Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-10
PRETTY GIRL GRADUATES.
Annual commencement of the Pennsylvanin
Female ColIege-A Brillinnt Audience
Present-AbIe Essays Read by the Young

Annual Commencement of the Pennsylvania
Female ColIege--A Brilliant Audience
Present-Able Essays Read BY the Young
Ladies.
Dilworth Hail. the annex of the pennsylvania
College for Women, was radiant last evening
with its audience representing the high social
and intellectual circles of the city In the beauty
of full dress toilets and the charming misses
and young ladies who have spent the past year
within its walls of which six received diplomas,
it being the eighteenth annual commencement
of the college. The young ladies. students OF
the school, in their dainty costumes and bright
youthful faces, formed pretty picture
seated en- masse on one side of the hall Win
the exception Of the fair graduates, who
presented picturesque tableau amid lowering
palms on the platform clad in sweetly pretty
graduation gowns of soft silk, in the class
colors of pale pink and silvery gray that in the
brilliant light assumed delicate blue tint.
Miss Pelletreau, the principal OF the scnool
robed in handsome trained costume Of
black lusterless silk. wonderfully becoming to
her stately presence, was seated with
the young graduates, and after several
ssisSsl0n' prayeT by Rev ''fv ". Rsid, an;
nounced the first paper "Quid Proximun."
| by Miss Jennie M. McCance. who received the
| second honor. In pretty manner, with pure
accent and intonation, Miss McCance allowed
her fancy full scope In the latin tongue regard
| ing the class and their future, in all advo-
eating higher education which best fitted
| them for becoming representative women in
public life or loyal true helpm2tes, in case, as
the young lady modestly suggested, any OF
them should love and prefer private life.
"Wit6out Sound of Hammer or AK" and in It
| referred to the wonderful achievements OF
| Mother Nature, accomplished SO silently, put
| the greatest building known to man, according
| to Miss Brown, is the building Of character,
| which requires neither hammer or az, puI
looms up at the day of Judgment, either IN
beautiful. pure stone, or with black, un"noie-
| some walls.
Miss Ii ellen Ducan In "The Spirit OF the
Age" proclaimed herself quite thinRer on =
| political and social economy. she SAID tnaI
restlessness, selfshness, activity and energetc
coursed quite freely on strikes, monopoiies,
trusts and combines but concluded by caring
| it the golden age of science, literature and re-
ligion. -.......,v, ,s.s,vsd at the
| hands of Miss Lillian 6. Hill very scathing
| rebuke for its presumption and assumption
| with an appeal to America as nation 70
courtesy and honor for its foundation
| instead of wealth or birth.
After the presentation of diplomas Miss
Elizabeth A. Hlllman, who carried of flrst
| honor, read very interesting and ably written
paper on "a Nations Vitality" which was Of
course Its education and the results of educa-
| ton and enlightenmeut Miss Elizabeth II. Rob-
inson, who bore the Englsn nonor Title, naQ
ancient Superstition for subject, and
| handled It very creditably.
This evening the year will be closed by a
| reception that the graduates will tender to
their friends, and at which Miss Pelletreau
will be an honored guest, though her mourning
| garb will prevent her assuming the role Oh
| hostess as In previous years.
The graduates were addressed by Rev. Henry
T. McClelland, D. D.. who interspersed good
| advice for future government, with many
| amusing anecdotes of school life, and bade
| them commence life in earnest, with firm con.
vIctions. to which they should adhere till
| death.
At the conclusion of the evenings exercises
| the graduates entertained their friends for a
short time in the parlor.