The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-06-06
out. Q INT'0THE WORLD
Tire High School Glass Of: 1901 Has
Finished Its Labors at
Our School. H.. :
Senator Moses E. clapp Delivered the
Commencement Address at :
the Opera House. -. i

est lnzthe public schools which fact is
always evidenced by the. number who
attend md the graduating exercises of our
hig h3school. This year was no excep-
ton. and long before the time for the
opening of the exercises the opera
house was filled with parents, relatives
and friends of the graduates. :
The opening number was a chorus,
's.The Lonely Rose" which was nicely
rendered, and then Rev. J. K. Shuts
invoked the Divine blessing.
The salutatory was assigned to Miss
Mabelle Monette, who briefly well
coined the citizens and supporters of
the school, the board of education, in
structors and fellow students. Her es-
say, s'Launched but not Anchored"
was an elaboration of Longfellow's
Building of the Ship" She described
the process of building the ship and
then compared the work of preparing
for the active duties of life to this la
Dor. The keel-blocks are laid by the
training at home, the hull fashioned
at the preparatory school and the ma
chinery, or final education, is secured
at colleges or in the knowledge gained
by practical experience in life. The
young lady showed careful thought and
good logic and her essay was we'll re-
ceived.
Essie Burgan sang a solo, $50 Robin
Sang very. nicely and then Miss
Florence Tibbetts read her class his
tory, which purported to be an an
cients manuscript discovered in the
fortieth century. Our language then
had become obsolete and the young
lady who discovered the manuscript
found some difficulty in translating it.
She inferred that the class of 'Ol re-
ferred to. a certain tribe living IN
princeton in the twentieth century
Ewhosgso object ia life was to secure
AN education. rulers1of the tribe
were styled "'professors" which the
young lady took to mean simply title
of address. The origin of the tribe
was traced to Elk River, Seattle, Mil
AGA, Minneapolis and Princeton. She
discovered that in order to obtain an
education in the twentieth century
much hard labor was necessary and
was much more arduous, than in her
time when learning was simply in
jected into the brain of the child.
The trials of the class were enumer-
ated and some of their entertainments
described. The conception of the his
tory was good and Miss Tibbet:s
showed she had given her part much
thought.
Another chorus, 'The Happy Mil
ler," followed and then Fred r. Bur-
rell grew prophetic. He told how one
evening as he was bordering over the
part assigned him he thought how cas-
lily he could perform his task if he
could bring to his aid some genii like
that of Aladin's lamp and before he
was aware his eyes were blinded by
brilliant light and the genii had APP
peared, telling he had arrived to as
sist him. AS his eyes became accus-
toned to the glare he discovered seated
in law Office the figure of his class
associate, Miss Monette. The genii
informed him that besides gaining the
necessary knowledge to successfully
practice law the young lady had in her
school days given her maxillary mus
cles course of training by chewing
gum and was now considered splen
didly equipped for legal work. The
scene faded and he discovered Miss
Tibbetts surrounded by class of Chi
nese students in that far-off land, to
whom she was explaining the beauties
and intricacies of the Greek language.
Again the scene shifted and he discov-
cred Miss Campbell by a :freside sur
rounded by score of what she had in
her school days contemporary called
1 ''kids,'' and the genii informed him
that she had changed her opinions
somewhat and was now conducting an
orphan asylum. When this scene
faded he discovered himself standing
amid waving grain, a happy and con-
tented farmer. Then he awoke to find
the lessons for the following day still
unconned His essay was pleasing to
the audience. for it was a good concep-
tion of a difficult part. Il: e
s''LaMalle Des Indes'' was artistically
rendered by Bertha Woodcock and
Grace Byers and then Miss Georgia
Campbell gave her essay, "The Growth
of the Anglo-American Spirit" with
yaledictory addresses. Miss Campbell
described the founding of the Ameri-
can nation, the immigration Of those
pure old pilgrim fathers to whom the