Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
READY FOR BUSINESS
The Diplomas Awarded by the spencerian
College
Parents and Friends of Seventy-Five
Graduates Throng Lafayette Square
Opera HOuse-The Exercises.

purpose and strong in it's strife, and all life
not be purer and stronger thereby
About seventy-fve young men and wo-
men who have been steadily engaged dur
ing the past year in preparing themselves
for practical business life yesterday after
noon reaped the reward CT their labors,
and before an audience that filled the La
fayette Square Opera House received diplo-
mas from the SpenCerian Busir ess College.
The event was an suspicious one for the
graduates, while it marked the close of the
thirtieth successful year in the history of
the institution.
The stage was bower of flowers and
foliage plants, in the midst of which We're
seated the graduating classes, while in The
center sat the president of the college,
Mrs. sara A. Spencer; Rev. Frank Sewall,
pastor of the New Church; Mr.. c. Allan
Davis, principal Of the Business High
School; Mr.. Is. H. Warner, Mr.. William
Ballantyne and Mr.. J. Ormond Wilson, to-
sether with TIE members Of the faculty of
the college, Mr.. Paul A. Steele, department
of penmanSnip; Miss Anna NJ. Hays, de-
partment OF business practice; Miss Louise
Park, department of shorthand and type
writing; Miss Agnes Sleavin, English de-
partment, and Mr.. James F. Duhamel, de-
partment of architectural ard mechanical
drawing.
Music was furnished by an orchestra I'M
Ger the direction of Prof. Louis Weber, and
an aria and ballad were sung by Miss Jud-
son of Hinrich'S Opera Company.
After Divine blessing haG been invoked by
Rey.Frank Sewall, the Salutatories were de-
livered by Ohio Warner Hammond and
Miss Annie Hinkley Walker, representing,
respectively, the night classes and the de-
partment of shorthand and typewritnS.
Following, the valedictorians claimed the
interested attention CT the audience, Miss
Bertha II. Stain speaking for the young
women and Charles T. Nicholson for the
n
DINA, and in her study of laws of business
has made some interesting discoveries re-
latng to restrictions upon women. "A
married woman cannot make contract
even to buy a home for herself and chill
dren, and mother may not say My own
child for it is not hers. Her husband may
will ii to whom he pleases. Let Us resolve
that We won't marry anybody-even for
eSn lord or prince-until the laws are just
70 our mothers. Thanks to Spencerian
College, we can paddle our own canoe"
Mr.. c. Allan Davis of the Business High
School was introduced by Mrs. Spencer,
who took occasion to say that he was the
principal of the only high school in the
country where business education is not a
mere annex to the general high school, but
is provided for in separate building with
a full corps of teachers and a regular bust
ness curriculum. MIR. Davis made a brief
address, showing the need of thorough
training for distribution as We'll as for
production. and business training for every
calling in life.
An instructive address was also made by
Rev. Mr.. Sewall upon the ethics of service
to our age and race, using the precious
gifts of life to their utmost possibilities.
Three-mlrute talks were also given
by Mr. Warner. Mr.. Ballantyne and
Mr.. Wilson. who declared that Spencerian
and that Mrs. Spencer might be called the
character builder of the day.
Concluding the program was a study in
expression by fifty young ladies and gentle
men of the day graduating classes. repre-
senting the department of Delsarte culture.
What My Lover Said and the sequel
Dams Wife Miss Mary Ethel Taylor
read the story as the young people, in
pathetic delineated the emotions. The
young ladies were gowned in classic
Grecian costumes. and the weird effect was
heightened by the darkening of the house
noon, sunset, twilight and moonlight, illu-
minated the various scenes.
Diplomas were presented by Rev. Mr.
Sewail to the following:
trude Harrison. Helen Beatrice Mccarthy
Florence l. Mcdonald, Jane Henderson Mil
lar. Minnie Louisa Nauck. Annie II.
Walker, Estelle Pauline Riley. Mary Hamp-
Yerkes, Bertha Mary Stain, Mary Ethel
Taylor, Charlotte F. EauX, Homer Clark
Andrews. Robert Thrift Ballard. William
Edwin Boswell. Washington Beall Bowie
ELL William Brown Dodge, jr.. Clarence
Edgar Frey. Charles S. Lambdin. Corrado
Hammond LAMA, Edgar Suter McCeney. j.
Willard McChesney, Edward T McNer-
hany, Henry C. NIillen, Charles Vincent
Moran. Charles Thomas Nicholson, Arthur
Leroy Niles. Louis F. G. Ockhershausen. H.
Odell Pope. Samuel Linn Simpson, Frank
John So5otka. Howard Alvin Townshend,
Charles II. Weaver. Clarence Julian White
Thorn Williamson. jr., Samuel Joseph Will
son and Arthur Elon Woodward.
Night class-Jeanne White Bruce. Minnie
Edna Fisher, Olive C. Pullman, William H.
Bartlett, Reginald F. Brooks, Gabriel F.
Coulon, William Clinton Harrison, Ohio
Warner Hammond. John W.Hodgson, James
B. Mackenzie, George Anthony Trap, Eu-
gene W. Willard and Fred c. H. Wurde-
man.
Shorthand and typewriting Eleanor
Houghton Baker. Jeanne White Bruce
BERTHA Regina BUTLER Emma c. BUTLER
Mary NJ. Hamilton, Emily Montague Nor
gan Lydia Felicia Perkins, Inez Hammond
Powell, Elizabeth Walker, Annie HinkIev
Walker. Reginald F. Brooks, James Al
phonsus Burke. Edward Thornton Burreil,