Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-04
0RAT|ONS Of
GRADUATES
MEMBERS OF THE HIGH
SCHOOL CLASS OF 1900 WERE
HEARD TODAY.
INTERESTING THEMES ARE
HANDLED WITH ABILITY,
Others Will Speak Each Afternoon OF
This Week, in the Auditorium
Five Each Day.

The Auditorium was comfortably hlled
this afternoon by the relatives and
friends of the graduating class of the
high school, five members of which de-
livered their graduating orations today
and acquitted themselves in a manner
that mus have made those interested in
them both proud and happy. Those who
spoke today were Misses Pearl Lam
brecht. Ida Almquist, Martha Fish and
Susie Arnold and Mr.. Sigmund Myer.
Superintendent Leamy presided and In
troduced the young orators, and several
members Of the board of education. from
posts of vantage on the platform, looked
on ~approvingly.
Interspersed between the efforts of the
young people who have about won their
diplomas after years of hard work, were
musical numbers of much more than Or
binary excellence. Miss Lambrecht was
the first speaker. Her theme was The
Rhine River She said in part:
Like a certain old, eternally young,
and dearly monotonous subject, the
Rhine has beeen IN inexhaustible theme
for song, legend Inc romance 1t holds
an old place in literature, but a traveller
on it's shores can always find a new in
terest in 1t.
In the earliest time the Rhine was held
in great awe. Its source was thought to
be an u~napproachable cloud, which was
blessed by the Gods, and the Roman SOL
diers would march far around the rocks
and gorges, supposed to be guarded by
thousands of dragons.
1t has been said that ut would require
no great straining to write a history OF
this majestic river, which would ais be
a history of the western half of the con-
tinent Europe Between seven and eight
hundred miles long, and connected ind1-
| rectly with all the streams and seas OF
Europe, it is one of the principal water
ways. It rises in Switzerland in the St.
Gothard mountain and forms. throughout
it's long course, many picturesque cas-
cades, and the scenery is always chang
ing. Every peak, as we'll as
the valleys, fairly bristle with fortresses
and ruined castles, ever-famous in his
tory and literature, d a romantic inter-
est to the beautiful scenery. The shores
are covered with grapevines, which climb
up the rocks and seem to push every
where into the light.
Nearly every stream and river has its
legends, and especially nave those OF the
Rhine become famous
On its course through the different
countries the Rhine seems to have the
character of the inhabitants. In Ger
many 1t is Alternately useful and ro-
: mantic.' In Switzerland. Strong, free
and picturesque In Holland, "Slow and
persistent"
OF -"shakespeare's Tragedies" Miss
Ida Almquist said:
Although Shakespeare's% greatness was
both asserted and disputed by his con-
temporaries, 1t Us today universally ac-
knowledged that he is the greatest of all
! dramatists. There have been others, such
as Goethe and Voltaire, whose dramatic
works have exerted a great influence over
nations, still Shakespeare's plays have
been translated into all tongues n act
ed on all stages in the civilized world.
1t seems that he did not attempt his
ira gedies, until he was about the g OF
forty. It may be inferred from this. that
he looked upon the writing of tragedy, as
his chief vocation as a writer. His TRACE
dies deal both with the ethical and NOR
al elements. Dowden says: Shakes
peare does not, like Dante, pursue the
soul of man through circles of amending
torture, or sphere made radiant by the
eternal presence of God" But although
he was fully capable of writing such
PLAYS, it is not unlikely that even then he
considered his powers to be insufhciently
matured for the great dealings as an art
ist with human life and passion, which
tragedy demands.
"Hamlet,'' his masterpiece, is deep in
meditation. Snider says that it is the
Sphinx of modern literature. 1t leads to
a general displacement of motive and
change of focus. The hero's character
being obscure tends to make it more ef-
fective and Strengthening.
Some one has said that Shakespeare's