Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-05-30
THE GRADED SCHOOL.
1T COMPLETES ANOTHER YEAR OF
SUCCESSFUL WORK IN OUR MIDST.

Yesterdays Exercises: The Papers Read
By the Graduating Glass: DR.. Bassett's
Address Last Night:Miss Gertrude Wells
Generous Act of Self-DeniaI: The We'll
Prizes Awarded: The Diplomas And
Certificates Conferred: The Chapel Hill
Scholarship Won by Edgar Broadhurst.
If there is any one thing more
than all others that makes The
ARGUS proud of Goldsboro it is
our splendid Graded School, that
day in and day out, yea in and
year out, is ''map of busy life
of mind culture--of brain building
of education; education in its
broad, fundamental sense; not OF
book learning alone, but of in
dividual development of all the
powers of the mind as they un-
fold and open up under
the experienced tutorage and
watchful training and ready re-
cognition of the faithful teachers
who compose the faculty of this
peerless institution of popular
education in our midst. From
it's halls have gone forth some of
the brightest minds in the ma
ton, who at the higher instltu-
tions of learning have achieved
distinctions that have brought
them world wide reputation
who, but for their early training
here-and the opportunity of
such training-would doubtless
have been as the gems in the
dark caves of ocean that lack but
the sunshine to determine their
priceless value. And so it has
gone on from year to year since
the school was founded, until its
excellent faculty of teachers have
become, by experience and the
comparison of mind with
mind, almost infallible in their
powers of divining latent talent
in the child and developing it to
the fullest acquisition possible to
effort. This is great blessing to
the school, to the community
to the children-one that cannot
be over estimated, and as these
faithful teachers enter upon their
wellsearned vacation rest may 1t
be to them as a benediction, with
healing in it's wings, and may
they return with renewed vigor
of mind and body, in the ''crisp
Fall days." to resume their noble
work that has become to them a
second nature-a religion.
It was our pleasure, as it is
our custom, to be present at the
graduating class exercises at the
school yesterday morning, which
were attended by full audience
of the relatives ard friends of the
graduating pupils. The exer
cises showed the scope of study
covered by the class during the
year, while the innate meri'
of the individual papers
read, their conception, compass
thought, language, style ane
finish, manifested the degree O.
painstaking care that had beer
expended by the teachers ant
the eminent success achieved Oy
the pupils during the year.
It were useless to attempt t.
Isingle out any one of these pa
pers for special mention, for the.
| were all, each one on it's peculia
subject, par excellence. Blu
that our readers may know o
their nature, as we'll as learn th
names of the graduating clas
4 who received diplomas, we Civ
them as follows:
Sir Walter Raleigh-Miss Susan Ful
II ghum.
, Noted Characters Connected with tn
, History of North Carolina-Gavi
Dortch.
) Early Settlements of North Carolln
Louis Grant.
State of Navigation and Trade
= North Carolina during the Propri
tory Period--Edgar Broadhurst.
Moral and Religious Characters
Ell North Carolina during the Proprit
Il tory Period-Miss Lou Hicks.
A Day in Rome-Miss Margaret Exur
Striking Scenes from the ''Eneid. +"
Miss Julia Howell.
Al Troians-Miss Emma Parker.
THE Character of Sir Roger de Cove
ley-Miss Minnie Hicks.
e Some English Song Writers-Mi
n Lula Baker.
r Philosophy of Wordsworth-Miss Ge
~ trude We'll.
el The above pupils were ma
Il shalled on the stage of the Me
# senger Opera House at nigf
4 to receive their diploma
4 where, in the presence of
4 large audience, notwithstandir
% the inclement weather, th'
- were addressed by DR., Jno.
=, Basset, of Trinity College ia
l. ulty, who just ten years ago,
n he said last night, himself sto
=. upon the same stage to recei
\ from the hands of the late
ss mented Mr.. Julius A. Boni
~ founder of the school, his I
o. ploma as a member of the fiji
: graduating class from the scho'
10 The subject of DIR. Bassett's a
"a dress was "The Culture Life
Southern Towns" and it was
deed an intellectual feast, a luc
eloquent and nerving presen
e. ton of the ethics of life in t
es lculture world-if we may U
3. the term and criticism.
Or held up to his audience t
ut many phazes of culture life, /
IN pressing each with force
II. moral on the minds of his hes
elers. It was replete with path'
w leloquence, philosophy, inspi
a tion, encouragement-an int