The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-05

NEXT YEAR, COLLEGE
Fourteen Young People COM
plete Preparatory Course
AT LEWIS ACADEMY
Each Member of Class Oeliv-
cred Orations
LEWIS ACA0EM\

cred 0rationS
The sixteenth annual commencement Of
Lewis academy was held yesterday morn
ing in the First Presbyterian church
The school year Just closed has been en-
tirely successful for the academy. The
. enrolment has been large and composed
OF earnest. faithful students. and the
work of the teachers has been charac-
terized by their usual painstaking care
Every department has had q share il this
success. and every teacher. student and
alumnus feels an added interest and an
increased affection for his school. The
regular work OF the school closed Win
a few final examinations on Tuesday
Wednesday being spent by the teachers
with grades and averages. and all looked
forward To the eliminating event OF
Thursday morning. the graduating OF the
class Of fourteen in the various courses
of study.
The commodious church was filed full
OF admiring friends Of the graduates and
of the academy. The rostrum was beau
tifully banked with palms and ferns, ana
with the charming young girls gowned
in white and the manly youths in sober
black presented a very pleasing picture
Directly preceding the commencement
exercises a class OF nine young ladies or
Miss Lalage Halls physical culture class
gave scarf drill. The class is composed
Of Misses Juliet Wall. Merle Hare. Myrtle
Hare. Bessie Stuart. Susie Harper. Mar
garet Elliott. Marguerite Blair. Blanche
Fay and Alice Battin. They wore white
and carried scarfs of orange.
Misses Wanda Kruckenberg and Oslo
Bergman played the march 10 the music
Of which the class marched to their
places.
The class roll with the courses which
each student completed is as follows:
Scientific and Modern Classical-Lewis
c. Taylor. Hazel Dean Howes.
Ancient and Modern Classical-Harry
A. Lawrence Hattie A. Lawrence, Mary
A. Braden.
Modern Classical-Herbert H. Hatfield,
Laura Y. Lothrop. George o. Heinig.
Scientific and NormaI-Estella Haitian,
Mae L. Smith.
Scientifc-Wilbert r. Duncan, Lee Kin
kaid. Roy c. Kinkaid. NJ. Hurst Sloan.
Miss Marguerite Bliss gave the first
number OF the program, a piano solo,
which pleased the audience The Misses
Sickner rendered two numbers on guitar
and mandolins in their usually excellent
style Mr. James Myers gave the vocal
number Of the program in way that de-
lighted all
Dew Taylor was the first speaker of the
class His subject, Our Friend, Adver-
sity," was very we'll handled. He told
how what seem greatest troubles are
often blessings in disguise, and insur-,
mouutable difficulties build character and
60 have
risen to honor through adversely. and
such examples as Bunyan. Milton and
Homer were cited.
Causes of Success and Failure" were
discussed by Roy c. Kinkaid. Success Is
due to worthy ambition industry and
perseverance; failure TO low ideals, diia-
toriness and lax endeavor. Successes are
not all measured alike: nor are failures.
Luck is often blamed for either, but only
life itself measures its value and proves
a true success or miserable failure.
Hurst Sloan spoke on "A Worthy Aim
in Life" He emphasized the difficulties
attending the selection of definite pur-
pose and advocated earnestly careful
and thoughtful choice. and after the
choice is made, persistent effort toward
that end.
Hazel Howes eulogized "Englands
Greatest Philanthropist." Lord Shaftes-
q
or the Christ dominates an empire or the
world At a crisis in the nineteenth CEN
tury Lord Shaftesbury appeared on the
horizon of British politics and the per
sonal influence OF this one man IN op-
position 70 lords and commoners succeed
ed in forever prohibiting women and
children from working in the mines Of
England His continued efforts through
fftv years accomplished more for the
common people Of England
Lee Kinkaid i'm speaking OF Control
ing Influences of Our Lives and Desti-
Mics" told OF the earliest influences Of
horne and school. First. OF the mother
snare. then the help Of the teacher In
nfolding thought and acton The early
associates OF school days decide ones
destiny, and persons are judged by their
friends. or the oopPaaf th.y keep more
often than any otnr~ WY. Weaith y IN
influence that makes or mars the lives
but poverty Is no hindrance to success.
as history proves. and a nuinoer OF IN
stances were given.
Mary Bradeu. q contestant for the DIT
Rradt prize in rhetoric had an excellent
composition on Literature. a Means 81
Culture" or the making Of many books
there IS no end. but few there be which
are worthy 20 endure. plea for the
cultivation Of a taste for the classics
and Tire best IN Llcidtuff Wfr Htt'ii- e'-iN
effective. The Bible. the best 81 liters-
ture. was recommended for careful
study
Herbert HstfeId's subject Action -
was a discussion Of the merits OF thought
without practical work as against
thought put into intelligent action The
genius OF a Watts or a Stephenson was
worth little without the practical appli-
cations 10 which they put thei- IDEAS IN
stationary and locomotive engines.
Energy is the ruling force % the world
i is Tho only potent factor % the UNI
verse. The lever that moves all things
Stella HAITIAN discussed The Mission
II Agitation in a modern wa. she tod /
how the great speakers ~ the World
Congress in Berlin advocated The agita- /
tior 81 the subjects f0r discussion Or
submitting them 20 TIE public auuroval.
how President Roosevelt stated the sa-ne
fact When BE said. "Su just Cause rar
suffer from public discussion. hJt ~ thr
imperfect understanding ~ THE cause -
the people she gave McKilIeT ideas
as The reforms were hy the cons nf -
the whole PEOPLE How the political. /
civic. eco1ornIr and religious progress af1s /
due - ;he agitation OF putsic disc1ssion
was fulIv emphasized.
Miss HATTIE - WreTcr ETsrsc ~ -
Miracle q the Tower - fsaDeI re- ft-
81 giving he elects - re c1nfo8nf- 4
ing 81 The language. and hoT fhe many .
at~ereot t7rrvaFes olsstrtct tssi1esE {
commerce ara pleasure she also shqsrec /
fow .hat one l1uEasre aogid zirnniiff (
f,-fsI-ses - s~-d - r-f-e TIE nations. i