New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-26


this respect yesterday. We might give particulars
deem it worth while
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL.
The closing exercises Of the annual examination
of the First District Girls High School, and the
presentation of diplomas to the graduates, took
place yesterday. The interesting nature of the
occasion drew crowd SO great thas all the spare
room in the schooi-house was janrGed and manJ
had to go away, unable to effect an entrance or
gain any place where standing tip-toe might hold
out the prospect Of glimpse at the proceedings.
To the LUCKY occupants of seats inside, the
schoolgirls, ard especially the graduates, pre-
sented the animated and lovely appearance which
young ladies nevsrf fail to wear on graduation day
always the one greet day of the year to the whole
OF them, and the first grand epoch in the Gyes of
the graduates.
The exercises consisted Of singing, with piano
accompaniment, and the reading of original COM
positions by the graduates, as follows:
Song Morning Inyocation''
Compositions" Our EdTEcation,'' by Miss Julia
A. Benedict The Twilight Of Truth, by Miss
Helen a. Henderson.
Song" Juana."
Compositions Genius CT Italy, by Miss Sarah
T. Cooper. ''Immortality,r by Miss Julia A. Shcr-
wood. "GIories Of Greece by Miss Alice J.
Cloheey.
| Song" Away, away to. Greenwood Shades"
The songs were charming'y given and the COM
positions, whilst they evnced the careful and COM
| plete manner in which the young ladies had been
instructed in History, Literature and Rhetoric.
showed as well that the important art of Etocuton
| had not been neglected. The reading of the COM
positions afordedthe hghess pleasure to the crowd
ed audience of spectators.
| bir. Lusher, of the Schoo2 Directory, (acting in
| place OF President Lindsay, who was not able to
attend) presented the diplomas to the graduates
accompanying the presentation with one of those
| graceful and feeling addresses which he cannot
! help making as one of the friends and fathers of
| public education in the First District.
The following young ladies' twenty.seven in all,
received those trumphat parchment dsmissals,
which all boys and girls strive so ambitiously for
during the years of their schoohood: Misses
sAcker Alice Bartlette Julia A. Benedict, Barry,
| Charles Alice J. Clohecy, Sarah 7. Cooper, Chan
dler, Burci, HUBERT Waters Moore, B. E. Murphy,
Kane, Casserly, Paul, GFegor, Earhart, Henderson,
Harriet Seymour, Julia a. Sherwood, Flood, Rog'
ers Riddle, Topping, Tobey, and Hinckley. 1.-THE
young ladies whose first names not given, will
really have to excuse us. We endeavored to OBJ
tain them, (the first names we mean) but failed
Never mind. They'll all get married some of these
| days, and then we'll be bound to have their names
in full i ,.m.@5' D....MH.
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ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY SOCIETY
Our report OF the twelfth annual celebration OF
TINS society," held on Ihursuay evening last, at Cdd
Fellows Hall, has been crowded out until to-day
The members certainly have no reason to com
plain OF any lack OF appreciation on the part of the
public, as the room was filed by an audience as in
telectual and refined as the most exacting could
have required. The invitations were all purely
personal, and this Will explain certain amount o
intimacy between the audience and the members
themselves, which lent to the occasion sense Of
cordially and OF ease, which impressed US as one
of its most agreeable features And here We can
not but complain that the members OF this associa
ton should so seldom afford their friends an oppor
tunity of enjoying public meeting, notwithstand
ing the eager interest which it ezcites, and the
hattering attendance it never fails to command
Mr.. Meek, the official critic OF the Society, reat
the opening essay. Upon this occasion, as was tt
have been expected, the Literary Censor hid his
talons and proved that he could be something, ant
still not be critical. his essay was peculiarly