The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-11
BIGGEST ON RECORD
Central High Holds the Palm fol
Large Graduating Class. :.
EXERCISES HELD LAST NIGHT
Swedish Tabernacle Crowded to the
Doors With a Most Appre-
ciative Audience. !,

Talk about high school commence
ment. not being popular said Principal
j. N. Greer of the Central High school
last evening as the crowd burst through
the opeLing doors Of the Swedish Taber.
nacle att o'clock, there were 300 per
sons waiting outside at half past o.
. The tabernacle was we'll filled with
ticket holders in fifteen minutes. Little
room was. left for. the general public
when admitted at S o'clock.
The Central class of 1902 numbered 1873,
and with 81 at the mid-year commence
bent total of 204, the largest in the his
tory of the city. W. G. Smith, editor of
the Minnesota School Journal, says it Is
the largest high school class ever rgradu-
ated in the United States. OF the 1S3
graduates. last night, LAO will take
higher course. ..".'
The auditorium was, decorated simply
with palms and -"Old Glory" After the
Priests" the class seated in the choir
made pretty picture of girlish white
contrasted with the somber black of the
men and armfuls of roses. .
"'Fhe, salutatory was by Paul William
Giessler whose Grafton was on Nothing
but the Best Success and means of Oh
1T aiming it was the theme. Miss Marjorie
essay entitled Tongues in Trees; Books
in the Running Brooks; Sermons in
Stones and Good in Everything" Miss
| Agnes Jaquess recited with good effect
| Roy Rolfe Gilson's "Grandfather." She
| has talent and her memory was not once
at fault@in the giving Of the long esefec-
| ton. 80 -,~ = v 49, s
+ Helen Louis Bennett, the winner ofsthe
Journal prize, gave the valedictory and
an essay on Educational Contrasts"
Miss Benefits excellent record of honor
student for four years prepared her
| hearers for good treatment of the COM
| parison Of present and former methods
| in education, and they were not disap-
| pointed In behalf of the class, Presi-
dent Edmund Barnaby presented Miss
| Bennett sheaf of beautiful roses.
| / Prizes Are Awarded. 49,.
Rev. j. E. Bushnell's presentation of
! 7 b e Journ a prize to Miss Bennett
was made in graceful speech which be-
gan with a weaving. Of story in Miss
| BENEFITS essay into a congratulatory
notice of. the fact that the boys were more
chivalrous than those of ancient days in
their dignifed reten ton of seats, while a
| young woman rose to take the honors
DR.. Bushnell said in part: -.
i hold in my hand an exceedingly beautiful
i medal inscribed with your. name and with
| words which signify that it is the fifteenth
/ annual medal offered by. n OF I'm
| for the best standing in studies during four
years course. The ancient Greeks were per
| fectly satisfied in contests with an ivy crown
! You are to carry home a token better than
! ivy and one which gives greater promise fol
the future than ivy. l. need to-, speak nc
| higher. praise to might than to- quote In. the
words of others, that in the fifteen years
who more merted the medal than the present
one The token is given after one Of thu
fairest Of tests because it. takes into .consld
Grafton the average scholarship in. long.
| rawn-out term, not the quick effort, but the
| substantial qualities Of four long years. We
believe that r. e ] o u n al prize is ths
most fair and just that could be offered. i
t. Interest was tcentered*in the Gale. prize
4 contest for tie division of interest OF
i 81 900 given several years ago by Samue
Gale. The prize is. divided into $50
$40 and $40. About fifty students offered
orations, of which those chosen for de:
livery were: Edgar Wilson Smith
E'Uncle Sam Abroad; Harlan Barry, The
Philippines From the Fourteenth to- the
Nineteenth Century; Fred Wendell Bur
we'll, ''Uncle Sans. Want Ad, Wanted
Men - - - So. : 49,. .
The, judges, DIR. j. S.. Montgomery, Pro
fessor :McWalt er and Miss Kiddel
/ unanimously made the award in the fol
loving order First, Harlan Barry; sec.
ond. Fred Burwell; third, Edgar Smith
DR.. Mont gomery made the presentation
in a Short speech explaining that the de:
olson was made. on delivery alone; the
forgetfulness Of. self, the climacteric force
and the power to carry conviction He
closed thus: cit was said years ago of q
great man that he pleased God. Go ant
do likewise. . 800, -
Musical numbers on the program were
i given by Susan Anna Funk, Opal Estelle
i Fay. Annie Lawrie Lewis, !. Gertrude
wales and Antoinette May Kemper. -3.a}s