The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-27
High School Finishes
the Years Work
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Pensacola, and he spoke with personal
pride of the improvement in the school
system since that time, and of the
increased opportunities for education.
DR.. Murphee declared that the best
possible indication of the civic and
moral progress of a city may be best
judged by its High School, and gay
it as his opinion that public parks;
paved streets, electricity, and all of
the other modern improvements, do
not equal the advantages which ac-
crue to community from a well
conducted High School.
DIR. Murphee quoted statistics to
show the enlarged opportunities
which belong to the young man or
the young woman who graduates
from the High School, and closed
with scholarly tribute to the great
minds of the world which have con-
tributed to the wealth of literature
and erudition which have been hand
ed down through the ages, and with
a charge to the young men and the
young women before him to be strong
and valiant in their contest with the
world.
He referred to the fact that, not
withstanding that this is the largest
class graduated in the history of the
High School, there were more than
one hundred students in the fresh
man class, when these young men and
young women entered the High
School, and he spoke Of the lost OPP
portunities of those who would not,
or could not, take advantage of the
four years course, which would have
meant so much to their future.
He spoke of the wonders of the age
in which we live, and of the fact that
the inventions of the locomotives, tel
ephones, telegraph, wireless and other
marvels of the age have brought the
nations of the world into such neces-
sarily closer contact as to have pre-
cipitated a condition which renders
governmental procedure increasingly
difficult, and reminded his audience
that never before in the worlds his
tory has there been so great a need
for the educated man and woman.
EXCLAMATION CONTEST.
The chief feature of the evening
were the two defamation contests, in
the Expression Contest, in which Miss
Erma Graham, Miss Norma Holt and
Miss Minnie Reed competed, Miss
Holt winning the P. K. Yonge medal,
which was presented by the Rev. I.
E. Phillips.
Miss Holt showed not only train
ing in the role she portrayed, but I'M
usual ability as an actress, her voice
modulations and her approximations
showing her rarely gifted. But the
contest was very close, for in N
Graham and Miss Reed she had two
contestants who were not easily van
quished, each showing marked tai
eut.
In the contest for the defamation
medal offered by the West Florida
Grocery company, and presented by
Mr.. A. +. Faderick, Mr. Denzil Cole.
man won ever Bryan Vaughn anc
Reginald DeS:lva, giving "The DEATH
of Benedict Arnold" with splendid eff
feet. Reginald DeSilva was winner
Of the BIount composition medal
which was presented by Mr.. William
Fisher in the absence of Mr.. j.. H
Brown, who was called out Of the
city. Mr.. Fisher spoke of the fact
that the w. A. Blount composition
medal has been presented each year
to a public school student for the past
twenty years, and also called atten
ton to the fact that this was re
markable commencement not only
because of the large number of grad
yates, but also because the youne
men are carrying off so many of the
honors.
The Shakespeare medal was pre-
scented to Mr.. Clarence Friedman b.
Professor G. w. Coleman, the judge:
having been Mrs. Morris Bear, Mrs
Frank D. Tracy and Mrs. Fred Roege
The Alumni Medal, awarded fol
scholarship, which was won by Mr.
Claude Kugleman with record q
96.06, was presented by Mr.. BertraIr
Coleman, in a bright speech which
reflected the spirit of the association
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