Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-07-07

fee, on a more eligible site, is to be provided. F.
We have an instructive Veneration for old to
relics, Anticipated buildings and old folks, but d.
shall not regret the demolition of the old
House. Here, as your readers know, T
an excellent male school has long been in OPP "
Grafton, and 1t is not extrayagant to say, that n
here two of the best female schools in the
State, are to be found. Greensboro Female B
College has long enjoyed an enyiable reputa- G
ton for high scholarship and thorough train Il
ing. The past year was by far the most sue R
cessful since its establishment. It's able Fac s
ulty and energetic Curators are determined il
to make 1t all that a Female College should
be. Edgeworth is still under the manage
ment OF that sterling head that has so leng /
and successfully directed it. It's reputation I
and patronage are still in the ascendant. {
Swift as steam re passed the back door of
the village of jamestown. and as it was shut
we couldn't look In. We learn however, that
a fine institution for the education of young
ladies is IN course of erection there, under the
patronage OF the Protestant Methodist Church.
1t strikes us, that it would be a decided i'm
provement to turn the village around facing
the Rail Road
The next whistle brought us to High Point.
To a lowlander 1t felt quite up in the figures,
to be at an elevation of upwards of 900 feet
above tide water but we enioyed it. High
Point will certainly be something one of these
days, though at present it is all out of doors.
1t is said to be the largest Depot on the Road,
except Salisbgk It will improve rapidly.
We beathe sefEcsN - t~hosenob1e treest
Build among themg too many have already
been felled by the woodlands axe. At this
high point, Rev. Mr.. Langdon has opened a
fourishing Female Seminary, which has met
with unusual encouragement at the outset
His aims are prompted by feelings of benevo-
lence so rare among mankind, the education
of respectable but INDECENT young ladies, that
We wish him eminent success. But in order
to complete success, he must be largely pat
ronizedbY those who are able to pay From
this point we left the Road, to find among the
woodlands of Randolph, Normal College.
About 4 or 5 miles from High Point, east
ward, if our head didn't get turned, we came
to the College, located 10 a high, rolling, pic
: turesque, and as we took il, moderately good
: farming country. We had heard of Normal
3 before, but now our eyes saw it. And we
t confess that we went with no very favorable
:. opinion of the scholarship, management OF
: ability of the Institution to meet the wants
of its large and increasing patronage.
s We were soon with our eyes and ears opel
l. making observations. AL the classes ha
It just passed through a searching examination
S for a week. A more thorough sitting seldom
l. falls to the lot of mortal school-boys. An e1
Of act record of the entire course and of the e.
it animation had been kept, subject to the IL
v s~pection of students and patrons, and eac
ones true position assigned him. The boy
to looked as if they had just gotten their thumb
from the gice. Cheerfulness marked tf
ID co~untenances of most, yet there was no b
larity-no bursts of frantic Joy-no outbrea
ne of long pent up anxiety to be free and at HON
e. Quiet manliness, polite attention to strange
,r' without exception, marked their depertmer
We On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesd;
nights, the Freshman, Sophomore and Juni
ms classes detained. But little of marked mt
of it was exhibited in these declarations. NJ
ers and then the future orator was manifest, b
u.s. the appearance of defective pronunciation,
ere ~tonation and gesticulation, was too freque
Rip for us to call it defamation of high order.
e a gesture, there was by far too much than
ity little. Theh seemed to have studied
to rules far mg ! than themselves, and most
on them forgoTt TO be natural. There were
old HapplIy, it Is one of those defects Of edu
eat ton easily corrected, when they enter
mi whirl of active life.
ing The reports of the scholarship and dept
by ment of the classes, however, made am
the amends for the defects in defamation. 7
Hill standard was a high and difficult one, vet
never heard reports so fattering to the
lie !; dustry, laborious study and good conduc
der students in any village.
has Wednesday was a day of great Interest
me- Rev. DIR. Deems had consented, at a late
he Rod, we learn, to deliver the Literary
dress. He had prepared Cor the occasion,
ass at the earnest and pressing solicitations
gentlemen, at II o'clock he delivered
celebrated grafton on Pantheism. A ricl
cen, grander effort, we never listened to and
,red heartily give in to the high encomiums h
but erto passed upon it. We believe he has
t. fused to print it, but we trust he will spe
nee, ly give it to the public in such a pop
able form, as will force it broadcast over the !:
With 1t will be read by all intelligent classes.
ooks it should be scattered thro' our Rail Ro
Has Steamboats,, Hotels, &c. 1t strikes at ar
nan ror which is roofing itself into the mfnC
"a an intelligent, reading young people,
by provides a ready antidote. In the aftern
oted Rev. James E. Evans, of the Georgia Coz
ntly ence, delivered the Sermon before the
} SUI umni. Personal experimental religion
opal his theme and he enforced it with the
still and JUNCTION Of q true minister of j
best Christ.
Large numbers were in attendance
Mr.. abroad at the beginning, growing larger
IS in day, until Thursday there vas a jam.
" re- was c0n1nenc6n9Snt day, when the gradua
class was to figure on the stage. Par
Haw friends, the lovely fair and every body,
now filled every seat and nook and crevice.
ld'n exercises commenced at ] past 10 OF
The and continued until 2 ?. NJ. The order
tion, as follows:
IN. it l. Vocal Musie-"All hail the pow
Y the Jesus name" led by the Senior Glass.
ed to ty well executed.
J, &c. 2. An appropriate prayer by Rev.
good Barringer.
nat a 5. La6as 0faT50s.E Lingua Latina nc
is a %extincta. By James Ward Balance, of
place, county, N. G. A scholarly perform
e for by a young man Of fine promise and w
eve but marred by one or two slips in pre-
Y, ex- citation and lacked os0.
it 4. Observation-Disclosures Fate, by En-
ce in Alexander Arnfield, Union county, N.
/ YOU An excellent effort from an English grad
er he Ambitions fate" was repeated too
this and grated on the ear, and the agitati
this the speaker made him slip in pronuncis
dmit. 3. Grafton: The glory OF Great Me
W. W. Withers, of Stokes CO., NC. A
inter ital speech-well written, well delivere,
full of good sense. The speaker had
d out below his fellows in the text books, bl
nv, to speech brought him up.
ended 6. OrGtiOn: Who shall possess the +