The Republican journal., 1900-06-21
HIGH. SCHOOL GRADUATION.


The graduating exercises of the Belfast
High School, class of 1900 were held in the
Belfast Opera House Saturday evening,
June 10Th The weather was perfect dur
ing the day and evening, and the Opera
House was completely filled, parties coming
from Searsport, Morrill,, Waldo and other
nearby towns. Searsport was represented
by about twenty pupils from the High
school.
The stage was very neatly arranged, and
showed excellent taste on the part of the
Junior Class, who, according to custom, had
charge of the decorations. A curtain of
white drapery hung in graceful folds at the
rear of the stage, and on the proscenium arch
was a strip of the same material, dotted with
golden flowers and bearing the class motto
in evergreen. ''Ne Cede Mails" The front
of the stage was festooned with evergreen,
in which were red and white blossoms, the
class flower, the .JacqueminOt rose, predom-
mating. Potted plants and ferns stood at
each side, the whole making fine setting
for the array of bright and happy looking
Young ladies and gentlemen who composed
the class
The Junior class to the number of nine
teen, occupied the centre of the left balcony.
the rail of which was draped with bunting
in the class colors, green and gold, with the
class flower, heur-de-lis tastefully arranged
upon it, and the figures 1901 in evergreen in
the centre.
The Belfast Band was in attendance and
as usual furnished excellent music. Fol-
lowing is the program
Music Overture "Orpheus '-Offenbach.
Prayer, Rev. A. A. Smith
Music Choral.-Bach.
Essay, "1ihe Modern Newspaper in War Tines INES
Herbert Thurlow Harmon
Glass History, Emma Lillian Frost
BESSIE Marguerite knowlron
Essay, The Habitabty of Mars
Music, Evening Bels."-Eienberg
Essay. 1.-The mcaS." Matte IneZ Hills
Essay. Modern Iceand,' Sadie HaSsell
Essay, "Roman Traits Maude Bell Holmes
Essay. charlotte Bronte,
Carrie Merriam Sheldon.
Essay, Causes of the War in South Africa,
Pliny Earle Hussey
Essay, MADAM De Stael,' Carrie Eliza Seekins
Essay, "Schoo Life One Hundred Years Ago
Media May Whtcomb
Essay THE Founder of the kindergarten
Grace Amelia Monroe
Class Prophecy. Alphonso W ood
Glass Prophecy. Henry Benjamin Ladd
Naiedictory, Helen Brown
Awarding Diplomas. Supt. J. h. Dunton
Glass Ode, Harold Elmer Bailey
Benedcton Rev II. I. Capen
Music, Song of Voyager, ,'-Paderewski
Excused
We give below the salutatory, class history
and valedictory in full. with brief abstracts
of the other papers.
SALTTATORY.
Parents and Friends ITO say you are
welcome were SupertiuouS, but as custom
demands a greeting on such occasions, in
the name of the class of 1900 | welcome you
to these exercises which mark the close of
our High School course.
1t is a long step from the zone or more
school-masterS which Belfast employed in
1874 to its corps of teachers in 1900; from
the instruction in reading, writing, arith-
metic. photography and decent behavior, to
our High School with its elective courses of
study and its competent teachers. During
this period of one hundred years and more
our schools have been gaining slowly but
steadily in scope and efficiency. In our gen.
Grafton the free textbook system has been
iuaugurated and the district school system
abolished, ,centralization has made our school
the several parts OF a complex machine-a
thinking machine, SO to Speak,-which turns
out pupils not all ''run in the same mold
yet showing Il uniformity of development
impossible in the old days. To YOU. our
Superintendent and members of the School
Board, and to thoughtful men like you, We
owe this great advance in our public schools.
AS the last class which the Belfast schools
will graduate in fhis nineteenth century,
we wish to express our appreciation of the
work done for us by the army of educators
which you represent.
Teachers Although our class room days
are over, individually we hope and expect
to see YOU very often William Jennings
Bryan said to his College teachers SIT is
character not less than intellect that you
have striven to develop" We feel this to-
night and have always felt it. although We
fear we have done our part to make you ap-
preciate the remark of the genial autocrat:
''Ill rest the heads of all of those who
rrle.
His most of all whose kingdom is a
school,
Some of us, at least, will realize this when
we take up the sceptre in some country
School-room and try to rule the minds of
WayWard urchinS.
Juniors Our mantle falls upon YOU
We hope you will wear it with better grace
than we naughty aughts' have done.
Remember that music hath charms to
which you should turn a deaf ear; that
crackers and chocolate creams possess at
fractions to which you should sometimes be
blind; and that to enjoy and derive the
greatest benefit from your last year in school
you must "have peace one with another. -
Remember that to you, and to those who
follow you, we look to 'make the new cycle
shame the old
Once more we extend a cordial welcome
to all present
And now, Parents, Friends, SchoOlmates,
lend us your ears.
Harmon, in his essay on "The Modern
| Newspaper in War Times" told of the
processes and expenses of newsgathering
for a metropolitan daily when war is in
progress; of the increased force required,
the work of the artists, the telegraph service,
special trains, and other adjuncts that 90
towards making up an interesting paper,
and cited the work of some of the best
known war correspondents of the American
press.
CLASS HISTORY.
The writer of contemporaneous history
always labors under disadvantage. To be
| Justly treated history must be viewed in the
| light of future events. OF necessity this
difficulty always confronts the class histo-
| rlan; but the chronicler of the class of 1900
encounters even greater difficulties for her
narrative must deal not SO much with the
things we have done as with the things we