Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-09
AT THE HIGH SCHOOL
By John SOrrells.


 Seniors ay, the day of all days cherished by the seniors, will be a feature of the graduating exercises of the present senior class at the High school this year. Seniors Day is an old custom and dates back into anti quity, but this year will be the first in the history of the school that it has bee na part of the commencement exercises. Every college of any note has it's Seniors Day, and lately the High schools, following the custom of the colleges, have made this a part of their exercises. Seniors day at the High school will be held the day be- fore regular commencement night. The idea is to have a literary program on this day and the formality of graduation will take place on regular commencement night.
 The main idea of the day is levity; joyous comical levity. Al! formalities will be dispensed with and the digni- fled seniors will cavort and gambel as little children. All kinds of fun will be heartily indulged in. Every feature of the program will be carried out with utmost gravity and overdraWn seriousness. Everything will be exaggerated in a serio-comic manner.
 The details of the program have not been arranged but the main features have been worked out. Early in the morning of the day proceeding the regular commencement exercises, the senior class will lassemble in body at the High school. There in cap and gown they will march around the campus a couple of time, singing the class song. This is merely to get limbered up for the more strenuous activities to follow. After this little warming up exercises they will as- semble on the sward in front Of the school building and the day of comedy will begin in earnest.
 The first number on the program will be farewell sermon preached by one of the members of the class. In deep and sepecutal tones, qulver- ing with suppressed emotion, and amid the weeping and wailing of the class he will bewail the fact that High school days are drawing to close: In sorrowful tones, choking with grlel he will bid farewell to the joys or lessons, and hard and harsh discipline. In mournful words will he picture the sorrows of leaving this haven Of hap piness. And at the conclusion or tnls narrowing service the class will sing the funeral dirge. And as the lugubriant dirge moans forth, tweive shrouded figures will emerge from the recesses of the building boarding a black oblong box. Solemnly and with measured step they will deposit the awsome coffin on draped platform Still chanting the grewsome dlrge tne Seniors will march around the coffln and as each passes it they drop III sorrow, blasted hope. care. Ane with tear brimming eyes the co11lI will be slowly, solemnly carried or and buried-in the basement.
 After the coffin has been reverent ly deposited in the archives or tnt school, the sorrowful seniors vii again assemble in front of the Dulid ign. and effegies, alas, effegies or tn' teachers will be burned. And as tn' flames fly high and roar, and cracKle the class will dance around the ire shouting and singing in huge glee And as the effegies of the teachers writhe and twist and wiggle in vail heat, all will join in the cry, si' simpter tyrannis. Then the elregle'