The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-20
ARE MANY GRADUATES
Commencement Week Begins
With Baccalaureate Address.
REV. A. A. PARKER TODAY
A. R. Taylor Will Address the
Class Wednesday.

Starring Win tOGayp When rev. - a
Parker Will deliver the baccalaureate
sermon to the graduates at the First
Methodist church, the commencement ex-
ercises Of the city schools and various
colleges in the city will begin This week
is known as commencement week and
viii be devoted to graduating exercises
of the High school. common schools and
the city normal. Commencement exer-
cises of Paramount college, Lewis acad-
envy Friends university and All Hollows
academy, will be observed next month
with fitting exercises. On tomorrow
evening the High school class day exer-
cises will be held at the Auditorium
Tuesday evening at the same place will
be given the commencement exercises Of
the High school. On Wednesday evening
at the Crawford opera house the city
normal school will hold its commence
dressed by President A. r. Taylor Of the
Kansas state normal school.
The grammar school commencement
will be held at the Auditorium on next
Thursday evening. Although all Of the
papers have not been graded Superin-
tendent Dyer estimates that there will
be about $50 common school diplomas is
sued.
The exercises Of the week will close on
| Friday evening with a concert by the
High school choruses and orchestra, pre-
| senting songs of many lands. This will
| be Introduced at the auditorium.
The exercises tomorrow evening by the
! Hig hschool class of 1900 will be especially
| fitting. The exercises last year were
! thought to be extraordinarily well
planned, but this years entertainment
/ will surpass it in many particulars, as 1t
/ IS gotten up on a much more elaborate
| scale.
| The class play IS a high tragedy in eight
| acts called THE Unmasking Of Heroes"
! 1t takes in scenes from Chjckamauga4
/ Washington, Cuban and the Philippines
| with the burlesque characters of Clara
| Barton. Dewey, Otis, Aguinaido. officers
and men of the army and navy and
many characters of Wichita.
a great deal of time and money IS be-
1 ing spent on this work and the seniors
/ who have been faithfully drilled by Mr..
Allen expect to make IT a great success.
The evening will end With the Zouaze
| drill by the girls Of the class. This
/ specially has been prepared by Mr. Dunn,
/ whos is up to date on matters of this
kind Beautiful costumes have been pre-
pared for the girls and a large electrical
display has been put UP to make this
last scene a very brilliant and appropri-
ate climax.
The following is the program for Tues
day night:
c-Overture-Mosaic. T. H. Robinson
High School Orchestra.
Music-Creoie Love Song...E. B. Smith
High School Glee Club.
Prayer
Who was Sovereign? with salutatory)
...........,..... Alice Gertrude McClung
Verb and It's Object -. Burt McKibben
The North .,............D Daisy Ellen Shinn
Design in History Cora Irene Leichhardt
Music-Ca) Ebb and Flow. Oliver King
Cbl The Torrent W. Marchant
High School Treble Clef Club
Blind ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Isabel Brooks
The Heroic ......-.... Stella Mae Furnish
Music-Jenks' Vegetable Compound.
Hlgn ScnOOl Gee Glu0.
Too Much Of the Ideal. Mabel Hutchinson
An Historical Parallel ..................
...................-.Jo John Wesley Charles
Ave Maria" with valediotory) .......
................w Winnie Margaret Barnes
Presentation of Diplomas ..............
ii II. Stewart. President Of Board
Music-when the Sun in splendor Ris-
ing ............--.. -..-..-.....-. Donizitti
ARRANGED from Lucia al Lammermoor)
The Treble Clef and Glee Clubs.
Benedfction.
Following is the program for the city
normal school commencement on Tues
day evening:
Music-Alpha March. Geo. E. Simpson
High School Orchestra.
Musio-Under the Double Eagle.
..--.....-......-........J F. wagner
High School Orchestra.
class Address-What the People Should
Expect Of the Public SchooIs..-....-
.-.......... President A. r Taylor
COf the Kansas state Normal school,)
Music-yocaI Solo Mr. Fritz Huttmann
Mr. Henry Huffman. Accompanist.
Presentation Of Diplomas. J. II. Stewart
president of Board)
BenediC.ion.
Following IS the program for the gram
mar school commencement on Thursday
evening;
Music--I,et Our roices Be Glad. ..-....
............... Charles Lecocz
Irving Chorus
Prayer
Declauaafior-The Death OF the Ole
SQnl-s .-.--.-....-------..- FioTa duncan
Declanlatiou-The Boys in Blue.
...... ................. Raymond IitteI
Oratfon-Our Relations. old and New
..........-.-......-.-..-. Ha-5zeIi
c,-a .ior-T-he I.-stisisna Purchass.