Newark post., 1919-06-18
Graduates Will Seek
Higher Education
Fifteen to Enter Local Colleges
DR.. Smith Burnham Delivers
Annual Address

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One of the largest classes ever
graduated from the local high
school received their diplomas on
Friday evening in the Opera
House. Eleven girls and ten boys
constituted the class and called
forth compliment from the
speaker of the evening because of
the unusual number of the latter.
The academic procession con-
slsting of the Seniors, the Juniors,
the faculty and the Board of Edu-
cation formed at the high school
and marched to the Opera House
stage where they were seated with
the Seniors occupying the first two
rows. After music by the orches-
ira under leadership of Paul Steel,
the invocation was asked by Rev.
erend William J. Rowan. A brief
address by Johnson Rowan, chosen
representative Of the class, follow
ed. His subject was versailles,
1871-1919." He contrasted the
scene enacted there in II when
the Germans were victors with
that at the present time with the
Allies making the terms. He gave
clear summary Of the conditions
and raped incidentally that
noble pile of bricks that has hous-
ed US for the past four years." A
piano solo, "Violin Concerto" by
Bach, was rendered by Elizabeth
McNeal.
Professor Smith Burnham of
West Chester, delivered the annual
address to the graduates and pat
rons of the school. To the latter,
particularly, he addressed his re-
marks, for he said, "At no other
time are so many of them to be
found in any one place"
He made an earnest plea for the
right kind of high school and for
compulsory secondary education,
basing his argument on the fact
that the modern high school in the
East particularly, is designed as
a preparation for the per cent of
the school population who enter
the professions and ignores except
in broad cultural sense, the 95
tper cent who enter fields other
than the professions.
, He ventured the prediction that
before this generation shall have
passed away, the state will awaken
from the trance of ultra conserva-
tism and provide the kind of edu-
cation that will aid the youth of
the country to fit themselves for
living useful lives.
Professor Phineas Morris, prin-
cipal of the school, in presenting
the diplomas gave some excellent
advice to the students concerning
universal brotherhood and recited
"The House by the Side of the
Road"
He called attention to the graft
flying fact that the ten young men
had signified their intention Of
seeking higher education and had
filed applications for college en-
trance. The statement that nine
out of this number will attend
Delaware College evoked much ap-
plause. Six of the young women,
he said, had filed applications for
entrance to the Women's College
and others would probably do so.
Diplomas were awarded TO Sarah
: c. Brown, Emma E. Dayett, Mar
tina B. Derrickson, Edith M. Ed
manson, Marion Gallaher, Edna E.
Greene, Alice E. Jacquette, Gladys
E. McAllister, Elizabeth R. Nc
Neal, Edith E. Wollaston, Martha
L. Wollaston; Thomas P. Arm
strong, William E. Bland, H. Wal
f lace Cook, George S. Mitchell, R.
Earle Ramsey, Carl E. Riley, Gran
= vile S. Robinson, E. Newman
Rose, F. Johnson Rowan, John D.
Williams.
! At the request of Mr.. Morris the
graduates sang their class song
, and the benediction was pronounc-
ed by DR.. Rowan.