Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-12
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AZ the Female College, Lnst Eveuing.
College Hall was well filled last evening.
tie occasion being the customary meeting
of the Alumne which inaugurates the
commencement exercises of thei nstitstiop,
and all who were present went away with
the idea firmly impressed in their minds
that it was an evening well spent. The
following was the evenings
PROGRAMME.
Presidents Address---.--Mrs. Judge Boyd
vocaisoio.aNan-....--.IMiss sophia Logan
Instrumentai soio---..Mfss Jennie Mcdonald
Alumnae Historian Address-.Miss Ella Dillon
Re~ading-The Dukite snake---.-----------
Miss louise A. Laughlin.
Recitation --..-----------Mis Adeila foilack
Address to Alumnae---Hon A. w. Csmpoeu
The address of Mrs. Judge Boyd, the
President, was the event of the evening,
and was listened to with strict attention
throughout The speaker reviewed the his
tory of the college during the last thirty
years, and traced its brilliant career as an
institution If learning, under successive
ard showing by undoubted eyide nee that,
although it had always made a record and
obtained a fame emitting il to stand high
among kir dred Institutions, its career
under its present President, Miss Taylor,
was brighter nd more praisewhrothy thln
ever before.
The address of Miss Ella Dillon, the his
torian OF the a umna, was likewise q credi-
table effort. She sSetched the
wide variance in the after life of students
who had left its walls { fter completing the
course of learning it provides, and pictured
wildly the many fields Of usefulness to
which graduates had been called. Some
we're missionaries, laboring in far off
chimes for the redemption OF heather ma
tons; othere wives of merchants, minis
tiers and srtizans, others again were still in
the old family circle of the school girl days,
one promised a bright career as an actress,
and, alas, many more were ~dead-gone from
this life to the better life beyond.
The select reading Of Miss Louisa A.
Laughlin, with its vivid sketch Of lifein
far off Australia, was fully as enjoyable as
any feature of the programme, and the
lady received hearty congratulations from
her friends at its conclusion.
The exercises OF the evening closed with
Hon. A. W. C~ampbell's address to the
alumn1. in which the speaker favored the
higher education of women, and pointed
out the many advantages 10 be derived
from a we'll stored M cultivated mind.
All great men, he said, had distinguished,
or at least educated and thoughtful
mothers. and the knowledge OF this fact
should encourage every young lady to
strive to the utmost for her intel.
lectual advancement. The speaker re-
ferred to the cause Of education at
large, and particularly in the South
where illiteracy prevails TO such a lament
able degree, and said recent personal oh.
servations enabled him 10 say the Southern
people were rapidly waking up to a real
ization to the fact that education in its
broadcast sense was greatly to be desired,
and said a great advancement in this re-
gard could be looked for in the succeeding
decade.
The vocal and instrumental solos in
lerspersed through the programme were
we'll rendered, and We regret that space
will not permit us TO accord praise to each
individual taking part.