The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-22
SCHOOL GRADU ATION.
INTERESTING EXERCISES HELD AT
 THE CLINTON INSTITUTE.
Prize Winners Announced-Fiftcen Students Receive Diplomas Prizes in the Various Rooms and Departments -GraduattOn Events Cover Nearly n Week,

Week.
 Clinton Conn, June 21.-The prize rhetorical and graduating exercises oi the Morgan school, of this place, took place yesterday afternoon and even- ing. The day of graduation is the great annual day in Clinton, but this year the great day has been extended into nearly a week. The Morgan school is one Of the preparatory schools for Yale and other universities, and it is no mis- take to say it is the one that leads all others not excepting the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven. The Morgan school is amply supplied with funds to make it an -up-to-date educa- tlonal institution, and it is now man. aged in a thoroughly modern manner, and its graduates take standing in the colleges and universities they enter on an equal if not a superior footing to those of other preparatory schools.
 The exercises this year began on Sunday last with a baccaulaureate ser- mon in the Congregational church by Rev. Edward c. Fellows, Yale, 'SS and was followed on Wednesday by the in- | troduction for the first time in the his tory of this school of class day exer- cises, planting of the ivy, etc.
 The graduating class consists of 15 members, as follows
 1 Sadie Helen Bacon, Clinton; Elsie Louise Bliss, slinton; Bessie Maria Buell. Slinton Clifford Alexander Buell. Clinton; John Griswold Chap man, South Lyme, Conn; Lillian Sta ples Grant Stony Creek, Conn; Lillian Frances Hubbard, Clinton; Burton Adelbert Hull East River, Conn. Howard Emery Amber Jones, Clinton; Bertha Eliza Nettleton, Clinton, John Duffield Peck, Clinton; Amy Isabel Peet, Clinton; Joseph Hawley Spencer New York city; Edith Amelia Stan hard, Clinton.
 The class orator was Clifton Earle Wilcox and the subject of his oration, True Educati tion." The rest of the ex- ercises of class day were humorous in character and were as follows: Class histories, Lillian Frances Hubbard and Sadie Helen Bacon; class prophecies, Lillian Staples Grant and Clifford Alex ander Buell.; ivy orator Joseph flaw ley Spencer; spade orator, r. St Clair Dickinson. The prize rhetorcals were given at 2:30 D. m., yesterday with this program:
 Declamaton-"Th Boat Race" ..
 Thomas Oakley Duinkerke, Windsor Selection-"The Battle of Ivy. ....
 Nettie Frances Kelsey, Clinton Congressional Obit-
 uary Eloquence" Jay s. Wellman, Selection-"The Typical American"
 John Duffield Peck Clintone Selection-"Ride of Jennie McNeal"..
 Mary Sue McGhee, Clinton Declamation-"The Church of the Hur- cane" ....,,. Walker Bascom Hosmer King Robert of Sicily ..
 Elizabeth Port Aver, Saybrook l Declamation-" Necessity of Faith.
 Clifton Earle Wilcox, Clinton | lamation-" Revolutions" . .. .
 Albert Ansel Anderson, Clinton | Selection-"The Swan Song" ...
 Emily Josephine Parker, Clinton The prizes were awarded as follows: First, to Walker Bascom Hosmer s10; 2d, John Duffield Peck, $5; 1st Eliza beth Post Aver, $1O; 2d Emily Joseph inc Parker, S5.
 At the close of the prize rhetoricaIs
  ance, each ap rize of a valuable book ranging from gilt edged morocco bound Bible to Webster's dictionary: Raymond Jones, Hattie Elston, Ray mond Dowd, Sturgis Redfield, Albert Buell. Viola Wilson, Ellison Dowd, Grace James, Louisa Keiber, Clara Kelsey, John R. Lane. Charles Miller, Leander Redfeld Harry Smith, Amy Swain, Lena Swain, Sadie Tucker Ed ward Wilcox, Frank Wilcox, George Nina Wilcox, Florence Wilson Maud Wilcox, Alomena Kelsey Amy frant, Irving Platts, Kate Dulla, Edith Stevens, Rosa Lynch, Nadine Smith Clyde Grant Ruth Wright, Raymond Buell., Edith Wilcox, Clayton Swain, Emma Tryon, Phyllis Merrills, Frank King, Melville Buell., Ruth Kelsey, Florence Bliss, Ray Brownham Charles Tourch, Charlotte Foote, Bertha How lrd, Clarence Morgan, Luora Nettle- on, Edward Perry. Silas Pierson, Charles Post, Marble Rossiter, Ada Elmer Wright. George S Hull, I. S. Lewis, G. A. Smaller, F. A. Tryon, Iary E. Hull, Frank J. Stevens, Ruth rarnham, George H. Pierson, Cornela }, Gardner, Clifton Wilcox and Elsie ! Bliss. These additional prizes were award t d.:
 ROOM NO. i. I
 Spelling. l Missed No Word-Laura Elizabeth ! Edwards, Annie Kokjan, Elma Ray ! wain, Viola Lorine Wilson, Alonzo e Gaylord Frederick Dunham \ 'arl5er, Earl Leroy Miller, Mabel Eliz- 2 beth Wilson. Each $1. c Missed One Word-Alia Hauck, 50 ents.
 ROOM NO. 2.
 Spelling.
 First prize, Amy Rogers Swain $3; acond prize, Helen Keiber, S2. O
 Penmanship. S First Class-First prize, Emma Mabel t eSeur, $3; second prize, Leroy Austin W IcGhee, S2. Second class-First prize, Il my Rogers Swain, $3; second prize, S race May James, $2. F
 ROOM NO. 3. u
 Spelling D First prize, Clayton Swain, $3; sec nd prize, Lena Anderson, $2.
 Penmanship.
 First class--First prize, Ruth Wright a !; second prize. Lena Anderson, s2. st econd Class-First prize, Emma Ret n psr $3. second prize Bertha Morgan el