New Britain herald., 1925-06-27

as hint that I wasn't wanted. so I went up to my room and went 10 bed.
 That night I dreamed that I was locked up in bass drum and a drummer was poundin' on the out side and they was q lot of them other iAtrumehts in the drum with me and they was all a-playin' like ricky and they sounded like that dance = or the time tho boys drank all that elder.
 This fig the season of the year when it's all over. even the com. mencement Tho old grads flock back to the colleges like honing pigeons and fly about in weird cos tunes which arc fiashier than even the most condemned young cake. eater would venture ferth in. Par ents of the graduates fill the halls at high school, grammar school, nor. nal school, military school and oth- CT school graduation exercises. Ma turally, though, many are unable to attend any exercises while no one can attend them all. Therefore. for the benefit of our hungering readers. we present herewith a composite i, program of the ceremonies conduct cd everywhere throughout this ad- mittedly broad and allegodly dry land. .
 First, there was a class day or V night. At this tho class historian arose, told how the good class Of '25 surpassed those of other years, and thrilled his readers with the iisi of class officers elected each term. The class will was read. The head of the institution received the affec- ton and gratitude of the class; the instructors were given its thanks; the class of '26 received condolences that it could not equal the class of '25 and also all stray textbooks, cuts and passes; the school in general was bequeathed several questions. dealing mainly with words such as Walker, Hale and Butler which were 1spelled, as here. with initial capitals. The class prophet loosed his light. ming; in the future, the class presi- dent was 10 attain the chair now &held by Calvin Coolidge, while oth- CTS would be movie actors, lawyers, doctors. beauty shop proprietors. generals and bootblacks, with the less known classmates bracketed to- gether in an 1T saw there with him" sentence.
 Second, there was the commence. ment day itself. The salutatorian welcomed the guests and parents in excitingly usual terms The valedic. torian spouted at length on the vir- tues of, his alma mater, emitting such things as cranky instructors. failing pupils, financial difficulties, and fraternity dances. At the col leges he orated in Latin, so the audi ence let 1t go peacefully over its col lective head. At lesser institutions. he spoke in alleged English. which was worse because the listeners tried to understand 1t. A learned doctor, general author. attorney or city official delivered the address of the day, calling attention to the hitherto neglected fact that these young men Cor women) were going forth to take their places in life, starting the < original line Of thought that they must always strive to do their best in spite of the temp tations which interruptions individ- uals would cast in their way. and bringing down the house with the
 unprecedented statement that youth is the hope of the world.
 The diplomas were then passed out, and of course Michael Aloysius
 McBriarty got the one intended for Benjamin Isaac Krakovitch.