Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-06-24
Eastern SHORE Academy Commences.
mont.

Eastern Shore Academy Commences.
mont.
The concluding portion of the.
commencement exercises Of the East
ern Shore Academy took place
Thursday night, 18th inst, in the
town hall at Onancock. So large.
was the attendance that several
hundred people, unable to procure
seats, were turned away. The I'M
usually good behavior of the audience
elected very favorable comment.
The programme of exercises wal, rs
follows:
Chorus, by the class; quartet, Miss
es Bernice Guthrie, Bessie Taylor,
May Bloxom, Virginia Taylor; solo,
Miss Lottie Parker; vocal solo, Mrs.
Brent; duo, Misses Willie Slant and
George Lewis; sextet. Misses Mary
White. Lolita Bagwell, Susie Parker,
Sadie Bergman. Constance Taylor,
May Joynes; vocal solo, Miss Mar
garet s. Battaile; solo, Miss A. Hor-
tense Kellam; duet, Misses Emma
Mock and Eta Hurst; duet. Miss
Matte Bergman and Mrs. Brent;
vocal trio, Misses Margaret
Groton, Margaret s. Battaile
and Mr.. Frederick Robertson; duo,
Misses Estelle Battaile and Lizzie
Wise; quartet, Misses Mamie Berry
man, Ethel Nottingham, Virnetta
Northam, Nellie Scott; chorus, by
the class; solo, Miss Edith Oldham;
duet, Misses Myra Boggs and Virgin
ia Anes; solo; chorus, by the class.
The music medal was presented to
Miss Margaret N. Groton. by Prof.
Frank P. Brent. the senior princi-
pal, who stated that there had been
four contestants-Misses A. Hortense
Kellam, NJ. Edith Oldham, Lotto L.
Parker and Margaret N. Groton-
who had made exceptionally high
averages.
Glass prizes consisting of valuable
books were awarded to the following
pupils for highest excellence in the
studies named:
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.
Classic Poems, to William E. Hop.
kins, for highest excellence in map
drawing.
Boys Own Book, to Rowland La
than, Physical Geography.
Ruskin's Choice Works, to Stanley
Scott, Language Lessons.
Last Days of Ponipeii, to William
Bagwell, spelling.
Hypatia, to Henry Parker, spelling.
Carlyle,s Heroes and Hero Wor-
ship, to Sue F. Robertson, compost
ton.
Scott's Ivanhoe, to George Lewis,
improvement in penmanship.
zenobia, to Stanley Scott, arithme
tic.
Napoleon and His Marshals. to
Rowland Latham, arithmetic.
Ruskin's Choice Works, to Sue r.
Robertson, penmanship. 3
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.
Browning's Select Poems, to NJ.
Edith Oldham, photography.
Grays Select Poems, to Ruth B.
Keaton, English and American His
tory.
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress, to s.
May Bloxom, End English.
Tom Browns School Days, to Will
liam s. Bowen, Eng. History and 9th
Latin.
Tom Brown at Oxford. to Rowland
Latham. Eng. History and 9th Latin.
Kingsley's Greek Heroes, sto Win
fred Kelly. Fifth Latin.
Parton's Famous Americans of Re-
cent Times, to s. May Bloxom.
French and Roman History.
Emerson's Representative Men, to
Jno. E. Nottingham. Jr., geometry.
Southey's Life of Nelson, to Jno.
NJ. B. Lumley, algebra.
Sir Arthur Helps Life Of Column.
bus, to Ruth B. Keaton. end Arith-
metic.
England Illustrated, to Bessie P.
Taylor, bookkeeping and French.
Bryce's Holy Roman Empire, to
Jno. NJ. B. Lumley, High School
Arithmetic.
Bacon's Essays, to Sydney s. Kel
lam, Plane and Spherical Trigonome.
try.
Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella,
and ConquestUf Rome, to Griffin W.
Holland, Higher Mathematics.
Gustavus Adolphus, to Robert L.
Oldham, Second Geometry.
Burns Poems, to Eva s. Beloat,
Grammar School Arithmetic.
Parton's Life of Jefferson, to Crit
fin w. Holland. Third Latin.
Taylor's Goethe's Faust, to s. 8.
Kellaln, First English and German.
Carlyle's French Revolution, to s.
S. KeIlam. First Latin.
The Execution Of George Drier.