The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-06-04
TRIO OF GRADUATES,
The Princeton High School Graduation
Exercises Tlonday Night
Great Success.
Grace Byers, Avis Eaton and 1innie
Sellhorn Are the Recipients
of Graduation Honors.
Motto: "Oria1ialr.' >

J1ecn.
The eighth annual commencement of
the Princeton high school was held at
the opera house last Monday evening.
Princeton always takes special pride
in it's schools and the work they do.
and those who pass through the grades
and complete the high school course
never are permitted to pass from the
educational institutions of Princeton
without the plaudits and huzzas and
the compliment Of "Well Done" from
admlrlng friends and the public as
we'll.
The graduation this year marked
the final separation from the Prince
ton schools of three young ladies, the
Misses Minnie Sellhorn, Avis Eaton
and Grace Byers, who were the only
graduates from the gh school this
year. The exercises also marked the
final separation from the high school
OF two of it's faithful instructors, Prof.
White who has been superintendent
Tor five years and Miss L. c.. Paterson
who has been principal of the high
school for the same lenght of time.
There is always tinge of sadness
and regret to the bright picture of
graduation 1t means the leaving of
old friends and schoolmates behind
and future whose Ultima Thule is a
dark mystery. But what sadness
there may be to the picture is lost in
the brighter tints of glad victory and
happy anticipations.
1 Jesmer's opera house was gay and
bright with the fascinating effect of
lights, and flowers and bright-colored
gowns. On the stage were seated the
members of the graduating class, the
high school teachers, school board,
congressman Stevens, Hon. r. G.
Dunn, Rev. Crate and the chorus girls
who led by Mrs. Claire Atwell Galley
furnished the musical part of the pro-
gram.
The exercises opened by invocation
by Rev. Gratz after which the young
lady members of the chorus sang ''The
Bloom is on the Rye" The chorus
was composed of nearly fifty school
children who were seated on raised
seats in the rear of the stage and they
made an animated and attractive back
ground.
The chorus had been drilled for some
time by Mrs. Claire Galley, and Mrs.
Galley and the scholars are entitled to
considerable credit for the way in
which the music was rendered. Mrs.
W. B. Richards played the piano &C.
compartments for the chorus.
Miss Grace Byers delivered the sa-
lutatory in happy, yet earnest man
ner. She chose for her Grafton
"Humor' and told of it's importance in
mans nature. "Genius and philantro-
ply are not of much use without some
sense of the ludicrous, for they are
either blinded by one idea and push
that upward and in the end miss their
mark or being intolerant of the worlds
prose exaggerate the little weaknesses
OF life all because they cannot see the
humor underneath. The man of
humor sees at one glance the serious
and the laughable. Humor in Latin
meant moisture, meaning which it
still retains in way, for it is the mois-
ture of the mind which lightens and
enriches everything it falls upon. In
a gloomy hour it comes to one like a
shower to parched ground.
''Humor must not be confused with
wit, the two are entirely different.
Humor exists by sympathy and laughs
with things, while wit exists by an
tipathy and laughs at things. Humor
is creative, wit is negative and de-
structive. Humor in literature may be
divided into several classes. There is
the political satire as shown in it's
higher and keener form in Lowell's
'Bigelow Papers, and brought within
the comprehension of all in the letters
OF Petroleum V. Nashby.' This form
OF humor discloses the low political mo-
tives and points out moral as we'll as
raises laugh" Miss Byers referred
to the humor as found in the writings
OF Josh Billings" Jerome K. Jerome.
Mark Twain, Bret Harte, each having
his own style, and to Dickens who is
called the king of humorists. CAL
these writer's based their works on
truths and many good truths are sent
home with little humor both in