The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-07
NORMAL GRADS WERE
GIVEN N THEIR DIPLOMAS
From Fridays Daily.

Falls; Rose Kohler, Long Prairie;
Lydia Mariska, Morristown; Marion
Noes, Mankato; Lucille Moses, Man
kato; Hans Nelson. Butler S. D.;
Emma NemitZ, Hutchinson; Anna
o. Keefe, Elysian; Mabel Rakness,
Alpha; Cora Randall, Jackson;
Sara Richards, Mankato; Francis
Selby, Vernon Cetner; Kathryn
Sheenhan, st. Peter; Rosalye Shep-
Ter, Eau Claire, Wis; Pearl Siebold,
Mankato; Kate Sionette, Mankato;
Eunice Star, New Ulm; Ruth Ste
vens, Pennington; Effie Stilwell,
Spirit Lake, Iowa; Harriet Strong,
Mankato; Viola Weber, Mankato;
Corinne Whitney, S1ayton; Mabel
Zieske, MankatO. '.- t..a.r.
KINDERGARTEN COURSE-Bes-
Mankato; Rosemary Breen, Vase
ca; Margaret Cooper, Mankato;
Fannie Davis, Owatonna; Margaret
Dunn, Waseca; Ida Erickson, Cal
mar, Iowa; Lulu Goodwin, Manka
to; Evelyn lngbritsen, Albert Lea;
Mabel knott, Mankato; Vera Math-
ews, Lake Benton; Amy Mott, Mah-
kato; Alice Shook Mankato; Ella
Steadman, Centerville, S. d. '
FIVE YEAR ADVANCED COURSE
-Maude Barnes, Mankato; Sadie
Blake, Mankato; Clarinda Bloom,
Worthington; Alice Clements, Map
kato; Elizabeth Francis, Vernon
Center; Augustine Gredvig, Manka-
to; Lena Herrick, Candy; Anna
Lukes, Ivanhoe; Hazel Mckenzie.
Mankato; Albert Noe, Mankato;
Dean Schweickhard, Mankato.
ONE YEAR ELEMENTARY
COURSE-Judith Barrows, Her
man; Rosina Carlson, Kasota; Mary
Cotton, Fairmont; Lulu Coulter,
Blue Earth; Catherine Cunniff, !
Rosemont; Lucy Gleason, st. Paul; !
Laura Grover, Kenyon Blanche
Howard, Sherburn; Mabel Howard,
Sherburn; Irene Larson, Tracy;
Ethel Lloyd, Elota; Anna Mcbride, |
GAINESVILLE; Amanda Madison, Owa-
tonna; Ada Markell, Pipestone; Bes-
sic Mention, Lake Crystal; Edna
Nelson, Fairmont; Cecilia Neubauer, /
Minnesota Lake; Pearl Neubauer, |
Minnesota Lake; Florence Nord- |
gard Canton, S. D.; Aida Olsen,
Jackson; Elsie Pagenkopf, Maple
ton; Mabel Ramsland, Sacred
Heart.
Normal ahll was crowded to its |
capacity, last night-even to the |
stage-with parents and people in
terested in the forty-third COM
mencement exercises OF the Manka-
to normal school. The fact that
President George E. Vincent of the
Minnesota university was to speak.
was enough to fill the large and
spacious auditorium, but there Were
many parents in the audience, who |
were proud of the fact that their |
sons or daughters were among those .
who were on the threshold of pro-
fessional life, and were being given /
on inspiration and final instructions
from those who have been taught
many things of value in the broad
school of experience. Seventy-nine
graduates were presented with d.
plomas-certificates from the stale
of Minnesota.
That the reservation of seats was
necessary on an occasion like this
was manifested last evening, as the
assembly hall began to fill with
people, streaming in continually
from the double doors. A corps OF
ushers were kept busy finding seats
for them.
The room had been simply but
tastefully decorated with potted
plants, ferns, a few flowers ana
oak leaves, the latter being strewn
in profusion on the stage, to the
rear of the stage, and fastened to
the walls. At eight o'clock the
students marched in from the rear
doors, down the aisle and up on the
stage, in double file, which ELECTED
considerable admiration from many,
who thought the march very I'M
pressive.
The two speakers, President Vim
cent, and L. A. Huntoon, member
of the state normal school board
at Moorhead, President G. H. Coop
er of the Mankato normal school,
and Resident Director John c. Wise,
took seats in the front.
Rev. c. B. Osgood then spoke an
invocation, followed by song,
Spring" by the Girls Glee club,
which was indicative of the season
of the year.
Mr.. Vincent Introduced.
President Cooper then introduced
the speaker, Mr.. Vincent, in a few
words. Mr. Vincent rose briskly, as
though the opportunity to speak be-
fore such an audience and to adj
dress such a class, gave him conn
dence, inspiration and pleasure. His
topic was THE Larger Selfishness,
and seemed to have been aptly chos-
en-, for, in the treatment given by
President Vincent, it proved a lit
ting and appropriate address to
class of students who are just be-
ginning their real work, and leaving
the larger part of their preparatory
labors. At the close of his address,
he extended a hearty congratulatlon
to the class, saying that he had
added one more slide of beautiful
pictures to his personal collection,
which he would cherish with life's
satisfaction His closing remarks
were taken up with more personal
talk to the students, in giving them
advice as to some of the policies
to take up. He was generously APP
plauded at the close of his forceful
address.
The following is a synopsis OF
the address delivered to the
Mankato Normal school by
President George e. Vincent OF
the University of Minnesota: