The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-02

High School.
the commencement exercises of that
institution, held at the opera house
last night and attended by an audi
ence that filed the auditorium to
overlooking. An elaborate program Of
features of which were the singing Of
the School Glee club, composed of col
ored girls, instrumental solos and we'll
prepared orations and essays by mem
bers of the graduating class.
The graduating class Of 1914 was
composed of ten girls and two boys,
compared with four graduates a. year
ago and but two at the 1912 exercises.
The stage was prettiIy decorated for
the occasion with ferns, palms and
vines, with a background of roses, and
the graduating class and members of
the class of 1915 occupied chairs upon
the stage with members of the faculty
and visitors. A feature of the decora-
tons was a banner bearing the class
mottoS Climb Though the Rocks Be
Rugg9h" The program was as fol-
lows.
SeIection-N. N. Bennett-Orches-
ira
Invocation-Rev r. H. Danes.
(a) Morning Greeting. - Frank
s sehnDsrt sO2 ye aAl Hal c,ub Sweet
Essay, Racial SoHdarity'-F1or-
ence bessie Mae Marshall
Summer Wind''-Edward Meadow
eIl-Glee Club.
Grafton. THE Value of Physical
Education. Leon Levard Colbert
Violin Solo,. B. Singale, op. 93-
Andrew Preer.
Grafton, Bending the Twig'-Julian
Maximillian Kelly.
Hope - Giacona Rossini Glee
Club.
tory''-Nellie Beatrice Hubilee Hicks.
For Get Ne Not"-Frank Supple
Arr A Parks-Glee Club.
Essay, Climb Though the Rocks Be
Rugged Arletaia. Sunday.
Tripping Ger the Hill"--From Carl
Annual Address The Goal of Life
and How to Reach IC'-By Rev. J.
L, Wilson, D. d. New Orleans. La
Piano Solo, "Reverie'-M. n. Ben
nett-Wheeler Louise Ridley.
Presentation Diplomas-Rev. G. W.
Lewis. A. NJ, D. =.
Fare Thee Well Beloved Home
land'--kjeruf Arr-Glee Club.
Benediction--Rev. ]. H Davis.
Annual Address.
The annual address to the gradual
ing class was delivered by Rev. J. J.
of the largest colored Methodist
churches In New Orleans. His Grafton
was upon the subject, The Goal of
Life and How to Reach It." and the
greater part Of the address was de-
voted to the dignity OF labor In the
beginning the speaker congra tulated
the people Of Pensacola upon the mag
ntflcent high school they had erected
for the benefit OF the colored race and
expressed regret that the city of New
Oarleans, although containing 100000
negroes, had not vet provided similar
Wilson talked at considerable length
upon the necessity for work as we'll
as the necessity for a single aim in
life; a. definite purpose, he said, was
necessary to success. There is no
disgrace in labor-Inanual labor" he
said, "for 1T is better to be a good
manual laborer than It is to be a
second class school teacher who gets
his certificate because of favoritism:
IL is better to take in washing at IS
cents a day than to be a dude or
dudess with an unpaid for suit of
clothes on Determination, coupled
with common success and. above all,
q desire TO do right and earn an non
est living. was the solution Of prac-
tically all of life's difficulties
Growth of the School.
The colored high school has an en-
rollment of over $50 pupils. ranging
upward from the fifth grade. Seven
wars ago the present school was con-
ta4ned in a little building on West
GrSgory street, with $50 children and
5 teachers. L. A. Kirksey has been
principal Of the school for the past
seven terms and is ambitious for the
establishment of departments where
manual training for boys and domestic
science training for girls will be posi-
BILE. Principal Kirksey is a graduate of
Knoxville college, where he completed
a classical course and had considerable
experience in teaching before coming
TO Pensacola Speaking of the work of
the school yesterday he expressed the
highest appreciation of the efforts OF
the board of education to provide am
pie facilities for the colored children.
He said the work was now going along
nicely, but that the addition of manual