Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-16
OMAHA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS
Largest in History Of Institution Graduates
Last Night,
SIMPLE EXERCISES At BoYUs THEATtR

wen anu N0HNh UhNNh
pIomas In Presence of Audience
That Fills the Great Audi
torium TO It's Utmost.
The stage at the Boyd theater held the
graduating class of the Omaha High school
last night The auditorium balcony and
even the gallery were crowded with folks
who had the interests Of the 192 graduates I
directly at heart The class. containing
los girls and eighty-seven boys, was the
largest that has qualified for diplomas in
the history OF the school 1t was more
than twenty-seven times greater numeric-
ally than It was twenty-five yeare ago.
Mayor DRhlman family and guests wit
messed the commencement from a lower
box adorned by the flag other boxes were
gay with coiors and members Of high
school class organizations. literary societies
and alumni The classes of 'O3, '04, 05 07
and 0S were especially well represented
and the p. G. s. and Alice Carey societies
mad boxes of their own. Simplicity marked
the affair, the class being seated in tiers
the girls in white and. the boys in black
A row of palms and a few cut flowers
banked the footlights. The program fol-
/ lowed the esta ablished custom of years with
orations' essays and music by members of
/ the class.
Address by President McCaEue.
! In addressing the class preparatory to
handing over the diplomas President John
/ L, McCague of the Board of Education
said:
You look out upon opportunities and
possibilities greater than ever before in the
history of mankind. The attachments in
! science, agriculture, literature, statesman
| ship and almost every department of en-
deavor during the last fifty years have in
| creased and enlarged the requirements No
doubt some will say to you that the oppor
tunties in the old days were better than
| they are today. Do not give that thought
| needs men of courage and sincerity who
! will do and dare. who will be true to
women who will stand beside the men
| supporting with loving hearts, with sym
pathetic thought and with that which is
DO not shape your course by the sign
| of the dollar. Rather esteem success that
| which enshrines your memory in the hearts
OF your fellow men and women.
The high school orchestra played the
music before the curtain rose and during
the intermissions. The invocation was
asked by Rev. r. B. Mcbride. Mr. j. o.
Detweiler, chairman of the high school
committee OF the board. presented the GER
tificates of efficiency to the cadet officers
He was assisted by Miss Coraie Meyer.
one of the graduates Thirty-three GER
tifcates wore conferred.
John LatenSer, Jr., ON Architecture.
The first Grafton was by John Latenser.
jr who spoke on National Architecture" "
He carried his audience back to prehis-
toric times and narrated the development
of the art through its principal epochs, ex-
planning that the elements are the same.
all being founded on the arch, the post and
the, square opening. Architecture ex-
pressed athe predomInating indvidualiries
of the race and time, the orator said.
mentioning several conspicuous examples,
such as the pyramids, the Coliseum, etc.
In the United States he found that while
racial characteristics are pronounced and
clear cut, our architecture Is not properly
expressive, but to the contrary is yelled
! in falsity. To his view architectural
achievements of the past are not destined
to equal those OF the future. As civlliza.
! ton advances. he contended, architecture
: must eventually climb with It. Nationally
he declared, architecture must eventually
express true American thought in as true
z way as the nag
Old Tale With Modern Application.
Passing from a subject of general ma
teriality. Miss May Gibbs read an ESSAY
devoted solely to the spiritual ideal anC
called New Wine in Old Bottles" Th,
text of her discourse was found in the le
gend of the Holy Grail. She narrated tn,
history and literature on the subject ant
explained the undoubted service the Graf
had been to humanity in the middle ages
when the law of strength made living witt
purity of heart almost impossible. AS III,
vision of the Grail was to him alone who's
hands and mind were clean, men were in
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to the advancement of the moral standard
She read in the tale the lesson that dut,
. lies in the work nearest at hand and dc
: clared that the Holy Grail Is permanen
. and must ever serve lofty purpose, thougl
the form Of the idea may change accord
= ing to the environments Of the age.
n Equality Before the Law.
p In discussion THE Question of Today
Mr.. Herbert w. Potter found his argumen
$ on the theory that care must be taken L
d insure justice in law. He told of the great
Il ness that was Rome's and the destructio
Il of that power because II failed to hee
IS the maxim OF Cicero that all men mus
If stand equal before the law, He spoke o
e the centuries OF struggles for liberty of tn
j. common man and of the service the Anglo
,. Saxon rendered to the cause The hns
e triumph and the dream Of the Roman sag
y was found in the United states with free
IS dom the property Of every man. Yet Nj
A Potter feared that improper legislatIo
q might destroy the ends for which the rs
s public was founded, He pointed out III
10 fierce struggles between classes and race
ID for domination of the laws and asked no.
N the rights of humanity may be preserve,
d He found comfort in the thought ths
Americans had faced and conquered eriss
N before ana could do It again.
'e Poem on commencement.
n Miss Laura Waterman's poem, Con
mencement," was a woodland aIleRor,
- set in language of surprising literary sty
z and merit. She lkened life TO a journe
through forest, up hill and over plain. ar
IN Commencement as the peak OF the FIR
long hill climbed. From that hilltop 81
alluded TO the greater distances beyond.
Mr Morris Blish played Schumann
'fTraumerei" faultlessly on the violin ar
- Mr.. Arthur Fay Felker rendered Lack
- "Valse Arabesque" with splendid tecl
81 mic on the plano.
n Change IL the order.
be Miss Margaret Phillippi devoted her e