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Show GRADUATION EXERCISES HELD j ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN STUDENTS STU-DENTS GET CERTIFICATES. Proud Fathers, Mothers and Numerou Friends Gather at Tabernacle to Hear Eighth Grade Program. One hundred and thirteen students yesterday finished their work in the eighth grade of the city schools and are now eligible to matriculation in the Ogden high school, it is said by the superintendent that the usual percentage per-centage of the students who graduated yesterday will enter the high school. In former years fully "85 per cent of the students graduating from the eighth grado in the city have been enrolled en-rolled In the high school work and it is expected that this year will be no exception to the rule. In fact, it Is said by the school men, the application applica-tion for entrance into the high school is so heavy that it will place the school hoard at Its "wits ends" to furnish accommodations ac-commodations for- tho influx, at the present time. Under present conditions, condi-tions, it is argued by the superintendent, superinten-dent, it . is quite a serious problem with the board of education to furnish high school accommodations. This Is the midwinter, graduation and It means that not only more room will be required for accommodation of the graduates of yesterday, but that It necessitates a reorganization of classes class-es In the courses required by the new students. The building of the now high school this ear will obviate the trouble In finding room for the new students and will tend greatly to relieve re-lieve the situation regarding class organization, or-ganization, - Yesterday was "school .lay" for Og' den and . the boys and girls passing from the grade work to that of the high school were monarchs of all they surveyed. It was an excellent time for them and marked with emphasis an epoch in their school career. There was much jubllcatlon on . the part of the graduates and their class yells filled the air with a resonance of school ambition. The graduates, according to the statements of the teachers of the various schools of the city, are exceptionally good students and a high mark of merit Is expected of them in the high school work. The graduating exercises last evening even-ing were held in the tabernacle, which was filled to Its utmost-capacity, fully a thousand people being present, th9 great majority of whom were patrons of the schools. The program given was of exceptional merit and it was most gratifying to both the students and the parents. To select any particular par-ticular number, of special mention 'would be unfair to other numbers that were given. The entire program was splendid and the students are to -be congratulated for their excellent showing. show-ing. The program carried out was as follows: . Overture-T-"Martha" Flotow; High School Orchestra. Reading "Sky Pilot"; Katherlne Poe Kief, Mound Fort. School Duet "The Gondola" Bellamy; Opal Waldrou, Hazel Hall. Grant School. ' 1 Reading "The Vision of Sir Laun-fal" Laun-fal" Katie Drysdale, Vivian Peterson. Peter-son. Lewis School. Piano Solo "In Lustiger Gesell-chaft" Gesell-chaft" Dohn; Areta Cross. Dee School Piano Solo "KusshanJchen" Heins; Luella Wooley. Dee School. - Reading "The Kitchen Clock" Dorothy Do-rothy Armstrong. Madison School. Piano Solo "The Robins Return" Fisher; Iree Handley. Grant School. .. Recitation "Robert r of Sicily" Vera Lillian Frey. Mound Fort School Overture -."Among - the Lillles" Frey; High School Orchestra. Piano Duet "Rosetta" Bohn Kathryn Melvinj Florence Dlnsmore, Madison School. Recitation "An Appeal For Liberty" Liber-ty" Whitman; Nellie Scott. Washington Wash-ington School. . . Chorus "Whene'er a Snow-Flake Leaves tbe Sky" Eighth Grade Girls; Address of Welcome Steven Keogh, representing Student Body High School ; Principal -J. O. Cross, representing repre-senting the faculty. . . Response Minnie Leslie Grooms, Mound-Fort School. . Presentation of certificates. Overture "National Melodies" High. School orchestra, ' |