The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1903-06-18
PLYMOUTH SCHOOLS
Twenty-Eishth Annual Commencement
Exercises Equal to the 3sst Ever
Given in This City.

Commencement is over again. The
class of 1908 have completed their
work in the Plymouth schools and
the world is now all before them. :"
Six brave, strong, young men and
eight cultured, refined, we'll educated
young ladies are now prepared for the
battle of life and everybody in PIym-
outh hopes that success will crown
their efforts in the world s great
school and that when they are ready
for the Great Commencement, they
shall be as fully prepared for it as
they were for their work Monday eve
ming, and that not only the world
shall say well done, but their work
shall have been such that they will be
welcomed in the great high school Of
the ssUnseen World.''
All the paraphernalla and accessor-
les of the Plymouth schools have often
been described and we shall emit de.
scription of the settings of the stage,
the decorations and the other beautl-
full and pleasing accessories and give
a very short review of the exercises.
The graduates Monday evening were
Nontus Cecil Snyder, Frank Watson
Llneberry, James c. Stephens. Frank
Samuel Southworth, Daniel Z. Sc
nour, Rose Belle Lauer, Ada Lou
emma Haag, Pansie Hope Hess. Ruby
Jeanette Gay, Elizabeth Wagner Glib
son, Maude Estelle Koontz, Agnes
Margaret Thomson, Eva Bae Baker,
Raymond Oscar Schlosser.
The grand march, by Elbels Or
cheStra was given at 7:45, Rev. w.
w. Lineberry invoked the divine
blessing in we'll chosen words; the
high school anthem was rendered, and
Frank w. Lineberry stepped forward
as the first orator of the class of 1903
His subject was Successful Reforms,
and his handling of il would have
done credit to any college professor
He has an excellent voice and he
knows how to speak so that without
any roaring an audience of thousands
Of persons can hear what he says. He
showed that the world could not have
reached its present state of perfection
without the successful reformerS, who
were often called crankS when they
we're doing their hardest work. but he
admitted that the world might have
been better if some of those who re-
formed in the wrong direction had
met with less success.
| Unsuccessful Reforms was Miss
Jeanette Gays subject, and it was
well handled. The men and women
who in the face Of all opposition have
stood for the right with undaunted
faith and courage giving their lives if
necessary for what they believed to be
truth, have been INDICATED by future
generations and their work has left
an impress on the world greater than
those who were most successful in
their day and generation.
Daniel z. Senour's subject was The
Modern Man. Manhood is growth,
and for thousands of years little by
little the race has been growing, in
creasing in knowledge. The first in
ventions Of mankind, the first few
years Of mans existence on earth no
doubt showed as great proportionate
development as the wonderful de-
velopments of these wonderful twen-
tieth century years. What now seem
to us as almost nothing were wonders
when they were first produced and re-
volutionized the methods of their
past, just as steam, electricity, mod
arm science and the inventions of the
present have revolutionized the meth
DDS Of fifty years ago. The world has
grown, is growing and will continue
to grow. The modern man not only
asks questions, but he demands that
the answers given shall be proven.
Agnes M. Thomson presented the
subject of Child Labor. Her arraing-
ment Of those who blighted the life
of the child and crushed all the. finer
instincts of human nature by Excess
sive labor and deprivation called for
better laws and better enforcement of
the laws we have on that subject.
! Frank S. Southworth discussed Mu-
nicipal Ownership and made very
strong, logical and convincing argu-
ment in favor OF municipal ownership
of all the great auxiliaries for the de-
velopment Of cities, states and ma
tions. He offered this as the solution
of the great questions of monopolies
and trusts. His address contained
many thoughts worthy of the consld-
Grafton Of the wisest men.
Woman in Industry, was the SUBJ
Iject of the address by Miss Maud E.
Kooutz Che holiovod that tho tr.1o