Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1917 — FINAL DAYS OF SCHOOL YEAR HERE [ARTICLE]

FINAL DAYS OF SCHOOL YEAR HERE

Public Schools Will Close Next Wednesday and Will Be Followed By = Commencement Thursday.

The final week of the school year of the Rensselaer public /schools is here. Wednesday, May 30, will see the closing of the schools fojf the hot summer months and the small boy will shout with glee as he is turned loose from what he considers imprisonment, for three long months, when he will have the opportunity to roam at his heart’s content. The final examinations have been discarded this year, the faculty considering them unnecessary, and school will follow the regular routine until the very last moment. The final week is considered to be cleaning-up time, the closing of school accounts and a casting up of results accomplished. In this year’s graduating class are twenty-four young men and women and the social activities for them will start Friday evening, Mav 25. W’th class night, which will be held at the high school auditorium. An address by the class president, the Senior charge, the Junior response, the class prophecy, the class will, the class history and the class poem and song will be given on that evening. Musical numbers by the quartet, high school orchestra and solos will follow. On Saturday the Seniors will hold a class picnic, where they will have a chance to mingle together as a class before departing for the trip into the world as men and women. On Sunday night the Baccalaureate sermon will be given at the Presbyterian church ana will be delivered by Rev. F. H. Beard, of the Baptist church, assisted by the other ministers of the city. On Monday and Tuesday evenings the high school play, “Diamonds and Hearts,” will be given at the Ellis theatre. . On Wednesday evening the SeniorJunior reception at the armory will occur. Commencement evening, May 31, will wind up the school careers of the twenty-four members of the graduating class. President Stone, of Purdue University, will deliver, the address to the graduates at the high school auditorium and the diplomas will be presented by the president of the school board, A. H. Hopkins. The Alumni Banquet, always one of the most enjoyable features of the graduation week functions, will occur on Thursday evening, June 1, folIbWing which the school year of 1916-17 will pass into history.