The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-20

An interesting programme Gnrrien OUt
 --Histories Read, Class Poem Rendered
 and an Grafton OBI the Life of William McKinIey-A Large Audience Attended
 the Exercises.
 Class day exercises were held yester-
 day afternoon in the Hyperion theater by the senior class of the Hillhouse high school. The theater was crowded with friends and relatives of the mem bers of the school and faculty. The graduating class occupied positions on the platform huge flag bearing the numerals 1902 was suspended from the rear of the stage The floral decorations were profuse and elaborate The pro- gramme of the afternoon was lengthy, yet replete, with interest Those talk ing part performed well their parts and each participant was greeted with hearty outbursts of applause
 The address of welcome was delivered by William Dennis Kennedy, the presi- dent of the graduating class. In brief he said:
 Tt is my pleasing duty to extend to
 
 the farewell exercises of the senior class of 1902 of Hillhouse high school
 "The sentiments of good will and best wishes which I know accompany you this afternoon will give to our class members greater courage to exercise in the future, strength to meet the difti- culties which may oppose them; arouse greater admiration for the sacrifices which have been so nobly made for them, and impress upon their memories as l hope 1t will upon yours lasting remembrance of the farewell exercises of the class of 1902 of Hillhouse high school
 The class history was divided among several of the class members. Miss Mill dred Rose Cosgrove began as follows:
 .Before proceeding. I wish to an- nounce in order that there be no con- fusion or misunderstanding. that I am the class historian and that this paper which I am about to read is entitled the class history of division AZ. Just why it is called history you may perhaps understand later. I may have not yet discovered the reason. With this formal dntroduction I will proceed"
 Clarence Hut read tEe history of the classical division. He said in part:
 Tn a narrow street in the hears of the city of London there once stood low, dingy little building that bore the name of the Old Curiosity Shop. So is this great world of ours but an old curi- osity shop on a vast scale. Millions and millions of people there are. and yet how few we ever know. Out of every | nook and corner peeps some unfamiliar, some unknown curiosity and never do | we find any two entirely alike"
 Music was then furnished the selec- | lion being "Murmur Soft ye Freezes"
 Miss Bertha Curtis Huntington read | the history of the academic students, beginning with the following lines: And continuing with many witty narrations the members: In eroups of four Division c shall shine; Or if they do not, sure, the faults not mIae. For if treat them in continuous llne Not one of you, I'm sure, could spare the
 time.
 choose
 Which ones in this group, or which ones in sometimes I find a natural quartet )f friends-physiques- the same natural
 bent.
 But oftentimes, alas, naught can find 70 help me classify girls of kind. 10 save the time, the best I can do, then, s just to say, forty by four is ten. Ind so ten groups I'll make, alright or
 wrong.
 Ind with this explanation end my song.
 The oration was delivered by Michael [. Quinn, whose subject was "The Life if William Mckinley. He said in ,rief.
 "The history of our country, from the arliest colonial times. has been made llustrious by the glorious deeds of it's leroes, whose memory will forever echo n loyal American hearts.
 "There is no career in our national ecord more deserving of admiration han that of William McKinley's. MT. dcKinley's career was truly American. Beginning as a modest lad in the pub ic schools and advancing, not by spas nodic starts, but by zeal, industry and aithfulness to duty we follow him as chool teacher postofice clerk, private : oldier and officer in the civil war; and { fter the war we behold him an able { ,wyer, a congressman, and, finally, the ( resident of the United States. { "Mr. Mckinley was good Christian. Ie practised his religion according to is sincere belief. Nothing ever pleased i'm better than to hear his favorite ymn Nearer My God to Thee. He ,und special pleasure also in Cardinal Tewmans beautiful poem Lead, Kind- z. Light" When, after his assassina- on. the whole nation was earn stly praying for his recovery; hen all the sovereigns of the world i ere solicitous for his welfare; when C is wife's heart was breaking for him, I resident William Mckinley, on the t tn day of September, knowing that his t .st hour had come, gave to the world t ey to his character and an example c : Christian resignation when his dying S oice uttered the words Iris Gods i 1ay.'" g The history of the girls commercial a vision was ready by Miss Jeannette | leischner. Her prelude read
 Lordlings, listen every one
 That listen may unto tale
 That's merrier than the nightingale; f
 A tale that cannot boast, forsooth,
 A single rag or shred of truth; n
 A naked fasehood and absurd 2
 As mortal ever told or heard; n Therefore I tell it; or maybe,
 Simply because 1t please me. u