Arizona republican., 1903-05-29
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
Graduation Exercises al Doris The
 ater Last Night.

That annual event of the greatest in
 terest to the greatest number, the com mencement exercises of the Phoenix | Union High school, occurred last night at Doris theater The building was ! crowded to it's fullest comfortable ca pacity notwithstanding there was a | limit placed on the issuance of tickets and the weather was cooler than usual at this season.
 | The usual graduation picture was ! presented with only slight variations i The class was seated in semi-circle on the stage, the young ladies in the front row attired in robes of snowy | splendor and the young gentlemen seated in the background dressed in
 the usual black.
 | Across the proscenium arch hung the
 class motto and class colors and banA- : ed two feet deep along the footlights
 were the floral offerings of admiring i friends. These tokens of regard were 1 presented before the exercises began. l dispensing with that confusion that ire quently follows the presentation of ! bouquets during the programme The i balcony and archWays were all gar landed with, green and the commence ment spirit seemed to animate all pres ent.
 ! The members of the graduating class are twenty in number. Their names are; Harlow Trask Kays. president: Bessie C. Thomas. vice. president Win field Scott Osborn. secretary and treas urer: Bonna Erile Hughes. valedictor- ian; Sidney Preston Osborn. salutator- ! ian Edith L. Creighton. Emma F. Hail. Ava Josie Hinsdale. Florence E. Karls, Kathryn L. Ludlum. George Clair Marsh. Robert B. Murphy. James Roy Porter. Albert H. Rosenberg. Jes- sic Muriel Sheridan. Clarence 4. SpauI- i ding. Charles A. Tribolet Mary H. | White. Ida Belle Wilson. Maude A. i Wilson.
 Seated on the platform also at one end were Professor F. L. Mcdonald. superintendent of schools. Professor ! George Blount Of the High School and
 Dr. Lewis Halsey.
 DT. Halsey offered the invocation which was followed by chorus by the class. Italia from Lucrozia by Don tizetti. The salutatory was delivered by Sidney Preston Osborn. His subject was Political Parties of the United States and Their Leaders" His ad- dress was well delivered eIiciting hearty applause. The manner of pre- sclting his ideas showed scholarly preparation of the subject and a ia- miliarity with American history that is highly creGitabie.
 The next theme was The Evolution of the American School" and it was presented by Miss Mary H. White. She spoke clearly and without hesitation drawing many useful com mparisons be- ! tween the methods of the past and the present and pointed cut the lessons to
 be learned by this evolution.
 The class sung another chorus song. "Mammy's Little Boy" which was fol- lowed by m address on "The Progress of Our Nation" by Clarence A Spaul-
 ding. His subject was a large one. so large in fact he could hardly cover it in the time allotted or such an occasion but his words were we'll arranged. no useless syllable uttered and his delfv- cry was highly cred1table
 The Art of Living was the subject of Miss Bessie C. Thomas oration.
 Rather than review of history or q discourse on scientific matters it vas an appeal to ones higher impulses, an illustration that there is a true art in just living. whatever ones station provided he can discover it. The true art of living does not consist so. much in ones ability to acquire many things as 1t does in ones capacity for enjoy ing what he does acquire
 Howard Y. Rays was the next speak CT His subject was Flow We Make Our Own Worlds" His remarks illus trated the idea that the world is too big and the sum total oi knowledge is too vast for ones work to embrace all things. He must therefore select
 his own line Of activity. his own world
 as it were ard live in it. Viewing d certain area the Seologist sees one
 thing. the botanist another. etc. Each
 individuals world is very largely what
 he chooses to make it.
 The ValediCtoridn was Miss B0nna
 Erile Hughes. whose remarks were
 based on the theme. "The Social Uses
 of the Fault Finder" Her speech was
 delivered iu a very pleasing manner and very distinctly. She divided fault
 finders into two classes: those who are
 never satisfied and always grumbling
 and those who when dissatisfied dis
 cover the cause of their trouble and
 set about to remove 1t. The first-class
 is not worthy of attention but to the
 latter class Is entitled the credit for
 nearly all progress. It was finding
 fault with walking that made men de-
 wise ways for riding.
 She then addressed herself to the
 clGss recalling that four years ago they
 stood at the base of a lofty mountain
 and today they stand upon it's summit.
 While it may not be so high as it now
 seems to us" she continued. "still we
 feel that We have accomplished much"
 Turning to the audience she thanked
 them for their kindly cxpressioIs. say