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appropriation to purchase a large quantity of flowers and garden seeds, which were sold to the pupils at cost. The idea proved so popular that the first year of its trial (1904) it was necessary to twice order an addi- tional supply of seeds and, as a result, over six thousand packages were distributed. The effeet of this was farreaching in its importance and cannot be overestimated when we think of the joy and the additional beautification which came from the six thousand flower beds which were planted and cared for by the children of the city.
Professor L. J. Hall and Edmund Vert also left their individuality impressed on the school system.
George V. Buchanan, who was chosen superintendent in 1908, has inade a strong executive officer and, in addition to introducing many up-to-date methods, has in a most diplomatic manner harmonized all of the different ideas of educational poliey and united the several faetions who, during 1906-7, created much feeling in public school cireles.
Space will not permit a mention of all that we would like to say about the school system of Joplin. We will, however, chronicle a few of the happenings so that the reader may keep in touch with the general character of the work and the school policy.
SIZE OF JOPLIN DISTRICT AND TEACHING FORCE
In 1909 the school district of Chitwood and East IIollow, suburbs of Joplin on the west and a part of which had the year before been taken into the city limits, petitioned the city district to be annexed, and at the election of 1909 was formally annexed, adding approximately five square miles to the area of the district and about 600 to the school population.
The school eensus of 1911 showed the distriet to have 9,341 children of school age. The annual revenue derived from taxation and public appropriations is, in round numbers, $175,000. During the year 1910-11 the district employed 172 teachers.
The following table will show the relative importance of the several schools :
School Principal
Enrolment
Aleott-L. G. Knight
462
Byers-Cora MeDonald 275
Central-Walter Colley 465
Columbia-Mildred Drye 257
Emerson-Il. C. Kilburn 479
Eugene Field-Ida Linton
167
Franklin-W. E. John
462
Garfield-Louise Kirkham 357
High School-F. H. Barbee 707
Irving-C. L. Spaid 465
Jackson-W. A. Niekell 460
Jefferson-Eva Corlett 285
Lafayette-G. B. Martin
498
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Enrolment
School Principal
Lincoln (colored)-Chas. Brooks 162
Laurel-Minnetta Sanderson 85
Longfellow-Isaac W. Whaley 291
MeKinley-W. O. Burns 310
Parr Hull-May Tyler 105
Washington-Frank Barton
652
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
At the session of the general assembly in 1903 a law was passed mak- ing it obligatory for all pupils over eight and under fourteen to at- tend school-either publie or private-at least four months in the year.
The Joplin Board of Education, in 1905, for the purpose of enfore- ing this law, employed a truancy officer and also established a truancy school, to which the habitual truants and unruly pupils were sent. S. S. Nix was the first truant officer and enforced the new law with tact and good judgment. When he found children out of school, on account of not being provided with proper clothing and books, he saw to it that means were provided for the same. He personally visited the parents of children not in school and talked with them, not as an officer of the law come to enforce the mandates of the state, but as a citizen and fel- low townsman interested in the welfare of the boys.
In nearly every instance he secured the cooperation of the parents and during his first year as truancy officer did not make a single arrest for non-compliance with the law. Mr. Nix was elected city assessor in 1907 and was succeeded by O. D. Billiek, who served the district faith- fully until 1911, when he retired and was sueceeded by S. S. Nix. who was recalled to the position.
THE TRUANT SCHOOL
As an experiment the Board of Education established a Truant School in 1905 and placed it under the supervision of R. C. Burns, one of the best teachers of Joplin. The school was a success, so far as results were concerned, but did not prove popular with the people, and the next year Mr. Burns, having accepted the principalship of the Shreveport. (La.) school, resigned his position as principal of the Truant school, and it was not reopened in 1906.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
During the decade the school district spent $175,000 in school im- provements, among them being the enlargement of the High School in 1906, which doubled its capacity. The building. although well located and excellently appointed, is now crowded and the matter of building a new $100,000 Iligh School building is now being agitated and is among the possibilities of the near future.
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THE PLAY GROUND IDEA
Of recent years the school board and teaching force have encouraged the plan of putting on the play grounds apparatus to help make the recreation hour both pleasant and helpful and at three of the schools. viz., Irving, Jackson and Garfield-the pupils have given highly success- ful entertainments and have raised money and purchased complete equipment for the playground, consisting of swings, horizontal bars, vanlting poles, etc.
