The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-05-29
FINE PROGRAM AT
THE HIGH SCHOOL
MANY PEOPLE TURNED AWAY BE-
CAUSE OF LACK OF ROOM IN
AUDITORIUM.
Commencement Program Last Night
Marked the Closing Exercises of the
Moscow Public Schools.

| The high school auditorium was to-
tally inadequate to accommodate the
great numbers of persons who wished
last evening to attend the commence
ment exercises of the graduating class
of the high school, and scores of whom
were threfore deprived of the oppor-
tunity of listening to an excellent and
dignified program.
After the large and handsome class
had marched to the platform, and the
Reverend Mr.. George Johnson had de-
livered the invocation, a mixed chorus
gave a splendid rendering of Sullivan's
when the Foeman Bares His Steel"
the solo work of Morton Luvaas being
exceptionally good amateur work.
SaIutatOry Was Good.
In his Salutatory, Forrest Taylor in
cluded some excellent thoughts and
spoke in a clear, strong voice. Schu-
bert's Serenade, one of the most ex-
quisite pieces of music ever written.
was charming as sung by the mixed |
quartet and accompanied by the piano |
and two violins. The members of the |
quartet, Bernadine Adair, Jennie |
Leich, John Brigham, and Morton
Luvaas, showed fine balance and a re-
straint not commonly found in amat-
eurs. The singing rose to an excel
lent climax; and there was sufficient
volume without harshness or crudity.
Ernest Poe in a dramatic reading
from Hamlet displayed marked abil-
ty Mr. Poe has a rich voice which
ne uses well. He entered thouoghly
nto the spirit of his scenes of which
lie had a remarkably mature concep-
ion.
On Women in History.
Mildred Lillibridge's carefully COM h
)osed oration on woman in History"
elated the achievements and services
0 humanity of a number of distin- /
,uished women of the past and pres 1
mt Miss Lillibridge has a pleasing ,
ppearance, was much at ease, and ]
poke in distinct voice The piano
olo by Jennie Peterson was an ex s
client number Miss Peterson plays t
nth feeling and intelligence, she re- I
rendered her selection perfectly, and
he is without affection or unpleasant c
a fault too often to be t
ound in young and self-conscious per- :
)rmers.
Miss McDaniel's Reading. y
The reading by Camille Mcdaniel
as easily the most popular number u
4 the program, and Miss Mcdaniel is IT
yidently prime favorite with high "
,hool audiences and with her mates. +,
ISIS Mcdaniel is entirely at home on
e platform, can be counted on to
1ow her selection thoroughly and
Is very pleasing presence. =
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The Valedictory. n,
The honor of delivering the valedic- al
ry oration was, by all accounts of N
e young mans scholarship and by the q,
Iuality of the Grafton itself and it's Sc
e delivery, awarded to the person dl
lily entitled to it. Walter Sandelius of
his lengthy and meritorious oration m
Public Education and it's Relation ia
True Citizenship" presented an adj ca
ess that both in ideas and compost m
n might have done credit to a young at
In at least ten years his senior be
% methodical arrangement Of his
bject matter and his clear and force co
delivery combined to hold the at Mi
ltion of the audience to subject Ca
ich in less skilful hands might have tn
IN rather tedious from its abstract
5ure. The few appropriate words of tn,
ewell that closed his Grafton were gil
,ken with noble sincerity that tn,