The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-18
.HIGH links SESSION
AT THE UNIVERSITY
Normal Students Poke Fun at
Every body Else.
RECEPTION TO STUDENTS
EXERCISES By THE Gradual
ING CLASS.

Class day high Sinks were given yes
terday forenoon at the university by
the third year normal students. before
a crowded audience of students and
friends, who displayed their enjoy
ment by almost continuous laughter
and applause The exercises were in
the form of a very lively burlesque
on the fourth year normal graduates.
The idiOsyncracies of students, the
unenviable characteristics of the class
and almost every vuInera Die spot Of
tde graduating normal students was
made the point OF satire, r2iliery and
burleEoue.
Instructor R. L. McGhie. the god
father of the fourth years: their class
color, green; their leading STUDENTS,
and their efforts to raise funds with
which TO secure the Grand theatre for
their class day exercises, We're the
chief points of attack.
After a piano solo by Miss Dora
Miles, a Pretty HOw-dO-yOu-dO," was
a burIeSque on an imaginary fourth
year class meeting, in which the peF-
SOna1ities, much magnifed, of the nor
mai graduates We're displayed by i'm
presentations. That which was per
haps responded to most heartily by
the audience was a mock farewell TO
. Father" MCGhie and the presenta-
tion to him of a large pen and ink
photograph, which represented him as
shedding cOpiOus tears. The imper-
senators were; Messrs B. E. Grifhths.
C. O. Dresser. A R Gardner, w. H.
Smith, J. Fred Anderson, c. Peterson,
J. r. Parrish, L. Z. Elggren and Har-
old Golf, and Misses Laura Widdison.
Anne Hatch, Annie Erickson, Esther
Pearson, Kate Thorpe, Libbie Years
| ley, Lille Chapman, Mabel Miner and
| Maize AdamsOn-
Miss Pearl Fesler then rendered a
I guitar selection, and Miss Anne Hatch
/ sang soprano solo entitled, "A Rose
| in Heaven
Come Up Some Time" was the big
/ gest hit of the performance. It was a
/ burlesque faculty meeting, at which
/ was considered the question Of grad
| uating this years normal class. The
! oddities and personalities of many of
/ the professors were strikingly brought
/ out, particularly those of Professors
/ Lyman Marshall. Mccoy, MerrilL
! Stewart, Talmage, BabcOck and
4 Kingsbury. The characters were J. r.
/ Smith, J. Fred Anderson, Q. G. Dress
/ er. L. E. Elggren. j. r. Parish, {. NJ.
! Peterson. J. 3. Brown, D. S. Neal
/ Harold Golf, A. r. Gardner, B. E.
! Griffls. Miss Maggie Layton and Miss
/ Ellen Clark.
/ A quartette composed of Misses Anna
/ Hatch. Annie Erickson. Ely Larson
( and Kate Thorpe sang a song entitled,
] 1.-The Naughty Ones" Miss Sadie Holt
/ rendered a piano SOLO and Miss Fesler
! again played a guitar solo.
/ A very pretty and clever piece was
/ Something Green" Misses Anna
/ Hatch, Annie Erickson, Eby Larson
I and Kate Thorpe, all dressed is flow
/ ing dresses of dark green, the naughty
/ one class color, sang a very good
] take-Off on the normal graduates The
/ song was accompanied by pretty
t dance movements Of feetaaud body
The third year students spent the
! afternoon in a pleasant time at the
/ Lagoon.
Graduating Class Exercises.
In the evening the assembly, room
| of the normal building at the univer-
/ sity was crowded to the doors by
1 friends of the institution to witness
4 the class day exercises Of the grad
I yates. The hall was beautifully dee
GRATED with flags, with the white and
4 RED of the univ srSity and the purple of
/ the class of 1901.
/ After music on the piano by Profess
1 sOr H. z. Giles and a selection by
/ the University Ladies Glee club, John
/ +. Hoffman. the president. Of the class,
/ stepped to the front and delivered a
/ neat address OF welcome He spoke of
! the class as the first one of the new
/ century, and the first one to be grad
/ uated from the new buildings and
/ predicted a great future for the uni
! versity.
The president announced as the first
/ number on the programme the class
( history by +. r. Morgan. Mr.. Morgan
| said that the poet, the orator and the