RECENT ADDITIONS TO SCHOOL WORK
During the administration of Superintendent Buchanan. among other things the following have been added to the school work and course of study.
The Manual training department has been enlarged by the addition of a domestic seience department, and the work has also been extended into the grades.
A department for the teaching of business methods has been added to the high school and has proved very popular with the people and highly satisfactory to the school.
THE CADET SYSTEM
It has always been the policy of Joplin to employ each year a few of the high school graduates as teachers, and (be it said to the credit of the schools) most of them have made good. Superintendent Buchanan introduced the following plan for the better training of high school graduates desiring to become teachers. A dozen high school graduates are chosen each fall, according to their apparent natural ability for teaching. Each is located at one of the larger ward schools for the school year at ten dollars a month. The work of the pupil teacher is of three kinds, teaching classes, observing methods, and tutoring. Each cadet teaches four classes, representing four different grades and as many different branches of study. While she hears her classes in the rooms of the various teachers, she is given entire charge of them for the term and held responsible for their progress. At the beginning of the second term she is given four other classes, thus furnishing prae- tieal experience in eight different phases of teaching. In connection with her teaching the principal of the building and the teachers under whom she teaches take special interest in her work and offer helpful suggestions from time to time. For further development as a teacher the pupil teacher spends about one-third of her time each day in the rooms of the various teachers of the building, where she is free to ob- serve the methods used in managing elasses, hearing reeitations, assign- ing lessons, ete. This gives an excellent opportunity for learning by observation ; the safest and surest way of acquiring any art.
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VISITORS' DAY
Visitors' day, which was commenced back in the early 'nineties, has been observed each year during the last decade and the annual occasion brings to the various school buildings hundreds of patrons and has been a source of mueh good to the schools, for the reason that it has fur- nished the occasion for the teachers and patrons to come in eloser touch, and has no doubt created a stronger school sentiment.
While visiting one of the schools in 1903 the author had the pleas- ure of hearing from an old-time Joplin teacher the following, very interesting recital of Joplin's First Visitors' day, and we give it here- First, because of its historic interest, and secondly, because the contrast of the methods pursned at this first publie examination which oceurred "way back in 'seventy-cight."
During 1878 the pupils in the East Joplin schools did splendid work. The principal, James A. Race, was a scholarly and courteous gentleman and brought the schools up to a high standard of excellence. At the elose of the year '78 he hit upon the following plan for Visitors' day and public examination : A committee of twenty-five prominent citizens were appointed to prepare the questions and conduct the examination. T. A. MeClellan, Jesse Shortess, F. E. Williams, D. A. Preston and J. W. Henry had charge of the examination in mathematics, and the method pursued by these gentlemen was said to have been the most. impartial examination ever given the pupils of the schools. One hundred problems were prepared for the class, which included work in compound num- bers, percentage, common fractions, cube root, etc., extending through the entire year's work. These questions were placed in a box and after having been thoroughly shaken up, each pupil drew from the box five problems and passed to the blackboard and solved them in the presence of the visitors. Out of a class of twenty-three, eighteen solved and ex- plained each of the five problems correctly.
The next afternoon the examination in spelling was had, and was condneted by Jesse Shortess, Alford Gensell, and Mesdames Carl Shep- herd, D. A. Preston and J. H. Maddy. One hundred words were pro- noneed to the class as a written test and of these the per cent made by the room of fifty-one pupils was 97.3.
Sides were then chosen up and an old-fashioned spelling match in- dulged in; words were pronounced in rapid snecession for one hour and a half, and when 4 o'clock eame, seventeen pupils were still on the floor. During the contest over a thousand words had been pronounced. It will be observed that as there were fifty-one in the room and seven- teen on the floor at the end of the contest, only thirty-four words had been missed (when a word was missed the pupil took his scat). This was certainly a record to be proud of. The examinations continued for a week and the tests in history and algebra, grammar, etc., were made in a manner similar to the above.
Among the boys and girls in the elass were Abe Seherl, our wide-
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awake merchant, Mrs. John Dawson, Mrs JJohn Staats (nee Emma Shortess), Mattie Ballard, Emma Gillette (Lichliter) and others.
