New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-25
Friends Seminary and the
Institut Tisne Hold
Exercises.
PACKARD SCHOOLS
GRADUATION TONIGHT
Brooklyn boys and Girls High
School to Produce Clyde
Fitch Play.

The commencement season all over the
country begins in earnest this week. From
colleges and preparatory and high schools
announcements Of graduation activities
are swelling the postal receipts. while the
dictionaries and encyclopedias are being
worked overtime in the preparation Of ora
tons. essays and theses
one Of the first graduation exercises OF
Importance TO be- held in this city will take
place tonight at Carnegie Hall. when the
fifty-sixth commencement OF the Packard
Commercial School will be held. Champ
Clark. Speaker of the House of Represent
atives, will make the address TO the gradu-
ating class The exercises. which will be
conducted under the supervision Of Alfred
e. Marling, will begin at o'clock.
Last Friday evening the graduating ex-
ercises Of the Institut Tisne, conducted at
5S3 West End av. by Nine. Henriette
Tsne, were held at the school. The pro-
gramrI1e included recitations In French
and English by members of the craduat-
ing class and the presentation OF Pour
I'm Hanneton," a French playlet; scenes
from Les Femmes Savantes." by Moliere
and the second scene OF the nth act oil
THE Tanning of the Shrew.'
Another institution which has already
turned its graduates for the year out into
the world is the Friends Seminary, which
closed last Thursday evening with eXer-
cises held in the Friends Meeting House,
at Rutherford Place and East 10th st.
The members Of the graduating class
were John Townsend Bancroft. Ida Miller
Dobler. Ida Luzerne Hodges, Donald Win
gate Lamb. Margaret Huntington Par
fridge. Esther Stiff and Perry Williams
Walker, At the exercises Perry Walker
read a paper on Summer Camps for
Boys" and John T. Bancroft read one on
Rudyard Kipling. The class history was
mado public by Miss Dobler, the prophecy
TOR the class was announced by Miss Par
fridge and at the conclusion of the enter
tanment diplomas were presented by Ed
ward l.. Rawson.
The gift Of the graduates TO the school
was book rack containing periodicals for
a year. An informal reception in the
gymnasium followed the exercises
Despite the interest in graduation at
Tome School, students there are also
eagerly discussing the possible chances OF
the football team of that institution next
fall under the guidance Of new coach
lie is Albert C. Miller, former captain OF
the University OF Pennsylvania varsity
team, who, since being graduated four
years ago. has been one Of the coaching
staff Of his alma mater. Miller was picked
for the. all-American eleven, and Is Gener-
ally acknowledged 10 be the originator OF
the spiral forward pass. Students at
Tome expect to down every opposing
school next fall with the team which
they are relying on the skill Of Miller to
develop.
on Friday and Saturday evening OF this
week the dramatic societies Of the Boys
and Girls High schools, of Brooklyn, VIII
present at the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn,
CLYDE Fitch's play. "The Stubbornness oil
Geraldine" The production comes as
part Of the annual graduation exercises, to
be held next month.
The play will be produced under the di-
rection of Alfred A. Tausk The cast ana
the parts each member viii play are rs
follows:
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