Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — THE CLASS OF ’95 [ARTICLE]

THE CLASS OF ’95

Graduated In Due Form Last Thursday Night. The Thirteenth annual commencement of the Rensselaer High School was held last Thursday night, at Ellis Opera House. And the names of eleven more promising young men and women were added to the now quite notably large list of alumni of the school. A very large and very respectable and attentive audience was present, and the net proceeds of the small admission fee, will leave a surplus of SSO or S6O for the school library. The stage was very handsomely decorated with flowers and drapery. The various subjects treated by the graduates in their themes, were distinguished by their common-sense character, and the thorough and thdnghtful manner in which they were treated, was a conclusive evidence of the excellence of their school training. All of the essays and orations were very creditable productions, and some of them of most marked ability.

Earnest Wishard was first on the His subject was the recent war between China and Japan. Miss Letta Kohler came next, her essay being upon the subject, “Value of a High School Education.” “Geometry as a Trainer of the Reason” by W. H. Parkison. “The Character of Napoleon” by H. A. Flynn. “Examples of Great Lives” by Miss Flora Harrison. “Riley and Bums,” by George Collins. “The Quaker Poet,” by Miss Orrie V. Clark. “Why Study Latin,” by Miss Fannie McCarthy. “The Young Man in Politics,” by Roy Blue. “Developement of the English Language,” by Miss Pearl Wasson. “The Paradox of Large Cities,” by Berl Richardson. Were the subjects of the others, in the order of their delivery. Excellent music for the occasion was furnished by the Citizens’ Cornet Band; and a solo by Mrs. ,and a quartette by Miss Flora Whsrton, Dr. H. L. Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. Paradis. M. F. Chilcote, Esq. President of the School Board, presented the diplomas.