Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-25


| was nominated. and, it being put 20 vote, she
was unanimously elected President.
Miss Maccaw then rose and retired, making
/ the following parting ad 1resS:
RETIRING PRESIDENTS REPORT.
Officers and Members Of the Arnold Society:
A year ago to-day, /, member OF the gradu-
| ating class, was elected your President and
/ to dav preside over you for the last time.
| My Presidency is a thing or the past ana an
Although have not been with you at many
of our meetings, it was no fault OF mine, my
duties as teacher preventing my attending as
1 often as / would have liked
Hoping that my successor viii enjoy the
| meetings more than have been able to do. and
| will prove more efficient and worthy oihceT
| / wish you all Godspeed. and bid you farewell
| The new President. Miss Doyle. then took
| the chair and addressed the members OF the
society.
/ Miss Lavinia L. Adams of B class, was
nominated and elected as First Vice President
Miss Miriam Well of class, as Second Vice
| President
Miss Dora Proctor of graduating class as
/ Corresponding Secretary.
Miss FIorrie TenBroeck, of class, as Re-
cording Secretary.
| Miss Jessie Dale, of G class, as Treasurer.
MIR Bogart. Miss Miller, Teachers, Miss
Fernandez, OF graduating class, Board OF
Managers.
A motion to adjourn was now seconded and
carried, and the school Joined in singing the
piece entitled bright be Each Face"
At the close of these interesting proceed
J ings Mr.. Bogart announced there would be
an intermission of five minutes.
| At the expiration of the time, the classe
and the audience were called to order, and
the exercises were resumed by the school
singing "Come where the Fields are Beam
| ing.n
Miss Minnie Ellen Doyle then gave the
| following interesting history of the class,
which was received with great favor:
| CLASS HISTORY.
| The golden hours of school life are soon to
\ be numbered with the past: fieeting time Is
bearing away the characteristic joys, the dear
associations and the loving memories OF our
| school days.
| capped the spell of these impressions, and, as
| we seek the accustomed smile and sign OF
! recognition, we think there rests a shade of
| pensiveness upon the brow of each dear teach
/ err and they appear TO greet us on this our last
| school day with even a sadder glance
| In the presence of our sorrow, we feel that
| the hours are numbered here; and yet would
fain speak parting word 10 our loved old
| seems doGbly dear None but kindly hands
| will touch to-day the desks and berches in our
/ pleasant class room, where we would gladly
| liHger amid the grateful emotions which they
| call forth.
Clouds that may have darkened the past
| for this day cast aside their sombre robes,
| and appear in brighter colorS to greet us on
1 the portals of the unknown future. Let us
| content ourselves to behave that the sautary
impressions gathered during our school days
| will be our companions as the years glide by,
| and that advancing time VIII serve TO strength
/ en- rather than to efface them.
| To-day the ripletS of memory flow on I'M
| ceasingly, and to the echoes of the past's mu-
sic is my task assigned
THE HISTORY OF OUR CLASS.
What can 1 recall? What events are most
| appropriate to be mentioned here? Yet the
| past is written and our history is made up
| from its record. Let the records of other
classes have been ever 50 pleasant, n0ne could
| have felt more interest in them than the gradu-
| ating class of to day do in our own.
The Arst Monday of October OF 1877 found
assembled in well-known room of Chatham
| Academy a band of forty or more merry,
| laughing girls. Each had her individual ways
and ideas. Some were too merry, some too
| quiet, and others about as near the boundary
| line of perfection as girls can ever be.
Nevertheless were all subjected to one
| rule; and the same discipline governed every
| body: and under the guidance or one, whose
| impartial methods and gentle manners will
| ever keep in memory the happy year spent in
her class, we made our maiden attempt in the
| High School studies.
Physical geography was among the first
branches of stucy that was presented to
our youthful minds. All about leaves
and trunks of trees being changed into fossils,
was learned and relearned, until our minds
| were almost fossiliZed by continual drillings
upon fossils. We we're tossed from the Gulf
| Stream to the Equatorial Current, and you
| may well wonder at the condition of our brains
after the currents OF thought about ocean cur
rents had run their regular course. Besides
this study algebra was also taken up. and how
| | could equal so many different things, and
| how quantity, itself unknown, could enable
US to know Others, for a while puzzled US.
