The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-21
246TH ANNIVERSARY
OF HOPKINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
 BEGINS TO-DAY.

Defamation Contest Occurs This Even
 ing for Alumni Prize-GraduatiOn
 Exercises in LampsOn Hall TO-mOr-
 row.
 The two hundred and forty-fifth an niversary exercises of the Hopkins Grammar school will be held this and Thursday evenings, and will conscist of a declamation contest, the regular graduation exercises and the annual reception.
 The declamation contest is to be held this evening at eight o'clock in Hop kins Hall. Thomas Hooker, Professor Theodore S. Woolsey and Henry H. Townshend will act as judges and award the alumni prize. This prize is given by the alumni committee, of which E. D. Garrison, of c. Cowles & Co.,, is chairman. The programme will be as follows:
 1 Song-"Winter Song' .Bullard Glee Club.
 1 Daniel O'Connell" ............ Phillips ] William Alexander Senple, Jr., New
 Haven.
 ''Tha Boy Orator of Zepata City,.
 David John Gooden Poore, Willow
 Grove, Del. --, =, Solo-''Absent" .Metcalf
 Robert Guthrie Jordan, New Haven. ''The Skeleton in Armor" .Longfellow
 Lincoln Wade Barnes, Scranton, Pa. "Eulogy on Lafayette. .,. ........ Everett
 Jacob Farrand Williams, Detroit, l sS # Mich. - Song-"The Pope ....:............... {. r5i;,..,s,> r5i1,. 7. <. .s...'.t .,,n sGlee Club.
 "The Burial March of Dundee"..-.. I Frederick Maurice Mosely, Barnet. ~ s .s Eng.
 Miles Stardish' Encounter With the . Indians" .... ...t....... .Longfellow
 stanton Higgins, New Haven. l Song Soldiers Farewell. Kinkel .Grs,- Quartette. Award of Prize. e........................ N Song Fishing ....... .......... Parks Glee Club. Thursday evening will occur the I graduation exercises at eight o'clock in I Lanlpson Lyceum. The trustees, fac- ulty and students will meet at an ear f Her hour in Hopkins hall and march I over to Lampson. As the usual GUS 1 tom of having the trustees, faculty and speakers wear academic costume a will be preserved, this procession will not be an unattractive feature, The I speaker will be Colonel Norris G. Os- born. Colonel Osborn, was a Hopkins man in '75 Professor Williston Walk CT will offer the prayer. Part of the music twill be furnished by the Glee l club, which distinguished itself by the livery successful concert given last l month. MT, Haesehe is the musical 1 director. and has taken hold of the work with the boys with his usual en- thusiasm and ability. The accompa- mist is Monroe F., zunder. The full | programme Is: | Benedlct1on ...... .... .. ,.......s..... l Song" F'riendship" .... ......Haesche l ..r' School.
 1 Prayer ........ ........ ............... q l Professor Williston Walker, Ph. D., Z | D. D. ,s Song-'I Interger Vitae" ............... | .~f.l Glee Club. s 54: | SaluIdLOfy .ss... . ...s.... s..s.... ssss I Lawrence Wilcoxson Gregory. Y | ,Nf @1,a Hoi, NTa,, ,Iyo George Henry Moseley. oration-"William Mckinley .....
 Paul Smith Gates. / Song-"'Drink to Me Only With | Thine Eyes" .s..Old Ar tE Quartette. Colonel Norris G. Osborn, M. A., '75. @ & song-"M Marital Hymn .... Willard Glee Club.
 | Valedictory ........ 7............... E l James Platt Sweeney. l Song-"M Mother Hopkins" ............ | ................C Cowles, '0O, Seward, '02 School. -.* l Presentation of Diplomas. ........... | Announcement of Prizes. | Song-'Nale ........ ....BarnDy ! School. i B5nediction. a, | The class numbers about twenty-five members this year. An unusually large percentage of the boys is from | New Haven. | After the graduation exercises the annual reception will be held in Hop kins hall. The chairman of the com nittees In charge of the receptions is Starr H. Barnum, 2d, who has this I year shown his executive ability as manager of the basketball and base ball teams. The ladies who will act as reception committee, are Mrs. Ar l thur T. Hadley, Mrs. Henry F. Wright, l Mrs. Thomas D. Seymour, Mrs. Henry w. Farnam, Mrs. Walter Camp and l Mrs. Charles H. Weller.
 No admission fee is charged for any of the exercises, and all friends of the school are cordially invited.
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