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Show OUT IN THE WORLD. The Graduating Class of the Collegiate Institute Makes Its Bow. : ESSAYS OF UNUSUAL MEEIT. Commencement Exercises at St. Mark's School-Some Prize Winners-Beautiful Stage Decorations. The auditorium of the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church never before presented, so beautiful an appearance as it did last evening on tho occasion of tho ninth graduating exercises of the Salt Lake Collegiate institute. The entire interior was ono mass of floral decorations and the air was heavy with the perfume of roses. Hugo bouquets crowned tho altar posts while around them were twined garlands of fragrant blossoms. Just over the stage, exquisitely fashioned fash-ioned in evergreens, hung the class motto: "A Milestone The Journey Ahead." The capacity of the church was crowded to its utmost to accommodate tho parents aud friends of tho graduates. gradu-ates. , The exercises were excellent far beyond those of the average commencement commence-ment exercises. The audience appreciated appre-ciated this fact and admiring plaudits andllowcrs iu profusipn followed every effort. The graduating class contained seven members, Winifred Anderson, Blanche lola Hull, Jerome Orcutt Cross, Lulu Claire Ivie, Jennie Olivia Green, Earnest Earn-est Hitisdale liyors and Mollie Agnes Hull, Prof, Millspaugh made au excellent excel-lent master of ceremonies. The opening chorus, " How Beautiful Beauti-ful Upon tho Mountains," by the forty pupils of the institute was the excellent beginning of the unusually good programme pro-gramme The pupils passed on and off the stage easy aud gracefully, showing excellent drill. The prayer, an earnest and eloquent one, was offered by lie v. Mr. Forward of the Baptist church. It was followed by a quartette, "Daybreak," "Day-break," bv Peurct, by Misses Koyle, Hulburd, Bartlctt and Miller. "The Nibelungen Lied" was the subject of Miss Winifred Anderson's essay. It was a careful and very creditable cred-itable st udy of the romantic old German myth upon which tho immortal Wagacr lias founded his most famous opera. Miss Blanche Hull told about "Ready Made Clothing." The essay was au entertaining en-tertaining exposition of a matter of fact subject. Ready made clothing, she said, were a poor investment, equally in quality, lit aud appearance. In like manner 6ue would always tiud ready made characters wanting. For character charac-ter individuality was necessary, and the man who depended on standing in his father's shoes would always liutl them a tuistit. A well rendered solo by Miss Auderson intervened between the essay and Jerome Cross' oratiou. Mr. Cross had selected for his subject, 'Sherman's march to the sea" ami he described in eloquent words the victorious path of that little band of gallant soldiers. The Wasatch range is tho grandest range of the whole Rocky mouutaius aud American Fork canyon is the grandest grand-est canyon of. the Wasatch. In her essay Miss Lulu Ivie gave a pleasing description of tho natural scenery of this most beautiful of canyons. The essay was written insmpoth and graceful grace-ful language and was a superior piece of word painting. A solo by Miss Daisie Woods, -'The Gypsy" was one of the gems of the programme. It sparkled like a pure diamond in a setting of virgin gold. Miss Wood has a beautiful voice over which she has perfect control. "The evolution of the kitchen" was tho topic discussed by Miss Jennie Green. It was exactly what it purported pur-ported to be a practical exposition of the value of the culinary art as a factor in civilization. Tho burden of tho essay was summed up in Owen Meredith's words: "Man can love without love, What Is love but deceiving. He can love without knowledge, What is knowledge but grieving, But what civilized man can Live without dining." "The West" was gracefully described by Earnest Ryors in his oration and Miss Mollie Hull in her essay, "Women as History Makers," told of the members mem-bers of her sex who had accomplished great deeds. After a chorus by the pupils, the diplomas di-plomas were presented by Rev. Dr. McXiece. The doctor was in a happy vein. His address was brief. He said that he would pass on to them the three fold exhortation which the Historian His-torian Froude, in his address before tho students of St. Andrew's university in Scotland,, remiuded them had been given to their predecessors by the famous fam-ous reformer, John Knox, some 300 years before : ' 'To know God ; to stand by the good cause and to use their time well." After the quartette by Messrs. Watson Wat-son aud Hauerbach and Misses Bartlett and Miller, the audience was dismissed by the benediction by Rev. Mr. Forward. For-ward. ...... |