Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-28
YOUNG ARMY FROM
GRAMMAR GRADES
Make Most Excellent Showing in
The Salt Lake TheatCr
Last Night
A SCENE TO REMEMBER LONG.
City Schools Conclude Their Years
Work Ia a Veritable Blaze of Glory
Many Proud Patrons Present

with eloquent words Of encourage
ment ringing in their ears, 46i boys
and girls, pupils OF Salt Lakes gram
| mar schools, closed an important epoch
In life last night, They graduated in the
| presence Of proud parents and friends,
who filled the Salt Lake Theater to its
doors. There has never been more
elaborate program presented at public
school class exercises, 1t Is a tlme-
worn custom that gives the grown peo-
pie all the work and the talking on such
occasions, but last night the order was
reversed The program was presented
by the pupils themselves, and 1t gave
the parents and others an opportunity
Of seeing and hearing just what the
youngsters can do-'what the free sys-
TEN Of schools is doing for them and the
state.
The class, representing all the schools
in the city, occupied the stage, the
girls In pure shte and the boys. ma
jority of them, I'm their neat black suits.
Nearly a half-thousand young faces
Joy excitement, anticipation, was a
sight worth even more than the beau
tifu and tasteful decorations that
adorned the interior Superintendent
d. II. Christensen presided, and In well
chosen phrase called the great audience
10 order and briefly told the story Of
the years achievement and words Of
praise for him and the teachers who
We're instrumental In arranging so ex-
cellent a program were heard on every
side.
The principal address OF the evening
was by Rev Elmer !. Goshen. and was
most happy. lie said that when he had
asked the superintendent what he
should talk about, Mr.. Christensen
promptly replied: About a minute"
| the inference being plain that 1t was
the intention 20 let the pupils give the
| show themselves, for once.
Mr.. Goshen said in more serious
| vein;
MY young friends, ! wish I might
| call to your mind for Just moment
the thought Of love and the self sacrl-
! flee on the part Of many Of the audience
| which has made II possible for you to
| take this step tonight ] would not
sadden for one instant your bright
| hour but II is well that you should think
|
to be worthy Of that love and that
sacrifice. Many Of your parents have
not had the opportunities that are yours
| today, but they are giving you the
| chance 70 be all that they would have
wished To be. You are to realize their
| dreams and show them and the commu-
| nifty that their sacrifice has been worth
while.
you have not finished anything. II
| would be III that you should be ad-
| dressed In mourning and the front Of
| this building draped With black II you
were to think that this Is a finishing or
| commencement in any real sense. II is
only stepping out into a bigger and a
better institution for learning and for
| opportunity, II Is time now for YOU
TO go into that higher institution, and
| while here are many excellent schools
| in this community, with some of which
4 have the honor to be connected, there
IS one school which belongs TO us all.
| which the community has endowed and
equipped for YOU and II is the High
school Of this city, One thing should
| like TO urge on you every one, and that
is, don't try to begin the battle OF life
before you are ready for It, Stay BOYS
and girls, as long as you can, Equip
| yourselves for the great problems OF
.
greatest economic questions OF the
world will be yours for solution in the
| next 80 years You are the people who
| viii take up those questions and the
| more and deeper education you bring Ia
them the better fitted viii you be for
their solution"
Music was a strong feature OF the
evening, aside from the musical recita
lions one number, Lift Thine
Eyes" from Elijah" was 30 well rem
dered by q chorus Of mixed voices from
the Webster school that the audience
| demanded an encore, The Washing
ton contributed an original grafton
"The American Student" by Miss Min
ME Brim. II was clever, fairly brist-
ling with assurance Of our countrys
greatness, The class poem OF the
Sumner was recited I'm concert, The
address Of welcome by Wallace Woolt
Of the Bryant, was another clever,
original effort. Winnlfred de Vlemng
Of the Fremont gave a piano solo, her
selection being the we'll known Dance
OF the Demon" 1.-THE Legend Beautl-
ful" was recited by Miss Rowena Korns
Of the Emerson, and a girls double trio
from the Franklin gave Weber's "Mer-
maids Song" A musical recitation,
THE Last Hymn" was given by the
| l1ulHllAbll FNllbbl AAlFHH NltAl JNl ~ inlpOhN
OF the Lowell played Raff's "Cayatina"
as n violin solo The Marching Drill
OF the twelve girls from the Jackson
| and the "Anvil Chorus" as given by the
same SCHOOL were excellent features
| Albert Darlington Of the Union played
piano solo, "Canzonetta," with ex-
! quislte taste and touch Another beau
| tiful solo was "Traumeri,' by Frank
williams OF the Wasatch, a promising
young vlolinlst, The Lincoln school
| contributed a musical recitation Rock
| of Ages" The OqulrrRs series OF
| Tableaux were excellent and won
| hearty applause. The closing number
was another musical recitation by the
| Grant school ending with the entire
| chorus singing America"
The musical part Of the evening was
| under the direction Of Prof, Wetzell
| Everynumber excited admiration, except
the musical Rotations, which, for some
| reason, did not seem 20 belong there;
| that IL, they were not nearly as effect.
i've as they might have been,