New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-06-14
SEVENTEEN ARE GRADUATED.
Exercises at the Turner Theatre
Commemorate.
w. S. Hammond Delivers Excel
lent Address.
Large Audience Greets Glass al
Rise of Curtain.

the beginning of the exercises of the
High school commencement arrived.
The building, large as it is, was not
too large for those who were interested
in the young people who are to step
out of the duties of school and enter
the active duties of real life.
| The stage of the theatre was prettily
decorated, the most conspicuous part
Of the decoration being the class
motto, ''Out of the Harbor Into the
Sea-" This was set off with the class
colors, lavender and white and the
same colors appeared in all the de-
corations. There was profusion of
flowers and ferns and the whole effect
was relieved by the beautiful scenery
of the stage-it was an ideal place for
exercises of this kind. .
| The opening number on the program
| was a waltz rendered by the High
School orchestra at the conclusion of
which a march was played and the
members of the graduating class filed
in from the wings of the stage and took
their places in front of the school
board and members of the faculty.
1t was a pretty scene that was pre-
scented to the gaze of the audience as the
class of seventeen, eight boye and nine
girls, alternately seated themselves in
the chairs. The girls arrayed in their
pretty white gowns and the boys wear
ing the conventional black. For a
moment the audience was quiet and
then burst out in hearty ap-
plause. After the applause had SUBJ
sided Miss Maude Hagberg as pianist
struck the chords to the Parting Ode'
and the class and chorus arose and
sang "Barcarolle" by Franz Abt.
In conclusion to this the only young
man on the program, Francis Critchett
came forward and delivered the saluta-
tory with his theme "The Grand Jury
System" In clear voice he began
his salutatory which in part was,
'Friends, parents and fellow school,
mates: We greet you here tonight or
the occasion of the 10th annual com
mencement of the New Ulm high schoo
with few simple exercises. 1t is with
mingled feelings of Joy and sadness
that we stand upon the threshold O.
our high school home, JOY to think
that our class is so soon to be separ
ated and scattered. To the Alumni O
this school and to the friends anC
parents of our classmates we give {
cordial greeting again and again. ,
The salutatorian then proceeded with
his theme, tracing the jury system bacl
to the Anglo Saxons and the Norm an:
giving as an example the twelveseniol
Thegans who were sworn in by thu
county court that they would accuse NJ
innocent man and acquit no guilty one
He termed these twelve men as ''jur,
of presentation and accusation" Afte,
stating various modes of the ancien
jury men he led up to the present time
illustrating our mode of obtaining (
jury. He dWelt for short time on thu
grand jury system of Minnesota an(
of the recently adopted constitutional
amendment which provides for thu
abolition of the system if some salts
factory substitute can be found, }
closing with the real object Ofhis theme
The salutatorian was followed by
Miss Viola Schell the class historian
This young lady has been favorabl!
known as one who has bright future
as an elocutionist. At the evening O
her graduation she was at her best an(
the history that was told of the twelve
years of patient effort which had beer
necessary to obtain the certificate o
graduation claimed the close atten
ton of the large audience. She began
her history with a selected quotation
''All that's bright must fade
The brightest still the heetest,
All that's sweet was made,
But to be lost when sweetest"
Entertainingly she then carried tn
thought of this poem into that of he
history, regretting that she and he
, classmates were to lost the pleasure O
} being high school students, and of no,
} time has flown since their first appear
: ance in the primaries. Many interest
) ing indicidents were retold both @
5 their school days in the grades an
, later as members of the high school
: Her essay was closed with an appro
5 pirate quotation which carried tn
thought of parting farewell.
At this point in the program tn
n Misses Loida Beussmann and Auror
s Neumann favored the audience with
5 tpiano duet entitled "Qui Vive'' b
GAM, which was we'll received.
Miss Elsie Koch was strikingly or
ginal and showed that the authC
possesses rare imaginative powers an
also is an entertainer of the highe:
degree. In imagination the youn