Arizona republican., 1892-07-23
New York Normal College Turns Out
 First Girl Bachelors of Arts.

New York Normal College Turns Out Its
 First Girl Bachelors of Arts. ! The big hall of tl. Drmal college of | the city oi New Yolx at Sixty-eighth street and Park avenue was filled with an audience of 2,00O people Thursday morn- ing who had come to see the 273 gradu- ates of this years class in the closing exercises of the school. These 273 are now fully qualified, as their diplomas attest, to teach in New York's public schools. Noticeable among the gradu- ates was group of fifty who wore col ors of orange and white fastened with pins bearing the motto, "Tentanda via est, concerning which one of the wear CTS confidently informed a friend that it meant "get out of our way"
 This group was composed of the aca- demic part of the class, "A. C. 5th," in school parlance, and they are the first girls who have ever received the degree of bachelor of arts from any publicly supported institution in this country This caused no marked difference in their appearance, however, from that of their less fortunate sisters, except in the colors and pins they wore. There was discernible in their countenances, how ever, a subdued consciousness of their importance in being the first class ever graduated from the institution to attain the lofty general scholarship indicated by class average of over 90 per cent.
 Around the bachelor band were seated the normal graduates, 223 strong, wear ing lavender and white colors and pins ornamented with their class motto. In the seats back of the white mass of graduates and in the overhanging gal leries the audience was closely packed, while in the front was the platform where sat the dignitaries of the day.
 A large number of policemen were scattered about the hall, as if fears were entertained that the bachelors, in cele- bration of their newly acquired mascu- Unity, might institute college rush or do something equally subyersive of normal school decorum. The exercises passed of without any such disturb. ance, however, from the salutatory of Harriet NJ. Raschen to the valedictory delivered by Lima Hall. The programme was agreeably diversified by some very good singing by the normal college glee club, who reflected great credit on their training, both in the selection and ren- dition of their songs
 After the essays and distribution of the regular prizes, School Commissioner Clara M. Williams, who is herself a graduate of the normal school, awarded four prizes, one to the girl of each class having the highest standing, and then announced that two prizes, one of twen- ty dollars, the other of ten dollars, were to be awarded for the best essays on General Grant, the Grant monument committee having offered the prizes. One of these was offered to the College of the City of New York, but the stu dents of that enterprising institution complained that it was too near exam ination time to work on essays, SO the prize intended for them was added to the one offered to their more industri- ous sisters. The prizes were won by Ethel Stebbins and Estelle Forsch- heimer
 When the exercises were over the fifty bachelors led the way out, carry ing their diplomas bearing the new col lege seal of Minerva sitting in circle of ivy, the college plant, clasped to their manly bosoms. New York Sun.