The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-26

of faces stretching out before the plat
form.
President Wilder stood there with the
diploma in his hand. The audience still
~applauded. The subject of IronquilPs
New Nobility nerVed himself for the
task, n like charging bayonets of the
enemy he marched down to the front
of the platform, received his diploma,
and retreated to his chair.
After a violin solo by Miss Prescott,
Or. u. NJ. Fiske pronounced h bene-
diction and the exercises were over.
The graduation orationS of the class
were delivered during the week. The
following is the membership of the
class and the subjects of the orations.
Roberta Eleanor Akers, Life in a
Mining Camp"
Elizabeth Catch Altman, THE Signif-
icance of Mythology"
Gertrude Elizabeth Bauer, THE De-
velopment of Musical Instruments"
Grace Mary Beard. Women As Ar
lists"
Gertrude E. Bradshaw. "A New Name
in History"
Lima Eleanor Bresette. The Great
Scottish Poet. Robert Burns"
Lulu Irene Burdge, "Stratford-upon-
Avon"
Mamie Ethel carey. Cicero
William Crane Cartilage, The 18TH
mean Canal"
Horace Branson Cowgirl, THE ouaA-
ers."
susannah Alden Dague. "Monu-
ments."
Grace Elder Dauchy. 'The Art of Flc-
ton"
Lena Luella Davis. I'm 1922
Lora Ruth Diment. Daughters of the
Dom and 'Tanta' Country"
Mary Edith Durant. The Art of Con-
versatiOn."
Cora Louise Eby. ''Crownless Queens"
Eliza Berenice Fuller. Education by
Travel"
Clyde Almon Punches. The Kansas
Farmer"
Ruby Gage. THE Nemesis of His
tory"
Margaret Shuman Gilfllan. "Peculi-
arities of Famous Musicians"
Henry Lewis Goddard. The Porto
Rico Tariff Bill"
Mary Olive Gundry, "Women's Ath-
letics."
Ene Pearl Hazen. Gems from
S"hakespeare's Crown"
Vida Gaebrella Heap, paul Lawrence
Dunbar"
Robert Burns Higgins, 9Th Man
with a Button"
Martha Collins Hilton. For What
Grace circuit Hulse. "England's Vlr-
gin queen"
Henrietta Mildra Jackson. TT E;liz-
abethan or Golden Age of Literature"
Otto Kiene. Mans Greatest Teach
err"
Bessie Claire Mcfarland, Typical
| American Women"
Ella Mary Mclaughlin, Life Echoes
from the Curtain Call"
Maude Mae Miller, Habit"
Minnie Nichols, 'fTouissant LOWER
ture.'
Edwin Martin Oliver. Martin Luth-
| err"
Norman Foster Ramsey. The Man
/ Behind the Gun"
Susie Schnemayer, HUNGARIAN Pat
riotism."
Laura Mercia shehan. Hero Wor-
ship"
Thomas Nesbit Smith. Bismarck"
Eleanor Belle S%tarbird, The Art of
the Artistic"
William Tell studer. Character
Sketch of Alexander Hamilton"
Wallace Thompson, THE Burial of
the Maine Heroes"
Ernest P. Tomlinson, Our Foreign
Policy"
Ella Price True. Illustration"
Walter Dana Vance. THE Man with
the Queue"
Percy Sharpe Walker. THE South
/ African War"
Minnie Elizabeth Wendell. Architects
of Fate"
Henry Edgar winans. Changes in
Thomas Carlyle Wood. seThe FIXTURE of
Mexico
Edna zellers, Blind in the Midst Of
Beauty"
Grace Elder Dauchy was valedictor-
ian n Mary Olive Gundry, salutator-
ian.
Following are the class officers:
Norman Foster Ramsey, president.
Edwin Martin Oliver. vice president.
Ella Mary Mclaughlin, secretary.
Percy Sharpe Walker, treasurer.
OTHER SCHOOLS CLOSE.
The different ward schools also closed
Friday. The usual exercises, contests
and promotions ook place and thc
books have been put way to rest un-
til neXt September.