Show WITH THE QftADTJATE Tenth Annual Commencement Exercises at St Marks Interesting and EntertainIng Themes Discussed cussed and a New Departure For the Schoot Announced The happiest day of any year is tho day upon which fond parents attend the exercises exer-cises of a graduating class containing a favored son or a favored daughter The tenth annual commencement of St Marks school was held at 1030 oclock yesterday morning and there was an attendance tendance that was in itself an index of the hIgh character of the school There are about two hundred pupils in al the grades of the school under charge of Mr J B Howard superintendent Bishop Leonard being the rector Mrs Webster i the first assistant in the high school Margaret Sanford having charge of the next grade Miss Ester Pettibone Miss Cora Eaton and Miss Jennie Pettibone also belong to the teachers corps The class of 1S91 included eight graduates who entered the school from 150 to 18b9 a follows filtered School TowardThomson TrutnboAug33 OslO Edward Wilkie Reese Sept 7 liflO Albert Pierce Taylor Sept 7 lbS5 Robert liiglow Stevenson uSept 7 ISiS Hattie Marie HoughtonAug 19 1ST3 KateMolinda Rands Aug 11 ISIS Clarinda Louenelta Wheeler uuAug 19 ISsTU Maude Mary SmithNov 18 haY The programme was opened by a piano duet nicely executed by Misses Crosby and Davy The first oration was by Edward Willie Reese who proved a worthy scholar and from the theme of his thesistThe Growth and Power of the Pressit is fair t presume pre-sume will some day become as worthy a journalist as he is I scholar Hattie Houghtons essay Women a Ministering Angels placed their dutiful spheres in the school the home and tbe hospital and the clear distinct and charm bospit cear lug way in which she read the paper would lead one to assume that Miss Houghton may have a place on the readers platform The programme was interspersed at this point by a song and chorus by the senior lags Kate Morlinda Hands had an essay on Night but she was excused rom reading iL itAlbert Albert Pierce Taylors oration on the Lamp of Learning was beacon light of inspired thoughts Mrs Norris ctributed a lullaby song which was a very welcome variation to the exercises and Mrs Norris was applauded ap-plauded by all the fair hands of the graduates as well as by the audience Maude Mary Smith chose for her theme Women in Literature and handled her subject with a familiarity of the best authors au-thors that indicated that she is a young lady of culture and thought herself Like all school girls she likes Louise Alcott the best and though a Democrat Miss Smith gave Mrs Slowe a high place in literature Robert Bigelow Stevenson must have a thoughtful mind or ho would not have chosen t Advancement of Science for his oration Clarinda Louise Stevenson read a cute and Kin taking essay on The Evolution of the I KinFor several years Bishop Leonard has I given a prize to the best scholar of the senior class and the winner of the Leonard i prize this year was Howard Thompson rrumbo whose oration The Prospector treated in an able manner the good result np from the hardihood of the prospector in discovering and opening up new mines ST MAUKS SCHOOL CHANGES Rev Abiel Leonard rector announces in a circular that tho time has come when a change is demanded in St Marks school the circumstances which called it into e stenco having practically passed away ANNOUNCEMENT Prof J B Howard principal in his announcement an-nouncement states that it will be the aim of tie schocl to give firstclass preparatory for any college or ccientific school and to give u thorough course of a business and general education SCHEDULE OF STUDIES English Grammar and composition rhetoric English and American literature llatbemutcAritbmetic algebra geometry geom-etry History United States history and civil government Englisu Roman Greek and general history ancient geography and mythology Natural History and Sciences Physiology Physi-ology botany physIcs chemistry physical geography geology astronomy LatinGrammar and lossons prose composition com-position Caesar Sallust Virgil Cicero Greek Grammar and lessons prose composition Xeuopbon Homer Modern Languages French aid German Ger-man Business Branches Bookkeeping commercial com-mercial graphy arithmetic typewriting and steno |