Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 9 CALENDAR OF 1 COMMENCEMENT WEEK. MAY, 1905. Sunday, May 21st. BACCALAUREATE SERMON, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, By Rev. C. B. Beckes. Thursday, May 25th. CLASS PLAY, “THE NEW HAMLET” (See page 10) MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE. Friday, May 26th. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE. Saturday, May 27th. ALUMNI BANQUET, CENTRAL SCHOOL. Monday, May 29th. JUNIOR RECEPTION TO GRADUATES, CEN- TRAL SCHOOL. PROGRAM. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES FRIDAY. MAY 26th. 1905, 8 P. M. MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE. Selection, ORCHESTRA Invocation, REV. J. H. O. SMITH “ Selection, ORCHESTRA Address, DR. SAMUEL FALLOWS “ Selection, ORCHESTRA - 6. Presentation of Diplomas, PROF. W. H. BANTA 7. Benediction, - - REV. H. B. BENNINGHOFF

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8 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL PIIGH GRADE BRAINS RECOGNIZE HIGH GRADE GOODS” .... I would rather make my announcement through the columns of the High School An- nual than any other medium. FIRST: — Because parents who take enough interest in their boys and girls to send them through High School are a desirable class of people to cater to. Young men and women who have gumption enough to get a High School education, as a general rule, possess High Grade Bra ins and can readily recognize High Grade Goods. SECOND: — People in general who read the High Schoal Annual show that they take an interest in educational affairs, which is the most esssntial factor for the welfare of any community and thus show them-selves to be desirable citizens. THIRD: — If I can successfully cater to and please this class of people and their friends, I feel confident that I shall have no trouble to satisfy the public at large. Now a word about my Famous “Crushed Fruit” Ice Cream Sodas and Sundaes. I make them just as good as I know how, using nothing but high grade material assisted by many years of valuable experience. I made good Ice Cream Sodas and Sundaes several years ago, but I can make them much better now. My increased patronage well shows that my efforts are appreciated, which is very gratifying and which cannot help but stimulate me to contin- ue to improve the quality of my goods, increase my facilities, and better my service, and in every other way conduct my business to the best possible ad- vantage for the benefit and comfort of my friends and patrons.

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10 HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL The New Hamlet. Intermixed and Interwoven with a Revised Version of Romeo and Juliet, Modernized Under the Light of Higher Criticism. - By William Hawley Smith and Family-- Farmers. (Intermixed and interwoven with a revised version of modern plays, and so gives it the right to rank with them Romeo and Juliet, modernized under the light of higher among the first. THE AUTHORS. criticism by William Hawley Smith and family, farmers.) FOREWORD. PROLOGUE. In deference to truth, it should b ' e stated at the outset Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show. that Bacon did not write this play. All the signs indicate j But wonder on till truth makes all things plain; this fact. There is no need of going into detail. Bacon is We’re not a-going to tell a tale of woe, not located as far back as — de-tail.” i Of awful tragedy, of death and pain. However, let not the composition be despised, if it should j When Shakespeare wrote those double grewsome plays be shown that it is not the product of a sugar-cured author. Of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, It may turn out that it had an origin higher even than that. He wrote of things well suited to those days, For, see: That which makes bacon is greater than the But not to times like ours to-day, you bet! bacon it makes, and hence is greater than anything that 1 He made both outfits quarrel, slay and slug, the bacon it has made can make. This play was made by And play to hard luck in a score of ways, farmers. Farmers make bacon; and hence, even if their Till all were dead, by dagger, sword or drug, product had produced the play, by the stern laws of logic | And none were left to hold their obsequies. it could not have been as good as it is now. Quod erat But Modern Thought declares these things all wrong, demonstrandum. There is no need of such a waste of lives; These facts establish the pedigree of our play beyond all Both men it would have marry and live long, chance of illegitimacy. It can, therefore, be admitted into Both women make the happiest of wives. the society of the 400” without fear of contamination or To bring these things about two mothers plan, contagion. It will not soil the slightest intellect, and is Two wise old mothers, stronger far than Fate. guaranteed to be non-irritating and unthinkable. See them get in their work, as mothers can, Furthermore, it can be administered without the least And bring these lovers strictly up to date. knowledge on the part of the recipient, a quality which The which, if you w r ith patient ear attend, shows that it is in harmony with nearly all of the most What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.