Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-01-18
PASSED
The Threshold to
Real, Active Life
By Members of Gradu-
ating Glass.
Lively Time at Akron
High School.
Some Excellent Productions Were
Given Last Night.

OtNCu AuSt iN,S''
Another High school commencement
is over.
Twenty-seven more young people
have said farewell to school life, have
existed in state of exaltation not to
be lightly approached for nearly a
week, and have, finally, done them
selves and their relatives proud, on
the platform In the Assembly room
of the High school. With few
phrases of kindly advice and instruc-
tlon, President Slabaugh has handed
to each candidate the little scrip,
bound with flowing ribbon, which Is
SO potent symbol of II years Of
study to each recipient, and one of the
most momentous moments in the life
of each member of the class of jan
uary, has passed without single fea-
ture to mar the perfection of arrange
ment, or tire completeness of execu-
tive details.
No horizon Is too distant in the
minds of these graduates, to be at
aim; for them the pot of gold at the
foot of tn erainbow is an actual at
tainable fact
Friday night, to the graduates, was
u night with the Cambridge Poets,
and especially with Longfellow. His
life his influence, his productions
were made the themes of most of those
whose orations, recitations Or discus
sions were delivered last night.
, The productions of all represented
much thought, deep investigation, an
alysis and judicious application, while
in each case the delivery was pleas
: ing combination of native ability and
O splendid school. .trainlngr
The class organizations were promi
nent aud were represented both by q
:, full strength of members and by the
class colors which hung from walls
and banners everywhere.
Immediately ut the close of the ex
ercises, the air was rent by class yells
begun In one corner of the Assembly
:, room by the succeeding class Of sen
iors and echoed from every nook ant
corner of the High school, according
10 commencement time custom sine,
the establishment of such institutions
Glass colors and notices We're hun,
from every post, class colors swun,
= over the heads of the spectators, ant
class yells resounded through tn,
building II such fashion us to remint
the pectator of the time of Hiawaths
and the land OF war cries of tn,
fierce "Dakotahs," to a description o.
which the audience had listened al
! evening. -
The departure from school life wal
an occasion of JOY not unmixed will
;. associations which the custom of /.
n long, busy years had made second M
n ture, were being sundered, and tn,
|. pupils realized II, AZ was shown b.
!. mnny glistening eyes and the unusua
/. sobrlety of demeanor OF all during tn,
:. address of President Slabaugh, of tn,
:. Board of Education. Another detach
!. ment was being added to the army o
/. strugglers for fame and fortune, an,
r some premonltion seemed to enter til,
Ia minds OF all.
The playing of the "Yale Varsity
"a march by Morey's string seStette a
q 1880, opened the exercises, and was fol
h lowed by the Invocation by Rev. l.. A
/ l.lndemuth, The program was ar
ranged, with the exception of the frs
n Grafton of the evening in division
n of Longfellow's work.
AS general introduction, the tirs
production, by Louise NJ. Harper, tol,
of 'Iiterature as n Source of Knowl
edge and Pleasure" The speaker com
pared the changing of bleak winter t
a blossoming, Joyous spring, with II turn
ing from the works of humdrum eXis
tence TO the pleasures and profits t
A, be derived from Il love and study o
), literature, The. Bible viii Away
rank very high In the worlds litera
ture,' concluded Miss Harper
"The Cambridge Poets was tn
subject OF Miss X. Jeanette Masor
"The influence of Cambridge on on
literature reached It's brightest at tn
time Of Longfcllow," said Miss Ma
- son, Lowell and Holmes were d,
scrlbed, and their influence explained
Next came a discussion. Of the sui
ject, "Resolved, That American Litter
ature Reached its Climax In the Can