The daily gazette., 1876-06-16
FIRST EDITION
the wesleyan Female College
nsnencemenf,

The Wesleyan Female College
Commencement.
The Commencement Of the Wesleyan
Female college took place last evening.
A large and brilliant audience filled the
hall to overfowing, and many ladies and
gentlemen who sought an entrance
finding it impossible to sec ure even stand.
ing room before quarter to 8, were met
returning home by others who were go.
ing. This, however, has been the case
at the Wesleyan for a number of years
and while it proves the popularity of the
school under its present management, it
also proves that there is defect which
should be remedied. 1t so frequently
happens that the friends and parents of
the pupils are excluded Or KEEP. stand
ing for hours, that expressions Of dis
gust are not unfrequently heard in the
hall J.; and the fact that they fall upon
unwilling ears, does not lessen the force
of their truthfulness. This is no fault
of the President--he cannot expand the
hall to accommodate the friends of the
College, nor can he slighJ them by re-
ducing the invitations in such q way as
to precisely fill the room without crowd
ing. A lime may come when resort to
the Masonic Temple" will be iudicious
as an extension Of the College hall would
not meet the want OF our growing popu-
lation and tho ra MD ipcraosa of tbiS nv
cellent school that will follow on the re-
tnrn of the good time coming"
The Commencement exercises last eve
ming were opened with Whittier Cen
tennial Hymn. by the school; Prayer, by
the Rev. Mr.. Buckingham and the pro-
eramme was as follows:
instrumental Duette- Overture to La GAIA
Ladra. Rossini, NJ. Deshler and n. G. Linthi-
cum.
saiutatory. with Essay Judicious Blind.
ness, Mary Grace Quigg, Wilmington, Del
Instrumental Sole-C -Cfispino ct la Coma-e,
Ketterer, Mary Il. Button. GermaBtown, Pa,
Essay--Gepius. its Character and Influence,
Mary Virginia Manship Philadelphia, Pa
Essay-o OF Possession, but Use, Sallie Mas
sey Warmer, MiIlingtsn, Md.
Vocal solo-Adelaide. Beethoven. George
M. G. Winner Pennington, MI.
Essay-Sir Thomas More, Addie Mary Coul-
beurn. Marion. Md. .. . .-
Essay-It will Last my Time, Ida Pleas
anton Merritt. Odessa. Del.
Chorus Lovely Flswera, Tabiani. Glee
Class.
Essay Compensations Of Life. Emma Slater
Kifkham, Battle Greek, Mich.
Essay Womanhood and Chivalry in the
Centennial Year. Elizabeth Duncan Buck
ingham, bloomsbury, Pa.
Essay-Tapestried Glories, Florence Night
in q In Faetlaka. WAghln QtOn. ID o.
Instrumental solo-La File du Regiment,
Harriet dyson, PhGnixvillet Pa
Vocal Duett-When know that thou art
Near Me, Abt. Miss Ormsby and Prot. Rhosds
Essay-success in Life as an End. Mary
Florence Rurris. Middletown n, Del.
Essay-"Beyond the Alps lleth thine Italy"
George Mcgowan NV Winner. s;sa Termination N.J;
Deshler. Allentown, Pa.
Chorus-Fairy Queen, Ierrarl Glee Class.
Hannah Clark. Washington, ID. z:
Essay-The Age In which we Live, Priscie
Park er Cottingham, Snow Hill, Md.
Instrumental Solo-I TroVatore. Hoffman,
Helen May Bennett, Washington. d. G.
Chorus-our Hearts are Light, Glee Glass
Presentation of Diplomas.
Vocal solo-Parting. Millard. Jessie ii.
Clark, washington, d. c.
Instrumental Dnett = DANES desaville.
Schubert, II. X. Button and ii. Dyson.
Essay Saved by Hope, with Ysledictory
Del
Parting Hymn.
Benedlction.
There were thirteen graduates, and
the exercises were prolonged until near
midnight, Notwithstanding the essays
were commercially brief In the maid
they were well read and in several in
stances exhibited considerable thought
and pretty fair logic. 1t is pity, how
ever. that young persons cannot be al
lowed to learn to write 50 much as may
be read in five minutes, by narrow mind
edness, as to exclude thepolitical can't OF
the day about the political past; which
SO far has not been so bad and disgust
ingly corrupt as the abornina6le political
present. 1t is timetruth was allowed to as
sert itself. Political scoundrelism has be-
come but the synonym Of political abo-,
| litionism. The horrible, unnatural and
unnecessary civil war is the one great
| "blot'' and blur that furnishes the first
century of the nations independence.
| The Presidents remarks upon present
ing the diplomas to their delighted re-
cipients were well chosen, timely and
filled with fatherly pathos, showing how
well he is fitted for his post, and the
fact that the Wesleyan has become the
best and one of the mostpopular Female
Colleges in the Middle States is proof OF
this. Long and rapidly may it grow and
continue to be as it has been, the pride
of Wilmington and the Peninsula.