ORDER OF EXERCISES AT THE EXHIBITION OF THE DEERFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, Tuesday Evening, March 27th, 1860. 1--MUSIC.   2--PRAYER. 3--SALUTATORY.   GORHAM WILLIAMS. 4--EXTRACT .   HENRY GREENOUGH.   5--TWO QUACKS.   Mr. Slender,   Henry S. Childs Mr. Bolden,   Edward A. Hawks. Dr. Bolus,   Theodore C. Hawks. Dr. Rhubarb,   Asahel W. Root. 6--MUSIC.     7--EXTRACT.   HENRY S. CHILDS 8--EXTRACT.   JAMES CLAPP.   9--STANDING ARMY.   Augustus Brown,   John Haskell. Dwight Hawks,   Gilbert Jones. Frank Hutchins,   John Sheldon. Edward Hoyt,   Luke Wright. 10--EXTRACT.   ARTHUR BALL. 11--EXTRACT.   ADDISON S. CLAPP. 12--MUSIC.       13--THE VILLAGE ESQUIRE.   Timothy Wiggins,   Charles A. Hoyt. Jonathan,   James Crawford. Edgarstone,   John H. Barnard. Melwood,   Henry S. Childs. 14--EXTRACT.   JOHN O. ASHCRAFT   15--THE TEA PARTY.   Mrs. Partington,   Hattie Cooley. Miss Brown,   Mary Brown. Miss Tucker,   Abbie Kemp. Mrs. Wiggins,   Abbie Hutchins. 16--MUSIC.     17--EXTRACT.   ALONZO S. CLAPP.   18--THE STUDENT AND HIS NEIGHBOR.   Pouderwell,   Gorham Williams. Graball,   J. Hayden Potter. Van Root,   John O. Ashcraft. Swager,   George C. Hoyt. Sobersense,   Rufus F. Brown. Noisybreath,   George Hawks. O’Mulligan,   Wm. Thayer. Steepletop,   Henry M. Phillips. 19--MUSIC.     20--EXTRACT,   CHARLES A. HOYT.   21--THE MAY QUEEN.   Directress,   Maggie Estabrook. May Queen   Fanny Crawford. Maids of Honor, Fanny Sheldon, Mary Toombs.   { Hattie Cooley, Mary Brown,   { ------ Root, Abbie Kemp, Mayers, { Mary Catlen, Hattie Mason,   { Ellen Frary, Eunice Nims,   { Abbie Hutchins, Jennie Briggs. Fairy Queen,   Matilda Pooley. Maids of Honor, Ellen Pendleton, Emma Smith. Little Fairies, Katie Sheldon, Mary Williams. First Fairy,   Julia Munn. Second "   Helen Sheldon. Third "   Ada Mason. Graces, Susan A. Hawks, Mary Smith, Mary Phillips, Mary Hoyt. 22--MUSIC.     23--EXTRACT.   ALFRED D. CLAPP.   24--THE SWISS PATRIOT.   Gesler,   Arthur Ball. Albert,   Henry M. Phillips. Sarnem,   Alonzo S. Clapp. Tell,   Alfred D. Clapp. Verner,   Rufus F. Brown. 25--MUSIC.     Gazette & Courier Job Printing Office, Greenfield, Mass.

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The Deerfield High School was only two years old when this end of term exhibition was held in 1860. Each academic term ended with an exhibition of the students' talents. Exercises like those presented here allowed - even, perhaps, forced - the students to display their proficiencies, whether at elocution, music, or memorization. The skits themselves drew from popular literature or drama - the "May Queen" here, for example, came from William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Eve - or gave moral stories. "The Student and his Neighbor," for example, probably communicated moral instruction, with the character Sobersense combating Swager and Noisybreath. "The Swiss Patriot" drew its inspiration from the history of the Swiss Republic and William Tell. As one of the world's earliest republics, Switzerland was seen by many of the Revolutionary Generation as an inspiration.

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"Order of Exercises at the Exhibition of the Deerfield High School"

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