The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-19
SENIORS AND
 JUNIORS TILT Unusual Happening on
 Class Day. GOLDEN KEY OF WISDOM Second Days Exercises of Monte vallo Commencement. Exhibitions of the Work of the Va raou. Departments of the School
 Are shown to the
 Visitors.
BY Q. s. PARTRIDGE.

Montevallo. May 1s--(Special. )--Class Day for the Seniors, like Saturday and Sunday, the preceding days of the Com- mencement season. dawned but feebly through a curtain of cloud which after hardly more than a nlomentnry ltft- ing. was dropped again darkly so that while rain forebore from falling dur ing the hours of the morning and until the third hour of the afternoon there was little brightness to aid the school girls in the pleasant gayeties which were nevertheless sprightly and inter esting as well as impressive in their spirit of farewells to Alma Mater.
 A lively tilt between the Senior and the Junior Class made of Class Day something so unusual, so different from those that had gone before, that those present will never forget the battle of words that was fought out by the president of the Senior Class and the president of tile Junior Class. And just as a golden apple of discord once caused a difference of opinion and a resultant war. so the golden key of wisdom that Is handed down from one class to another, precipitated this morning a debate that was spirited and sharp.
 The key of wisdom was given a few years ago to Senior Glass of the Ala bari1a Girls Industrial School on sever al conditions, one of which was that 1t should always be the property of the Senior Class of the school which should hand it down year after year to its successors.
 Key Is Presented.
 But there was another condition. It was that 1t should never be given to a class which the graduating class deemed unworthy of the honor of re- cefving and holding 1t in trust So when Miss Willie Jenkins. president of the Class of 1909 this morning arose 10 make the presentation of the key. in accordance with the program, she made a speech in which the composite &C., complishments4 of the Juniors were de- precated and announced that the key would be retained by the treasurer of the school until such time as a class meritorious of the honor should arise into the dignity of the Hast year"
 Miss Ellen Davis, president of the Junior Class, who had been programmed to accept the key on behalf of her classmates, therefore found that she had a far different duty to perform. She performed it in manner that won her great applause and praise. Refer ring to papers that had been read. and speeches that had been spoken of by the members of the graduates, she said that she couldn't see just why that particular class should feel so very, very much better than some other classes, and that the Juniors, feeling themselves superior to the or- der of the key, didn't want it anyhow. and, so to speak, would for themselves adopt the open door policy.
 Miss Jenkins, again speaking for her class, responded with a corroboratfon of her previous remarks, but expressed the sentiment that the Seniors had re- tented and were willing to entrust the metallic open sesame to the temple of wisdom to their younger friends.
 All three speeches were extremely clever and seemed to be heartily en- dorsed by the allies ofthe speakers. But the Juniors declare they will not have the key.
 Class Day Exercises.
 The class day exercises were easily the most interesting of the commence ment. The program. ingenious in con- ception. was executed with wonder ful effect. The stage in the chapel had been beautifully decorated with green and white, the colors of the class of 1909. shrubs and vines being eTl- ployed to make forest scene in which the members gathered around their president, Miss Willie Jenkins. who made the welcome address after the classes of the school had filed Into the hall each singing its class song.
 Miss Ursula Delchamps made net
  a able kind in apt expression and quo- tation and in the cleverness with which she mingled the seriousness of com" with the humor that seem ed to come unbidden. Miss Delchan1ps was admirable. Miss Elizabeth Bullock. in a paper '"The Highest Wisdom of All" made an excellent address. To an evidently wide and earnest reading she had added much original thought of fine order. Her diction was precise and elegant and her reading clear and pleasing.
 After the Etude of Chopin (opus 4o) which was sympathetically rendered on the piano by Miss Kathleen Shivers. Miss Florence Patterson read a letter. introduced as a message from Minerva, the patron saint of the class Tn its double meaning and in the appropriateness of it's phrase the epistle was at once beautifully writ ten and sufficiently sprlghtly to meet the requirements of the fun that fol- lowed when little Miss Lula Rainer Palmer. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. w. Palmer. handed to each member of the class 6 prophecy oP what Fate held in store for her.
 It was after the trying of Fate that Miss Jenkins and Miss Davis combat ted, each for the honor of her class.
 Juniors in Command.
 After the benediction by Rev. John