The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-11

MISS ELIZABETH RICH.
Journal Medal Winner, North High School
Photo by Lee Bros.
the great majority of them were young
Women-fled in from an anteroom the
moving picture was a singularly attract
tive one. The appearance of each gradu-
ate was the signal for enthusiastic cheer
ing by friends.
The program opened with "The Prince
of Pilsen'' selection by the North High
orchestra. Rev. B. Forester asked the
invocation -,,t
LAS a. Man Thinketh' was the subject
chosen by Miss Daisy June Harrison for
her salutatory: Miss Harrison began her
essay with the proposition that man
does not actually live save in the ami
NAL sense until he begins to think It
was a fact which had been scientifically
demonstrated that the great majority of
men went thru life without any greater
development Of their thinking powers
than a 14-year- child possessed. 1t
was the great thinkers who made the
great men who stood for great move
! ments. Emerson had warned the world
| to watch out when a thinker was born
among men, for such man was quite
| likely to overturn all preconceived ideas
and the established order of things.
| Cromwell was another name for Common
wealth; Calico changed mans idea Of a
universe, and Marconi proved that mes
| sages could be transmitted without wires.
Miss Vera Payne Mabrey read an inter-
esting essay on "a Phase of Economies
| Wordsworth had said that the right rue
| Of life was plain living and high thinking.
| There was such thing as mental conn
munism, where one might have all he
| wanted for the asking, while material
communism had been proven a failure.
/ Mental communism was open to labor
| and merit while material communism
1 bred a race of sluggards and drones.
1 People who could appreciate, the good and
true were better off than those who, pos
sessing the beautiful, were. incapable of
4 enjoying it.
Miss Katherine Agnes Dwyer read an
/ essay on "Memory's Role" and Miss Ella
| Edna Roth gave the class some good
t:Glimpses' Of the school world about
them. 4. So. +
! Miss Frieda Laverna Bauer, convulsed
the audience with her decidedly, humor-
4 Gus paper on "That Boy who was ever
: lastingly bothering the life out of his
sister and making himself obnoxious: to
every member of the family
The VaIedIctory:
Miss Elizabeth Rich, the valedictorian
, and winner of the The Journal prize,
said farewell for the class in a decidedly
essay
1.-THE End Is but the Beginning" Each
days task, she found, had an ultimate as
Il we'll as an immediate end. AS Hegel had
said, treason rules the world and the
completion Of one task served to show
another. Many instances were not want
ing where great men, each with fixed
purpose ahead, had toiled most of their
lives before bequeathing to the world
i. the finished product of their work. Lives
of great men were constant reminder
: that it was only thru steadfast, ,tireless
devotion to duty that one could hope tc
mount high along life's pathway. Cour-
!. tesy, kindness and consideration were the
). great trinity which should guide mankind
safely over LIES sea. They were the
sesame that would unlock all doors tc
success. In addressing her classmates
Miss Rich reminded them Of the debt
which they owed society and of their i'm.
mediate obligations to the board of edu
cation and their instructors for having
provided them with the means of edu.
cation.
journal Prize Presented.
G. AIexius Olson of the North Side higl
i school class of 1891, presented Miss Ricl
e with The Journal prize. Mr.. Olson spok.
: of the circumstances under which T h,
j o u m a had originally decided to max,
an annual award Of three prizes to tn,
y Central high school before the establish
= ment of the three other high schools
J. With their erection the management o
, the paper had held out similar inducement
: to their pupils in order to induce them
8 strive still more for scholarships. MI
. Olson paid high tribute to the educa
: tiona1 value of the press to-day, *sayin
that In a general way it was probably tn
lgreatest factor in the world in point q
g public education. incidentally he sal
n some pretty things about Miss Rich, whic
: heightened her color and delighted he
friends, before presenting her with tn
gold medal which testifes to her un
usually high average for the four years
course.
- Dr. G.. M Jordan made a facetious ad
dress in presenting the diplomas, sayin
that If he could sing as well as the wors
singer in the North high school choru
Z he wouldn't do anything else. He referre
: feelingly to the many graduating classe
,. which he had addressed from that plat
g form and of the painful inevitable same
b 4 ness of his remarks on such occasions
- Each year his own valedictory had bee
Igetting a little more tineworn and thread
n bare but he was doing the best he coult
Then as the class filed slowly by the ST
perintendent they were presented with til
i diplomas.
The exercises concluded with the sins
ing Of the class song and a rousing rer
tIdition Of the class yell, which was take
up by all those in the audience.
The musical program was as follows:
I tPrince of Pilsen.' North Side orchestc
.Breezes of the Night, :. Boys Glee club: ST
Pilgrims Chorus. North Side High school 81
Fancies'' Girls Glee club; 1.-THE Holy City
Miss Inez Davis and chorus. The accompan
/ lists we're Lucille Meeker and Alice Pratt.
1--WE Launch To- day. Where Shall "
Anchor?' is the class motto.
THE CLASS MEMBERS.
- English Course Alice Gertrude Flaher1