THE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI
The following is a list of the High School graduates sinee 1900. (Mention of former classes was made in a previous chapter : )
1900-Mande Danford, Nettie Thornton, Bithiel Cofer, Edith Hall, Walser Yale, Maria Estrada, Alta Sansom, Bert Reeves, Essie For- sythe, Clara Gardner, Maude Board, Omer Malsbury, Fred Swartz, Lillie Littleson, Mande Lancaster, C. C. Spencer, Winnie Cowan and Elmer Garey.
1901-Hazel Reeee, Carrie Sutton, Opal Stauffer, Phoebe John, Con- rad Radley, Maggie Murphy, Margaret Bell, Lola Seanor, Edith Dagley, Agnes Regan, Ralph Hollingshead, Victor Short, Edith Allen, Sallie Halyard, Lillian Cook, Chas. Malsbury, Florence King, Alma Nelson, Capitolia Willim, Henry Howe, Esther Boncher and Clark Nichols.
1902-Effie Lutman, Percy Williams, Chas. Robinson, Mabel Squires, Margaret Hood, Mary Barr, Lena Murray, Phil Arnold, Beatrice Gris- com, Bessie Dorsett, Mabel Boucher, Ona Bradley, Eeheo Willim, Edna Lett, Leon Coffman, Arthur Roach, Clyde Compton, Ira Brighton, Jauniat King, Pauline Donnan, Laura Wideman, Ethel Card, Effie Owen, Callie Logan, Bertha Rambo, William Leggett and Wallie IIur- witz.
1903-Walter Tousley, Gertrude Speneer, Grace Coulson, C. P. Dyer, Sarah E. Jaceard, Naomi A. Marcum, Blanche Forsythe, Olive Hood, Alva True, Wilber Henrichs, William Regan, Mayme Lowrie, Franklyn Ilunt, Fred Briggs, Edna Palmer, Arthur Collins, C. A. Briggs, Viola Sayres, Mamie Vawter, Viola Smoot, Edna Gaither, Mary Regan, Nannie Smith, Mabel Hobson, Annie Lonis and Ed Cofer.
1904-Clarence Burgess, Newton Bobbitt, Loyd Bunch, Ray Bond, Thos. Cofer, Wiley Corl, John Cassidy, Arnold Cofer, Howard Doane, Orly Freeman, John Gardner, H. A. Henley, Hoyt Miles, Harold Mills, Chris Price, Chas. Rohrer, Leo Wiler, Callie Arnold, Mande Anstine, Lola Belle, Frances Clay, Mary Coles, Leona Campbell, Nellie Delaney, Ella Freeman, Maybell Hickman, Estelline Howell, Marion Hebbard, Mollie Greable, Ive Leach, Belva Looker, Inez Looker, Ethel Gaither, Vera Lydard, Elizabeth Meeker, Cody Mareum, Helen Noble, Alma Putman, Ethel Page, Nola Shoekley, Flora Lane, Edithi Lanyon, Blanche Milton and Goldie White.
1905-Bessie Bonham, L. E. Briggs, Norman Cox, Clarence Ted- ford, G. Earl Doane, Jolm Grigg, Jesse Lauck, Fred Moore, Herbert Squire, Chas. R. Wilcox, Rose Atwater, Phoebe Branham, Ethel Buch- .anan, Ruby Burge, Vivian Standard, Imogene Burns, Alfreda Christ- man, Margaret Ellington, Mamie E. Graves. Elizabeth Grigg, Emma Irene Henderson, Beatrice Hinds, Jessie Lonise Hood, Ada Mabel John- son, Jessie Miller, Edith Lneynda Morris, Alice Herndon Portor, Grace Anna Roy, Florence Skelton, Winnifred Carney, Lola Mildred Wilcox,
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Nona A. Williams, Belva Lenore Lett, Beulah Hallis, Nell M. Murray, Mollie Caroline Nelson, Agnes Margaret Regan, Anna Shelton, Beatrice Spencer, Dorothy Maude Walker, Mildred Wilkinson, Lotta Smith and Chas. Watkins.
