Show THE GRADUATION Fitting Exercises of the Collegiate Institute Last JCvciiIiicr The scene presented at the Presbyterian Presbyter-ian Church last evening was at once an inspiration and a prophecy An inspiration tion t those who amid many discouragements discourage-ments have toiled year after year in the cause of education in Utah j a prophecy to those who can look beneath the surface sur-face and behold in events like thin the promise of a peaceful moral revolution here in our midst And to the mind of every student the exercises brought back memories of other scenes of other days of flowers and tears of high hopes and palpitating hearts of hearty congratulations congratula-tions and tender farewells Graduation is the crowning event of the students career reer and right fittingly was it celebrated last evening when tile class of 1887 of the Collegiate Institute appeared for the last time in public before their friends to bid them welcome and farewell The church was handsomely decorated with flowers and crowded with the friends of the graduates when at 8 oclock tho exercises opened with an instrumental in-strumental duet overture from Norma by Misses Mcllobbie and Mitchener of the class of 89 which was followed by opening prayer offered by Rev Alex Monroe of the Congregational Church A piano solo by Prof Kadcliffe was it is needless to say heartily applauded and was followed by the oration of Mr Walter JI Nichols i of the graduating Miss Dull whose essay was entitled I Let the Kings Daughter be all Glorious Within pleaded in behalf of higher scholarship enlarged opportunity and more elevated aims for woman Her was most pleasingly written and most gracefully read This closed the exercises so far as the graduating class was concerned I remained re-mained but for the Principal Prof Mills paugh to present formally the names of the members to the Board of Trustees with the recommendation that diplomas be awarded In the absence of the President of the Board this duty was performed by Mr Royle who in an appropriate and touching touch-ing address spoke the words of congratulation congratu-lation and farewell and presented the diplomas This was followed by an instrumental in-strumental duet by Miss Royle and Prof Radcliffe This was listened to with marked attention and applause I The exercises closed with a chorus by the older members of the school I Father 0 Hear us and the benedic iton pronounced by the Rev Monroe and then amid the profusion of flowers which had been sent them during the evening the fair and the manly gradu tats t-ats received the congratulations and j praises of their friends > The names of the class are John F I cass Critchlow Salt Lake City j Gertrude A Dull Salt Lake City j Carrie Enpstrom Salt Lake City Marion Gray Murray I Utah Moses I Morris Salt Lake City I Walter H Nichols Salt Lake City j I Albert C Staten Springville 1 i Three of these intend t continue their I studies in Eastern colleges is Dull I m Pennsylvania Mr Critchlow in New I Jersey at Princeton and Mr Nichols in Michigan at Ann Arbor |