The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-05-26
Commencement

rh. closing exercises OF the Chan
ute schools took place, last week,
The exercises we're pleasing Gil tne
way throuEh. ,,,
liams' opera house.
There 10 q very large class OF tne
Eighth graders and. judging tnem
nv their public exercises, they are a
strena class. II the whole class OF ~
odd could only stay together and COM
piete the high school course what a
credit they would be to our scnools
and how we'll they would speak ior
he city. An
But such will not be the case. All
At them will not enter school next
fall and of those who do many VIII
fall by the wayside and never COM
plete the course. So. when the sen
ior wear 10 reached but few Will DC lei'
Of this famous Eighth grade
The class exercises, given In tne
Hetrick Friday night, wore something
ont Of the usual. Tho Seaior Class
had prepared little turlesque plsy
on the high school faculty. They pre-
wanted It very nicely and showed up
IN fine shape many of the llttlo per-
sonal peculiarities of the teachers
Saturday Night came the last exer-
cisss and the comforting Of the d.
plomss.
The class made no speeches. Hon.
Cbas. F. Scott furnished the oratory
for the class. Mr.. scott's Grafton was
very scholarly and polished. His ar
aumsnss sound and irrefutable.
He defended the state Ia It's policy
Of free education Of Its sons aed
daughters, not alone In tho county
and high schools but In our higher In
stitutions, especially the university
He urged that the state receives val
ne received for all 1t expends In the
line OF education Ia the higher class
ofcitizenship.
The music furnished by the schools
during these exercises was OF very
high grade and spoke In the highest
terms Of the musical instructor for
the last year. We hope TO sec this
system of musical Instruction contin-
ued and, if possible improved upon
from year to year. We remember what
a fight IL took, a number OF years ago.
to get vocal music introduced into
our schools and what On effort to Keep
II there after 10 was introduced.
Many opposed 1t then and some few
still. The teachers were not prepared
to teach IL and the pupils were abso-
lutely ignorant of its principles, as a
rule, and timid about taking hoio OF
It. Then it would not have been pos
sibIs to orsanizs such chorus as furn-
ished the music the other night, even
In the city. Now our boys and girls
in the lower grades read common mu-
sic at sight and in the higher grades
sing difficult pieces, carrying all parts
Great credit is due /. g, Mann who
was enc OF the original men In Chan
ute to stand for music ia our schools
and fight for 1t as long a. he staid 10
the city. He Is not here now but bis
spirit lives In our music.
Our schools have made great prog
ress 10 music as well as other lines
We were particularly struck by the
excellence of the work displayed 10
the Gross building, last Friday. We
presume it was equally good In all the
other buildings but we did not have
the opportunity TO examine the dis
play. Wa were astonished at the
progress that has been made In draw
ipg and in color work.
Many of the pupils show genuine
artistic talent and all of them show
the effects Of training and painstak
ing work.
We think our schools 10 all depart
ments we're never in better shape and
hope to zee them continue to progress.