Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-23

add TO the number OF lts VOLUMES. Inc iCa07
ing OF its books Is quite as useful TO our menu
bers. as are the literary and social exercises
We have purchased during the year seven
teen (l7l new volumes, besides having many
others donated to Us.
As this Is my last report rs Librarian.
will now bid farewell To the members OF the
Arnold society. wishing II prosperity IN future
years; and that my successor may nna pleas
ure in the discharge Of her duties anu may
prove more efficient officer
The reports were received and ordered
entered upon the minutes of the society.
The annual election of officers was then
announced in order and proceeded with,
Miss Jessie Dale, of the graduating class,
being elected President. Upon the an
nouncement ofthe vote the retiring Presi-
dent returned thanks for the trust i'm
posed upon her during the past year:
MEMBERS OF THE ARNOLD SOCIETY: Ny
all too brief term of Ofhce has expired. In
our society a second term" is unbelievable,
or am quite sure that / would be a candi-
date for re-election; for have found that the
pleasure far exceeds the duties OF the position.
/ felt. indeed, my incapaclty IN creditabiy
filling the office, but trusted TO the advice and
assistance which your worthy Principal
kindly offers TO Inexperienced Presidents,
which has not failed me. II is needless for
me to tell you how delightful my term Of office
has proven. So wishing for my successor all
the pleasure that has been niue. and for the
society that its future may be even brighter
Miss Dale, escorted by Principal Bo-
CART, took the chair and gracefully return
ed thanks for the honor conferred.
The election was then proceeded with
and resulted as follows:
First Vice President-Miss Lottie
Branch, of b Glass.
Second Vice President-Miss Meta
Branch. of c Glass.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss Bertha
Tebeau, of Graduating Glass.
Recording Secretary-Miss Julia Reed,
of B Glass.
Librarian-AIiss Minnie Grady, of B
Glass.
Treasurer-Miss Nellie Hunter, of C
Class.
Board of Managers-Principal Bogart
and Miss Miller, Teachers, and Miss
Helen Carson, of graduating class.
The meeting then adjourned, and Miss
Principal Bogart, delivered in an interest
ing manner
THE SOCIETY ORATION.
This happy occasion Is not only graduation
day, but il is the anniversary Of our Arnold
Society. Twelve similar cycles of months have
come and gone since our Literary Society be-
gan its existence, and twelve times have we
kept its birthday with festal rejOicings. To-
day it enters its teens and again it unites its
thirteenth anniversary exercises with the
glad festival of our graduation day. Twin
sisters in age, loving IN association ana mar
monious in spirit, may their yearly celebra-
tiOns be kept up forever.
The exercises which you have just witnessed
represent the object and ends of our SOciety's
existence. This Society is part of our school
curriculum, and adds greatly TO the interest
and the profit that we get out OF our school
life.
On this glad festival, then, the honor has
fallen to me of concentrating the merits
and celebrating the praises of our literary IN
stitutIOn, to whose privileges we graduates
owe scarcely less than to our scholastic course.
This literary and social body has won for
itself valued place in our school memories.
1t ministers to our intellectual benefit, and
promotes wonderfully the social friendships
that make school so attractive. There are few
of us who have not felt, under the inspiration
of its stimulating exercises and its social IN
fiuences, a greater zest in mental improve
ment and a warmer feeling of friendship for
our schOolmates.
Our Society was named in honor of Dr. Ar
mold. one of the first Presidents of the Board
of Education DR.. Arnold was man of rare
accOmplishments,and took great interest IN oar
public schools. He was the most enthusiastic
on the subject of public education, gave largely
of his time and thoughts to its development,
and did much to establish the system in Sa-
vannah, whence it has spread to other cities
in the State, while it has elevated our own
High Schools to the lofty eminenee on which
they stand.
School societies are useful in many ways:
tneV supplement- sGnOOl -l0StfucllOn, lneH ln-
duce independent study, and by the recita-
tiOns and public exercises, they develop self
reliance and give grace, self possession and
ease of manner to all who participate In them.
