The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-15
CENTRAL IND HUMBOLDT
TWO OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS SENT
OUT THEIR CLASSES LAST
NIGHT
FORMER AT METROPOLITAN
Humboldt Exercises Were Held at
the Clinton Avenue Nj. L..
Church-In Other
Schools.

SiXty-three summery and pretty maid
ems, gowned in flimsy white and flowers,
made a pretty picture on the stage Of
the Metropolitan theater last evening;
thirty young men afforded excellent foils
for charming, budding womanhood All
ably supported the dignity Of the Central
high school class Of 1900. To the right
OF the stage were seated members Of the
board of education and Principal Robin
son, of the high school The young men
and the young women who were to take
part IN the programme occupied seats
together opposite the members of the
board. The theater was filled with par
ents and friends of the graduates, and
liberal applause testified to the interest
that was aroused by the several papers.
The papers possessed that excellence
that has been called the soul of wit
brevity, and, moreover, the themes Of
the majority of them were treated in
an original manner.
The programme opened with an over
ture by the orchestra, the march La
Fiesta by Roncievisi. Miss Lesley
Hincklcy then delivered, with excellent
effect a spirited salutatory. Following
her Miss Lillian Garrow read an interest
ing paper on Dialect in Literature"
There were two kinds of dialect, Miss
Garrow thought the dialect that was
good and the dialect that wasn't. Many
writer's she said strung together a lot
of ill-spelled words that represented no
class OF people in particular and called
1t dialect The dialect that faithfully
represented the language of a peop.e
gave one better understanding of that
people.
THE FalIow Field was explored
with the aid of well chosen words and
clear ideas by Miss Dagmar Jensen. The
mind, sadd Miss Jensen, was fal.ow
field. The greatest care was to be taken
of the seed sown, for the sowing was
so was the harvest.
The orchestra played Suppes "a Sum
mer Nights Dream" and then Harry
Morton told what he made out of the
somewhat unusual subject "Out of the
Tar" Experiment had taught scientists
that the ill-smelling repulsive-looking
tar could be utilized in a variety of ways.
If anything 50 unprepossessing as the
tar could be utilized to produce sweet
perfumes and the like, human beings
should not dispair of finding hight quail
ties in even the most degraded natures.
Miss Clara Olmstead's was a clever
paper on The White Woman's Burden"
In her introduction she referred to Kip
lings poem and his charge to the men
of the Anglo-SaXoD race, bidding them
remember they are their brothers keep
ers- 1t was just as true, she said, that
the white woman was responsible for
the moral well being Of her brown sis
ter. Her example and unselfish devo-
ton might do much to uplift those sis
ters of an inferior race.
Edward GaugGr, il "a Plea for Books,
told of the value of these silent cCmpan-
ions of man to the human race Although
the library, he admitted, was an excel
lent institution, the fact that children and
grown people could get books with so lit
tie difficulty made them value them less.
1T was better, he said in conclusion, to
know a few books we'll than to possess
a smattering knowledge of many.
VerdiS III TroVatore" was Played, and
IL was followed by Miss May Feely, whose
subject was Revelations of Nature" She
told of the early pagans, who saw living
deities in the wind, the rustic of the trees,
the flowing of the water and the move
ment of the clouds Religion has taught
US, said the young essayist, that there
are no spirits in these many phases of ma
tureS life, but the fact that the one God
controlled and ordered everything with
perfect order has made nature more beau
tifUl to US than it was to those pagans.
Dwight Edwards, in a forcefully deliv-
cred GRAFTON, made a strong plea for ath-
letcS in schools and colleges The lengthy
applause that followed his grafton testi-
fed to the sympathy of the audience as
we'll as to their approval of an excellent
ly delivered speech. Miss Ruth Mckinley
wrote an interesting paper on Defeat"
that was read by Bruce Sanborn. 1t was
not improbable, she said that what we
called success here on earth might prove
after all failure in another world, aud
what was failure here might prove sue
cess there. Failure was not to be scorn-
ed. Low aims were what should be de-
rided.
In few well chosen words Miss Grace
May delivered the valedictory, and a very
graceful leave taking it was Prof Rob
inson then presented the class of 1900 to
DR.. c. Fry, vice president of the board Of
education, and the diplomas were distrib-
uted.
The names of the graduates were pub
lished yesterday.
The commencement exercises of the
Humboldt high school were held last night
at Clinton Avenue NJ e church
Commencement exercises were held last
night at the Lafayette school The grad
yates are Sam Wilmer, Robert Exley,
Eva Lavansky, Fred Roy, lilly Braun
stein, Henry Goldberg, Adrian Guion,
Louis Stollorow, Verne Sample, Sarah
Kram, Mamie Richardson and Annie Stof-
fer
There were piano selections by Misses
Stofer, Clara Lavansky and Aida Lavan-
sky, songs by Miss Braunstein, and a
play, Down by the Sea-" presented by
Sam Wilmer, Robert EXley, Eva Lavan-
sky, Fred Roy, Adrian Guion Henry
Goldberg, Lily Braunstein, Louis Stollo-
row and Harry Brotchmer.