The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-11
VACATION NEAR
FOR SCHOOL BOYS
Richmond Pupils soon to Quit
Study Rooms for Three
Months Recreation.
DOORS CLOSE NEXT WEEK
Commencement Exercises to be
Held at John Marshall High
School.

Desks are beng cleared out tiny
seribbled notes being reread. giggIed
over and then torn into in1nitesmal
pieces and thrown away Books are
being carried home, or to the second
hand dealer TO De exchanged for a
fraction of their time cost. Young
boys and younger girls are talking
eagerly and excltedly Of wonderful
things that have happened during the
past nine months. and still more Won
derful things that are going to hap
pen during the nextthree months old
eunitfes are being patched up.
Boys and girls not so young are
talking together along much the same
lines. There exists Il vague atmtS-
phere OF restless uneasiness, a strain
ing under the bill" as a horseman
might say
This rather strange condition OF af-
FAIRS exists throughout the student
body Of Richmond. The reason tor
IT sll is explained in four brief words.
school closes next week"
Vacation is at hand---that vacation
If which the student mas dreamed
during the long winter months as h.
sal gazing into space. seeing wonder
iIl rAsnc pictures, conmred up after
trying IN vain 10 get the straight of
that subJunctiNe clause in Cicero, OF
Ae-!rtaG deteFnfinetils-b tut furttey y.,f
93tf1e@ problem In calculus where the
answer thus achieved did not cor
respond with the correct one gwen
III in the back OF the book.
~ Wednesday every public school
gf,LH in hf4 H1
rtlur;u emit to those "a me h'gf,
s'froct wilt be turned over to the
trHutF merLie& of me- tai women
armed with mops, brooms and otnee
such appliances, who will give the
walls, floors. desks. everything IA thor
/ "ugh cleaning. The rooms will then
be Sprtnkled with some connection
which Will prevent the breeding OF
disease germs. Then they win he
locked. not TO he opened forthree
commencement Wednesday.
Commencement exercises IF the
John Marshall High School will be
/ held In the CITY Auditorium Wednes-
day night at S:l5 O'Clock. Charles
/ Alfonso Smith. professor of English
/ literature at the University of Vir-
/ ginia. viii be the orator Of the even
| ing.
l. Prot. smith is distinguished schol-
+ ar and has been honored by an APP
pointment To represent this nation
IN the gathering OF professors from
all the higher seats of learning in
? The world Mt the University of Berlin
next year.
Admission to the exercises Wednes-
day night. the program OF which has
not yet been completed. will be by
invitation. one room of the city Hail
quarters Of the board of education
IN now being utilized in the arrang-
ing of seat checks.
The list OF graduates has not yet
been announced
That the graduates never lost the
affection born cf the years spent Ia
the old school" Is proved concm-
siVely by the recent organization OF
/ the High School Alumni Association,
/ formed for the join purpose Of en-
! couraging good-fellowship and pro-
viding a library for John Marshall
High School
/ Alumni Night.
Monday will be alumni night OF
/ commencement week Not only grad
yates, but all pupils who attended
school for one year and left in good
standing are eligible for membership
4 in the organization. and the presence
OF every one OF this liz urged at this
4 the first reunion Of the High school
alumni
The following program VIII be rem
dered Monday night;
Chorus Madeleine" .. fRoeckel1
High School Chorus
! Opening Remarks. T. Beverdge
10. Pres.
Selection, La Cinauantaine" Hrom
Gabriel Marie's Air a rAntique)
High School Orchestra.
( The Richmond High School Look :
4 ing Back vard-J. H. Binford. '92.
Song, March of Our Nation"
tGelhen
Girls Glee Club.
7 The John Marshall High school
Locking Ferwsrd-Afvin b. Hutz-
Ter 'o4.
Chorus Loss Dr Ktrhmond HIIr-,.
(McNally)
High School Chorus.
( Song, Water Lilies" Ginders)
Girls' Glee Club.
! Presentation Of Glass Of 1g10--Re-
{ sponre by Crawford &. Crouch.
/ Selection. When the Swallows
I Homeward Ely. fArr. by Watson)
4 High School Orchestra.
/ Rcll-Celi of Graduating Classes
| Mrs. c. g Burton, 80.
Aud Lang Syns."