The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-06-04
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to the following graduates:
Marguerite Adele Byers, Laura
Estelle Mitchell, Gladys Luverne Neu-
mnan, Sarah Estelle Schumacher,
Norma Van Alstein, Edith Adeline
johnson, Ida May Schmidt and
Henry Edward LEM.
Immediately thereafter Professor
Marshall, in short but appropriate
speech, presented the eighth-grade
graduates with their diplomas. The
recipients were as follows:
Eleanor Anderson, Norman Walker,
Lawrence Angstman, Lillian Everett,
Waldemar Berg, Anna Alickson, John
Beto, Lloyd Briggs, Clifton Gotten,
Earl Ellenbaum, Eta Davis, Charles
Foltz, Josephine Henschel, Dale
Francis, Earl Henschel, Nina Croft,
Grace Herdliska, Vernon Kaliher,
Bessie Hull, Eugene Kalkman, Nellie
Hill, William Kettelhodt, Clair
Kaliher, Anna Orne, Edna Lowell,
Alta Richard, Mabel Lind, Arthur
Roos, Maggie Mott, Hazel Robideau,
Elinor Nyquist, Peter Schmidt, Anna
Cakes, Henry Shockley, Clara Rosin,
Andrew Sohlberg, William Roos,
Rachel Townsend, Enid Roos, William
Walker, Aurora Taylor, Henrietta
Stay, Olive Townsend, VIM. Reuben
Stay, Gertrude Sleeves, Lee Veal.
The exercises concluded with a vocal
number entitled "Springtime,'' which
was so realistic that the fragrance of
flowers was apparent and the chirping
of birds could be heard on the caves.
Baccalaureate Address.
At the Methodist church on SUNDAY
evening Rev. J. W. Heard delivered
the baccalaureate sermon to the
Princeton high school graduating
class of '0S. The reverend gentleman
chose for his subject, "The Mind of
Christi" and the address was one
which all who heard it should profit
by. An excellent musical program
prepared by Mrs. Cooney comprised
a portion of Sunday evenings SER
vices. Rev. Heard's sermon was as
follows:
Text, Philippians 2, S: "Let this
mind be in you which was also in
Christ Jesus.'
Have you OF the graduating class
who have requested me to preach the
baccalaureate sermon taken the pains
to look up the meaning of the terms?
A college man and superintendent
of schools extending like invitation
in behalf of graduating class
derived the term from Bacchus. As
you know. Bacchus is the god of the
vintage, and I felt like preacher. of
great vehemence and force, who,
leaning hard on the pulpit and point
ing his finger, fairly shouted the text,
1.-The righteous shall stand but the
wicked shall fall" The pulpit gave
way and with the preacher, rolled upon
the floor. He picked himself up and
remarked, Brethren I am not hurt,
I don't mind the fall, but I do hate the
connection"
Not a bacchanalian sermon but
baccalaureate. The Latin terms mean
bay berry from the practice of the
bachelors wearing garlands of bay
berries. It came finally to be used of
the lowest academic degree "bachelor
of arts" Strictly speaking the bac-
calaureate sermon is sermon to
bachelors. Considering the personnel
of this class such sermon here
tonight would be very narrow, at least
in application. But the original sense
of the word bachelor is little, small,
young, referring to young unmar-
ried man. It was next enlarged to
apply to an unmarried man of any
age. It becomes particularly OBJ
noxious when an adjective is put be-
fore it and one is called "an old
bachelor" even if, as Washington
Irving puts it, he is "merry and mel
low"
Now where do the young ladies
come in? By way of the French
derivative, ''bachelette,'' pretty
young woman, and Ben Johnson, who
knew about everything to be known in
his day, went step further and ap-
piled the term bachelor to a young
woman: .&s-.
HE would keep you a..
A bachelor still, $50
And keep you not alone without husband
But in a Sickness Il ~-sa
Love sickens suppose So we
come to the obsolete use of the term
bachelor, a young unmarried woman.
When the woman is not young but still
unmarried we use another term.
Glass Of 1908 you may all be bachelors
here tonight. g..-.