The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-13
INTO The WORLD.
Student Days Of High School
Senior Glass End.
Fifty-nine Graduates Receive
Blue Ribboned Diplomas.
GIRLS IN MAJORITY.
Outnumber the Boys More Than
Two to One.
Words of Advice Given by Chan.
ceIlOr Frank Strong.

An hour of suppressed excitement.
running here and there, excited voices;
then a swish of skirts and the tread of
marching feet in time to a piano, as the
class marched to the platform; the hush
for the prayer; music: an address full
of good, sound logic; the distributing Of
diplomas and the exercises which
brought to an end the school days Of the
senior class of the high school were
over.
There was little difference between the
graduating exercises of the class last
night and those of any other class ex-
cepting that the hall was not decorated.
In fact the exercises were abandoned
because of the flood They were to have
been held at the Auditorium June 4, but
at that time some of the class were flood
sufferers and water bound refugees and
they We're not thinking as much Of
diplomas as they were of life pre-
servers.
Superintendent Davidson issued no
tice that the graduating exercises were
abandoned. That was all right until
the refugees from the north were safe
and the sweet girl graduates from the
flooded district had rescued their white
dresses, washed and irQned them. Then
they We're ready for exercises. The
Auditorium was being used to house
+ refugees but that made no difference.
The high school assembly hall was used
and II was crowded. There were no
decorat ions. There was not room for
any.
The graduating class presented the
school with a large plaster statue OF
Minerva, to stand as monument to
4 the memory OF the class. 1t was mount
ed on a pedestal and stood at one end
! OF the platform. The class marched
past it, and for Wilderness the dress OF
every girl graduate put the plaster tint
/ Of Minerva to shame. The class num-
bered %. and of that number AZ We're
girls. Among the SO were only II
young men in somber black. They
4 looked like so many black morning
glory seeds on a field of white linen
/ But such is always the case. The girls
always Outnumber the boys. The girls
when they didn't know just what to do
/ with their hands The boys, poor fell
/ lows. didn't carry roses or anything
/ else, and their pockets We're an awfully
tempting retreat for their hands The
4 few boys who graduate always have
a hard time of it.
j Mr.. James Moore gave the class the
/ first word of advice in the title of his
song. Man PROPOSES The girls of tns.
class all knew that however, before
they even entered the high school. DR.
! J. T. Mcfarland offered prayer. Mrs
George w Parkhurst sang La Mort de
Jeanne dare"
Chancellor Frank Strong. of the state
university, delivered the address. His
subject was The Development of F.du-
cation. He walked to the front of the
platform. The front of said platform
by the way, had been extended with a
temporary structure Mr.. Strong stands
an inch or two over six feet and h.
Will weigh more by almost a hundred
! pounds than anyone else who sat on the
platform. The temporary platform
creaked. it sWayed. it seemed as ur.
steady as a raft. Mr.. Strong stood firm
and looked a John Macdonald who
Il am not afraid said Mr.. Strong. y
was told to look at Mr.. Macdonald aud
that 1 would feel secures
Mr.. Strong proceeded to give the
members Of the class some words of ad-
vice. He said: In this day and age
I people who graduate from high schooA
are not necessarily educa ted. Few rne,,
+ IN history become great without the
training the schools and universities
give. Only such men as Abraham Lin
coin and Henry Clay can get alon.-
/ without such training. The time has
come when leaders do not come from
the high schools. Any boy who goes
out Of here thinking that a high school
education viii put him on d footine
with men from the colleges is much
mistaken. He viii find that they will
put him aside and trample him under
Zoos
After the address Rev F. E. Mallory.
president of the board of educs ton. dis
/ tflbuted the diplomas to the members
of the class, as follows:
Edith Pearl Atwood, Florence Emma
! BAILEY, Lester E. Bennett, Lucia Pearl
Z Carpenter Howard L. Carruth Ethel
/ Allyne Chapman. Herbert L. Clark Ella
Lee Cowgirl, Permelia jeanette Curtis.
/ Ethel Elizabeth Davis Orlando H De-
Yer, Faburn L. De Frantz. Susie Estelia
Eas leson, J. Sumner Everingham. Eth
4 81 Evelyn French, Mary Elizabeth Gall.
/ Cora Chaplin Goddard. Florence Augusta
+ Hale, James r. Hardiman. Bertha Marie
Harlan, Hattie BeuIah Harper, Blanche
Holden, Ellen Gertrude Hes Lillian
Leonetta Jeltz, Clara Johnson. Edward
J. Iannan. Julia LaTimer. Eleanore May
Lukens. Dale D. Miller Glenn s Miller.
Daisy Viola Neil, Hattie Eloise Newly.
/ George Payne. Nellie Marie Pond Les
ter A. Ramsey. Mabel Patton Renw1clz,
William r. Rice. Jesse J. Ridley, Mary
Gertrude Robertson, Valedictoriarl:
Ralph r Schnacke. Elizabeth Seine
/ mayer. SalutatoTian; Bertha Isabel Sc
verance, john L. Shuil, Maud Helen
Smith, Mary Anna Spangler. Saran
Louise Stage. Fred Stewart Pansy p.
Stitt, Mary Estella StOneback Rex 7
Stout, Ruth Imogen Stout, Daisy Vance,
Myrtle Inez Waldron, Mary Winona
Ward LAURA Jane Wells Mary Frances
Watts Wilson, Maud Iona Wilson. Min
ME c. Wilson, Harriet Jeanette Vol
colt.
The class filed out. the audience van
ished the janitor turned out the lights
and all was over. The eight members
Of the class who live in North Topeka
may be digging mud today Stern re-
alitv Of life sometimes comes soon after
commandments.
ABOUT DISTILLED WATER.
All Doctors Recommend It "a the