Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-14
CLOSING EXERCISES.

CLOSING EXERCISES.
The closing exercises of Mrs. Ewing's
school for young ladies were held last
evening in the parlors of the principal
before an interested audience. Recita-
tions we're given by several pupils which,
as we'll as the musical numbers, were
finely rendered. Especial mention
may be made of the choruses by the
school which were sung with spirit and
expression. The following is q list of
the pupils who have obtained honors
in the school. In order to obtain dis
tinction on any examinotian the pupil
must attain the required standard of 80
per centum. These distinctions are
awarded only in the preparatory and
academic departments. The following
pupils received these distinctions:
Elementary practical arithmetic, Ger
trude Swartz; practical arithmetic, Nath-
allie Boush and Lula Butler; Maury's
manual of geography, Gertrude Swartz;
physical geography, Elsie Snowden,
Kate STROLLER, Lula Butler and Dolly
Peyton English grammar, Elsie Snow
den, Lula Butler, Dolly Peyton and
Kete Strother; Montgomery's English
History, Dolly Peyton, Hattie Taylor
and Gertrude Swartz rhetoric, Bessie
Elliott, Kate Strother, Florence Eich-
berg, Kettle Agnew, Hattie Taylor and
Lottie Daingerfeld; Robinson's Uni
versity Algebra, Anna Moore and Sadie
Taylor; American literature, Hattie
Taylor, Coppee's English Literature,
Anna Moore and Sadie Taylor; Stu
dents Grecian History, JEANNE Ewing;
Hume's English History JEANNE Ewing
and Anna Moore; Alexander's Moral
Science, JEANNE Ewing; Wentworth's
Plane and Solid Geometry, JEANNE Ew-
ing and Anna Moore; plane and spher-
ical trigonometry, JEANNE Ewing;
comic sections, JEANNE Ewing analyti-
Cal geometry, JEANNE Ewing.
Observation-Disclosures, Bessie Ell
liot, Evelyn Morgan, Hattie Taylor
and Florence Eicbberg; handwriting,
Anna Moore, Lula Butler, Kettle
Agnew, Florence Eichberg, Kate
Strother and Sadie Taylor.
Honorable mention was made Of the
following for Improvement in their
studies
First primary department, Emma
Hines; second primary department,
Edna Joyce and Pauline Pretzfelder;
preparatory department, Dolly Peyton,
Kate Sirother, Hattie Taylor and
Gertrude Swartz; academic depart
ment, Anna Moore, JEANNE Ewing ard
Sadie Taylor.
Cert ficates of Pro6ciency.--In the
academic department the course of
study is divided into seven schools.
When the entire course is completed in
any school certificate OF proficiency is
awarded, and when the entire course of
studies shall have been completed in
the seven schools diploma is conferred
Certificates are awarded to Miss
JEANNE Pendleton Ewing in the follow
ing schools History, including Grecian,
Roman, French and English history;
also in mental and moral science aud
in Mathematics.
Prizes-One prize is awarded in each
department of the school. These de-
partments are the first primary, second
primary, preparatory and academic.
In the first primary department a
prize was awarded for improvement in
her studies, to Miss Sibyl Smoot; in
the second primary department, also
for improvement in her studies and elo-
cution, to Miss Jessie Armstrong; in the
preparatory department gold medal
was awarded, for Improvement, to Miss
Lula Butler. A gold medal was also
awarded in the academic department
department for improvement in her
studies to Miss Nathalie Boush. For
her continued good work in music a
prize was awarded to Miss Anna Moore.
A diploma was conferred on Miss jean
mic Pendleton Ewing, who having COM
pleted the prescribed course ofstudy in
Latin, French, German, natural science,
mental and moral science, English
literature, history and mathematics be-
came full graduate of the school.
The closing exercises of Miss Tebbs's
school took place at the school rooms
on north Washington street this morn
ing. Medals were awarded to Misses
Katie Maxwell, Leila Steiner and Eta
Simpson. Certificates of distinction
were also presented to number OF
pupils.
Last night the school was delightful
entertained at a party given by Miss
Tebbs in the school rooms.
DEATHs.-Miss Cornelia Fraser,
danohter of the late Anthony Fraser,