Show IAN j UAL EXERCISES I i I j Held at the Collegiate Institute II I Lat Evening I j j MUSIC ESSAYS SPEECHES III I TH WHOLE PHOGEA3OIE A II CREDITABLE ONE I A Variety of Subjects Ably Handled I The Presbyterian Church Beauti I fully Decorated With Flags Bunting Bunt-ing and Class Mottoes List of I Those Receiving Diplomas II I I i The seventh annual graduating exercises I ex-ercises of the Salt Lake collegiate institute in-stitute were held last night at the First II Presbyterian church in the presence of a large audience The pulpit was profusely l fusely decorated with flowers and the national colors From an arch which I I was canopied with flags and bunting II was suspended the class motto in evergreen I ever-green letters Palma non Sine Pul vere I 98 in flowers was placed in the background 0 the side were seated the members of the class their performances per-formances being announced by Professor Pro-fessor Robert J Caskey principal of the institute I The programme opened by an En tranca March from the school Rev William Paden offered the invocation I in-vocation followed by a hymn Peace in I Our Time WHITE FLOWERS IN LITERATURE LITERA-TURE Miss Bessie Elda Hanks read an es iay entitled The White Flowers of I Literature The white flowers were I the children In literature references to the children were made by Shakespeare I Shakes-peare Goldsmith and Wordsworth but in the prose writers are the best pic j I tures Dickens was a master painter j I of child life George Elliott told seet I and simple stories of them but Hawthorne Haw-thorne gave the best delineations of childrens character GROWTH OF GREAT CITIES I Milton ST > rague delivered an oration on The Growth of Great Cities 11 which were vividly portrayed not only the growth of our cities but their great I interests and activities Fairyland Wrn1tzWas sung by a I chorus from the school I ENGLISH RULE IN INDIA I man essay entitled English Rule in India Miss Marie Anderson expressed I i tjie opinion that though in some respects I re-spects nglish rule had been weak yet many benefits and improvements had j j occurred Crime had been diminished I I a better government established and j industries develooed England herself I had also been greatly benefited from her Indian rule I BARBARISMS OF CIVILIZATION I Barbarisms of Our Civilization was the subject of James A Grahams orations ora-tions The Armenian massacre the destruction de-struction of the Maine and the oppression sion of Cuba were held up as glaring examples of barbarism THE NEGRO PROBLEM I In an oration on A New Home for Uncle Tom Mr John A Murphy presented pre-sented two propositions for consideration I considera-tion as a solution of the negro problem prob-lem 1 The education of the negro I w Colonization either in the United I States or Africa The schopl then rendered a selection I Thou Who in Might Supreme I Miss Lillian Chow rend an essay on i i The Children of Our Metropolis pre j I seating the elements that should enter into a happy home and drawing a contrast I con-trast of the wretchedness and evils of tenement houses with an appeal to society so-ciety to help such unfortunates I i THE WAR WAR I I Isaac Jennings Barnard spoke on In I ternational Issues of the Day chief am6ng which is the disintegration of China and our allabsorbing war with Spain caused by the oppressions of Cuba immediate intervention being brought about by the destruction of the Maine A chorus from the school sang The Shower Miss Nora Christiansen in an essay very brilliantly painted a Sunset Among the Rockies Miss Anna E Thorsens subject was Irithfr Far West describing western life and dwelling on the healthfulness of mountain climate The of thmountain clmate vastness of our mineral resources was emphasized empha-sized Where Are You Going To was the next selection by the chorus Professor Caske with appropriate remarks presented the diplomas After the hYmn Gcd of Our Father the benediction was pronounced by Rev R G McNiece Thegraduates were remembered with an abundance of flowers and received the congratulations of their friends THE GRADUATES t Marie Anderson 11t Pleasant Isaac Jennings Barnard Salt Lake City Lillian lan Clow Kaysville James Alexander Alexan-der Graham Salt Lake City Bessie Elda Hanks Salt Lake City John Andrew An-drew Murphy Dallas Tex Milton Southern Sprague Salt Lake City CERTIFICATE PUPILS TJ Nora Christensen Hyrum Anna Elizabeth Thorsen Richfield |