Last, but not least, Latin was require of us.
Surprised were we that living girls should
| be made to learn dead language We scarce
| ly perceived the importance of this study until
near the cloang days of school-life but having
| earnestly persevered with it, most exceliently
has it compensated us for the trouble it has
cost.
The next station on our journey is the third
or class Being greeted here by the smiling
countenanee of another devoted teacher, we
came upon new wonders in the shape of rheto
ric and Caesar. We became accustomed to the
| 6gurative expressions of our mother tongue
aud its manifold punctuation points.
and always employ ed the excla-
though to many the interrogation was more
| thoroughly known. The exploits of Cesar ap
| peared very wonderful; slowly but surely, y
| in thought we crossed the bridge constructed
| under the supervision of this extraordinary
genius.
Juvenile journalism took up some of our
| time. and thoughts and an interesting M. pc
riodicsl, under the name OF the School Room
| Echoes, regularly in bi-monthly numbers. con-
tanned the simple thoughts and sentiments
| in it of our class In March
| last the Echoes died away, and their
harmonies have ceased forever.
| During our soj0urn in this class French and
! German We're also regular studies We bad
made but little progress in these when our
| venerable Doctor resigned, and the curriculum
| of modern language was dropped from the
school course From sophomores we were. on
| examination. promot juniors, when we we're
| placed under the supervision of one of the
| kindest teachers that ever impaired knowledge
| 1t was no fault of hers that we unwillingly
greeted natural philosophy as enc of our
studies; yet. we wondered at the at
wished sfsd" that this -'a universal law Of
matter might control our inclinations and
make us delight in the science of nature. Vir-
| gIs beautiful sentiments and smooth verse
| were more to our taste. and we found ourselves
in full sympathy with the story of Aneas and
| Dido, pitying the latter's sorrows and death,
| and wondering how the horrid Ancas ever got
| the title of Plus Geometry was also among
| our new acquaibtances, and from straight
| crooked and imaginary lines we were lifted up
| to triangles, squares circles and ellipses. Even
English literature was addei to our studies
| but this we enjoyed, for change
| brought Variety we Toasted
on Lamb one day, on Bacon the next. and not
satisfied with one Longfett0t0 we often sought
for More.
Our junior achievements finished we were
| ushered into the dignifed presence Of our hon
| ored Principal whose gentle ways, kind dispo-
| sition and courtesy of manner will ever be
| cherished and treasured up by us in the gar
| den OF memory. Following on in course the
| school curriculum-chem with its likes
| and dislikes, its af1inities and repugnances;
! history, on whose graphic pages the life OF
mankind shines forth as a picture, and astrono-
/ my's stupendous wonders filled our hearts with
| delight and our heads with establishment.
But our school DAYS have passed by, and
| now a band Of fifteen we stand on the
| threshold of the busy world. While we are
| yet permitted, let us cast back the gaze of
| loving memory and offered affection, not only
/ upon the scenes aud events CT our education,
! but even upon the classic halls themselves.
| For now desks and benches. walls and portals,
| are alike dear, and the well known sound OF
the bell will ever remind us of the joyful
memories of the past
We always will the hours recall
OF school life gone and past;
| Offriends and teachers, dear to all,
| These thoughts will ever last.
o. school room dear, Wen ever cling
With lasting love to thee;
And Gen. o bell, thy tinga-ling
An echo sweet will be.
ORIGINAL ESSAYS
were continued, and the audience was en-
| tertained with some pleasant thoughts on
"Life's Journey" and "study of Nature"
by Misses Carrie Matilda Buckner and
Mary Bourquin Canon. Master VIII
| liam baltimore gave fine dis
sertati0n on "Fame," lucidly explaining
the difference between fame and notoriety,
Master John Nicolson sEetched "The Art
| OF Printing" Miss Mary Lu Haupt pointed
out "Beacon Lights" and Miss Adele Meyer
| read a capital essay on Sympathetic Kind
ness" Mr. j. d. Miller chose as his subject
Jefferson Davis,n and, reviewing his life
and services, closed with an eloquent tribute
| to his soldierlV reputation and statesman
ship. Miss Mary Matilda Nicolson favored
the audience with a creditable essay on
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