New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-21

fairly pelted down with boquets, as he lett the
platform. We shall look for this young gentleman
with some interest at next years exhibition.
Song by the girls" Friendship, Love and
TRUTH
aThe Merchant Of Venice the chief scene Of
which play was admirably acted by the boys Of
the graduating class Master Hoffman as Ahtonso,
and Master Angel as Shylock, doing the best
Song by the girls--ssAnyil Chorusn
yaIedietory Address, by Master John G. Angel;
containing the usual farewell thoughts snd feelings
Of graduates, elegantly shaped, and delivered
gracefully and powerfully.
Song by the girls Parting Song The young
lady graduates faced their schoolmates, whom
they were about to leave, as they sang this song,
the other girls joining in at the proper place:
Our farewell now sadly ringing
Breaks upon each listening ear;
Tears start at the thought Of leaving
Fond associations here.
Up the hill Of knowledge slowly
We have struggled hand in hand:
Other duties now take from us @8s4G4
Many of our happy band.
Many dear ones now will leave u.s.
And when gathered here once more,
Not unhroken will the circle
Be, as in the days of yores
Many links will then be wanting
In the scholars loving chain;
Many Joys which we have known here
Never can return again.
To the Teacher who has led MS
Gently up the rugged way,
Cheering us WIENER disheartened,
Watching DER us day by day,
We would say, the bark glide smoothly
Over life's tempestuous sea,
And at last find thou thy haven
In the home where thou would'st be.
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Teacher, dear, and loved companions
We must bid adieu once more!
And if never reunited
Here, as in the days before,
Yet that home we hope to enter
Where we meier can parted be,
But the scholars bond of friendship
Strengthens through eternity.
DIR. w. S. Mount, President of the Board, next
conferred the diplomas, the graduates Of both
schools being called up and ranged around the
platform He made brief and feeling address to
the graduates as he presented to them their nobly
earned rolls Of parchment and as they retired, one
by one, the pleasure and enthusiasm of the
audience was manifested by the heartiest applause,
accompanied by showers Of bouquets.
There were twenty-five graduates in all-thirteen
girls and nine boys-as follows
Misses Sophia Stanton Berry, Ellen Elizabeth
Criswell, Mary Anna Keener, Mary Elizabeth Lowe,
Mary Emma Robinson, Emma Sophia Rossner,
Amanda Malvina Smith, Margaret Helen Wyse,
Ellen Whittier, Elizabeth Woelper, Susanna Cath
arine Weiss.
Masters John Goodrich Angel, Henry Hunter
Bryan, William Winans Clarke, Charles Swain HoR
man, Edward Curd Mclean, Spence Monroe Gray
son Mount Thomas Mount, William Walker Rayne,
John Lewis Watson.
Afterward, the President addressed theaudience,
giving some account of the rise and progress Of the
Fourth District schools, the system of education
pursued, and the impartial manner in which the
pupils were rated andpromoted, according to their
excellence. He stated the number of pupils in the
District at $500, under ~ teachers of whom Is had
been entirely educated in the public schools Of this
city. He concluded by setting forth the great need
Of enlarged accommodation for the intermediate
schools, which are too much crowdedyand asking
the aid and influence Of all who hal any interest in
public education in the District in procuring the
necessary additions to the sehooIhouses.
A benediction was said the girls sang, We are
free as the birds on the mountains" and the ex.
hibition was at an end, every visitor being well
pleased.
The manner in which the boys acquitted them
selves, not only during the trials of their examina
ton but at the exhibition yesterday, told noble
story upon their two teachers, Mr. Mellen, the
principal, and Mr.. Morse, his assistant. These
gentlemen are both Mississppans, Of Southern
education, and have shown themselves to be with
out superiors as High School teachers.
The young lady graduates did not take part in
the literary exercises yesterday, because their
part Of the exhibition had been blended with their
examination, on Tuesday and Wednesday, at their
own beautiful school-house on Chestnut street.
Last night the final triumph was Of festive shape
a graduation party, at the Girls High School
House, where the graduates and their friends and
relatives mingled in the merry mazes Ct the dance,
and offered a spectacle Of beauty and happiness
such as ia rarely to he SEEN