The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-06-06
FOR 1900
ssOut Of the narbof into the Sea"
60 Five Sweet Girl Grad
yates.
Redwood Fails niQh School Cole.
brAtes It, Fourteenth An.
nlversary.

DOROTHY Bessie cLAYsoN,
MYRTLE MAUD GOODRICH.
BESSIE DIANA MEAD,
RACHEL OHARA,
INOGENE CALElE PRYOR
Once year Redwood Falls gets
enthusiastic over her schools. Il
might be better for teachers aud
pupils If this interest was better
sustained through the school terms,
but they haye no reason to complain
Of lack Of interest in the great event
Of the year, Commencement Day.
The largest auditorium in the coun-
ty is much too small TO contain the
number of those who flock yearly
to do honor to the final exercises of
our High school.
II is fortunate that the patrons Of
the school were so largely repre-
sented at the exercises last Tues
day evening, since no verbal de-
scription can do justice to the we'll
studied and we'll delivered orations
of the graduates, to the handsome
decorations Of the court room, or the
musical and other accessories of the
occasion. No attempt will be made
in this report to analyze or repro
duce all the good things said by the
members Of the graduating class of
1900.
The salutatorian was Dorothy B.
Clayson, and her theme was ''Our
Country's Flag Miss Clayson
succeeded in thoroughly interesting
her audience in the story of the or
igin of the national banner. Her
paper was not only patriotic in tone,
but showed the results of thorough
research and brouGkt out historical
facts which wers NH fansiiiar to the
mass Of her ankisacs. Drake s
immortal lines to the American flag
were recited as . graceful accompa-
niment to the music of history.
Bessie D. Mead who followed with
a review of the progress made dur
ing the nineteenth century in all
that affects our modern life, is to be
congratulated on escaping the dan
ger of handling dry statistics.
Starting out with a comparison of
the experience of a person travelling
in the United States at the begin
ming of this century, under the rude
conditions prevailing at that time,
she pictured the stage coach and the
sailing vessel with their tedious
time tables, and the traveller enter
ing a house with its rude fireplace
and scanty furniture, in contrast
with the luxurious aud swift pas
senger service of today, and the
many luxuries which our modern
citizen looks upon as necessities.
The thoughtless person of today
needs to be reminded of the great
advantages enjoyed in living at the
close of a century of almost unex-
ampled progress in all that goes to
make life worth the living, and Miss
Mead showed in an admirable way
that this progress had not only been
manifested in material ways, but
that education, religion and all that
makes for the Improvement OF social
conditions Of the poor as well as the
rich, had kept pace with the march
of invention aud science.
Rachel OHara's oration on 1.-The
Advantages Of Adversely was il
Illustrated by a recital of some of the
struggles made by the great ones Of
the worlds history to overcome ad-
verse circumstances. NEnlarging
upon her theme from individuals to
nations, some of the hardships which
our forefathers passed were brought
to mind-the struggles of the Pill
grim fathers, of the colonies in their
war for independence, and finally,
the great civil war, with its costly
sacrifices for the maintenance of the
Union and the freedom of the slaves
all these had contributed to the
education Of our race and the
growth in power Of our people.
Myrtle NJ. Goodrich touched a
popular chord in her Grafton on
ssThe American Girl The Amer
lcan girl did not seek to emulate