Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-26
IN MUTE ELOOUENCE.
The Attractive Closing Exercises at EDGE
woods Institution-Dr. Browns Resig-
NATHAN TnE

The Attractive Closing Exercises at Edge-
woods Institution-Dr. Browns Resig-
nation Takes Effect.
| AS was intimated in THE DISPATCH Of yes
terday, which published exclusively and in ad-
vance the resignation Of Rev. John G. Brown.
| d. D.. as principal Of the Western Pennsylva-
mia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Edge
wood, that event was the one of chief,
| though it was the one Of most melancholy, in
terest in connection with yesterdays closing
exercises at the institution. The good doctors
q years of work for deaf mutes in this vicinity
| need not again be reviewed, as it was quite
fully in these columns yesterday; but it is suf-
ficient to add that his successor will have to be
mighty good and kind man to fill the place
| which this great-hearted and benevolent in
structor has made at the head of the institution
| he founded.
The attendance at the closing exercises yes
| terday was quite large, and included many in
| terested ones from Pittsburg. The entertain
ment, SO like others of its class that have been
| annually described at length by the city press,
| was only more fascinating than usual from the
| fact that its young actors were more proficient
| than their predecessors in that eloquent,
| though silent, Interpretation of ideas through
gestures, which finds improved forms of ex-
preston each succeeding year. The following
programme was well rendered by the best pu-
pills and enjoyed by all:
Invocation.
l. Salutatory Essay, some Hundred Years Ago
Conducted Conducted bv WIS Miss May s Williams.
Condacted BY Miss Fannie L. Howells;,
Lip kssd!nF = Willie Willie Hayes and james Conway
heetatlOn tSfos in Prsyar Signs wGo Killed S CocE
& Robin; Pupils Of tbe snf,I First It. Year ear
Second iss Division i1 of the Advanced dPII Class
Conducted by Mr.. Linaus Roberts.
9. Essay, "Useful Plants John Price
7. Recitation in Signs. "No No!! J N0i;r, :,,,u,,
Glass Exercises History oF n the s0ShG1sd Tni9sd
States, - Pupils of the First Division of the
Advanced Glass;
Conducted by Mr. Lin@us Roberts.
9, Recitation in Signs THE Twenty-third
Psalm"..... ..,........ ....... Howell g; Davies
TO- Glass Exercise in ''Arithmetc. - Pupils Of the
First Division of the Advanced Class,
Conducted by Mr.. LinRus Roberts.
II. RECITATION in Signs, ''The Preacher and his
- EsssT arns1t Is G. hG1%a& %agor
13. Recitation in Signs, daughter Of Zion Awake
From Thy Sadnessn
Maggie q. Davis, Ida L. Robinson. Anna L. Arm
strong, Pearl Weaver and Bessie Richards.
IA. Valedictory Essay, my School Days,
Is. Presentation Of Certificates.
Benediction.
There was wealth of meaning in both the
salutatory and the valedictory not only, but in
the intervening numbers also-a meaning full
of fun at times, but more plethoric in pathos
by reason of the intense earnestness so pecul-
lar to those who have heartily taken hold of
the more difficult, though not the less lucid, of
all the forms of expression. The sign language
has been reduced to a very nicely in the poetry
as well brought out in the exercises yesterday,
reflected most creditably upon the efficient
work down by DR.. Brown and his assistant in
structors during the past year.