The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-21
CEMENT.
The SympOSiac Exercises
Continued.
The Graduates Receive Their
Diplomas.

ulSHC previous DN CHtti AuihpcAo
and the strict attention they gave,
| DIR. Rivers was borne out in his re-
marks at the close of the evening.
He SAID he had been conducting
such exhibitions for forty years and
he had never seen a people who ap
preciated and encouraged them more
| than Pulaskians. This is at once
compliment to our people and to
the exercises. We know it must
fill the worthy Principals heart
with pride and satisfaction that his
labors in his noble profession are
continually bearing brighter fruits
and meriting higher appreciation
and praises. At 81 o'clock the ex-
ercises were commenced with
PRAYER BY REV J. C. PUTNAM.
After DR.. Rivers had compliment
ed the boys into their best behav
Tor, Miss Willie McNairy delivered
an address of welcome to the vast
audience, after which the exercises
were continued as on the night be-
fore with recitations, ETC.. inter
spersed again with beautiful music.
Near the close of the evening DR..
Rivers announced that the prizes
that had been offered by the Presi-
dent of the Board and awarded by
the committee would be presented,
and Immediately Gen'l Brown came
upon the stage and presented hand
some copies OF English poems to
each of the young ladies, as follows:
To Miss Media Mason for the best
lectures on physiology; to Miss
Laura DuBose for the best on po-
litical economy; to Misses Carolee
Menefee and Douglass Buford for
the best on science and literature.
In the latter case it was necessary
for the young ladies to draw for the
prize, when it fell to Miss Buford.
With generosity equal to her good
fortune, Miss Buford presented her
less fortunate competitor with
handsome copy of Coleridge's Po-
ems. Gov. Brown in handsome
way presented the books to the
Young ladies, when Miss Menefee,
on her own behalf, in a felicitous
and appropriate response, expressed
her deep gratitude for being thought
worthy to be the recipient of such
an honor.
After this, Misses Lula Jones
and Florence Casey and Messrs.
Regenold and Ezell rendered a
beautiful quartette, which finished
the evenings exercises.
Thursday morning was ushered
in with flying clouds which soon
settled into a steady drizzle of rain
that seriously interfered with the
plans of many who had promised
themselves to witness the proceed
ings. However, nearly all the pu-
pills were there and a considerable
audience, and after several recita-
lions and readings by the different
classes, DR.. Rivers proceeded to
read the marks which indicated the
DEGREE OF SCHOLARSHIP
attained by each pupil in each par
ticular study. 1t was very graft
fying exhibit, taken all in all, very
creditable to the young ladies and
teachers. We suppose it would not
be relished by the young ladies if
we were to give list of the marks
attained, and we will not publish
the entire list next week if we re-
ceive any intimation that they do
not wish it. Some of the young
ladies were wonderfully proficient,
and we would mention them if we
could remember all. After the
reading was completed, Mrs. Adams
examined a class in rheto ric, to the
great pleasure and qualification of
the audience and to the extraordi-
nary credit of the class. We dis
like to record this circumstance,
because the young ladies proved
themselves so conversant with the
rules of rhetoric and so divinely an
fat in style and diction, that they
may criticise our criticism too Sc
verely. We hope they will spare
US, however, because, in the day
when we went to school there were
no such teachers as they have now,
and then perhaps the soil in which
the seeds were sown was poorer.
We take occasion in this connection
to give our opinion of the
CORPS OF TEACHERS
of Martin College from what we saw
and heard during Commencement.
We know them Individually to be
thoroughly educated teachers OF
long experience and considerable
fame, some of them, but outside oil
reputation, if we had never known
them, we would be convinced by
witnessing their symposiac exer-
cises and hearing the record OF
scholarship that they are what they
really are. AS far as we know and
are able to judge, the faculty OF
: Martin College could not be i'm
proved; but if this should be
thought exaggeration, we can al
least say truthfully that their abili
ty, assiduity and devotion are equa
to the task they have in hand, anG
in them Pulaski can confide hel
schoo! interests with perfect safety
The record they have made in the
record made by their pupils las