The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-06-02
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT.
An Even Dozen Pretty Girls
GIVEN THEIR DIPLOMAS AND RE.
TIRED FROM THE PUB
Lie SCHOOL.

A Large Audience Greets the Glass
The Exercises Held in the University
Commencement Hail. Bright Thoughts
and clever Speeches Mark the Oeca.
sion-A Profusion Of Flowers Thrown
to the Graduates.
Commencement exercises for the
Morgantown High School were held
in the great hall of the University
on Friday evening last. No other
hall in town would have held half
the audience. BY 7o'clock scores
of people were seen vending their
way toward the University while
carriages rolled back and forth car
rying handsome bright girls and
their friends dressed in bearing
baskets of beautiful, lastly array
ed fragrant flowers. Commence.
ment was in the air. Every one
seemed to catch the contagion and
want to show their approval of the
exerciees by their presence.
AT s o'clock Prof. Brand, principal
of the school appeared on the stage
accompanied by the teachers Misses
Shisier, Dorsey, Hackney, Reay,
Pickenpaugh and Naret. The twelve
young ladies who were to receive
their diplomas filed in Immediately
after them.
The program was opened by Mes
treats orchestra and after an earn
est prayer by Rev. Ross Ward Prof.
Brand announced the first essayist
on the program. In regular order
then came the exercises as given be
low:
PROGRAM:
MUSIC PRAYER MUSIC
Essay Mary Hayes.
Dawn"
Original Recitation NJ. Elite Tennat.
''Set Adrift in Mid Ocean,"
Essay Mary C. Jacobs.
Through Trials to Glory"
MUSIC
Essay Lena vanGider.
"What Win She Do With It"
Original Recitation Flora Ray Hayes.
Might Brings Out the Stars. -
Essay Anna NJ. Hackney
"The Daughter of Time
MUSIC
Essay Gussie Jamison.
when the Mists have Cleared Away"
Original Recitation Gilla Van Camp.
Shadows of a Golden Promise"
Essay Hattie l.. Tenant
"a View OF Womanhood
MUSIC
Essay Nora Trickett
"An Entrance Barred with Gold"
Original Recitation Ada " Wade.
An Illustrious Leader
Essay Bette Cook Jones.
"The Evening of Life"
MUSIC
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS
Every performance was one Of
merit. There was not dry or tedi-
Gus one among them. Every one
drew forth applause from the large
audience. The efforts of the Young
ladies showed natural ability TO an
unusual extent and attested the pa
tient, faithful work of the corps Of
teachers.
There was no impotence shown
by the audience. Every one was
given an attentive hearing aud many
expressions OF qualification at the
excellence of the work were heard.
One gentleman who is a graduate of
more than one University said to
the writer II never attended better
or more interesting exercise of the
kind. 1t is away above the aver
age Many similar remarks were
heard.
After the last essay had been
read Prof Brand in some very clear
and kind remarks reviewed the
school days of the young ladies and
gave them some sound, practical ad
vice The diplomas were then pre-
sented and each lady felt that she
was free from the enthrallment of
the public school
There was no hippancy in any
of the performances. Every one
seemed to realize the importance of
the event. They felt that this was
an epoch in their lives and marked
the beginning Of the real RESPONSE
bilities of life.
The absence of any young men in
the class is explained by the fact
that before the senior year they
drop out of the public school and
enter the University. In the early
history of the class there were no
doubt several boys. In one sense
this was made up by the brilliancy
of the sweet girl graduates. Their
exercises were certainly equal to
that could have been pro-
duced by fellow students of the male
sex.
The world is suffering for the
work of such women as these girl
graduates will make. They will be
welcomed in this wider field and we
are pleased to note their preparation
for lives of usefulness.
State News.