The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-15
THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY
ITS ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH
 4NNTYERSARY.

ANNIVERSARY.
 A Very Interesting Occasion Yesterday Features of the Graduation Excrciscs Those Who Were Awarded Prizes Yesierdny-Tho Alumni Dinner and sprnkers.
 The scholars of the academy at Ches- hire and their friends were greatly dis appointed yesterday morning by reason of the rain, more favorable for agricul- ture than anniversaries The annual reception and dance on Tuesday even ing had passed off pleasantly. The an niversary exercises also were very suc- cessfu, the chapel being well filled at 9:30 and the town hall at 1030 Many of the friends of the fifty-three pupils and many old boys were back.
 The marshals were l.. H. Davis F. F.. Dodd D. w. Grahame A. L. Griggs, Otto Wagner, l.. H. Wright. Seven now enter college or go into business. Their names are: Raymond Q. Fox of Hardwick, Mass; Chester E. Ingraham of Bristol, Conn; Herbert B. Kellogg of Brookfield Center, Conn.,; c. Monta- que Maxfeld of New Hartford, Conn.,. |; Henry B. Morse of NeWtonville, Mass; Louis r. Wagner of New York city; Seymour Yardley Warner of Philadel- phia, Pa.
 MT. Fox delivered the Latin salutato- ry. The new pronunciation appeared to trouble the Cheshire people, but none of the old boys gave any sign of lack of complete understanding. Mir Max field spoke upon "The Architecture of the Ancients,' MT. Warner on Mary, Queen of Scots;'' MT Kellogg on "The Bicycle in Peace and War" MT Wag- ner on Mexico Redeemed and the Man Who Did It. Mir Ingraham delivered the valedictory on "The Inf1rmities of Literary Men of Genius" Speaking for the young men about leaving Cheshire with great regret, and as yet with few of the infirmities of genius, he assured the people of the town that the boys who visited their best apple trees, ridden bicycles upon their sidewalks, plagued
 
 would hold them in grateful and ever la ing remembrance, and that whatever the young ladies should never be forgotten.
 The Martin oration was given by Da- vid Willard. of the class of 1891, we'll known in connection with University Settlement work in New York city. Prizes were awarded in English to F. F. Dodd of New Milford, in geography to Santiago We've of Porto Rico; in spelling to R. Q. Fox; in penmanship, to C. G. Robinson of Washington, Conn; in the commercial department, to N. H. Greek, to D. N Graham of Woodbury; in mathematics, to A. H. Ferguson of Darien; for department for three years, to c. M. Maxfield
 John Ordway Partridge, the distin- guished sculptor of Boston, Cheshire academy, 1891, had given a medal in of his father for the best essay upon art, its use and place in life. The medal was awarded to very creditable paper by Henry B. Moss of Newtonville, Mass
 All members of the school and visitors were entertained at dinner at the acad- emy in the dining room, from the walls 0f which the faces of school worthies ike Commanders Foote and Hitchcock, 1f former principals like Drs. Burden, and Horton, of the founder of Bishop library and of many more, ook down upon those who eat. Short speeches were made by Bishop Brew ,ter, Professor Phillips, Rev. Messrs Lines and Sexton. A. B. Cook Of Brook yn. Then the old boys got together in heir societies and i'll groups to talk up ,ld times. The rain had ceased at noon md to the pleasure of all visitors the drill was held. Then the boys iaid their farewells to Professor Wood )ury, the teachers and their associates, md the 106th year of the old diocesan chool came to an end. off the hill the made their war as they have ,een doing every June for a hundred -ears, and Cheshire more beautiful han ever to an old boys eyes was left n quietness until the autumn comes md the boys, old and new, go back full # life to combine with study, walks l O Roaring brook, and Mt Carmel to Honey Pot and Hotchkiss Pond and oth- r places which many hundreds of men | emember with delight
 
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