The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-14
COMMENCEMENT.
Brilliant Closing Exercises
at Martin College.
Large Audiences, Splendid En-
tertainments, Gratifying
Results.

: fourth session of Martin Colleg'
! now in progress were opened at tn
) NJ. E. Church last Sunday morning
The pupils of the College, all ar
rayed in beautiful spring attire
! marched in at 103 o'clock, when DR.
! Cranberry, Professor of Practlca
Theology in Vanderbilt University
delivered the commencement Ser
mon, taking his text from Matthew
, 10th CHI, 39th VS.: 'He that findetI
his life shall lose 1t: and he thai
loseth his life for my sake shall fine
it," The sermon occupied 60 min.
utes and was replete with wisdom
and sound theology. 1t embraced
one of the most vitality interesting
subjects that man can contemplate,
the problem of life, and it was the
learned preachers effort to tell how
life should be spent that more
pleasure and benefit may accrue to
the person endowed with it. 1t was
one of the most learneds metaphysi-
cal disquisitIons we ever listened to.
The audience was very large and
although the sermon was lengthy,
none of it was lost upon his inter
ested auditors.
On Tuesday evening at 81 O'Clock
the first public exhibition was in
stituted at the College, being the
SYAIPosIAC EXERCISES.
A very large audience of nearly
all our citizens and great many
from the neigboring country and
towns were comfortably seated in
the spacious study hall in the new
wing and agreeably entertained.
The hall was scene of beauty, not
alone because of the hundred beau
tiful young ladies who sat smiling
upon the stage and the fashionable
and cultivated audience, but it had
been fitted up to please the eye
specially by having its walls hung
with over a hundred drawings and
paintings by the accomplished Art
Teacher, Miss Cody, and her pupils.
They embraced several life-sized
portraits in crayon, among which
were DIR. and Mrs. Rivers, Mrs. Men
efee, the late Frank Wilkerson, Il. b.
Crow, l.. w. McCord and DR.. j. f.
Grant-all nearly as natural as life
itself Some of the pictures were
extraordinary puductions and would
have done credit to some whose
fame have outline generations and
whose names are in the sacred list
of old masters" In these pictures
Miss Cody not only gave evidence
of being an exquisite artist, but they
demonstrated her ability to impart
the divine touch to others and
render them excellent as well. The
stage was indeed a
SCENE OF BEAUTY.
A hundred or more beautiful girl
faces, flushed with excitement and
youthful merriment, with counte
nances serene because they knew
they had been SO we'll taught that
their performances to night would
be without blemish, rendered more
beautiful still by the adornments of
art and fashion, beamed from the
stage, as they sat in tiers hanking
two grand pianos. On each side
of the stage on the rear wall were
the expressive words cart" "Mus
&c" in evergreens, while the center
was adorned with the excellent
motto indicative of the character
oflearning impaired at Martin Col
lege, "Literg, ,Seientia, Rekigio."
These, with the excellent teachers
who sat upon each side, completed
the stage appointments and adorn
ments. At 81 o'clock DIR. Rivers
asked the attention of the audience
and the exercises commenced with
PRAYER BY Rev. Mr.. FISHER.
The audience sat profoundly quiz
ct while this learned divine was in
vokIng heavens blessings. Then
the symposiac exercises commenced
with an address of welcome by
Miss Lena May Buford and a bill
of fare by Miss Emma Dinwiddie,
after which the time was filed in
for nearly three hours with recita-
tons demonstrating the course Of
studies in the College, the advance
ment of each scholar and the eff
cheney with which they were taught, /
interspersed with piano duets and |
quartets and one grand sacred cho-
rus by the whole school. The mu-
sic was superintended and made by
the scholars of that queen of music |
and song, Miss Fannie Mcclellan.
the Music instructress. We cannotj
attempt to do justice to the young
ladies by particular mention, lest
we should do these injustice Suf
fee it, the audience gave repeated 1
evidence of satisfaction, and, taken /
all together, the opening can be tru-
ly said TO have been a credit 70 the
College and the unexcelled corps of
teachers. We will be compelled to !
wait until next week to give an &C
count of the performances of last
night. Tonight win be THE night |
OF the Commencement, being the
evening for the Graduating exercis- !
es. Remember 81 O'Clock, SHARP.
Hon. w. ). McLcmore, Judge Of I
the Criminal Court of Williamson,
Mau-y, Giles and Franklin counties,
has been IN the city this week pre- /