The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-03
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY.
The Grand Semi-Annual Enter.
~ tainment.

Last Thursday tie pupils OF St..
Iary's Academy gave to their parents
and friends one of those literary and
musical entertainments which have
made the Institution famous.
The day was bright, clear and lovely,
and the aroma of happiness and intel
ligence which filed the atmosphere
within and around the academy, told
the visitor. who tripped across the
snow-clad lawn to tine beautiful undu-
lating strains of merry chimes, that a
great intellectual treat was in store:
and never, perhaps. within the history
Of the institution was assembled within
Its walls more intellectual and ap-
preciatlVe audience than on last Thurs
day.
IL is to the credit of the institution,
aud to the cultured public of this city
that these entertainments which have
been repeated at this institution twice
during each scholastic year, are ever
new and never old. How could it be
otherwise? The ladies who conduct
St. Mary's have national reputation;
their intelligence pierces to the throne
of the invisible: there to find those
enabling and beautiful ideas, which
are the bulwark of civilization; their
philanthrophy knows no creed or coun-
try, and of them might be truly said.
1.-The world is their home, to do good
is their religion" Within the great
shades of their convent life they COM
mune with the sages, philosophers,
poets and painters, and Gull from their
works the drops of honey to nurture
and strengthen the minds OF those
happy oaes contidsd their care.
Inc order of exercises carried out on
Thursday was most pleasing one, and
the names OF the young ladies', who
participated guarantee that everything
was great success.
The Misses A. and n Keeney are IN
doubleday worthy sspirants for tile
laurels in vocal anu instrumental mu-
sic, and, if they do not succeed in
wrestling them from the fair brows of
their companions who now hold them,
it will not be the fault of their genial
nature and beautiful y cultured voices.
Miss Alice Cronin and the harp are
anonymous terms: for years past her
fairy fingers have awaked from its
"UbC ctA Ab6o moA Ulikab uOtC VI
gladness, but on Thursday tones of
strain, yet what heart didj not glesn
purest pleasure from the pain still it
is at the piano that Miss Cronin proved
herself the thoroughly accomplished
born artist, for she faulllessly unraveled
amidst the softest stiffness one of Chop
ms difficult, delicate. fanciful. passlon-
ate gems of musical composition.
The concert recitation proved that
elocution is an important factor in the
academy curriculum. Tbs distinct
enunciation, the silvery modulation,
the appropriate emphasis, and above
all the natural and graceful gestures
were something away ahead OF what
might be expected from Yonng ladies
pursuing an academic course. Miss
Lanes Essay, modestly styled foot
Prints" has a poetical bearing, to-
gether of sparkling gems of scientific
thought. This Young lady also distin-
guished herself at the piano by grace
fully rendering that beautiful compost
ton "Alice"
The musical and literary exercises
ended by an instrumental quartette by
Misses Luce, Folsom, Payne and ,Glee-
son. The execution brought out all
the rich symphonies of impromptu.
At the close of sbe exercises, Bishop
Burke, of Chez enne, made short ad-
dress, IN which he said that for some
time past be had been travelling in
Europe and the United States. and that
the fame of st. Mary's Academy and
All Hallows' College had spread from
shore to shore He paid high and
we'll merted compliment to Bishop
Seaman and the people of this Terri
tory who had created such institutions
of L earning. to which the young ladies
and gentlemen of this and the sur
rounding Territories NAV flock, without
the least interference directly or indi-
rectly with their religious teuets. to
receive all that is necessary to make up
not only a useful but an ornamental
education, an education which cannot
be excelled in matter or manner by
similar institutions east or west