Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-23

rooms at t p. IN. Service of prayer and
praise with short address.
Meeting at almshouse AT 3 p. m. and
Jail at , p. III.
TIE OLD STUDENTS OF ST JoHE's
AcADENY.-The Old Students Society
ofSt. Johns Academy held Il meeting
last night on the call Of the president.
The late principal of the Academy is
absent on public school business at
Bedford City, but the barracks were
thrown open to the old students, and
after . number, inc uliug old students
from Washington and Maryland, had
Gathered. the assemb,age was called to
order by Dr.. Geo. T. KlipsteiD, the
president; and Mr., r. NJ. Latham, the
secretary, read the minutes OF the last
meeting.
Mr.. N. B. Harlow, from the commit
Zee ON the continuance of the school,
EXPRESSED his anxiety both as a citizen
of Alexandria and old student that the
school should be continued. re sad
that on 3 recent visit to lynchburg he
was told that the suburb of March
mont was expected 10 be built up ny
schools and that the trustees OF the
town had given 100000 for an instltu-
lion of learning there Each pupil
brought 10 the town st least $500 per
annum, and as means of supporting
q city's trade a schoo! Wac the equal
Of factory, No plan had yet been de-
yised, but The committee would meet
again and could have their report
ready by next Tuesday night.
Mr.. j. Marriott Hill suggested that
no time should be lost in the prepara-
tons.
President Klipstein, calling Mr., liar
low to the chair, said, in Introducing
the report of the committee ON resoiu-
tons:
Mr.. President: AS chairman of the
committee on resolutions it becomes
my pleasing duty TO be the medium
through which the old students Of St
Johns Academy convey the admira-
ton. the love, the true affection which
thcy entertain for their former guide
and Instructor. 1t is no fulsome flat
terry to say that language fails this COM
mittcc in endcavoring to convey their
true appreciation. Viewing Mr.. Rich
ard L. Carnc from the standpoint ola
pupil there are three characteristics
which are apparent to every thought
FIJI student; his fidelity to duty, his
high estimation Of truth, his constant
cndeavor to elevate the moral tone of
his students Viewing him Is it has
been my privilege in nearer and ten
dcrer aspect, that of the home circle,
his filial affection rs displayed to the
mother was only exceeded by the
mothers love for her son. Toward the
sister he was ever Il model brother.
Toward the orphan it seemed to me he
stood with outstretched hands, literal
" fulfilling the scriptural injunction Il
was stranger and yc took me in,
hungry and We fed me, naked and We
clothed me-" The general deprayity
Of mankind has been noted from time
immemorial. Bobby Burns in his in
imitablc stylc refers to it when he says
'.God acting in the capacity Of an APP
prentice made man; when he rose
higher in the scale rs an artisan he
made the lassie.n Longtellow i'll those
beautiful lines takes up the same
thought when he said;
Man like il IS TO sin,
Eiend like to dwell therein.
Christ like all sin to grievc,
God ike all sin to iicve.
And the same thought Is taken up by
another when he says the nohlest work
of God is an honest man. Mr.. Presi-
dent: There have been some who have
risen high III the literary world and
have been known for their literary at
tainments. and there have been others
who have risen high in the moral
world and haze been known in the
world as moralsts, and there have
been Others who have risen high in the
religious world and have been conspic-
uous for their religious zeal; but even
in this the nineteenth century it is not
common to find y man who las risen
rom boyhoodto youth, from youth to
manhood, from manhood to middle life,
aye, and even to still ripper years, and
who has maintained his integrity
throughout, who beside this has risen
high. not only in the religious, the
moral or the intellectual world, bat
who has combined the three
such q man we have in the
person of Mr.. Richard L. Carnc.
Fellow alumni we are assembled
Tonight with sorrows, but they are
sorrows mingled with joys, sorrows
because thehaunts that have known him
will perhaps know him no more forever
Sorrows because during the past twenty
years of Alexandria history her dark
period when gloom and depression over
shadowed her st. Johns Academy act
ed as II were beacon, but now when
this darkness is being scattered, this
gloom dispelled, Il new era dawning
upon her, it does indeed seem inoppor-
tune that this should have been selected
as the time for sounding the death knell
81 St. Johns Academy, but we hope 1t
IS not so. Fellow alumni, these sor-
lows are mingled with joys, joys when
ave remember it has been the privilege
of few to follow one vocation forty-live
wears, Joys when we remember it has
been the privilege of exceeding few to
have been able 10 leave an impression
for good upon fifteen hundred youths.
So that when the press hcralded that
Mr.. Richard l.. Carne had retired from
being principal of st. Johns Academy
there was one mighty voice reechoed
throughout twenty-five States of the
Union by the old students-ofSt. Johns,
swell done, good and faithful instruct