River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-06-26

tion;" Maude Daniels, "The Educa-
tional Value of Play" Raymond En-
sign, Art in the School Room"
principal ward school, Chippewa
Falls; W. H. Fleming, Twentieth
Century Education" principal
Galesville high school; Caroline Hen
derson, Home Geography" 9Th
grade, River Falls public school;
Rhoda Hunt, Educational Value
of Manual Training" Minneapolis;
Eva Henderson, "Pesta1ozzi," grade
work, Ellsworth; Emma Jensen,
Relation of Kindergarten to PIi
mary" grade work, Hudson; Kate
Kennedy, History of Education of
Women, High School assistant,
city; Lora Kimball, Literature and
the Library in Public Schools, .
High School assistant, Bangor;
Estella Meigs, Imitation" High
School assistant, Ellsworth; Angus
Morrow, The Moral Phase of His
tory" Principal of High School, St.
Croix Fails; Angie Prince, : The
Universal Education, thigh school
assistant, St. Croix Falls; Mae Pur-
yes, THE Broad-minded Teacher, +"
grade work, Wausau; Archie Shep-
ard, THE Kindergarten as a Pre-
ventive of Crime" grade work, st.
Croix Falls; Katharine .Snodgrass,
Music in Schools" grade work,
Cashton; Leonard Stroebel, "Edu-
cation for Citizenship" Francis
Wartinbee, "The Scope in Teach
ing Geography" High School as
sistant, G1enwood; Mildred Weberg,
Return to Nature in Teaching"
grade work, New Richmond.
COMMENCEMENT ENTERTAINMENTS.
The commencement entertain
ments of last week attracted i'm
mense crowds to the Opera Hall,
where admission, though free, was
by ticket. The operetta, Flower
Queen" given Tuesday evening by
the grades of the training school,
assisted by several of the Normal
students, was an exceedingly bright
and pleasing performance, full of
harmonious drills and beautiful
stage pictures. The children acquit
ted themselves like little soldiers,
while the singing of Miss Ena New
man as the Flower Queen was very
effective.
The Elementaries 81 strong
this year-in presenting their Class
Day Exercises on Tuesday evening
gave a rollicking performance of
spontaneous fun, consisting princi
pa11y of the "Seven Old Ladies of
Lavender Town." together with the
conventional class parasitic his
tory, will, prophecy and song. The
hall was thronged, hundreds apply
ing for admission who couldn't get
within sight of a chair, while scores
stood up in the aisles. The wax
works performance aroused prodi-
gious amount of fun; there was
plenty of muSic-a ladies' trio and
double trio, male quartette and a
song by the whole class. A peculiar
feature Of the class parts was that
they were not presented to the
audience by their authors but by
other students, selected perhaps on
the principle Of division of labor.
All were partly humorous, much of
the wit being directed toward pairing
off the graduates; and some of the
young authors showed surprising
faculty of dropping into poetry.
The future exploits of the class
were brilliantly set forth in two
hundredline epic, while the class
song of upwards of fifty lines was
printed on the back of the programs.
The entertainment was bright and
lively, of it's kind a decided success.
The members of the elementary
class received their certificates at
the hands of the President at the
Normal office on Thursday after
noon. Following is the list of Ele-
mentary graduates:-Jennie Leitch,
Minnie M. Johnson, Nellie M. Works,
jamie Nero, Lue11a French, Marie
S. Christensen, Evalyne Williams,
Matee Bee Warren, Mabel Chinook,
Nelly Taylor, Belle Nathalia Thomp-
son, Alma Annette Thelander, Mary
Georgia Wells, Edna Este1la Fitz,
Lee H. Boleng, John L. Dahl, Jean
S1eyster, Mary Cuthbert, Reva Co.
rhine Ely, Marie Becker, Hattie M.
Austin, Nettie H. Jongeneel, Fran
ces H. Bewick, Ingeborg H. Isaac
son, Minnie B. Thompson, Michael
F. Dean, Margaret Magdalina Bleier,
Wilhelmina Wasch, Mary Virginia
O'Connel, Lima E. Ferguson, Ches-
ter R. Allyne.
ALUMNI BANQUET.