1906-Birdie Austine, Chas. Goldsmith, Ruby Commons, Ray Cross- man, Helen Dieter, Robert Dye, Mary Ebart, Esther Evans, Julia Fones, Geo. Frye, Virgie Homes, bulu Hancock, Lillian Hills, Oscar Koch- titzky, Shirley Lanyon, Bessie Livermore, Leah Livirs, John Maddy, Jaque MeKee, Prentice Reeves, Iva Roberts, H. V. Smoot, Edith Stewart, Frank Burress, Bertha Stark, Edith Smith, J. Robert Treganza, Ray True, Geo. Watkins, Blanche White and Mamie Zellers.
1907-Russell Briggs, Elmer Burgess, John Craig. Arthur Kelso, John MeAntire, Weaver Morris, Harry Morrison, Guy Randall, Homer Williams, Virgil Wofford, Bonnie Allen, Ruth Arnold, Frieda Bauer. Pearl Bittiek, Georgia Board, Lena Chesnut, Myrtle Corbey. Ethel Downing, Eula Fletcher, Mae Hobson, Leona Johnson, Maude Loomis, Eva MeClelland, Winnie MeLean, Alna MeMichael, Hazel Moss, Effie Meyers. Nellie Neal, Emeline Phillips, Dorothy Putman, Marie Rensen- hausen. Florence Serowinsky, Eulah Simms, Vera Skelton. Bernice Walsh, Ethel Whitwell. James Craig, Vietor Miller. Irene Me Vey, Isa- belle Zamboni, Engene Hall, Gertrude Kopelman, Anna Larrabee, ('lydia Swarens and Elsie Stewart.
1908-Mildred Belden. Leonette Cassidy, Jean Cox. Leah Chicker- ing. Anna Errett, Lois Ely, Letha Frank, Louis Ilamm. Esther Hob- son, Niena Isherwood, Nellie Malsbury, Elva Moore, Ilazel Summer- field, Wilma Young. Albert Aiken, Geo. Glade, Walter Hale, Mortimer Heidrick, Emmett Laneaster, Fred Morgan, Chas. MeLean, Marvin Spreeklin, Othello Smith, Joseph Williams, Reetor Green, Stella Smith, Anna Moser, Zelma Rowland, Jessie Wright, Albert Immel, Clara Sand- ford, Daniel Sandford, Nettie Crossman, billie Dam, Ernest Gengerich and Nellie Hazelwood.
1909-Ola Bureh, Mary Slutter, Susie Dorsey, Jessie Nibarger, Lizzie Appleman, Mildred Kiegley. Lillian Sharkey. Leonard Power, Eva Kemener, Blanche Barnett, Margaret Bingham, Lillian Brown, Rachael Buchanan, Maidie Burge, Virgil Board, Clarence Burns, Eunice Cassidy, Grace Coglizer, Elizabeth Walsh, Reba Warden, Winifred Coles, Nettie Dagley, Leota Davidson, Nydia Davis, Neta Davis, Robert DeGraff, August Dieter, Frank Evans, Viola Ferguson, Clifford Fry, George Fowler. Grace Gregory, Everett Glover, Charles Hebbard, Bertha Herring, Watson Hoover, Bonner James, Howard Jamison, Fern Kash, Hazel Williams, Jay Klein. Bertha Kitto, Rose Kopelman, Lucile Linton, DeMeree Marlatt. Lela Manning, Gertrude Molloy, Brader MeKee, Julius Miller, John Murray, Frank Murphy, Mabel Nix, Maud Nutz, Helen Pickson, Hazel Portor. Arthur Shimmons, Jaunita Thornton, Marie Thurman, Mabel Woodworth, Bonnibel White.
1910-Elizabeth Arnold, Darwin Amos, Edith Amos, Alice Bass, Mildred Bowers, Clarence Barron, Fae Boyd, Joseph Cole, Earl Cooley, Esther Cohen, George Cox, Sophia Campbell, Mona Campbell, Mary
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Coyle, Lizette Clear, Theresa Dorsey, William Glade, Wynne Garrison, Elmer Gmeiner, May Harrington, Lyla Hanks. Urias Johnston, Morton Krugg, Florence Kettinger, Archie Kendall, Jean Lawrence, Lester Leach, Arnold Leonard, Rhea Lopp, Lola Maret, Edna Mclendon, Lillian Meredith, Gerry Manuing, Roscoe Mills, Brian Phillips, George Phillips, Helen Porter, Helen Patton, Beulah Powell, Josephine Regan, Gladys Rice, Howard Sandford, Emma Suppe, Frank Stephens, Marian Stewart, Harry Siekosky, Leon Wing, Myrtle Waterman, Eunice Chap- man and Glenn Thurston.
