The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-11

and at severing our class relations But in
| stead of sorrOwing over tn end ct these days
let us rather rejoice at finding ourselves at tn
portals of manhood and of womanhood; at see
ing before US numberless opportunities TO
putting to practical use the many thing
toward which we have been striving and turn
| ing our first and greatest efforts. Indeed, tn,
very name Of these exercises, commencement
emphasizes the beginning of business life ant
Of citizenship.
We have often heard people wonder, an,
probably we have often wondered ourselves
why the term commencement should be applied
to the last week of four years school or col
lege course; but it we stop to consider the rea
meaning of this last week, we shall soon see
new appropriateness and deep signi6cancs
in the expression.
And now we must say farewell to our teach.
fellow students. Nevertheless we shall moi
forget the help of these friends while we were
in school, no matter how we may be associated
hereafter; recollections of the faithful worl
and planning of our superintendent, and o1
our school committee; thoughts of the kline
and generous guidance of our patient teachers;
"reminiscences of the loyalty of our school.
mates-these will not be short-lived memories
they will remain with US forever and will in
! fuence. even decide. perhaps, the critical mo-
Iaents of our lives
We shall always think of our school days
and particularly of those spent in Belfast High
School, either with pleasure or with dissatis.
faction. We shall either delight to dream OF
the many hours of work and of play passed
there, or we shall regret them. But we have
tried to keep our records free from hlots, and
there are certainly many bright things over
which we may rejoice; and above all we must
and shall do our best not to allow the same
blots to recur in our life-records. And now,
as we close this period of our lives as we shut
ha n of sob 1.6a
we feel. perhaps unconsciously, the same emo
tions which Longfellow experienced when he
wrote his
"Morituri Salutamus:''
Whose hand shall dare to open or explore
These volumes. closed and casped forevermore?
Not mine. With reverential feet pass;
hear a voice that cries, "Alas alas
Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written DER ag ain;
The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be. -
Mayor Dunton then presented the diplomas
after brief and appropriate remarks to the
class, in which he expressed the hope that the
next graduation would take place in the new
school building.
Next in order was the singing of the class
ode, with the graduates in their caps and
gowns in line across the front of the stage,
The ode was written by Miss Frost and was
sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne"
CLASS ODE.
Tonight we part. no more to meet
AS in the happy days
When we as schoolmates gathered here:
But 60 our separate ways.
Though parted we will not forget
The ties that bound US here,
Nor teachers kind whose helpful words
Have filled our hearts with cheer.
We've worked together all the years
And helped each other on;
And though we part, we have no fears
For what the years may bring.
Then to our schoolmates kind and true
And teachers now goodby,
Our fond farewell we sadly give
To dear old Belfast High.
MYRTLE EvANGELINE FROST
The closing chorus "a Summer Holiday" by
Sullivan. was sung by the school, and was follow.
ed by the school song, written after the "Stein
Song of Maine," by Lincoln Cocord, which
was repeated in response to insistant applause
by the audience
The exercises then closed with the benedic-
tion by Rev. Walter F. Sturtevant.
THE CLASS OF 1914. Ida Sarah Carleton
Agnes Mary Coombs, Malcolm Leroy Cottrell
Margaret Murray Craig, Myrtle Evangeline
Frost, Marian Virginia Hayes, Louise Caroline
Innes, Alton Leroy johnson, Carl Lewis Noyes
Evelyn Augusta Richards, Alphonso Thomas
Ritchie, Clyde Norman Shorey, Myrl g. Smith
Ethel Marion Sturtevant, Malcolm Vaughan
Airline Annette Wadlin, John Franklin Water.
man, Sarah Esther Wiley.
THE TEACHERS. Clarence William Proctor
Melvena Valentine Parker, Leona Josephine
Achorn, Marian Hazeltine, Onie May Banks
Elbridge Simmons Pitcher.
NOTES.
The young ladies of the Junior class ushered
The gradua ates were photographed Saturday
in group, with their caps and gowns, at Tut.
ties studio.
The music was furnished by the school cho-
rus under the direction of the musi. teacher
Mr.. E. S. Pitcher, and the school orchestra,
Misses Carleton, Frost and Macomber, Messrs.
Ritcnie, Waterman, Wood and Parker.