The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-21

Members of the Class of 1901 Did Them
 solves Proud-Thc Histories yver,
 Interesting and the Programme Wal
 Thoroughly Enjoyed-Features of tn,
 Day.
 A large and appreciative audience
 greeted the high school scholars at their annual class day exercises yesterday
 afternoon at the Hyperion and from
 the opening to the closing of the after
 noon's programme the greatest interest
 was manifested. The four lower boxes were filled, Superintendent Beede and a party occupying the lower right hand box, and the other boxes were occupied by families of the officers of the gradu- ating class, which are as follows | William John O'Meara--President
 Augustus Hull Elliot-Vice president.
 Edward Ellis Pierpont Roberts-Sec- | retary. z
 Jennie Gertrude McGuire-Treasure | These four members of the class oc- cupied chairs at the right of the stage and the other 129 members occupied about fifteen rows, nearly reaching to the back or the stage. The sight was a pretty one, the young men all in black and the young ladies in light dresses | forming a picture not easy to forget At the rear of the stage draped from | the flies to the floor was an immense blue flag with the letters "H. H. s. | 1901' on it. Scores of palms and pot ted plants helped in the pretty decora- tions.
 The exercises were opened at 2 o'clock with an overture by the Hill- house orchestra of ten pieces, under the direction of Professor Benjamin Jep- son The pianist was A. J. Odenkirchen of the class of 1902. After the first mu- sical selection the address of welcome was given by the president of the class, William J. OMeara, and was in part as follows:
 Citizens of New Haven, Friends and Students of Hillhouse: For nearly half century the Hill house high school of New Haven has annually sent out into the world its class of students; for nearly fifty years it has welcomed it's friends to the CldSS udy GAGICloGS. 4out dOo0t IL IT all that time it has ever extended a warmer and more cordial welcome than that which tender you all to-day in behalf of the class of 1901-
 Following 7, the address by MT. O'Meara the first history was given by Miss Lillian Evangeline Fox, daughter of Senator T. J. Fox. Miss Fox was in the course known as the "non-college academies Her history was very witty one and was in part as follows: About the time that our class was studying Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet I had a dreadful, dreadful dream. in which ghost appeared be- fore me-not an orthodox ghost with clanking chains and other ghostly paraphernalia, but a merry, jolly sort of ghost-who claimed to be the com- posite spirit of divisions c, three and four of the class of 1901. The spirit with an eye rolling in fine frenzy, and with hair standing on end like quills upon the fretful porcupine, announced in authoritative tones: T am thy class spirit-doomed to walk the earth until thou dost write my history l has, tened to reply, but none of the Shake speare quotations which had so care- fully learned would come to my aid; and so I was forced to say, in q1on- Shakespearean language "Tll try, Sir!'
 First, let us glance at our class treas urer Miss Jennie Gertrude McGuire. Now, Miss Jennie is talented musi- elan: and because of this fact we should naturally think that Miss Me- Guire had an ambition to become a Beethoven, a Bach, or Mendelssohn, but alas!-a few months ago she en- phatically declared that her highest ambition was Pompadour. But then, perhaps she does not mean everything she says It was rumored, that at whist party, Miss Mcclure frequently asked the hostess to pass her a Halfin- ger. The hostess assured Miss McGuire that she could have all the ladyt1ngers she could eat, but that Halfinger was not in the neighborhood
 Miss Anna Meek stands second in re- gard to bashfulness, and is the meekest girl in the class. No doubt we have all often heard the question asked, whats in a name?" Well, I know that this question has never puzzled any member of our division, as we have living example in the person Of Miss Meek. She is actually so meek that she always blushed rosy red when she