The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-28

Park thestFe to receive their sheep skins The girls followed the time ] honored custom by wearing white ! gowns with white gloves and slip i pers to match. Nobody but the fond parents and relatives knows how much time was spent in preparing else realizes the care each family ; took in order that its represen tative should look just as nice as anybody else. - -tr
 AS usual the interest of the even [ ings program centsred in the Bar n,irn prize contests. The first prize, !! ss0 fn gold was won by Francis Joseph :. Anehan and the second went to Miss Natalie Lora Rosen. MT. Linehan spoke on Education, as a Business Investment and Miss Rosen's sub feet was ''Tolstoy'' The verdict of judges was greeted with deafening applause, The judges were Frank J. Mulcahy, Rev. Father Curran and Attorney David S. Day.
 Supt Charles W. Deane caused an embarrassing situation by his mistake in announcing the winners. He made ] the usual speech regarding the meth cd of judging the essays and then started to read from a paper the de- cision of the judges. He announced that Miss Rosen had been awarded first prize and before the applause had ceased. he said, II find that I arr il e1ror.' There were murmurS of su-~rise and then Supt. Deane re-. marked The first prize goes to Fran Cis -osS 9l L:nelan and the second to Miss Eose1." This amended an- nouncernent was the signal for re- neved hand .clapping.
 Tt is a peculiar fact that Mir. Line han prepared for High school at the Sacred Heart school and it is a tes- tin1ori3. O. that institutions methods to ha~a if known that several prize winners in recent years have prepared at that school.
 NIT I.:rehan had an interesting sub ject which he treated in an interesting delivery excellent. Miss .Rosen also deserves great praise. Her task was more difficult because several other speakers had chosen ''Tolstoy'' as a subject but Miss Rosen showed her individuality in her essay on the great Russian and her delivery was unusu- ally good.
 Others who were heartily applaud ed for the excellence of their essays and the clearness with which they spoke their lines were James Lawson Meltzer. who spoke on Edmund talked on "Tolstoy' and May Hannah Best whose subject was ''Tolstoy.''
 The Fairchild prize of s10 in gold for the pupil who had the highest mark in chemistry was given to Alexander Walter Lirnont with hon-. Owens The prize of s5 offered by the class of 1908 to the two pupils who showed the greatest improvement in their senior year over their junior work, were awarded to Helen Holden Plumb and John W. E. France.
 14 !, f6n ri1 oa s10 offered by the Commercial class of 1909 to the pupil showing the greatest improvement in the senior work o~er the showing in the junior year.
 The theatre was we'll filled when the members of the graduating class fil- ed upon the stage at o'clock. It was noticed that the girls greatly out numbered the boys and the group of black suited graduates was surround cd by white gowned feminity. The program was well arranged and prov lection by the B. H. s. Mandolin club was greatly enjoyed and singing of the Girls Glee club was another pleas ant feature.
 Miss Hannah Best the salutatorian, made, pleasing address in welcoming Edward Schine, who delivered the valedActory, won applause for his ap- proprlate remarks.
 In presenting the diplomas Supt. Deane made a clever address. Quot ing from Shakespeare he said that all the worlds stage and that the men and women are merely players making their entrances and exits. He impressed upon the graduates that only the stars of the stage can have parts moided to it their talents. The average persons must play his small
 .11 I@ o03led upon for a greater work.
 In former years it was the cus- tom for the friends of graduates who wore prominent in athletics or in other branches of student life, to ap- paavd ;lustiIy when a popular graduate received a diploma. This custom was notable by it's absence last evening Whether the athletic glory of the High school is diminishing or the friends of the graduates are becoming more decoHous, Is not known. At any rate the commencement was a very ploma had been presented ushers hur- ried and the class hymns had been sung, ushers hurried down the aisles to present bouquets to the fortunate ones. Then the graduates went, home to dream of future greatness.
 The words of the class hymn were written by Clarence Osborne Lister and the music was by Edna May Williams. Both were good
 The words of welcome by the salu- tatorian, Miss Best, were as follows:
 Words of Welcome.
 Friends of Our School: Tonight the class of 1911 celebrates the ac- hievement of that goal towards which it has been struggling for the past four years. But only in the future, when we are thrown upon our own resources and when the world makes new and more inSistent demands upon our service will we come to a full un- derstanding of the value of our train ing in Bridgeport High School.
 Tonight, assembled for the last time as a class, realizing in some measure the degree of gratitude which we owe to our school for the prepara- tion it has given us for that broader life now open before us, and thus standing upon the threshold of new achievement, we bid you welcome to these exercises which mark the end of our high school life.
 Another selection by the Girls Glee club brought the exercises to the con- test for the Barnum prizes.
 Natalie LOra ROsen, using TOlStOy as her subject spoke as follows:
 Among the lives of the great men of the nineteenth and th< early part | of the tewntfeth centuries, stands out | the life of Count Leo Tolstoy, unique | in it's ideals, and powerful in it's ac- | complishments. For this very reason | he has been, perhaps the most mis- | understood man of his age. Every | where have his thoughts, given so | freely to the public. been criticised |