Class Roll 1911-Elsie Emery Armil, Gladys E. Ayland, Mabel Elsepeth Balsley, Richard Bell Buchanan, Lilas Brooks, Carolyn L. Bauer, Russell Belden, Aura Renfrow Bradley, J. Earl Burns, Howard Price Buxton, Blanche B. Baker, Mary E. Bingham, Auriel Charlotte Chickering, Bessie Jane Congdon, Nellie Luella Campbell, Mande Coombs, Nathaniel W. Davisson, Charles Gunn Dunwoody, Grace Aileen Dawson, Glenn Guy Davis, Elizabeth Eberly, Harold Finke, Bessie L. Foster, Mike Fecrick, Zerma Fisher, Maude Elizabeth Francis, Morrison Bass Fowler, Marie Guengerich, Bertha Gardner, Minnic Rebecca Garri- son, Ruth Arabella Hays, Mary Lucile Henson, Pansy Wenbourne Heald, Sue Heidrick, Amy C. Hoover, Neva Lillian Johnson, Inez Johnston, Jeanetta James, Spencer Perrine Jenkins, Oliva Margaret Jobson, Beulah Ann Johnson, Cecile Kanfman, Fern Blanche Kitheart, Sadie Klein, Charles Hendrick Kost, Ewart Hudson Lothian, Elsie Grace Lecds, Ella May Longacre, Dorothy Anderson Lawrence, Justine Worth Miles, Oscar E. Morgenthaler, Joseph Lee Marcum, Otto R. Mit, Nellie Blanchie Martin, Mary Alice MeCune, Mande Blanche Nickell, Edward Dorsey Porter, Hazel Perine, Nortou E. Ritter, Elmer Eugene Ramaley, Elgin A. Ray, Helen Rogers, William Grier Sandford, Clare S. Sandford, John Neal Sergeant, Ethel Stevens, Susan Elizabeth Stewart, Claude E. Stephens, George O. Slutter, Muriel Juanita Simpson, Catherine Helen Scott, Donnie Cora Simmons, Ray Hammond Smith, Homer Grant Welch, Helen Williams, George Franklin Whitney, Henry Arthur West- cott, Margareth Welton, Nellie Marie Winterholer, Katherine Woodbury and Cleo Alice Woodworth.
ALUMNI BANQUETS
Each year save one during the eleven years of this eentury, the High School alumni have held an annual reunion, at which old-time friend- ships have been renewed and the graduating class for the year formally welcomed into the fold.
Each of these ten banquets has been highly successful and each ripe with rich experiences and pleasant memories. To give an idea of the character of these entertainments we give here the Joplin Daily Globe's account of the 1903 reunion, which we select for the reason that it brought together the largest number of alumni during the decade.
While the patter of myriad raindrops of a spring shower assailed the zinc roof of the building the Joplin High school alumni banquet Vol. I-31
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to the class of 1903 last night went merrily on and it was not until the final note of the closing speech was sounded and the several hundred alumnae and friends sought egress from the structure that the fury of the elements manifested itself in all its might.
Aside from the weather it was an evening of pure delight to the sev- eral remaining residents that have gone out from that institution as their alma mater, as well as to the graduating elass and their educational guardians, the board of education and the faculty and the other friends assembled together.
A more representative or a more valuable collection of brains has perhaps never before gathered together under a single roof in Joplin.
At the head of the long banquet tables, which extended the length of the spacious assembly hall, said to be one of the finest in the state, sat the alumni president, L. L. Liehliter, the man who stands next to the highest post of honor in the province of the school board, as prin- eipal of the High school, and a member of the first graduating class, that of '88. The faculty, the members of the board of education and their wives, together with Paul Brown and wife aud Rev. W. F. Turner and wife held the front tables, while down the center of the room ran the band of white damask which was to graee the feast for the members of the elass of 1903. The other members of the alumni and their friends occupied the adjoining tables.
