The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-27

attention.
Amongst all the beautiful performances
and singing which followed Col. Rucker's
speech, we cannot refrain from noting spe-
cially that exquisite rendition of Break,
Break, Break" by Miss Tommie Hall.
The performance for the morning was
closed with the Graduating Exercises. The
class consisted of five-Misses Hollihgs-
worth, Vesta Mauldin, Mamie Mauldin,
McMakin and Hall. The class by their own
vote decided to graduate in calico dresses.
This, we were informed by DR.. Lander, is
to be feature of the school hereafter. All
are to wear calico dresses without ;iewelry.
In accordance with this rule, the young To-
dies appeared in plain calico, made up SIM
ply but tastefully. We shudder to think
what havoc that class might have played
with the hearts of the beaux present had
they been dressed Us graduates usually are.
They did valiant service as it was. DR.
Lander should try hereafter to arrange it so
that the prettiest girls in school should not
all graduate at once. We think the whole
audience sympathized with the President
when he stepped forward and with tears in
his eyes delivered the following
BAccALAUREATE ADDRESS.
DEAR CH1LDREN-There is no affectation
in me when I say, "The melancholy day
has come. the saddest of the year." for,
though these scenes and circumstances have
in them many elements of joy, as in this
juncture 1 review the past, and realize TO
some extent the meaning of this hour, there
crowd themselves upon me clashing emo
tons of pleasure and of pain, of which the
painful much predominate.
The last year, the last lesson, the last op-
portunity, the last interview-these words
would not suggest so serious thoughts, if
we but knew that every previous privilege
had been improved, and every previous les
son had been duly taught and learned. But,
as gaze upon you now, can not we'll re-
press the rising fear that by some derelictaon
ON my part, some sad misapprehension of
your special needs, may have left the work
of your development too much imperfect,
and thus have fastened to you for all time
to come inseparable evidence of my neglect.
But then it gives ME real JOY to feel that, in
our mutual intercourse throughout, you
have evinced laudable desire to cultivate
your intellectual powers, improve the priv
ileges you have had at hand, and be in read
signed you on the stage Of active life.
You come to-day to swell the number of
anoble band Scattered indeed, how widely
but everywhere blessing; filling here o
faithful teachers chair, or there dividing q
fond husbands care and joy, or lingering
still beside the native hearth, to strengthen
cords of pure affection and elevate the aims
and aspirations Of the household-your
alma mater points to-day with pardonable
pride to those who heretofore have occupied
your place. and says, 'These are my jewels" I"
In their name, 1 give you cordial welcome
to their midst, and bid you constantly to
vie with these your elder sisters in every
practicable effort to adorn society and bless
mankind.
From '72 to '7S, what hath God wrought !!
Saying nothing now of the hundreds of
undergraduates who from time to time have
received more or less benefit from attend
ance on our labors here, think for moment
of the incalculable possibilities of blessing
represented by the twenty-nine who, having
earned them we'll, have borne away these
parchment testimonials of our favor
Twenty-nirie centres of wholesome Christian
influence; twenty-nine cultivated charac,
tiers, to shed forth with moon-like gentle
ness the reflected bfilliancy of the Sun Of
righteousness who shall count the heavy
hearts made glad, the clouds of ignorance
and sin dispelled. the brilliant blessings
every way dispensed, by these our boasted
twenty-nine?
Twenty-nine So soon! So youngl So
promising! Must subtract already one
from our small number2 Must record it
only twenty-eight? Last christmas Ida left
us. Though thoroughly imbued with laud-
able desire for further culture, while in the
very act of prosecuting her design to make
herself still more blessing to her kind, her
earthly race was ended, and she was but
too soon transferred to the Heavenly arena
And yet make no subtraction. We still
have twenty-nine for from that higher
sphere. she looketh down, and doubtless
more than ever scatters benedictions through
the house made saddest by her unexpected
leaving Truly, she being dead yet speak
eth. Let us who still survive bear ever in
our minds the earnest question, Wherefore
are we spared7" end let us too remember
that the time is short, and that the school
you enter now, the school of experience,
the school of duty, the school OF real life,
knows no vacation OH this side of Heaven.
Go then, my children, to the posts as
signed you in the providence Of God. Go
forth bowed down and lifted up. Feel ever,
as you now feel, your slender preparation,
nay, your utter inability to meet the stern
responsibilities of life alone; but, at the
same time, trust firmly in the blest assur-
ance that you can do all things through
Christ Jesus the Lord. Then trust in your
Heavenly Father, and bravely your mission
pursue" g @.
In the afternoon, at o'clock, Prof j. G.
Ginkscales made q masterly effort before
the Alumne. His speech was replete with
wisdom, wit and humor. We think We see
in the near future time when Williamson
can point with pardonable to Prof. Clink-
scales US her most noted offspring. He is
certainly promising young man. By the
way, he is just now in his honeymoon. AS
to whether man who is just married can
make better speech than before, we leave
his hearers to judge. We have never tried
it. His theme was "Female Culture" and
was ably discussed in Il speech of one hour
and halfi in length.
We were pained to see the Alumnu wear
ing mourning. Since lust met one of their
number has been removed by death. After
sad, touching song by the association,
"In Memorian" of Miss Ida Jones, their de-
ceased sister, the exercises were closed.
B. WARE.
Physicians now admit that "The shield is
nobIer than the spear" How. much better
then to shield the system against bilious
,ttocLe by ,,eino Dp HAPTFR'G LIVER PILIS.