The New York herald., 1873-07-02
URsULME ACADEMY.

Interesting Scholastic Exercises I'm West
chester County-Growth and Inhuence
OF Popular Institutional Brilliant
Feast OF Intslcct-Award OF Premtu ums
to the Graduates.
The pretty little chapel Of the Ursuline Academy
at East Morrisania Westchester county, was
hied to repletion BY select audience yesterday,
congregated to witness the annual commencement
exercises by the pupils OF that eminently popular
institution. 1t now some fifteen years
since the ssterhood OF the Order OF st.
Ursulne founded the seminary named.
and during that time the good sisters whose
zeal and seltsacrince in the cause Of religious
and secular education have been unremitting,
have watched with more than maternal pride the
growth and steadily increasing influence OF an
institution which now ranks second to none in the
country. Under the immediate guidance OF the
Mother Superioress Domnick, assisted by Mother De
Sales and a corps of benevolent and accomplished
ladies, whose lives are devoted to the webeing Of
others, the young lady pupils in this establishment
are not only instructed IN all the educational
accomplishments which refine and adorn the
female character but they are also instructed and
made proficient in the more practical arts which
render the true woman useful as well as orna
mental. rl
The exercises Of the day were postponed until
after the hour OF noon, the hope that Archbishop
McCloskey would be present to preside; but the
anxious assemblage were disappointed, as
a temporary indlsposition prevented His
Grace from putting in an appearance. he
was well and ably represented, however by
the Very Rev. DR.. Quinn, Vicar General OF tue di0-
cese. who efficiently assisted by Rev. Father
Hughes, the indefatigable pastor OF st. Jerome's
church, North New York. During an ntetmlsslon
In the literary entertainment, which renected the
highest credit on the pupils and their instructors
Father Hughes announced the premiums nor the
graduates Of 1872, rs no commencement exercises
were neld last year, owing to the circumstance OF
the prospective removal Of the institution to
another portion of the county, which intention has
for the present, however, been abandoned
by the sisters The gold medals Tor 1879 were
awarded TO the Misses Lulu owens, Emma Farley
and Evelyn Russell. The ST. Jerome gold medal,
Miss Lulu owens Tor the best biographical essay.
The various premiums were conferred on the
pupils by Vicar General QUINN who, at the cOnclu-
sion Of the exercises, made some appropriate and
delicious remarks to the graduates. 1t is but just
to state that the valcdictOry address delivered Oy
Miss Emma Farley WAS in excellent TASTE and was
certainly the principal feature OF the occasion
Among the visiting clergy and laity were Rev.
A. ]. Donnely, of ST. Mlchaers, New York; Rev.
James Corrlgan, Of Seton Hall Rev. p. Mccarthy,
OF the Church of the Holy Cross New York Rev.
william Flannely, PeeksKill; Rev. DR.. kinsella,
Westchester; Rev. Father Mcmahon, Of st. John the
Bapttst's church, New York; Rev. Henry McDo well,
OF st. Agnes church, New York; Rev. James Glib.
ney, Toronto, 9. W.; Rev. Z. j.. Flynn, OF St
boken; Rev. Edward M. Smith, Rev. James Do
herty; Rev. John Quinn. Fiermont; Mr.. John j.
Clark, Morrisana: Mr.. Henry Zimmer of Brooklyn,
and many other local celebrities.