Junior Exhibition

The class of '01 bad the pleasure of holding tlie first junior exlilbltion in the no w High School Hall on last Saturdny evening. A splendid audience assembied to listen to the excellent efforts made by the eleven participante. The hall had been gracefully festooned by the seniors with the class colora and the platform was beautifully fringed with evergreens and plants whilo upon the rear wall hung a fine picture of the late lamented Prof. B. K. Nichols, above which in green, was the class motto "Nil Sine Labore, '91," and a wide drapery of the class colore from the center to the ends of the stage. On the face of the gallery slione forth in dazzling white the Senior class motto "Sapiens qui Assiduus, '90,'' and the senior class colors stretched from t he een ter of the ceiling to each end of the gallery. The Chequaraegons under the direction of Prof. Orin Cudy, furnislied the rausic and acqultted themselves admirably. Six gentlemanly ushers from the senior class pleasantly attended to the wants of the public. At 8 o'clock tlie members of the School Board took their seats on the platform and the participante filed in from the two platform doors witli Principal Pattengill and occupied the front row of chairs. The Chequatnegona led o IV witli a line selection which was followed by a very appropriate prayer by Rev. Dr. Bradshaw, tlien another selection of miisic. Next carne No. 1 on the program, an oration on "American Commerce" by Charles II. Duncan, who startled his audlence by Informlng them that our commerce was smaller in proportion to our size tlüiu any other nation's on the face of the eartli; then roused up all their patriotic ardor by revelllng in the glorious stniggles and triumphs of our navy in the early lifcot' the Republic in which we won the admiration of the worid, only to again let them down with the recitation of the sad decline In our navy and nierchant marine slnce those times and the terribly disastrous effects the absence of commerce had upon all branches of industry and the moral and lntclkctual prosperity of any natiën, uut il he linally ngain rckindlcd a faint spark of hope in their hearts by confldently assurIng them umi tUe Pan Ampriran Congress did not meet simply fur a. social chat but that we might aoon ezpect a revival of our decaying commercial interests. 2. Spcctacles", an essay by Jessie E. Midgley, in which she disc mrsed on the different kinds of spectaeles and their uses, both for our physicnl and mental and tbe identical paralle) actlon of both. The glasses of both must be kept bright and free from dust to accomplish tbe best resulta of aclearand unbleinished visión. The essay showed good de ptli of thought and was well prepured. 3. James 8. Handy in his orution on "Men who Cannot be Bought," warmed up to bis subject In a feeling manner and m.tde an earnest plea for the universal deinand for men who cannot be bought, men of character and etrenjjth like Sócrates of ancient times and Charles Suinner of modern times; men who dared stand up for and live up to their conyictions in deflance of a world of opposition. He fearlessly denounced the douiination ot wealthy and unprincipled men over the poor nnd ignorant and made an excellent impression of his abilitles on the audience. 4. Under this number came "Circles," an essay by Winlfred Orr, in which she eulogized the beauty and symmetry of the circle as compared with sharp, angular Unes. How life and the unlverse was made beautiful by a series of harmonious circles moving serenely and smoothly in all directions and manners from the innermost to the outermost. Her ideas wcre u bright conception on a most commonplace subject. Music by the Chcquamegons (comment unnecesary). 5. "Perseyerance, the Ally of Genius," was the subject of an oration by Claude J. Price. He proved by illustrations how the strongest kind of perseverance has often been necessary íor invento to bring tho most raluable inventions before the public, 8ucl), for Instance, as the -leamticKit by Fukon and the telegraph by Morse, botli of whom had to struggle against such obstinate public ridicule and opposition. 0. "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" was so charmingly reclteü by Eraily J. Pnrtii'lil that one could almost see the Piper ridding the villajje of the rats by drowning tliem in the i ver and then agiin in hts vengeance on tlie townspcople as he took all ihcir children into the great mountain to forever. 7. Ira Severance, of Walled Lake, gave "Some American Characteristics," putting gpeculittioii and ingetiuity In the front rank, nnd Indulged to some extent In humor, whieh took vcry plensant effect on the audience. 8. Florence E. Smilli tokl the "Story of a Pen," wliicli had an unq.ienchable (k'sire lo wrlte soinethiug lamous, until finally it was called upon to wrlte lts autoblograpliy for the Junior Ex. The Chcquameïons here anhi got in thelr work so splendiüly that they received an ovation trom the audience which would not be quelled until they responded a seeonü time. 9. Emily M. Treadwell jjraphic illy depicted "The Scholar'a Hope" froiu the time it sprouted in the primary grade up through the high school and unlversity and stretching beyond to a noble, honorable life and a grand eternity. 10. "Brazil and lier Dcposed Eni. peror," formed Ihe subject of an oration by J. Sterling St. John, of Illgbland, in which he feeüngly related the good trnits of the Dom Pedros and the great love and good will the deposed emperor yet beats toward bis o!d dominion. 11. Jeannette S. West, of Jackson, presented an es?ay on "Military Héroes," ably setting forth the striking contrast bi'tween Augustus Adolphus and Nnpo leon. Music and bcnediction closcd the exerclses. Taklnj all things into considflration, the champloiis of '91 did nobly. The charac'er and cholee of the subjects plalnly showed the splendid intellectual abilities and high chnracter Inherent in the class and when '91 goes forth into the world it will surely make a record that will relied credit and honor upon the institution under whose fosterlng care It has been brought lip.