The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-19
HIGH HAS
GREATEST CLASS
IN ITS HISTORY
Diplomas Are Awarded to 155
Graduates at Commencement
Exercises i'm Peoples Church
Exercises Are Attended by
Immense Gathering of Friends

The fragrance of exotics last night
hoated from the open windows of the
Peoples Church, and 1855 young, eager,
hopeful faces looked from the sane
tuary platform at crowded audience;
for 1t was the occasion of the COM
mencement of the Central high school
of st. Paul-the thirty -fifth COM
mencement.
Never before has a class of such
proportions been graduated from any
educational institution in the Sanity
City, never before, since 1916, when
the first educational institution of this
region was opened by an aborgine's
influence, have SO many young, hope
full hearts bounded together in antici-
patton of great success in the world.
The exercises were at once beau
tiful and simple. AS soon as the vast
audience was seated the orchestra,
hidden in the organ loft, opened low,
tremulouS air, to which the 155 grad
yates filed slowly in along either aisle
to their places on the platform.
Early Education Reviewed.
The salutatery was delivered by Miss
Edla Berger, and for her subject she
had chosenfhe early days of education
In st. Paul. These were in 1916, at
which time no book store was within
300 miles of the Falls of st. Anthony,
and but three American families were
known to be living at the Falls and
Pigs Eye combined. The first seat of
learning was erected at what is now
the. junction of st. Peter and Third
streets, but some few years later there
was built, from money raised through
the efforts of a sewing circle, another
rude building which still stands as a
carpenter shop near the corner Of Mar
ket and Fourth streets. With this
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able manner, contrasted the educa-
tlonal advantages Of today existent in
st. Paul.
Following this Miss Althea Deither
eu1ogized the "Pathf1nders," of all
times Marco Polo, Magellan, Column
bus, Walter Raleigh, La Sale were a
few Of those who received the wreath
of laurel at her hands-from Babylon
to Rome, from Rome to London, from
London to New York, from New York
to San Francisco-from the Golden
Gate to Manila bay these "Pathfinders'
had blazed the pathway Of civilization,
they were the pioneers that knew no
defeat. 49,
Defends China's Emperor. ss 1
; p''Kwang 7Shu, 1.-THE young emperorsof
China, received tributes large and full
some from Edwin Blomgren. Mr..
sought tosshoW that hadsthe
young and imprisoned emperor been
allowed his way, China would now be
on a fair way to attaining to Western
civilization and customs; and that,
eVen'' as n9attersn S TODD, his influence
acted as a check, perhaps a menace,
on the conduct of the empress dow
ager.
Miss Louise, WEIGH had chosen as
the subject Of her Grafton, "Gibson, the
Interpreters" During, her discourse she
how hot
son, by means Of his pen and concep-
ton of art and modern ideas and fol-
bles. placed bfore+ the publici in a truly
refined and artistic manner the true in
terpretation of those modern idiosyn-
cras1es. She was also of the opinion
that he was more Of a scathing critic
than q, humorist,. although all his work
was tinctured to a certain extent with
a manner of humor. 81,
- With a ringing enthusiasm that al
most permitted her hearers g1impsesz of
gay tartan. and. ribbons and echoes of
piercing bag-pipes Miss Mary Copley
in clear resonant voice Wanted the
virtues and many lovable characters
tics of Bonnie Prince Charlie" In
conclusion Miss Copley inspired her
hearers by her personal conception of
the man, Prince Charlie. II like" she
said. Ito think Of him as he rode up
and down before his troops at Preston,
waving his naked sword and exclaim-
ing to his men: have thrown away
the scabbafdP I like to think of him
in his highland costume, with flowing.
wind-tossed locks and hazel eyes in
which shone the fire of enthusiasm
and determination"
Tells Of American Antiquities.
Miss Deborah Steelman showed a
wonderful range of voice in both in
Election and enunciation as she told of
the little need there is for Americans
to cross the Atlantic or Pacific in
search of antiquities, in her grafton,
Some American Antiquities" She
told of the wonderful Indian
Mounds, and OF the traces Of the cliff
dWellerS of the land of the Pueblos;
and dWelt at some length in specula-
ton as to whether the first American
races reached this land by the Straits
CT Ber1ng or by the Atlantic or Pla-
to.
Miss Deborah was followed by Miss
Mildred Steelman who showed a more
than ordinarily comprehensive concep-
ton of THE Race Problem, in her
handling of that subject.
MacNiel 4Stringer eulogized '"The
College Man in Business" and was of
the opinion that because a few have
succeeded in life without the advant-
age of a college education, it did not
follow that such an education was not
desirable adjunct in the equipment
for the battle of life.
THE Man and the City," was the
subject chosen by Murray Lewis, and
in his grafton thereon he landed such
municipal corruption fighters as
Roosevelt, Raines and Jerome. of New
York, and Clark, Of Minneapolis.
The valedictory was delivered by
Arnold Frye, at the conclusion Of which
the diplomas were presented by o. E.