St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-18
SCHOOL FINISHED
Most Successful Graduation in His
tory of St. JOhnsbury Academy
Alumni Meeting.

There was no bad luck for the
graduating class of st. Johnsbury
Academy in the number 13, for not
for years has the week been so fav-
ored with sunshine and good wealth
er. Many old graduates came back
| for the week and alumni and under
graduates joined in making it as
pleasant as any commencement in
the history of ST. Johnsbury Acad-
emy. The festivities began Tuesday
evening when the music pupils gave
a splendid concert at the South
church. The soloists were Miss
Maude E. Follensby, Miss Mary Carr
and Walter Cleveland and the accom-
panists Mrs. Fl. N. Wood and Miss
Elsie Richardson.
The class day exercises on the
lawn near Prin. Benedict's home
were attended by a large number of
people as they always are, the out
door setting making them the pret-
tiest event of the week Harlan
Tolman, president of the class, pre-
sided at the exercises. The class es-
say by Miss Hortense Campion of
Newport had for it's subject 1.-The
IA w 2 dy " lnSGCI6, the CLASS
Grafton by Reginald Fisk was on
Capital Punishment. +" Robert |
Porter made the presentations which |
were something more than appropri- |
ate in some instances, and caused as |
much merriment as did the prophe-
cies by Miss Eugenia Scott Amos |
Nelson made the presentation to the
presenter and Bernice Roundy
concerning the proph-
etess. The class history was by
Max D. Gilfillan and the class ode
by Miss Ruth Wilder.
Graduation Exercises
Thursday morning the interested
relatives and friends of the gradual
ing class filed the South church for
the graduation exercises. The Acad-
emy orchestra played with Miss Elsie
at the piano and Miss
Elsye Sargent at the organ. Prayer
was offered by Prof. Henry Fair
banks.
The first speaker was Harlan A.
rolman, the salutatorian of the class,
whose subject was Education of the
He said that the
question to be asked regarding pub
ic Fairgrounds is whether they are
If practical benefit or not. His
principal argument was that the boy !
must be kept out of the street and
hat the playground offers the very
Influences he most needs. 1t is for
true that, do our worst, a '
higher power has decreed that boys ]
will be boys but it remains for us to
lirect their superfous energies and
o help them to develop into manly |
nd civilized men.
George Hinman gave an address
n ''The Panama Canal; it's CONNER .
ial Influence" He said that when
ur country undertook the task of
uilding the canal it did it, for one
easOn, to improve our commercial
ABILITIES. Among the greatest saw
1gs will be the saving of time the
onsequent lowering of freight
ates. Most of our fruit is brought
rom the Pacific coast and the decid-
d reduction in cost of freight
ill bring the price of fruit
1ore nearly within the reach of
IL. Another commodity which will L
e reduced in price will be nitrate, =
o extensively used in the manufac-
ure of fertilizer, and some of the t
ostly woods of the west can be used
y eastern builders. c
After a selection by the Glee a
lubs, an o"ation by Noel Noyes on
Scientific Value of Poplar Explora-
on" was given.
The question is what there is in
lese ice-bound lands which makes
worth while to run such risks in
xploring them. The arctic and
ntarctic continents are entirely
the latter being practically
evoid of animal life while animals
nd men make their homes in arctic
sgions. In Antarctica are valuable
eposits of gold and coal while the
dentists find numberless interest :