Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
CLASS OF 1905
MlOOLEBURY HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATING EXERCISES.
Fifteen Young Men and Women Close
Their Public school Careers with
Orations and Essays.


Orations and Essays.
Another High school commencement
has passed into history and another class
of young men and women have COM
pleted their public school life. On Fri
day evening last the town hall was taxed
to its utmost capacity to accommodate
those who gathered to listen to the
graduating exercises of the class of 1908,
NJ. II. s., which numbered IS.
The high honors of the class were
awarded to Inez Clara Cook and Clifton
Starr Hadley the other honors going to
Carson Henry Beane, w illiam " Hager
and Mary Isabella Costello.
The class was composed as follows:
Classical course, Carson Henry Beane,
Inez Clara Cook, Clifton Starr Hadley,
Carl S. Martin, Edward H Martin; Latin
scientific course, Agnes Dorothy Calhoun,
Carrie Emory Damon, Cora Mae Derby
Ivan Drake Hagar William V. Hagar,
Frank Patrick Shea; English course,
Claude Henry Carey, Mary Isabella Cos
tello Ruth Grace Manchester, Mabel
Ella Wales.
The program of the graduating ex-
| ercises was as follows:
March-"The Princess" Gearen
Orchestra.
Prayer
Music-"Blow Soft Winds" Chas. Vincent
High School Chorus.
Oration-The Japanese Character.
Clifton Starr Hadley.
Essay-Problems OF immigration.
Mabel Ella Wales
Reeitation-The Old Minstrel.
Agnes Dorothy Calhoun.
Overture-"Felca." Gruenwald
Orchestra.
Essay-Joseph Jefferson.
Inez Clara Cook.
Oration-New Galveston.
Edward II. Martin.
Recitation-The Painter of Seville.
Ruth Grace Manchester.
Oration-Recent Immigration
Claude Henry Carey.
Oration-America's Unwise Attitude in the
Present War.
Frank Patrick Shea.
Essay-Child Labor IN Mills and Factories.
Carrie ENERGY Damon.
Music-AngePs Song, with violin obligato,
Braga
High School Chorus.
Declamation-The Armorer's Errand.
Ivan Drake Hagar.
Essay-Some Evils of Advertising.
Cora Mae Derby.
| Oration-Unjust Restrictions Against Chinese.
Carl S. Martin.
| Cornet Solo-"Beautlful Home of Paradise"
King
j. B. Cobb
| Recitation-Our Travelled Parson.
Mary Isabella Costello.
| Oration-The Condition OF Russian Peasants
william V. Hagar.
| Glass Poem-Carson Henry Beane.
| Music-"Anchored," Watson
High School Chorus.
| Presentation of Diplomas.
Ira II. LaFleur, Esq.
March-"Yankee Grit" Hozmann
Orchestra.
Benediction.
To he specific in praising any particular
persons work would not only entail
writing far more exhaustive story OF
the exercises than we have space for
but would necessitate making extended
mention of the work of each of the
The writer can see no other way but
that of commanding the entire exercises
and in so doing he would say the work OF
the pupils showed careful preparation of
and studious attention to the details
which always make such exercises a
success.
The same preparation Was plainly
noticeable in the various rhetorical parts
of the program and in.the orations anG
essays the touches of originality were
particularly prominent,
With the concert and commencement
hop which brought to a close 1905's
school days the most successful gradual
ing event seen in the town hall fol
many years came to an end.