Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-05-14
High School commencement.

I
house, last Wednesday evening at
tracted very large audience, compos
ed of the relatives, friends and auditors
OF the graduates-three ladies and
three gentlemen-Misses Maize Gala.
CHER, Grace L. Metzger, Olive Maloy;
Messrs. Fred B. Lloyd, Clyde McCaslin
and Frank E. Felt The music by the
Ridgway orchestra added greatly to
the pleasure of the occasion.
The following short synopsis of the
addresses and essays we publish:
The theme of Miss Gallagher's saluta-
tory was Making living and Making
a Life" First the necessity for each
ones making for himself an honest
living was dwelt upon. Too many are
desirous ofgaining livelihood by some
easy short cut, forgetting that there "are
only two ways of getting money; if you
have not earned it, you have stolen it,"
10 counteract this evil tendency, stress
must be laid upon the honorableness of
making a living. But on the other
hand many are too much absorbed in
making d living, and hence forget that
there is anything nobler or better to
strive after. Life is to great to define,
too great to make. We can only open
our souls to its influence If we do this
we are lifted above the sordid thing of
life, and give place in our hearts to
noble, generous, loving impulses. The
central thought, then, of this admirable
essay was that, while we should all see
to it that we earn an honest living, we
should not become so absorbed in 1t
that we forget the higher purposes of
our being. Miss Gallagher's enuncia-
ton was deliberate and distinct and
her manner quite composed.
Frank E. Felt delivered an excellent
Grafton on "The Wonders of the XIXth
Century," He called attention to the
m arvelous progress in material things;
in invention, in modes of travel and
transportlon; to the development of
electricity, and scientific knowledges,
to the wonders of manufacture, enrich
ing his thought with numerous illustra.
sions. The development of the United
States was cited as the greatest wonder
of the century.
Miss Maloy recited in a very pleasing
way a selection from Mrs. Wiggs, en-
titled Annexation of Cuby" which
turns out to be poor fit-stricken horse
upon which the inimitable Mrs. Wiggs
conferred the geographical name of
"Cuby"
Miss Metzger's subject was an "Inter-
probation OF Tennyson's Princess"
which was finely developed. The
story of the poem was told in
pleasantmanner. Tennyson's purpose
in writing the poem was to give his
idea of the true place of woman in the
world. The efforts of the Princess Ida
to establish school for the higher edu-
cation of woman and devote her life to
such work instead of marrying the
Prince to whom she had been betrothed
from childhood, is the central thought
of the poem. In the end, after all her
plans had miscarried, she yielded to the
solicitations of the Prince, impelled by
her woman's nature, but still insisted
upon the correctness of her theory that
woman is mans intellectual equal, if
given equal opportunity. Many
beautiful quotations were given, in one
of which Tennyson characterizes his
motive and thereby gives us ar insight
into his own character.
Clyde McCaslin delivered the pro
phecy as to the future of the class. He
read a spicy essay in which teachers
and class were hit, and predicted great
things for the class. According to his
prophetic vision the members of the
class will bring about the millennium
in about a dozen years, settling all
vexatious problems Emporium is to
profit by being made an industrial and
governmental center.
Fred B. Lloyd, by virtue of his rank,
delivered the valedictory. In we'll
chosen language he bade farewell to
faculty, directors, undergraduates and
classmates.
The Glass Address by Prof Francis
H. Green, Principal of West Chester
Normal, was the best ever listened to
by our people and all regretted when
he left the platform. 1t was a schol-
arly, whitty and highly entertaining
address, received by frequent applause.
We hope the Prof will again visit us,
when he does not have to speak
against time.
Taken as a whole the faculty of the
Emporium High School may we'll be
proud of 1903 work.