The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1910-06-09
THE CLASS ROLL
THE CLASS ROLL
Julia Meszaros
Mary Eta Nichols
Boletha Frozen
Harold Marsh
Carrie Quigg
lnga Nepstad
Ina Hutsinpiller
Hilda Huffman
Elizabeth Brown

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Another successful year Of school has
closed and nine young people step out,
having completed the course as set forth
by the requirements of the state. The
class was a good looking one, and
worthy of all the honors that might be
bestowed upon them. AS one boy
said "the girls think they're smart"
He did not need to remark it for the
class showed that they were smart, the
ratio over the boys being eight to one.
By eight o'clock the Academy of
Music was crowded to witness the
graduating exercises, which was held
Thursday evening. The staging was
neatly decked for the occasion. The
background of lace curtains and the
presence of cut flowers and potted
plants had pretty effect. The class
colors, purple and cream, were inter-
woven in different parts of the hall.
/, Over the front of the stage stood forth
in bold letters, the class motto Thus
ends our first lesson. Besides the.
members of the class there were seated
on the platform, Supt. Jarvis of the
school and President Coulter of the
board of education.
After invocation by Rev. B. A. Burns
song was rendered by the school glee
club. Here again the ratio of the girls
to boys was something like 80 to 0. An
Grafton, or what might be termed the
salutatory, was then delivered by Miss
Meszaros. Taking as her subject
"What Do You Expect?" she told of
the school work, the advantages and
how they tried to make use of them.
but not to expect too much Of high
school graduate.
''The Gospel of Strenuousity" was
nicely handled by Miss Nichols. She
declared life of ease as worthless.
To win honor and renown a person must
strive. Money never achieved any
thing unless accompanied by toll. The
career of Roosevelt was an example of
the strenuous life as was the career of
Lincoln. Her plea was for the strenu-
GUS life.
Miss FROZEN had as the subject of her
Grafton t'Mark Twain, the American"
First as miner, then as soldier, report
er and writer, he drew friends from
every walk Of life. He had 'humor
Enthusiastically his own, ,was..the fore
most humorist of the world. What
Roosevelt was to the political world, so
was Mark Twain to the literary world.
y After pleasing selection on the
piano by Miss Bessie Rose, the only
boy Of the class, Harold Marsh, gave
numerous Extracts from a School
Boys Diary" OF course he wasn't
the school boy, but it told how this
school boy started back in Sept. 1907,
the time no doubt Of entering the high
\ school and the various incidents that
1 led down to the time of graduation,
&. June 3 1910. Some notes Of the diary
were extremely humorous and showed
all the pranks that the school boy will
do. ,.
''The Price Of Progress" was handled
by Miss Quigg. She compared man to
4 an acorn Small at the beginning, but
gradually developing until be became
as the sturdy oak. She told Of the
splendid endowment Of school lands for
the education Of the children, the great
progress that had been made in indus
try and science, Of the great contri-
1 buttons Of the past century, and Of
what the next century might be hoped
( to contribute. si
Miss Nepstad made splendid plea
i for the colored man having as her sub.
ject .'The Destiny Of the American
Negro. !" There is no class, she said,
more loyal 70 duty than the negro. You
B can make better citizens Of them
through education There Is nothing
I better for this than : we'll equipped in.
dustrial school such as is presided ovel
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h Alabama. She does not agree Will
sluch famous men 9 Senator Tillman
for she said that tho place for the No
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