The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-06
St. Marys Dominican Academy, Dryades
Street.
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT.

! ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT.
A laboratory of light" and a centre of wo
manly graces and virtues, at once and indis
putabIy is the school presided over by the Sis.
| ter of Charity or the Nun-that other virgin
! vowed to a life of chastity, poverty and ODE.
dieuce. The Dominican Nuns have reared in
our midst two such institutions whose irradia.
| ton has reached the remotest sections of this
and adjoining States, dispelling the interve
| ming shades and eliminating extraneous ele-
ments.
In connection with their Academy on Dry
| AIDES street, the Nuns have established select
school for small boys under the invocation OF
St. Stanislaus. The examination of these
children constituted an agreeable preliminary
to the regular commencement exercises, on the
evening of the Goth ult.
Among those who specially signalized them
selves, we note the names of Masters Wheela-
han, johnson, Ratelle, Rely, McGrath, Foley,
Peasants, Mccormack and Macou.
The young lady pupils were very numerous,
very orderly, and looked very beautiful, at
| tired in their robes of state.
Among the visitors crowding the hail. we
noticed several teachers from other institu-
tons in the city.
1t was found that the examination of the
different classes as set forth in the programme
would have protracted the entertainment to an
inconvenient length; hence the omission of
some of the studies enumerated.
The lessons brought forward, however, told
distinctly in every particular of q mastery
over the rest no less comprehensive in its grasp
than that with which these were taken up and
elucidated. .
We regret tn at our space will not admit of
details.
The music was left this year entirely to the
execution of pupils taught outside the convent
walls.
The accompanying songs were finely chant
ed.
The plays were short, pretty and deity ham
died. Feelings found expression in plaudits
and bouquets
We take pleasure in naming the young la
dies who won histrionic distinctions, though
we are obliged to omit reference to the parts
in which they appeared: Misses Corine Nc
Grath, NJ E. McGrath, Warren, Hayes, Thieze,
Sisa. Mcshane, McManus, Ryan, johnson,
Gogarty, Rourke, OMeagher, French, Connor,
McEnany. Conway, Marlboro, Doyle, Vetter,
Cookery, Byrne, Flood, Narcotic and Barrett !;
and the Misses Ogden, Campbell, Ward and
Waldo.
The distribution of premiums, always an in
teresting affair, told by way of negation
whether any young lady had been found in
aught remiss during the session.
The crown commended for in the Senior De-
partment was won by Miss B. Connors ard
that in the Junior Department by Miss M. Nc
Enany.
fIn
was awarded to Miss E. Waldo for excellence
and in the Junior richly-wrought badge was
borne away by Miss s. French.
But the principal event of the evening was
the graduating of Miss Rose DeVries Miss
Julia Flood and Miss Emma Doyle. Miss
Doyle received gold medal for elocution.
These, young ladies, like all Dominican
candidates for graduation, underwent pre-
vously a thorough examination in the studies
ofseveral years emitting only the primary
courses. The subject of study must not only
be known but understood and to obtain a
diploma the pupil has to apply herself until it
is fairly earned so as to be an ornament in
society, source of real benefit to herself and
parents and no discredt to the Dominican
name.
Thus any young lady educated here who has
commended for prize in the Normal or High
School, or at the State Fair, has always been
ranked with the foremost and sometimes come
OFF with first hOnors; and those of them who
have sought situations either in the Public or
paroohial Schools of our City have obtained
and filled them with distinguished ability.
The following clergymen attended the enter
tainment: Rev. Fathers C. Moynihan, J. Moy-
milan, Jr., Simon, Finn, Heslin, Mandne Ken
nedy, Clarke and Foote.
The st. Joseph's Brass Band discoursed sweet
music, and Father C. Moynihan closed the ex-
ercises with spirited address.
The Archbishop of Paris, the Archbishop of
Rouen, the Bishop of Orleans and the Bishop
OF Anglers, have been selected to form the Sn-