The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-03
WHITWORTH COMMENCEMENT.


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The entertainment which the Alum
maze of Whitworth College gave on
Tuesday night to the visitors to Com.
mencement Day at Whitworth, was
a very brilliant affair. The excursion
train from the north on Tuesday
morning poured out some 700 or SOC
visitors, and other trains and private
conveyances swelled the number OF
guests to three thousand. 1t was the
biggest day Brookhaven ever had
and the exercises were exceedingly at.
tractive. The large Chapel was pack
ed with a bright audience, dressed in
airy summer garments, and wearing a
look of qualification and satisfaction
upon their faces.
1t is to be remarked, (and it gives us
satisfaction to note the fact,) that
in every part of the State, the
people show up marked improve
ment in appearance which is the best
proof of improved and improving con-
ditiOn in fortune and prospects. On
the trains you meet more folks, and
vastly more ladies than formerly;
and they look a great deal better
satisfied with themselves than they
did few years ago. Crops every
where are promising, and the buoy
ancy of renewed hopefulness is mark
ed on nearly every face.
The Commencement exercises of
the College began at l0:30 o'clock and
continued about three hours. The
address of DR.. Matthews was rich,
racy, and highly entertaining and
amusing. He gave the German
scientists some genuine, old fashioned
Methodistic thunder, and had that
large audience convused with laugh
ter at their expense for half an hour.
His illustrations of the absurdities Of
the great scientists were exceedingly
apt and perfectly irresistible. The
institutions of learning were severely
criticised and and he boldly antago-
nized the systems of education in this
country. There was too much head
culture and too little training of the
heart. The boy orgirl came home from
college disposed to criticise, and ques-
ton, and doubt everything. They
were inclined toknow little too much
and not to feel quite enough. The
wisdom of their fathers and mothers
was scoffed at, and they were proba-
bly, little too much given to instruct
ing the o'd parties what to say and
how to gay it. The danger to religion
was that too much investigation of
cold intellectual nature, where the
offices of the heart were totally
ignored, led inevitably to skepticism.
The Doctors idea was to have in
every school three gymnasiums, one
for the head, one for the body, and one
for the heart.
A considerable number of medals |
were awarded to young ladies for sue
ces in study and neatness in deport-
ment. Diplomas were given to eight
young ladies as follows: Miss Alice
Baldwin, Enterprise; Miss Fannie
Millsaps, Jefferson County; Miss
Lollie J. Russell and Miss Sallie
Smith, Yazoo County; Miss Isabella
Stewart, Tensas La; Miss Alwilda
Wakefield Cameron La.
The Salutatory address - Second
Honor-was awarded to Miss Wake
field of La, which was read to the
audience in fine style by Miss Russell,
Of Yazoo. The Valedictory-First
given to Miss Stewart of
La, and her essay was very superior.
Announcement was made that there
would be two representations of
Columbia, the first commencing at $3.50
o'clock in the Chapel. The programme
was changed so as to have the per-
;ormance in the Chapel instead of the
,pen air, as first proposed, on account
If threatening weather; and there
we're to be two performances because
he Chapel, large as it was, could not
lold half the audience. At each of
hese representations the auditorium
vas packed, NOT an inch of available ;
tanding room being left vacant. {
This entertainment was projected !
md managed entirely by Mrs Lucy :
\. Kidd, of YazoO City, one of the
Faculty, and it was a masterpiece in
is line, proving her to be "A lady of rare Q
ulture, tact and talent. She wrote I
he congratulatOry speeches of all the t
Oreign ambassadors, and the happy
esponse of Columbia. Each repre- q
was dressed in appropriate g
and conducted TO the foot Of y
throne by the sweetest Of J,
listresses of ceremonies, in the per- Il
on of Miss Lengield. We regret that t
ur space will not permit descrip- I
on of the beautiful costumes worn !
Y the ladies, but we are convinced Fl
hat our readers would prefer the ad-
resses of the distinguished embas-
ldors and Columbia's reply. :,
HE WORLDS GREETING To CO. o
LUMBIA. il
SPAIN.-Miss Josie Warren. p
First came Spain, by her superbly Il
eautiful representative, Miss Josie "
Warren, who spoke her greeting with p
grace aud clearness which at once =,
aptivated the entire audience: N
" "Spain,n she said, "comes to do n
omage to Columbia not with an in 81
incible armada, but with affection.
he generosity of our King Ferdinand "
nd the piOus Isabella, furnished the n
Columbus With means for "
laking the research which resulted =,
! the discovery Of this glorious cOun- n
v, and America is a monument 10
ie enterprise Of Spain. Many Of our "
sro,,fH 5ostu r,lanfaI fha arnez rrr.,rs ] N