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Show ST. MARY' GRADUATES. Diplomas and Msdals Presented by St. Rev. Bishop Scanlan. His Lordship Rt. Rev. Bishop Scanlan Scan-lan presented the prizes and medals of honor to the young ladies of St. Mary's academy at the closing exercises of this well known institution on Thursday. Thurs-day. The six young ladies who received tjneir diplomas of graduation were Misses E. Frisbee of Colorado Springs; M. and L. HaLstead, D. Daly, M. Mc-Hugh Mc-Hugh and H. Santschi of thi? city. The following programme was artistically artisti-cally rendered: March, "After the Review," Chcnct, Orphean club. Chorus. "Ring Out, Wild Bcltf," Chopin-Vogrich, vocal class. Rhyming Couplets. "Cum Giano Salis," Miss L. Halstead. Piano duo, "Andante et Scherzettino," Chamlnade. Misses D. and E. Daly. Ca) "Barcarolle." Xichol-Hamma. (b) "Old Folks at Home," Myers, private vocal class. Misses N. Mahan. F. Donahue, H. Santschi. F. O'Neill. J. Dodds, A. Cos-grove, Cos-grove, F. Burton. M. Houtz, A. Mc-Intee, Mc-Intee, P. Golding, L, McHugh, A. King. I. Ryan, I.' Maestretti. L. Branning, C. r?nrmfr T. nntt T. Drnirno I" TMrU. ert, I. Kane and T. Guthrie. Essay, "A Plea for Optimism," Miss M. McHugh. Soprano solo, "Stella," Faure, Miss M. Houtz. Poem, "A Lake Lyric," Miss M. Hal-stead. Hal-stead. Violin. "Scotch Fantasia" op. 77, Guido Papini, Miss L. Root. Essay. "A Fine Art," Miss D. Daly. Contralto solo, "Eternal Rest," Pic-colomini, Pic-colomini, Miss N. Mahan. Poem, "In Rose Time," Miss E. Frisbee. Fris-bee. "Serenade," Becucci-Tomaso. Violins: M,isse3 D. Daly, E. Daly, M. Flumhof, L. Root, M. Desmond, M. McDonough. Cellos: Misses F. Burton, N. Mahan. Harps: Misses L. White, M. Hughes. Guitars: Misses I. Maestretti, M. Scott, C. Castles, A.. King. Piano: Miss Wright. 1 "Spring Flowers," Schamann, private vocal class. Conferring of graduation medals and diplomas. Valedictory, Miss H. Santschi. Addre?s to the graduates: Right Rev. j L. Scanlan, D. D. A feature in the music of the day-was day-was the performance of Miss N. Mahan of this city. This talented young woman has a voice ranging from the second C below the treblt staff to G above or one note above two and a half octaves. In fact she sings a regular baritone. In addition to that Miss Mahan is a good cello player; and a.a if this were not enough, she possesses pos-sesses special excellence in pastel, charcoal, china painting and pyro-graphy. pyro-graphy. All the instrumental work of the participants in the programme evidenced evi-denced care and study, and deserved the applause accorded them. With a Grain of Salt. Miss L. Halstead's essay entitle-d "Cum Grano Salis" was a witty and bright effort, the idna fr.lntr tr ho careful in accepting statements, to investigate in-vestigate the truthfulness of assertions before believing them. To Be vs. Not To Be. In her essay, "A Plea for Optimism." Miss McHugh urged that. TO BE is infinitely in-finitely better than NOT TO BE.. She advocated developing the flower of hope, and said that optimism and health mutually beget each other; predict pre-dict sunshine for the morrow. A Liquid Poem. Miss M. Halstead's poem, "A Lake Lyric," was a very prettily composed tribute to Utah's great inland sea, and showed good powers of versification. To Talk Well. Miss D. Daly, in her essay on "A Fine Art," described that as the art of conversation. To achievement in this, some are born, some achieve it and some havp it thmct n,,-. v,,..-. Tk speaker referred to the courtesy of good listening, and held that the success suc-cess of social functions depended on the good sense in conversation of the host as well as the guests. Moreover, conversation should be suited to the environment and the hour. Roses and. Valedictory. Miss E. Frisbee of Colorado Springs recited a well written poem entitled "In Rose Time:" and in her valedictory valedic-tory address, Miss H. Santschi of this city spoke in a philosophical way of the merging of the school life into the post graduate experience; and gave the customary academic farewells in poetic sentiment as well as with good advice ad-vice for the future. After the programme Rt. Rev. Bishop Bis-hop presented the graduates with their I diplomas, and then followed the bishop's bis-hop's address?, the text of which follows fol-lows in full, as reported bv F. E. McGurrin, Mc-Gurrin, who was in the audience: Bishop's Address. "Ladies and Gentlemen, and Young1 Ladies cf the Graduating Class: You have finished your course, and you stand before us 'today on the platform of graduation. On this day you take upon you a new life. Thus far your lives have been preparatory and ideal. Now begins the real, practical, and, let us hope, successful life. Success may not come to you at once it may never rome in that completeness and fullness in which perhaps you expected '' it. It is said that the mart tn'tho mr.- I ca of success is strewn with bursted bubbles, air castles, broken shafts and unfinished structures. You will have to grope your way over that difficult road. However, endowed as you are with intelligence, and good honest will, equipped with knowledge and determination, deter-mination, you can make your lives a true success even though your expectations expecta-tions may not be realized in- doing great things or in amassing great fortunes. for-tunes. v "Success is not to be measured by I great and brilliant achievements. The successful as a rule is made up of lit- . tie things. We read in the life of the I great Michael Angelo that on a certain I day a brother artist visited his studio, and looking around he saw a beautiful statue, perfect as he thought, and he complimented the great artist on its perfection. Michael Angelo said nothing, noth-ing, and his friend, the artist, departed. In a few weeks he came back and he saw the great master with chisel and hammer working around the eyes and the corners of the mouth of that statue, and he said: 'Why, what are you doing?' do-ing?' 