The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-09
THE SWEET GIRL
GRADUATE AND
HER DIPLOMA
Exercises at the High
School.
GOoD-BY TO SCHOOL DAYS
THE MANY ADVANTAGES OF A
HIGHER EDUCATION.
GooD-BY TO SCHOOL DAYS
Flowers and Pretty Speeches for the
Seventy-Nine Misses Who
Now Can Close Their
Books.


Webster last evening a nluch-coVeted dip
Iona. which entitled each one to the hon
orable title OF a high school graduate.
The auditorium Of the Girls High
School was crowded with an audience
made up of parents and friends that as
sembled to witness the impressive com
1nencement exercises. Flowers and palms
made the vast stage beautiful, but the
haudsonest blossoms paled into insignih-
canoe beside the assembled loneliness OF
the fair young misses whose school days
are now over.
" good one. The graduates furnished the
musical end and President z. \. Bergerot
o. the Board Of EDUCATION, Mayor . Fhe-
Ian. superintendent Webster ana erlnci-
pal Brooks lent their oTatory for the liter
airy features.
President Bergerots address was
tribute TO the higher education as pre-
scented by the fair young graduates. The
speaker said in part:
This is indeed. a happy day, a blssful event
for YOU all il will form an epoch IN your
young lives worthy TO be singled out with
white stone" To some of you 1t will mean
the termination Of your career as students ana
the signal for you to make your debut on the
stage of life. To others these commencement
exercises and your graduation from TINS sChooI
viii serve but as a prelude Tor your aullls 3
into some higher institution of learning, where
you may prosecute your studies in order 10 at
tain some definite purpose or goal 10 an OF
YOU il represents a period of three years which
your instructors have faithfully devoted to
cultivating your minds and hearts for the re
Ception Of stores of useful knowledge ana
ennobling principles.
edge is power \ liberal education as far as
it goes, IS also power. The mental training
and discipline which it gives enable person
70 take a practical hold Of life or 10 enter into
curing special preparation. II transforms the
maton machine that he often Is into a
rational. thinking, Intelligent individuality. 1t
makes a better citizen Of a man by broadening
his views of life and things ana men IL en-
larges his sympa1hies and qualities him Tor
moral or intellectual leadership among his fel-
lows. II gives its possessor confidence IN MS
own abilities Educated men and women gen
orally know what TO do in any emergency.
when 10 do it and how to do it right
Ii IS not true. young ladies, as announced
a few weeks ago in a post-prandial speech by
one of the greatest capitalists. that there Is
prevalent in this country a tendency TO over
educate the masses. Such a statement, in the
first place, implies a contradiction in terms
There can be no such thing as over-education-
1t is universally conceded by liberal minds that
education is excellent thing, ana. II II be
an excellent thing for the wealthy class OF our
people. all the more Is II an excellent boon Ior
our less favored fellow citizens. To say that
the increase Of higher education among the
people is a fact to be deplored is TO admit
that education is a curse and not blessing.
It is a libel upon human nature to utter such
sentiments on the of the twentieth cen
fury. 1t is nothing more or less than a plea for
the return Of the dark ages, when learning
was the privilege of the few. and when the
masses were in a stale of abject serfdom by
reason Of their abject Ignorance and benighted
condition.
to prince pauper Or. Jordan tells us that
a boy or girl can have no nobler ancestors than
those who have worked for a living. This
truth may be extended by saying that the best
way TO honor or Veuerate the memory of such
ancestors Is to initiate their good example.
Labor is elevating. 1t is man noblest orna-
ment. Every form Of excellence in the me-
chanical commercial, moral or intellectual
world arises from and is traceable to labor.
Genius is labor and labor is godliness.
Young ladies, YOU are now about to 60 out
into the world to accomplish your destinies in
your chosen spheres OF action.
Life and existence and the world appear to
You to-day as things of sweetness and lowell
ness. Your dreams and plans and air castles
are suffused with rOseate tinge that is sOoth-
ing TO the mental eye and which fills your
hearts with hope and inspiration 1, for one.
on such an occasion as inns, would not utter a
single thought that might mar your happy dis
position TO look the brightest side of things
AFTER all your ideals are not altogether an
illusion. The searchlight of reality, you
elbow your fellow creatures in the walks Of
life. may perchance dispel some of the glamour
which now surrounds you; but If YOU are prop
erly constituted. If YOU have properly assimi-
lated the learning which your teachers have
sought to instill into your minds. your ideals
should survive and resist all attacks upon the
outer world.
