Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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JVIadison's First Glass. It is with pleasure that we greet the first class to graduate from the Madison High school. hist year, the first class ever graduated in the county went out from the Norfolk High school. This year there are two eloMes—Norfolk and Madison—aggregating just twice the number of last year's graduates. This plainly attests the progress of educational affairs in the county. May the good work go on. until every country, village, and town school in the county will have a systematic, graded course of study, and induce more young people to pursue it to completion. The motto of the ‘90V at Madison is, ‘‘Not how much, but how well.” The c.lass iscom(Kitkd entirely of young ladies, whose names are as follows: Delbert 1). Antisdel, Addie L. Hodges, Nellie M. Davis, Kittie A. Coope, 1‘hebe S. Wills, Maude M. Hodges, Kate C. Bohannon. The following is the program of their graduating exercises: Overture—“The Belle of the Village”—Bull ini, ... Orchestra. Invocation,.........................................Rev. J. L. St. Clair. Essay—“Influence of National Monuments,” - - - Nellie M. Davis. Music—“Hark the Distant Hills with Music,”—Jacob . - - (Quartette. Essay—“Patriotism,” ...... Delbert D. Antiatdel. Essay—“Roman and American Homes, - - • Kate C. Bohonnon. Music—“Song of Niagara.”—Op. Verdi, .... (Quartette. Essay—44 Westminister Abbey,” .... Maude M. Hodges. Oration—“Our Destiny,” .......................Kittie A. Coope. Music, -.............................................' Orchestra. Essay—“Power of Example, Phebe S. Wills. Valedictory—“Earth's Battlefields,” ... Addie L. Hodges Music—“Dam e Song,”.......................................0,,iir tte. Presentation of Diplomas. l r. F. A. Dong. Class Prophecy,....................................Lena Thompson. Overture—‘‘The Black Qtn eii,” Orchestra.

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 thk mij.kstonf. in this Hero. All that distinguishes us from the pagan world, all that makes us what we are and stimulates us in the task of making ourselves better than we are is Christian worship. The worship of Jesus Christ is the very fountain head of everything that is desirable and praiseworthy in our civilization, ami this civilization is the flower of time. Humanity has reached its noblest thrift, its highest altitude of excellence through the influence of the worship of this ilivine hero, Christ.

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Graduating Orations. THE PRICE OF OCR HERITAGE. SALUTATORY ORATION, CLASS 0? '90. Tiik index of tin: peopled universe points, in this age, to an era of wonder fully great institutions. The cycles of time have retorded with each rev olution, changes in governments, forms of religion, art and customs. 1 lie advance of age solidifies progress into more permanent and enduring organization. Good or evil, truth or error, the beautiful or the vulgar, may assume shape that must enlist the hard hand of an age to erase its structure. Hut notwithstanding the ve.dict of the more dyspeptic mind of man, the advance of time has 1»een a refiner of the institutions of all nations. Who would question in comparison the virtues represented in the Goddess of Liberty, anti the wild, frenzied lawlessness of those ancient Goths, who, it is said, sounded the tocsin of the first true principles of human liberty. Thrones once were chopped off by the headsman s axe, but now rulers may not fear such uncivil deposition. Art was great but not pure. Much of education was rooted in infamy. No stake, or torture rack is endured under the ban of religious freedom, but instead, the little child may join in the intelligent music of Christian progress. In short, now, in this very epoch of wonderful splendor and power, nations are vicing with each other in contest for the loftiest standard of civil achievement. The fori most nations of the world are at peace. Aspirations are civil, progress cultured and ideal. The phenomena of great accomplishment is majestic to behold. Hut what has it cost? Grasp in one thought the endless panorama of the past, the vicissitudes, crises of war, and fevered panic in state and national life, and then