'Oh. he replied, 'I am just rounding round-ing out this mouth and touching those eyebrows a little.' 'But, said the other, oth-er, 'these are small things.' 'Yes, said the great artist, 'but these are the things that give perfection to this statue, and whatever gives perfection to anything cannot be called small. So it is in life; your success depends to a great extent on little things, on the doing do-ing of trifling things, and strict attention atten-tion to these little things, despised and overlooked perhaps by others, and fidelity fidel-ity to the doing of your every day work and duty, will secure your success even though your expectations otherwise may not be realized. "Neither is success to be measured by worldly goods or riches, which frequently fre-quently captivate the minds of youth aisd unfit them for higher and nobler pursuits. The laborer is worthy of his hire, and when one's best, talent and energy are given solely to the getting of money, then much tha.t is creat and inspiring and noble in human life is neglected or lost, and nothing but a sordid and uncertain success is achieved. He alone is a success who. by probity of life, the worship of principle prin-ciple and fidelity to duty, has added something to the great storehouse of usefulness, and has made those around him better and happier. "You now, my dear young ladies, will enter upon a new life, and a grand future fu-ture opens before vou all: a future freighted with grand possibilities and terrible responsibilities; but remember you have the means to accomplish your purpose and' to succeed. You have health and strength and youth and intelligence, in-telligence, besides many other good qualities and characteristics. I have no patience with a boy or a girl having these things youth and strength and education who says, 'I cannot succeed.' suc-ceed.' You have onlv to will it. Your future will be just as you will it. There is an old German proverb that says 'Man can do what he wills when he wills what he can.' Can't you adopt that principle? If you are faithful. to the education, moral and Intellectual, which you have received In this institution; institu-tion; if you allov your heart to speak and act those hearts which are full of the grand t and most beneficent in-Kllncts in-Kllncts you will succeed. Hearts woinen'a hearts especially, so full of love and tenderness, and kindness, and I pity and compassion whut are all l these --placed in a woman's heart for, ' by the author of nature? They are placed there to be exercised for the happiness of fellow beings, and for their own happiness. Let thes? heart:; of yours guide you. They Avill do more good (o humanity the outpouring of those hearts In kindness and sympathy and charity and compassion and tenderness ten-derness they Will do more for civilization civil-ization and for the benefit and happiness happi-ness of our race than all your Intel- i lectual qualities, however great. "Enter then humbly upon the ocean of life. Work, work as if nature denied you everything except the power to work, with the assurance that not a drop from your brow shall be wasted. It may be that history a hundred year3 hence will not have any record of your doings, or of your great works; but what does that signify? A drop of rain falls into the stream . and the stream goes on to swell the river, and the river flows on forever. The famous German poet wrote these memorable word?: - 'He who has been of his day, has been of all time. He has done his duty, and has his share in the creation of things j eternal.' . . "Now, one would suppose that graduating grad-uating day Would be a day of Joy and gladness. Yet I noticed in your beautiful beau-tiful and touching valedictory, a tone of sadness and lonesomeness running, as if vou were loth to leave these hallowed hal-lowed walls and get away from those rules and regulations which in the past you looked upon as very severe. But , that Is a note of warning to you. Now when your mlndx ara ,calm and un- ! clouded by passion, you see clearly how thot'3 rules and regulations that you thoughtlessly regarded as severe, constituted con-stituted your real liberty; because liberty lib-erty consists not so much in the power of Kelf-acting, as in- the freedom from . being unjustly andinjuriously acted j upon. . I "I congratulate you once more, my dear voung friends, on having finished i your courtc. and. thank you, on the part of the sisters, for the. beautiful exam- j pie which you gave the young inmates of this institution, and wish you from, J ry heart every success and blessing i in life." I Work of Art. j In the exhibition rooms downstairs j was exhibited a large and varied array , of the handiwork of the students of the academy. Among these were many . worksjby pen, pencil and brush, highly creditable to the students. Specially noticeable among the collection were pen sketches and pastel by Miss Evans, Ev-ans, water color paintings by Miss Santschi, the valedictorian, who captured cap-tured a special premium. Miss Ashton has. some very fine efforts in pencil. The china painting and the fancy toilet articles were excellent, and the drawings draw-ings showed, too. a proficiency that spoke well for- the instruction given. Little Miss Neuhausen had very creditable cred-itable drawings. Comment on the ' work of the good 'sisters of St. Mary's academy acad-emy is needless, their life work is alone an eloquent tribute and commentary. commen-tary. The sisters look to the educa- j tion of women with ail practical earn- estness and enlightened, zeal and they seem to be endowed by God with many ', inclinations, tastes and talents that ; render their work always so success- j ful. May success ever attend the splen-I splen-I did work of St. Mary's academy. |