The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-06-20

Comforting Degrees.
MUSIC.
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NJ. P. Richards. St. Michaels.
In comforting the diplomas President Lewis
said:
PRESIDENT LEWIS ADDRESS.
Ny Dear Friends of the Twenty-First Graduating
Class Again am called upon to give the formal
dismissal from the ranks OF our resident students TO
whom have been with us for the best part of their
youth, and who have been here long enough to
make the present duty anything but entirely agree.
able to one who has been associated with you as l
have been. True it is indeed that no repetition
ever make the ceremony cold or these forms indif-
ferent. Though our words are commonplace, they
arc the words of home and friendship and memory.
We let you go from us not without hope that you are
in some degree prepared to do your work in the
world, and that you will not be towards drones.
There is only one prophet allowed to each class,
and, therefore, will not indulge in expectations
beyond this that believe you regard life seriously
and are therefore likely TO take il up earnestly.
Happy indeed are you that you can take it up with
out shame and look steadfasty at it without fear.
You will remember that l made a suggestion to
you in pleasantly when we were talking over the
subject for your essays today that you should try to
keep Julius Caesar and Christopher Columbus out of
them. do not presume it is due to this. but the
fact happens to be that neither of these worthless
believe has been disturbed by any of you. You
have permitted them to enjoy the repose they so
richly merit. Peace to their sacred dust and TO all
known You have turned to the themes of today.
l congratulate you. 1t has long been q reproach
that schools worshipped fossils. and sent into the
world men and women with their intellectual vision
turned backward a thousand years. AT least you
will escape this charge, and we shall perhaps enjoy
a portion of your reward. 1t may be that the ques-
tons you have settled here today in deliver
anee may come up again, for some questions are
hard to settle in one effort but you have the salts
faction at least of knowing that you are in touch
with your times You have but to keep step with
your generation, and your work will give you pres
eQt recognition and reward. / would not QiSDQrage
nor indulge htppant thoughts of the illustrious
past. Cesar and Cicero, Socrates and Plato, Column
bus and Bonaparte, all were great But you will
not read much of their history without discovering
that their greatness consisted precisely in their turn
their day. To be like them, then we must let them
alone and take up the men and measures about u.s.
In these we shall find enough TO do, and glory
enough to satisfy our ambition.
To this work and to this world we send you out.
say, not without hope May you oyerpass even
our desires. To one and all give, on behalf of my
colleagues, an ahectonate blessing, welcome to
our comradeship and a farewell from the pleasant
days of the old life closing here today.
And now, as to all imperfections and defeats
forget the things behind reach forth to those before
press toward the mark for the prize Of your voca-
lion among men, and also and chiefly of your high
calling of God in Christ Jesus.
A number of gold medals were also given
to the undergraduates. These are known as
the Freshman, Sophomore and Junior medals,
which are given to the leaders of these classes
who have made the highest average grade in
all studies, while in the preparatory depart
ment certificates of distinction were awarded
the students of those classes. The medals
and distinctions awarded were as follows:
JUNIOR CLASS.
Gold medal-Carrie Corrinne Coghill, Hen
derson, N. c.; Arthur Francis Smith, Frost
burg, Md.
Honorable mention-Nauman Price Tur-
ner, Salisbury VIM. Edward White, Wilton.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
Gold medal-Elizabet Irene Reese, West
minister.
Honorable mention-Elizabeth Anderson,
Madonna; Virginia Reese, Westminster; Mary
Louise Ridgely, Sykesville; Lizzie Florence
Dorsey, Port Tobacco.
Gold medal = Thomas Clyde Routson,
Uniontown.
Honorable mention-Harry Benjamin Free
ny, Delmar, Del; Harry Eugene Gilbert,
Walkersville; Charlton Bates Strayer, Balti-
more; David Edgar Wilson, Baltimore; Croft
ford Lorentz Queen, Lorentz, w. Va.
FRESHMAN CLASS.
Gold medal-Mary Wallace Tise, Hyatts-
vile.
Honorable mention-Mary Eliza Wright,
Hurlock; Blanche Noble, fredericksburg.
Gold medal-Charles Henry Kues, Balt-
more.
Honorable mention-Willison Gideon Ba-
ker, Buckeystown; Edward Clark Goodwin,
Fort Meade, S. Dakota.
THIRD YEAR PREPARATORY.
Certificate of honor-Carrie Eugenia Rine.
hart, Westminster.
Honorable mention-Miriam Lewis, West
minister; Bessie Ober Herr, Westminster
FIRST YEAR PREPARATORY.
Certificate of honor-Helen Myrtle Male
horn, Westminster.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.
Gold medal-Miss Bessie Gift, Sassafras
VOCAL MUSIC.
Gold medal-Miss Mamie Morgan Heyde,
Baltimore.
Special honorable mention was made of
Miss Lena Wolfes, of Annapolis, Nd, who
was only fraction below Miss Heyde in her
grade.
PAINTING AND DRAWING.
Gold medal-Miss Gertrude Veasey, POGO
moke.
Special gold medal-Miss Grace Eta
Herring, Westminster.
ART EMBROIDERY.
Gold medal-Miss Ellen Imogene Caulk,
McDanieltown.
The Merrill silver wreath was awarded to
the Webster Society and the Newell silver
wreath to the Browning Society, in the contest
of Tuesday evening. The Rrownings were
also successful last year in capturing the prize,
and the Irving Society was the successful
competitor of 1890. Prot. I. 81. Rinehart,
of Adrian, Michigan, was the Judge. The
Browning essayists, Miss Ridgely and Miss
Grace Herring, received the prize on behalf
of the Society, and Messrs. L. N. Wheaton
and I. NJ. johnson, the Webster orators, ac-
cepted it on behalf of the Webster Society.
The Samuel Norment prize of 800, to be
divided into four prizes, and which was con-
tested for in the oratorical and literary contest
of Monday night, was awarded to Miss Mary
Louisa Ridgely, Sykesville, $780, William H.
Litsinger, Vienna, $50; Miss Helen VIM
brough, Princess Anne, $50, and Croford l..
Queen, of West Virginia, $40.
The Board of Trustees also, through Presi-
dent Lewis, announced with great regret the
loss by death of two members, L. A. j. La
motto, of Finksburg, and Samuel Norment,
of Washington, D. c. Francis l.. Herring
and G. L. Dearlng, of the same districts, were
elected to fill the vacancies, and John l..
Reifsnider, of Westminster, was elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Alfred Zollickoffer, of Uniontown, on account
of ill health.
The degree of A. M. in course was conferred
on Miss Carrie w. Ph0bus, Glass of 'S8.
The following gifts to the College were also
announced $500 from "a friend' for the
endowment fund.