The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-23
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example to four quarters of the world
| we shall behold the beauty Of enc people.
one language and the regeneration of the
world.
1.-The American Boy was displayed. in
his true natural style by Mr. Lawrence
Burd, whose Grafton was one of the
brightest features OF the evening. Mr..
Burd has pleasant address and an in
teresting manner that charms his audi
ence. He Hkened the American boy to
Solomon in that there were none like
them, that there are none like them. and
that none like them shall come after
them. He is his fathers joy; his moth
er's idol, his sisters love and somebody's
else sisters hero. His parents are hon
ored by being his progenitors. Mr.. Burd
depicted the American boy in all his
stages and precocity and fnterspersed his
address with frequent bits Of humor
which the audience hugely enjoyed.
Miss Stella Mae Furnish spoke on 1.-THE
Heroic" The Grafton was well written
and well delivered. She told what she
thought was the most heroic things in
life
The High School Glee club then gave a
selection entitled links Vegetable Com
pound" It was loudly applauded and
was one Of the best number of the entire
program.
The subject of Miss Mabel Hutchinson's
Grafton was: "Too Much IDEAL" She
first compared the dreamer with the man
who understands nothing but cold facts.
Continuing, she said that the dreamer
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the practical man delved in many things
which were facts and applied the knowl-
edge thus gained to his daily life. Ment-
ally. the dreamer is far below the man Of
facts and spiritually, far above him.
The next speaker was Mr.. John Wes-
ley Charles. who spoke on An Historical
Parallel" He drew the parallel between
the American revolution and the present
Boer war. The main points brought out
by him was that both the Americans and
the Beers had fed their homes because
of tyranny, both had afterwards been
oppressed by the British and both had
revolted. He considered the Boer cause
as just as the American, and that they
ought to be independent. as were the
Americans, and that the South African
republics should be as free from oppres-
sion as the United States.
Miss Winnie Margaret Barnes, the
valedictorian of the class, took as her
subject the phrase: Ave Maria" It was
in reality brief history Of the Christian
church. She commenced with Mary, the
mother of Christ, as she lived in her
peaceful Hebrew home, and then Of the
Christ himself and the founding of the
church. Next she spoke of the history
of the early Chrstians-of the apostals
and their followers and of the terrible
prosecutions which they suffered at the
hands Of the Romans under Nero. Then
she told of the crusades when multitudes
composed of all classes, went from Eu-
pore TO Asia Minor. crossing deserts, :
rivers and mountains ever singing songs /
the refrain Of which was Ave Maria. /
Miss Barnes spoke then of the Chris /
tionity of the present day-the greatest !
element in our modern civilization,
Mr. Allen then, as principal Of the High !
school, addressed Superintendent Dyer, /
saying that he had now the honor of |
presenting TO him the class of 1900. which /
had the honor of being the largest class /
in the history of the High school.
MT. Dyer, dIteF cOnSIdlulatlnS the Grass !
on having concluded the prescribed course |
of study, then presented them to Presi- (
dent Stewart, of the school board.
Mr. Stewart made a short address TO
the class in which he said that up 10 this
point in their lives they had been gaining
for others and that they had
now arrived at the time when they must
make use Of this knowledge. Not that
they were past the time for learning. but
from now on they must make some prac-
teal use of what they had learned
The orchestra then struck up q march
ard the members of the class filed slowly
past the president and received their
Next followed a song entitled: when
the Sun in Splendor Rising" by the
treble clef of the Glee clubs. The song
was we'll rendered and was greeted by
applause by the audience. Every one in +
the house then rose and received the