The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-23
THEY FINISH TO BEGIN
commencement Exercises are
Greeted by Vast Audience.
F0RTY-SEVEN GRADUATES
Complete High School Course
Are Given Diplomas.

The Twentieth annual commencement
of the Wichita City High school was
held last night at the Auditorium be-
fore a large audience, who fully appre-
ciated the exercises. The graduating class
for the year of 1900. comprises forty
seven, but only ten were selected to par
ticipate in the orations. The speaking of
these graduates is a fair sample Of the
average pupil turned out of the Wichita
High sehol. Each Of the orators showed
marked training in all the educational
lines. and all Of them acquitted them
selves with gerat credit.
After a pleasing overture rendered by
the High School orchestra, the Creole
Love Song was sung by the High School
glee club in very creditable mannar,
under the direction OF Miss Jessie Clark.
The selection was a happy one and its
rendition reflected much credit upon their
director.
Who Was Sovereign" the salutatory
address of the evening, was given by
Miss Alice Gertrude McClung, who ex-
pressed her great admiration for Crom-
well and in fitting finale declared that
Cromwell was sovereign"
"a Verb and it's OBJECT" under the
skillful handling Of Mr.. Burt McKi5ben,
entertained the audience and made
most favorable impression Mr.. McKib-
ben has a strong forcible delivery and
held in an emphatic manner that actions
are the prepOnderant causes by which
the world moves on and man the actor
who gives the impulse Man is a verb
singular number. and the tongue the
mou thpiece which euiightens the world
He perceived. however, IN the pocket
book factor that defied the world. Man
is transitive, and a transitive verb re-
quires an object TO complete its sense.
but man often requires an object to de-
plete his sense, and the young gentleman
rather inferred that object to be wO-
man. A man sometimes assumes the
form Of g. noun-as rule, active; ctten
passive, and frequently subjective, hav-
ing no voice at all: viz, married man.
1t is a great compliment 10 man 60 De
considered of extraordinary physical
strength. but he deemed mental strength
20 be the acme OF human achievement.
The young gentleman concluded his ora
ton in a brief eulogy to Lincoln and de-
clared that while all men could not be
Lincolns yet all could be Lincolns in pur-
pose.
Miss Daisy Ellen Shinn, a pretty and
petite girl with a musical voice and
graceful delivery. chose for her subject
The North" She Ikened her subject
to winter landscape. with a man of de-
termination, unrelenting and stern. in
the background. The man she designated
the Russian and pictured the desolation
Of his domain as being relieved by the
beauties o. the midnight sun and the
lights. Peter the Great en-
blematic Of cruelty and determination,
stands in history as the greatest Russian
and his monument at St. Petersburg
lives as memento Of his tireless activ-
lty and indomitable will
Design in History" by Miss Cora Irene
Leichardt, was the next number. The
Young lady entertained the laree audi
enee delightfully."- and treated her subject
In three parts. yesterday" To-day"
and Tomorrow. Today is often spoken
Of lightly. she claimed. but the fact is
forgotten that today is making history
that viii live forever. When Columbus |
opened UP the new world to civilization |
be was treated to chains as his final re-
ward but 400 years later al the Worlds /
Fair, due honor was done TO his mem |
Dry. Our forefsthers. the Colonists. gave
their homes. their possessions. them I
selves. that liberty might be gained. and I
guided the nation over its /
dangerous tidal waves to liberty ami :
freedom. Then came the horrors Of civil /
war. the darkness Of strife and misery. (
but the spirit OF IFS still remained and /
'our million souls were set free. This IS I
yesterday. but what IS today? The chief (
magistrate OF our country saws that 4
'Liberatcrs Of the people can never be I
The oppressors Of the people" The bur /
len Of our new land is the historical ma /
,erial Of today. but the Fruits OF the bur /
len viii he the history Of tomorrow. In /
lomitable perseverance will beget sue /
'ess. Throw out Old Glory into the
breeze and scatter your freedom to all /
he land.
The High School Treble Clef club sang
.wo distinctly different numbers and dis
'iayed their pra;seworthy versatility in
he same. The club is composed of six
cen young ladies under the direction n
diss Clark. and their work was refresh
ngly sweet and melodious. The young 4
aides showed splendid training and their
were particularly credfrsble.
Opportunity is success. said Miss Brooks
n her treatise Of The Blind" and neg
ect OF opportunity is the antithesis 70
ucceSs. The unexpected often haupens.
Rome WAS greatest az her fall The fall
ag Of an apple suggested 10 Isaac New
on the theory % gravitatioa. ana the (
siling OF kite Is responsible for the /
rcatest science of the day. The swing
ng % a chadeIier suggested the pendulum
o Galileo. Years % energy we're ex-
'erded t. produce the projections u TO-
ay. Napoleon possessed in a marked
egree. prudence. close observation and 1
erseveranCe Yet bssking in the sun
hine cf vanity this man % destiny al
owed himself 70 be alIured into the des-
my OF Uncertainty. The best discipline
4 true Success IS failure Washington
ost more battles than he won. And now
when the 0ncomiag struggle for suprem-
cy IN As-a and Africa confronts Us let
Is ho7e that oar country viii show e.
elf capable * completing the work It
ias hsgun When the Anglo-Ssx5n peo-
lie Nil haze spread the benefit a. their
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