The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-15
program of This Afternoons Gradual
ating Exercises Featured by
Four Essays by Members
Of Class Of 1910.
DIPLOMAS TO STUDENTS
Fifteen will Receive sheepsklns, TWO
in Commercial and Thirteen
in Classical Courses
Address by Pastor.

Fifteen graduates OF st. Peters
high school received their diplomas
at commencement exercises which are
being held in st. Peters auditorium.
The class is regarded as not only the
largest but the best that has been
graduated from a parochial school in
Keokuk for number of years In the
classical courses there are two gradu-
ates-Helen Loretto Weldon and Mary
Cecilia Welsh; in the commercial
course, thirteen-Mary Louise Brer-
ton Ruth Dolores Crowley, Anna Yer
onica Connolly, William Louis Doyle,
Clarisse Elizabeth Gordon, Francis
Joseph Hayes, Cornelia Louise Nc,
Caffrey, John Thomas Reidy, Marg-
aret Mary Stafford, Mary Elizabeth
sansone, Leo Patrick Tigue, Anna
Loretto Welsh, and Mary Elizabeth
Serves
The program is quite an extended
one and will be intermingled with ex-
cellent music and drills. The adj
dress of the afternoon is to be made
by Very Rev. James w. Gillespie Di-
plomas and certificates will be award
ed. The program will be featured by
four essays by members of the gradu-
ating class. They are published In
full below, and show research and
study on the part Of those preparing
them.
Mystic Talisman Of Class Of 1910.
TBy Miss Loretto Weldonl
Today the magic touch of memory,
unfolds to our view the hidden springs
of friendship and reveals to us the
inner shrines of sympathy, sacrifice,
and love, encircled by the glittering
frame of Loyalty"
This Mystic Talisman of the class
of 1870" accompanied us through all
the phases of the flying year, pointing
out the excellence and beauty of each
Autumn with her golden harvest OF
intellectual treasures; winter in sol
emn grandeur, clad in fleecy mantle
OF ermine and guarding the accumu-
lated wealth of his predecessor: spring
with her gentle zephyrs ard sparkling
sunshine. preparing the way for sum
mers floral queen.
And now our faithful mentor invites
us to assemble once more in this fav
ored abode of the MUSES. with its hal
lowed associations of past and pres
ent; here we have witnessed the
trlumphs of those >~ho have preceded
us; their noble examples Of unwearied
diligence and perseverance have be
come to the students of st. Peters.
iennyson says.
Follow Christ. the King.
Live pure, right wrong, follow the
King,
Else, wherefore born?"
Behold the symphony of loya
hearts, which, responsive to the Di
vine influence, unite with the music
OIL the spheres" to swell the counties:
Laudates'' that in every age and
cline have been waited to the Cereal
White Throne
This intense loyalty and heroisn
inspired the early christians to brave
.he fury of their prosecutors, to lay
down their lives in testimony of theil
faithful adherence to Christ, theil
king.
Inc old Greeks and Romans, in
'lelr misplaced loyalty offered sac
rlilces to worthless deities, being i'm
pened thereby to extend their EN-
pre-, whose limits were those of lant
and sea.
Loyalty to country is but the
counterpart of loyalty" to God
america does not count two centuries
Vi National Independence" with the
VhYe-wreath Of youth still encircline
ner brow, she can boast of heroes as
ioyal. or hearts as brave as the ia
nous nations of antiquity. Her citi
zens may voyage to foreign shores
yet no sunsets or dawns seem more