With the guests thus arranged the Rev. W. F. Turner, pastor of the First Christian church, spoke a few forecful words of grace and in- vocation. Then for the space of the next fifty minutes the appcasing of the inner appetite was the only number on the program and it had been amply provided for by the ladies of the Doreas Cirele of the Christain church who are to be congratulated for their success in ar- ranging and serving such an elegant menni as was provided. The menu was as follows:
Cream of Celery Soup
Queen Olives
Sweet Piekles
Cold Turkey
Tomatoes-Mayonnaise Dressing Ham Sandwich Rolls Potato Chips Alumni Fruit Punch Chicken Salad
Tongne
Salted Almonds Briek Ice Cream Angel Food
Nut Sandwiches Strawberries Devil's Food
Fruit
Cheese Wafers
Cafe Noir
When the last remaining vestige of the feast had been removed -- the last crumb brushed from the table, as it were, President Liehliter as toastmaster for the evening formally opened the toasting ceremonies
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with an address welcoming the graduates of 1903 class upon their ini- tiation into the Alumni association. Mr. Liehliter explained to the class that they had not seen the last of him as some might have thought, and no doubt many wished, but that like Banquo's ghost he would not down and was now before them in a different light, not as principal of the Joplin High school, but as the honored president of the Joplin High school alumni. He spoke in regret of the fact that of the many who start in school at the beginning, so few remain to the elose. He referred to the High school as the people's college and declared the elass to represent, as regards the school life, the survival of the fittest. In closing he complimented the diversity of talent and the personality of the elass and bade them cordial welcome into the Alumni association.
Walter Tousley, class president, responded to the address of wel- come in that same manner and ease and completeness that has ehar- acterized that young man's oratorieal course in the High school from its incipieney four Septembers ago. He pointed with pride to the proverbial bigness under the hat that all the members of the class certainly felt and gave forth the class promise of living up to their motto: "All are Architects of Fate," that they would do their share of the building of the great and composite structure called life.
Mrs. H. S. Miller (Miss Cora Liehliter) one of the early graduates, and who is now recognized as a vocal singer of exceptional talent- talent that was first fostered in singing those dearly saered school songs that never die in memory-sang a soprano solo, "Shoogy-Shoo" (Ambrose), Mrs, J. M. Gwinn accompanying. and responded to an encore.
Col. Joel T. Livingston, now a member of the board of education, responded to the toast, "Old Time School Boy Days."
A male quartet composed of Messrs. E. V. Jackson, C. C. Cum- mings, L. L. Liehliter and F. B. Rogers, sang DeKoven's "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and were very heartily encored.
Prof. J. M. Gwinn, who for the term just elosed has been superin- tendent, and who held the position of principal for two years prior to that time, gave the toast "The Joplin High School." The salient facts of Prof. Gwinn's talk to the alumnae were first that of the 243 graduated students, 71 had beeome teachers and 43 were now serving in that capacity in the Joplin schools; second, that Joplin High school boys make the best business men and Joplin High school girls the best wives in the community.
Prof. Gwinn struek a new chord when he prophesied for some not far distant future date a magnificent new stone high school building at Wall and Eighth streets, almost aeross from the new Carnegie li- brary, where the Central school now stands. Prof. Gwinn foresaw in the near future if not at present a crowding for room in the present High school building, commodious though it is, so phenomenal has been the growth of the Joplin schools.
Miss Imo Priee sang very beautifully G. Thomas' arrangement of
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"A Summer Night," and was called upon for an encore solo, respond- ing with "A Lonesome Dollie."
"The High School Boy in Public Life" was the toast assigned to Hon. Richard N. Graham, graduate of the Joplin High school and member of the recent Missouri legislative assembly. Mr. Graham called attention to the dire need of more high school boys in public life and advanced the opinion that if there were more of this class of young men in public life there would be fewer boodle scandals and lobby crookedness in connection with state administration. Mr. Graham spoke feelingly and eloquently to the incoming class and closed his remarks with a brilliant effort, entirely extemporaneous, alluding in most au- roral terms to the opportunities before a high school boy in public life and of the edge that would be taken off the brighter side of the rain- bow after a few months' actual contact with the rough surfaces of life in the world of public life.
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