Arizona republican., 1904-06-11
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the medal offered for the best essay on history by the Sons Of the Ameri
 can Rev-lution. Tn her essay on oral Story Telling" Miss Alice Grier strong
 ly advocated the use O. the fairy tale in the lower grades as it expressed the spirit of the children. Anothe: selection by the chorus was follow ed by Miss Kind, ed. "Idylls of the King"
 MT. Corbeu rendered an essay Cn American Neutrality in which he re- viewed the efforts of foreign nations to elicit help from the United States from the time O. Washington to the present date, and the history Of the Monroe doctrine. He showed Q clear under standing of the subject in hand.
 The selection. The Fig Tail" by the chourus was loudly applauded. Mr. Wilbur then read an eseay on Electri- city; telling of i;s discovery. it's uses at the present time and is possib:li- ties.
 President Matthews then introduced Hor. W. F. Nichols, secretary of the territory, who made the address to the graduating class. IL was particularly notable for several reasons. II was not a lCrg, tii eSCme talk on some sub ject entirely iTrevc!a1t from the grad uation, but rather was a short, earn es; talk to the graduating class them seievs, one that was calculated to i'm press upon them what they owed t7 ;he institution and how much bette. prepared they were after having left it. tc fight the battle O; life. For as he said the future of our great COun- try. of which we are all justly proud, depends to a very great exert upon the education Cf it's citizens.
 Rev. Lewis Halsey presented to Mir Hendrix the medal offered by the Sons of the American Revolution for the bes; essay. In dc.ag so he related a u.tle incident. When he preached the sermon to the Normal cadets during their encamrment a short time ago he was met and escrrted tO the camp b." a guard under d sergeant. SJ i'm pressed was h. with th- sergeant that
 he took a memorandum Of his name in
 the hope that some day he might be able to return the courtesy. IL hap 1 pened that the young man whom h. ! presented with the medal was roae other than the sergeant to wh m he felt himself indebted.
 ! President Matthews presented the
 diplomas to the graduates. Before do-
 ing so, however. he made a few re- , marks upon the exCelleIcy Of the class. ! It. he considered 10 be. enc of the best ' classes that had ever been turned out ! Cf the institution due to the fact tha: during the time they had been in school the Normal had improved as il nevo- had before, new teachers had | been added and evgything possible for ! the advancement of the students had l been done. And. said he, Tt is you, ! the citizeHs and taxpayers of the ter ! ritory who are responsible for this. i Your generosity has made these i'm ' provemeats possible
 i There still remained one thing not l cn the programme; that was the pre- ] sentatiou of q statue by the class of
 'C4. This usually takes place at the
 dosing of school, but this time owing
 to delay Inc st'tue did rot ar
 rive until late in the afternoon ct
 Thursday. Mr. Corbel. president Of
 the class. ia a few well chosen words , presented the memerto to the Normal ] and President Matthews responded. l The graduates then held an informal ! reception on the stage where they IC- 1 ceived the congratulations of friends 1 on having completed their term oi ! study in the Normal and preparing 1 themselves, some as teachers and o,h- CTS to continue study in highcJ ! schools.