Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-06-14
ADDRESS BY DOCTOR
JOHNSON, OF FLORIDA
Learned Divine Discusses "The Place
Of the Bible in Literature"--Excei-
lent Addresses and Essays by Hon.
Of Members of the Class Of Nine
teen Ten.

Before an audience that comfort
ably filled the Academy OF Music,
seven young ladies and five young
men, composing the class OF June,
1870" were graduated from the New
port News High school last night.
The Academy presented a brilliant
scene. the boxes, which were occupied
by the members of classes which
have graduated in the past few years,
being decorated with the colors OF
those classes and college pennants
and the stage being banked with piles
of fragrant roses, carnations and
sweetpeas, gifts to the girl graduates
from their relatives and friends.
AS the graduates. the young ladies'
in the van. marched on the stage just
before the exercises opened there was
burst of applause from the audience
which did not subside until the class
had taken seats behind the bank of
flowers. Next came the High school
faculty, superintendent jenkins and
the members of the board OF school
trustees, Mayor Marquis Ubnes and
the speakers, the faculty occupying
seats behind the graduates and the
trustees taking seats to the right hand
side of the stage. Rev. J. L. Riddick,
pastor of the Second Baptist church,
offered the invocation.
Defends High School Courses.
President W. Z. Puckett. OF the
school board, welcomed the visitors
to the exercises and in the course OF
his remarks he strenuously defended
the art and music courses In the
High school, expat.ating at length,
upon the merits of both courses. ne
also paid glowing tribute 10 the
High school faculty and the other
teachers of the city public school sys-
TEN.
Hugh John Fitzgerald, Jr., saluta-
torian of the graduating class. deliv-
eIed the welcoming address on behalf
of the class. He said that the class
was gathered for the last time under
the care of the High school faculty
and that in a few hours the graduates
would launch out into the world with
its misty future, which he compared
to an uncharted sea with its rocks,
storms and shoals. He urged his fei-
lows to have courage to push to a
successful conclusion any undertake
ing which they might attempt and
pleaded that they take honesty as the
fundamental principle of their life
work
Holds Up Ideal to Class.
The young speaker decried the lack
of honesty in the commercial world
of today and in concluding held up to
his class mates the character OF Sir
Walter Scott as the ideal which they
may ever strive to initiate. Mr. Frtz-
gerald was accorded an ovation when
he had concluded his splendid ad-
dress.
Miss Theoore Marston HARDWOOD,
the class essayist, read very inter
esting and able essay on the necessity
for quick decisions in the battles OF
life. She gave many forceful Illus
trstions OF the ruin that had followed
and oveItaken men who had been
slow to come to decision in the lar
ger things in life. She pointed out
that many wrecks and ruins Of many
kinds are to be met on the highways
OF life who have been wrecked and
ruined by INDIGESTION. Miss Harwood
read her manuscript clearly and dis
tinctly and held the attention Of her
audience to the very end. being re-