Show oratorical contest divided THREE PRIZE MEDALS leona carrel won the gold medal miss hines graduates the proctor academy was scene of beally last evening when duent exercises were held tee dais at the west end of the larze hall had been appropriately decorated not profusely but artistically with fl awers ooma elegant formed the back ground and a few pictures on eadels easels with one or two little stacta and pome raps made the platform look as homelike ae a parlor there was large audience present at prof ansa entered the hall with mis hines the academic iralu ate on his arm followed br the promoted from other departments after prayer by rev rose the regular program of the evening as before printed in wae followed there were twelve corn in prize and all did well bat the audes awarded as follows first prize a irold medal leona carrel of the G ammar grade for her excellent rendition of an extract from the birds christmas carol second prize a silver medal harold amens ot the aci grade for lis clever rs citing of pats bolsman third prize a silver medal millie the grammar grade for the way rhe recited bonev auak misa ainee tho graduate read the following gra calire eg eay entitled eo titled songs iii many keys in olden times ahn blobs boobs were bearce the minis treis visited hauae to house singing poems of war ana adventure and alu i rhymes of history and adventure have been brought to os by bong As time ralls on and books multiply our poets of the present ae sing their songs but in many different aeja the keynote of nature has been struck by many of our american poets longfellow whitter Whit tir bryant and others Longfellow a hiawatha unfolds tc us tbt beauties of american wilds and indian life iia da scribes the silent valleys the maa aud the cornfields beyond which blood the forests and grove ol 01 ye who love haunts of nature ya buo love the nations alexenda lex enda ye whose beans are fresh and aima lo 10 aing the hiawatha in this aoam one seea not only the of natura but lacarna of our nation and its legends the indian villager vill agea and our grand old forests which longfellow has pictured so beautifully ara eyan mora interesting to those living where no bavage race dwells in the woods and foresta fo reeta as in our own land whittier in bis snow bound pictures to us a snow in a country village near tb e coast of maine TUB whited air blab hills and wooda i aid veils tho farm bouse All friende are shat out and the bonse hold bit around the fire placa away the honra bj and cracking nuts until the paths are cut through the enow and they are once more free to join the outside world the tent on the beach ches to us another phase of nature the tide of tho ocean and in the distance the oak forests the lull tide represents or youth the ebb tide our last as the stream ef life sweeps away ayery thiap la its path bryant atri ing a minor key often the sadder side of nature in which seen the clouds of life are the sad pathetic scenes of parting he pictures taft happy where sorrow and separation are unknown in he speaks of nature as having many languages in our gayer hours she has a voice of and when the darker come manre steals away their charp ness before we are aware when we are thinking of death and the last sharp agonies by coing out into the fresh air amuck the trees aad floberg flo we recall a line from another poet and are reminded that oura la iha cammon fite of all and are taught i by nature to aliye a life this is expressed by bryant in these beautiful worda bo that aby summons comes to join the innumerable caravan moves to anat mysterious realm when each shall take his in the silent halla of death thou go not like the quarry slave at night scourged urged to bis duncheon dun ceon but sustained and by an unfaltering trust approach thy arave like one who wraps aba drapery of his couch about him and lies down to dreams bat we are not limited to the minor keys of poetry but as we pass down the scale we bear roana major chords struck some poeta who have written many things of nature and touched upon religion haya also written boemi in a hu syle others in one porm have combined humor and pathos ag holmes in bin poem the lost leaf how pa is this thought the mossy marbles rest on the lipi that he baa creased in their bloom and how quickly he appeals to our sense of humor when be bays 1 I know it a a sin for me to sit and trin at him here but the od abree cornered hat and the breeched and all that are so queer again the minor chord but if I 1 should live to be the lae leaf on the tree let them emile as I 1 do now I 1 at the old forsaken boub where I 1 cling we owe much to our as tle people of timea did to theirs and when we are tired and worn by reading some soothing sentiment we refreshed and comforted com fortel poetry ia to us what flowers are to nature we could exist without either but it would make life bare and dreary at the conclusion of the reading prof huge presentad preb miss bines with the diploma saying he was authorized by the new west mission board to award the diploma upon aber having completed a three years course in english literature the were floral tributes galore for taking part and mies linnea was fairly loaded down with |