The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-06-06

" Tue t0ERc aQUIcuCC
| till the last notes of the Overture died
away amid the half suppressed signs OF
| regrets Of all that a morning o: the keenest
pleasure was at an end.
The Graduates What is left to be said OF
them? They were as charming and as
seriously happy over the completion OF their
school life and realization of their new duties
and responsibilities as any class of sweet girl
graduates that has ever graced the rostrnm OF
the Institute and went forth, with its motto
as a part of their life's heritage. They were
simply, yet so becomingly attired in gowns
OF white. As they stood to receive their
diplomas from the hands Of President Wilson
they presented a picture of pure, chaste,
earnest young womanhood, cultured and
ready for the daily duties of life. Such as
these are the Inspiration of the youth and the
hope Of the ageour land.
Miss Agnes MeCaIlum4was the historian OF
the class. Her address was in excellent taste,
asd briefly but cemprehensively reviewed the
story of the college life Of the class Of '94.
She told of. Cupid's three successful raids
upon their number, and traced their vary Jog
fortunes through the years of their Under
graduate career. Not more eventfui, perhaps,
than that of many another class, Miss
AcCaHum managed to invest its history with
an interest that held the onfaggi1g attention
of the large auditory. throughout Its DELI
very,.and gained fol. her deserved applause.
In the role of the class prophet, Miss Bessie
Pittman won. fresh ~laureis, and showed her.
self possessed of the foresight of the troe seer.
Miss DeLorme, according to the fair priestess
OF; the modesn. Delphic oracle, was to- emerge
into Rlefy as an actress or aadashaag soutreM
whose advent should be hesslded by drums,
trpmpets and banners, and. the plandits OF
the. populace as she proceeded on her triumph
Miss Madeline ,Efaser,,s revolutionary career
was to invest Der with the robes of the priest
hood of Der chosen charchJ ia which she was
to drive through a large rent 10 the thirty
nine asticlea, and play havoc with Pauline
restrictions on the subjecs Of womao's silence
In the churches.
Miss Ham was to develop into Sister Angli.
ca. the inmate Of the ~cloisfers Of a Florentine
convent, in sight of the blue waters of the
Mediterranean, and 10 the midst OF, but apart
from, the fashionable ihrongs of the Riviera
Miss Bonnie Brown, true to the impulses OF
her warm aud glowing Bohemianism, was to
eveutuate az s'merry, merry Zingaras"
amid. the,olive gsoves Of sanny+Spain, laudsot
In1steryaBd dream, where -the.aAlbambra's
splendid courts told of the magnificent exu-
berance of the Moors' architectural genius,
and sub-,ropical wealth of sunshine disposed
tesdreams BY, day, and its silyery goddess of
night wooed to moonlit mysteries.
Miss Helen Browns complete evolution
was q tyi6e. yague, as it seemed to US but its
vagueness did not do away with the interest
oft, Coz ywe. are prepared. for. anything from
tue III az STEELE girl, a9A it swas Sufficiently
stSssd tAhats1H Hiss. Helen N~0uldssrp1. eQmaHaaort
ofessabNshment in the character of manager,
perhaps such an one as Bellamy portrayed in
ssLooking Backward, or as Ignatius Dom
nelly describes in one Of his prophetic inter-
psetations of Ithe events Of the twentieth cen
turYy
Perhaps the most startling and amazing
development was to take. place in the chaste
and modest Miss Agnes NcCullum, who was
to joiu the noble band Of short-haired women
and thrill the country with ybers distribes on
the subsection of women. The climax was to
come in her candidacy for the, Presidency Of
this great republic on che most advanced
Woman'a Rights platform.
The most segtetable feature, yet an una.
yoidable one, was the failure of the fair priest
ess to portray her own future. Perhaps a
less gifted pen may essay The pleasing task,
and 1bepaldoned for the presumption. Miss
Pittman's future is what she may choose to
make it Gifted beyond the common, ambi-
tons ,(perhaps we should better say, aspir-
hight would he. a n Instance of arrested
development were she to permit her education
to cease at this point. Difficulties must not
,deaer. her, nor. a glimpse from the vestibnle
into the interior of arts great temple satisfy
her-les her 60 on and penetrate its great
aisles and approach its very sanctuary, until
love. of her hidden mysteries unfold them to
her diligent search, and the goddess crown
her as a chosen interpreter of her ionermost
secret.
The failure of Gen. Leroy F, Youmaus to
be present aud deliver the Anoual address
was a great disappointment. From HIM We
always expect and receive an intellectual feast.
AS an orator be stands to-day without u CON-
peer in the State, a worthy and iliustrious
successor to Cardinals orators Of ante-bel-
lum days. He was unavoidably detained by
professional engagements and will not arrive
until this evening. He will deliver his ad-
dress this evening at $50 o'clock.
The presentation of medals was by W. H.
Ingram, ESQ.,, in a happy and appropriate
manner. His words we're rot many, but to
the point and we'll chosen. The scholarship
medals were won by Miss Kate DeLorme in
the Collegiate Department, Miss Selma Nasb
in the Primary Department and Miss Bessie
Pittman in the Art School.
President n. Frank Wilson in presenting
the diplomas to the graduating class made a
feeling and eloquent, though brief, address.
he impressed upon his hearers the lesson that
diligence and sustained, concentrated effort
are the only roads by which the goal of hfe's
journey-suecess-may be attained.
The young ladies who received the donors
Of graduation were:
Misses Kate .DeLorme, Agnes McCsllum,
Bonnie Brown, Helen Brown, Lizzie Ham,
Bessie Pittman and Madeline Fraser.
The following is the programme:
Finale, op. Observation-Disclosures Pitt
man.
salu,a,ory-Bonpie Brown.
Spanish Daoce, No. lll-Moszkowski-
Lizzie Ham, George Ingram.