Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-24


school and to be ushered into society. 1t is f1t.
| then, to assemble loving friends and interested
spectators, and to decorate the festal cere
monies with speech, song and hearty greeting.
This is the meaning of the large aSSsmL ly
whose smiling looks and sympathetic hearts
we greet to-day. But year ago we gathered
on similar occasion to witness the triumphs
of a former class, and listened with envious
hearts TO the applause which followed their es-
says. A year has cone and gc9e since then,
but it seem as though only few short luonths
instead cf twelve have passed. Truly, to day
we have attained the eliminating point Of our
hopes. We have at last reached the day when
se vould lay aside our books be released from
trying examinations, and exchange title of
school girl for that of young lady, much as a
butterfly emerges from its chrysalis state and
sports gaily in the ambient air.
Through the clouds that may have darkened
the past there seems to shine forth, on this
our gala day, brighter sun and fairer sky,
bearing light heartedneas to us all: yet, is there
mot something OF sadness in the thought that
we who. for the past four years. have been
Joined together by the closest ties or school
mates classmates and friends, shall to-day
sever this bond ? But let us not bring any sor.
row on this day, rather let me recall some
pleasant events OF our 500 In those rooms
of learning, whittier as pnpils we shall go nc
| more.
in the early fall of 1873. band Of nearly
forty happy girls, filled with pleasure at our
advancement, and excited with curiosity Of
what was TO come, were assefHble IN vel
known room OF CnatnGin Academy. NE were
strangers to the High School, and we
were now to make the acquaintance of
/ the teachers who were hereafter tc
| instruct us. 1t was a novel position,
a turning point in our education, and the new
| circumstances both Charmed and excited us
| A tap of the bell called us t. order, and We
began to realize that we were firmly landed on
| a higher round OF the ladder OF learning. We
each had our own opinions, but were sooT
fain to discard them, for our new instruction
| did not seem specially to value them. A new
regime began, and Grammar School ways and
/ studies were superseded by the new. Tit
same rule governed Us all, and under the
| guidance OF one whose patience and kindness
| endeared her TO the class, we made our frs
| steps in the High School studies.
| Physical geography was one OF our frs
/ branches Here we travelled all climates anf
/ all soils and studied from tho lowest order o.
vegetable 10 the highest form of animal lifs
/ (save nsan whom we have reserved fol
| our leisure study after we have lef
| SCHOOL, Here we we're exposed 20 the fury o.
/ the winds, waves and elements, and were lef
| doubtful whether life was worth living On q
| land, where rivers apd oceans were constantly
| changing its surface. where cyclones, let loosS
/ by Eolus, were sweeping away the atmos
| phere itself. and where earthquakes were tnrn
| ing the earth inside out. Algebra, too, wa
| added to our list, and how one quantity cQult
| equal so many, and ell be equal tQ each other
4 for a while puzzled us, but the problem I
| solved. and we now see how in Algebraic Ian
i guage we can xcept it, and consequently 1t II
| So Latin was a third novelty. and this wa
perfect torment at first, but as We approacne1