Like everything that Is mortal you will re-
ceive your proportionate share of those neces-
sary concomtants of the purest joys and pleas
ures incident to existence. But you should
never suffer any ills or reverses to depress
your hearts or to weaken your fxity of pur-
forebodng clouds in stormy weather. in the
moral as we'll as in the physical world, have p
silver lining.
Continue therefore. in your innocent guile
less ways. To be buoyant cheerful. hopeful as
you emerge tonight from these fond scenes of
your school days TO face the sterner realities
and struggles of life. Armed. as you are. with
the viii to do and the soul to dare We ex-
pect much Of you, and know that our hopes
il YOU are not misplaced.
Mayor Phelan started his address with
witty bit Of Marshall Wilder: Said a
man 10 wise friend. 4 am going down
to address the graduates of a seminary,
and what TO talk about I don't know
Talk about two minutes said wise
friend and in his pithy talk the Mayor
took the advice of the man of wisdom.
In the course Of his remarks the Mayor
ccmplimented Mr.. Bergerot. but deplored
the fact that he found necessity to es-
9qq2uuse the cause Of higher, education.
tends to satisfy people with better and
higher things than wealth. Aim high and
strive for that distinction which other fair
daughters OF California have already
won"
The programme in full was as follows:
March, California Girl" composed hy, Miss
p A. Bergerot; chorus Twilight STAR Barn
by; vocal solo, "Nymphs and Fauns" CBem-
berg) Miss Grace l. Davis, class Of %: adj
dress, Hon. James D. Phelan, Mayor; chorus
and solo. Ave Maria (AbD. solo Miss Grace
Dream" (Wagner), Miss Maude Fay, class of
80; presentation Of the class of 1899, Principal
enade) Miss Florence Doane, class Of "a: pre-
sentation OF diplomas, Superintendent r. H.
Webster; chorus, Wanderers Evening Song
(Rubinstein).
The list of graduates is as follows:
Mabel G. A. Ahrens, Aurora Evangeline Arti-
CUES, Mary Swift Bally, Ethel Banks. Corinne
Barry. Ernestne Dorothy Basch, Esther Baum.
Florence BelknaD. Hazel Bertz Fanny Caro-
line Romano de Boom, Maude Gertrude Bond,
Clara simmons Brown, Frances Virginia Buff
ford. Shirley Sidney Burt. Ethel Browning
Clark, Mathilde Elaine Coblentz. Ina Estele
Collins, Jessie Marian Davis. Mabel Donald
son. Alicia Lane Duffcy, May Gaffney Louise
Geary, Jennie Claire Glynn. Emma Catharne
Hardy, Elsa Harris. Marion Agnes Hennessy.
Elsie Hess Helena ]. HIM. Emily Leona Ho-
bro Josephine Lippincott Hofmann. Rose ia
cobson, Grace Kane, Ethel Camille Krauss
Therese Krohn, Schone Kurlandzik Blanche
Bena Latz, Elsie Leale, Eva A Levy, Juliette
Winnifred Levy Evelyn Dorothy Lewiston Jen-
ME Lichtig. Helen Clare Lills. Nellie Maude
Lincoln, Alice Lyser, Florence Manor Lena
Christina Mausshardt Gertrude Mayors, Ger
trude Mcclellan, Rosamond Mary Meherin,
Lyle Merritt, Maude St Lawrence Muller
White MunsOn. Anna Nicolson. Mary Zita
O'Connell May Eleanor O'Donnell, Mary Jose
phine o. Keefe, Ida Helen Onyon. Lillian Viola
Onyon. Mary Parks, Eta Parsons, Bessie Edna
Pennington, Elsie Inez Preston Bertha Elder
kin Roberts Maude Schendel, Wilhilmina
Schreiner, Mary Shannessy, Charlotte Sheen
berg, Adriana Spadoni. Gay Spencer, Caroline
Louisa Stevenson. Anita Sullivan, Eta Her
mine Tessmer Bertha Waldraff, Edna Mary