evening of Tuesday, May 6, the
Alpha Literary society at Hebron acade-
my, composed entirely of the lady scholars
and lady members OF the faculty, ten
dered their friends an annual recep ton.
| This season was selected in order that the
entertainment might be given in the full
bloom of the violet which has been chosen
as the society flower; and 1t was held in
she gymnasium. The large room of the
building was very tastifully decorated
with violet and white, dotted here and
there with evergreen. And smaller
room IN which the refre shments were
served was similarly adorned. After
the guests were assembled and duly
ushered in by the receiving commit ee
the programme of the evening was car
ried out as follows:
March.
Piano Duet. Misses Burgess and Marsh
Reading, Mamie Frost
Vocal Solo, Helen Bonny
! Reading, Miss Hodsdon
Toasts.
Refreshments.
March.
Miss Bonny's solo was heard with great
pleasure, her reputation as a vocalist hav-
ing been already established. And the
readings were by no means inferior to any
given before.
On account of the manner of serving
refreshments 1t was thought best to
reverse the usual order and let the toasts
preeede. Miss Richardson, the president
Of the society, introduced to the audience
the toa stmistress. Miss Donham. The
toasts were given as follows: Miss
Richar dson extended the welcome; MIR.
Bryant, president of similar society
among the young men of the school. re-
sponded; Mr.. l.. q. Stearns gave toast
ON the 1yrocinic Adelphia; Prof. league
related some of his youthful experien noes
in making verse; Miss Morgan gave a
toast on Mrs. Sturtevant, the donor of
the Girls domitory; Miss Rastan gave "A
brief history of the A. l.. 5. +; Mr.. W.
NJ. II. league, as captain of the Hebron
baseball team, spoke few words In be-
half of ::ssathletics; MIR. Whitman. as
president of the senior class offered few
words of advice; Principal Sargent closed
this part of the programme with few
appropriate words.
The guests wero then invited to pareake
of the refreshments These were served
IN the girls parlor. There were four
tables. one for ice cream, one for salad.
one for punch. and one for sherbert.
They were refreshing indeed and after
this dainty repast all assembled In the
which closed the evenings entertain
ment.
1t is exercises of this kind which to
great extent cause the school days to be
looked back upon as the happiest mo-
ments of ones life, for not only arc they