Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-05-28

titution took place on Tuesday, "Wednesday and /
Thursday of this week. Our town has been
hronged with strangers parents, guardians and
riends of the pupils-who came to witness the
exercises. For themit has been pleasant season
put for the careful and aborious Faculty. whose
shoulders the responsibilities of the occasion rested
the of peasentness comes at the close of the
The whole exercises passed off in a
manner creditable to the established reputation OF
the instructors, and satisfactory to those whose
daughters were entrusted to their care.
The order of procedure was carried out agreea-
bly, to previous announcement. A sermon to the
graduating class was preached by the Rev. Robert
o. Burton on Tuesday night; on Wednesday af-
ternoon the two Literary Societies of the College
held public celebration; on Wednesday night
the Concert and on Thursday the Commencement
exercises.
On Commencement day the Faculty and Stu
dents, with their. visiting friends moved in process
sion from the College to the NJ E. Church, where
they were joined by the Board of Trustees, and,
with the numerous spectators Immediately filled
the spacious floor and galleries of the church. The
front of the gallery was hung all around, with
paintings executed by the students during the past
session.
The order and character of the Commencement
exercises are set forth in the printed programme,
which we copy as follows:
Religious Services: Reading the Holy Scrip
lures: Prayer.
Salutatory Addresses-Miss Margaret Gizeal
Nixon, Davidson.
Music-Duett: March from Linda di Chamonir
Miss Graves and Miss Adams.
Spirits of the Past and Visions of the Future y
Miss Margaret Gizeal Nixon, Davidson.
Music Vocal Duet: Bright Gloa0img Iris
Miss Gwyn.
T" Woman's Sphere Caroline Anne Blake,
Fayetteville.
Music-Song Ibyeathe once more my native air
Miss West.
{" Undeveloped cas,"-Miss Mary Edwards Rich,
Dayie.
lRusic-Duett: Polka-Niss Clements and Miss
Williams.
q" There's a silver lining to every Cloud, Miss
Mary Margaret McKendree Doub, Raleigh.
Music-Sons: The old Soldiers Retwrn-Miss
Mcdonald.
" Thoughts of the ad,"-Miss SalIie Duty, Ok
ford.
Music-Vocal Duet: The CAi1d's FIRST Grief
Miss Mayfeld and Miss Mcdonald.
" The Dignity of Labor,"-Miss Julia Franklin
Morphis, Fayetteville.
Music-OVerture to ZdnettG-Miss Duty.
d" The Year of Jubilee,"-Miss Anne Augusta
Chandler, Granville.
Music-Song: Home I feel as drawing nigA-
Miss Chandler
The Living Strive, the Dead alone are Glorious -
Miss Lucy MCGEE, Pttsborough.
lMusic-Duett: From Ernana-Miss PEBBLES and
Miss Puryear.
The Annual Report.
Valedctory of the Young Ladies of the College
to the Graduating Class-AIiss Mary Elizabeth
Carter, Greensborough.
The Valedictory Addresses-Miss Lucy MCGEE,
Pittsborough.
Degrees Conferred. Music-Parting Ode. Ben
ediction,
In addition to the above, the following compo-
stions were read previously to the exercises of
Thursday, viz:
1.-The Deep Still Night,"-Miss Sally Gwyn,
Surry.
Numerous Streams of Pleasure compose one
Lake of Happiness, Miss Catharine w. Mayfeld,
"a Ray of Light Miss Octavia R. Chandler,
Granville.
1.-The Old North State" Miss Mary w. Eel,
Northampton.
A composition by Miss Catherine A Blake,
Fayetteville.
The names of the Graduates are as follows:
Miss Lucy MCGEE, Pittsborough.
Margaret Gizeal Nixon, Davidson.
{" Caroline Anne Blake, Fayetteville.
Octavia Roberta Chandler, Granville
/" Anne Augusta Chandler, do
Mary Margaret McAendree Doub, Raleigh.
Sae Duty, Oxford.
Mary Wyatt Ezell, Northampton
Sallie Leonora Gwyn, Surry.
Catharine William Mayfeld, Warren.
Julia Franklin Morphis, Fayetteville.
Mary Edwards Rich, Davie.
The development of thought, the style of COM
position, and the manner of reading, by these
young ladies, denoted an advance in the mode and
character of female education creditabe to the age
as well as to the Institution The "honors of
the College were distributed among the Glass
but hoO distributed we cannot recoIect, and took
no note at the time. we saw little differenc in
the grade of acqurement-all appeared to US like
flowers of the same tree.
The closing address of President Deems to the
Glass was brief, but earnest and touching-in that
style of eloquence which is so easy to himself and
so fascinating to his hearers. Such instructions as
his, fastened upon the memory by has manner,
will be to these young ladies as bread cast upon
the waters" Greens6oromgh Patriot.
FEMALE Preachers The Apostolate of Miss
Antoinette Brown has caused good deal of as
constituent and fun at the other side of the Allan
tic and the British writer's anDear anxious to learn