1t would be a great advantage II every pupil
felt a greater interest in them, Although
many Of us did not always avail ourselves OF
the benefits of the Society. still we shared In
them, for its monthly meetings and other
social gatherings drew us together, and we
felt as though it was the one strong link in
the chain Of friendship. The exercises of our
monthly meetings, alternating between read
,ngs and recitatiOns, and sometimes including
original ESSAYS, were often enliyened by vocal
and instrumental pieces, in which our musl-
cal members would tEeat us to some fine
music, that diversified our proceedings and
gave us charming variety.
Aside from the exercises of the monthly
meetings, we have library which
grows gradually from the subscrlp-
lions of the members. This Is yalu-
able advantage. II is filed with interesting
and instructive books, sHeh rs histories, bl0g-
raphies. travels, light literature, with rea-
sonable number of story books and novels.
Although these are comparatively few, they
make up in interest and popularity what they
lack in number, and judging from their looks,
they are kept in constant hse. would not
have YOU infer from this, however, that our
studies are neglected for the sake of novel
reading; the eyerwatchful eye of our Princl-
pal guards and warns US against that error.
Fellow graduates. As the years come aud
go each one brings to its close the schoOllife OF
another class. To-day we stand, fourteen In
number, to bid farewell, not only to the school
rooms and school scenes OF our Alma Mater,Dut
to the pleasures and advantages OF our Arnold
Society Classmates does il not make you
sad to feel that this is the last meeting we
shall attend in body That our four years
association as members of this society Will DO
severed. and that we shall have shared these
social gathering for the last time, and learned
our last lessons from their happy meetings
There need be no surprise, then, that IN the
Arnold Society, properly annex to our
school. which, aside from direct educational
benefit, develops so hearty a social feeling and
so fine an esprit de corps our classes
should highly value and gladly use its prlvl-
leges. We do highly prize these prlyl-
leSes, and trust that the Arnold Society shall
grow in ali coming fiGne, galy,i pdssA, With The
High school in the esteem of lis pupils hnd IN
the affection of its graduates.
With the Grafton the first part of the pro-
gramme was concluded and brief inter-
mission was taken, during which the au-
dience, having remained quiet and given
appreciatige attention to the exercises,
indulged' 10 general conversation and
comment. After few minutes and at the
tap of the bell order was restored and the
second part of the programme was intro
duced by singing "JOy, Joy Crown Us
To-day"
THE CLASS HISTORY.
Miss Bertha Tebeau, upon whom had
devOlved the duty Of recording the history
of the class, read the following chronicle
of its trials and pleasures;
The history Of one class is but the copy of
pFeyi0os Gns, NJ siElilat are tue FasFee Of
every set of girls, and unitVrln Is the routine
of their school life. To an audience, then,
gathered at these public exercises, the annual
story is but repeating what you have heard
before. and you may well ask. Why not spare
YOU its recital: Dear friends, II is because
the story is not old to us. Its own career is
peiSSual end ever new to each class. Each
carries Its own reco..eetions and its own
hOpeS-its own both sad and happy memories.
To each class its history is the sum of its four
years of pleasure and sorrow, OF pride in its
progress, OF regret, it may be, at its want of
success Apa 90 its memory is too dear for us
to deny ourselves Its reeSgtf.
The first Monday of october, 1873, found
forty (40) or more scholars assembled in Chat
ham 4 eademy and enrolled as the ID Class.
We were tilled with pride az the idea that we
were no longer in the Grammar rer6Ol, bot
were scholars of the Girls High School. I do
lat know how many good resolutions were
Kept ana l1N IlIaAy broken, bit ! do know
that we studied with afd6r ilntii tfe .iret en-.
thusiasm passed. when some OF us relapsed
into comparative ndlnerenee TO our duties.
How soon our ranks were broken! scarce
three months were passed when one of the
forty was called by her Almighty Father to
ssntxLee void" Her earthly education was
ended She Was one vt our best girls, and we
were loath to let her 90, Her place has heea
vacant. but we yet miss our absent sister.
ssNOne knew her but to love her,
None named her but to praise"
Less0ns, NOV, claimed ~ our attention, ex,
eept that given TO dress Eisysta,l !.
before my vision weary Journeys oyer ice and
snow views Of glaciers and avalanehes, pla-
teaus, mountains, coral reefs ana islands, ana
especially the animals OF the ages before
.sMan- was created We were rather aston
;sbad 7 must confess To learn that the ssCre-