The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-27
The NEWS OBSERVER WEDNESDAY MoRNINtt 81

| Suate--and the young women were StlI
fans and fluffy white, and ribbons,
with dashes of color, and in their faces
| there seemed to be the blossoming of
| all the best and brightest hopes OF girl
hood.
Every seat was filled, and the CALLER
les, too, and the marshals moved up
and down the aisles like swans, with
grace, breezily in white.
They were as follows:
Leila G. McGirt, chief; Myrtle Tur-
rentine, Corinne Chadwick, Maud Ter
ry. Mamie Daniels, Ida Morris, Helen
Mabry, Jessamine Buck, Sallie Graves,
Carrie Fits, Ethel Mcmillan, Carrie
Beard, Margaret Benson.
The managers were:
Maize A. Carr, chief; Lula Page, An
ME Wall, Berta King, Lillian Martin,
Lila Brent, Corinne Young, Myrtle
Peed, LYDIA Harris, Bessie Green, Fan
ME Cutler, Dora Wade, Cora Page.
There was about the old building not
so much the atmosphere of booAsh-
ness as the breath of knowledge. In
this connection, | was surprised TO
learn that whereas there were only
fifty books in the library when Presl-
dent Peacock came in two years ago,
carefully selected Thus Textbook
ishness is avoided, and reference IS
dulv at hand specially for the work
of theses. President Peacock tells
me that the theses have to be handed
in several months before commence
ment. and upon the quality of original
research depends the pupils chances
of graduation. Thus teaching is APP
Two wears ago when Rev. +. l.. Reid
died. most of the Older heads in the
Methodist church looked about to find
some preacher of ability to take his
place as President of the Greensboro
Female College. One day a trustee OF
the college, meeting prominent
Young man in the State, was addressed
thus ''You are looking for a success
sor to DR. Reid in the wrong place.
You don't want a preacher, you want
teacher, and a man of scholarship
and capacity to impart knowledge,
and YOU have the man right in the col
lege now, in the person of Mr. Peacock,
and if you will give UP the notion that
a preacher is necessary, and select
Mr.. Peacock, the college win go for
ward prosperously and progressively.
1t is teachers and not preachers who
ought to run colleges" This senti-
ment prevailed and Mr.. Peacock was
elected. He is the youngest president
of "a great female college in the South,
and his success has demonstrated the
wisdom of the action"
In addition to the library, which
President Peacock is ardently pushing
forward, there are 100 newspapers and
periodicals, dailies, weehlies and
monthlies, constantly on the tables of
the library. Only mention of such
usefulness is needed; the end of them
is seen not even through the counties.
They never cease. Tonight the main
features of the programme We're:
Vocal Solo-Selected. Miss Lola Car
raway.
Recitation-Th Legend of Bre.
gentz. Miss Marietta Stockard.
Piano Solo-Nocturne-O 81, No.
2. Chopin Miss Alice Dorothy Wem
pie.
Addresses to the Alumnae. Rev. s.
+. Turrentine, Charlotte, \. c.
Vocal Solo-Let me Dream Again.
Sullivan. Miss Lillian Fowler.
The graduates and the subjects of
their theses are as follows:
Art III it's Relations to History
Made Bell, Harlowe.
Art as an Educator and Benefactor
of the Race''-Ella Edith Burroughs,
Conway, 5. {.
North Carolina Folklore Maude
Lee Castlebury, Method.
Some Phrases of Form Study -
Minnie Eloise Clark, Reidsville.
THE Influence of Civilization Upon
-, To- IF nth 40 M n
tina Elizabeth Crosland, Rockingham.
Victor Hugo and the Romance
Movement" Dixon, Kings
Mountain.
1.-The Puritan in English Literature"
Bessie Marvin Dunlap, Paris, n. C..
The Purposes and Results of an
Education LILLIAN May Fowler, New
bern.
~ Plea for North Carolina Heroes
and Historic Ground Kathryn Edith
| Griffin, Newbern.
art of Different Ages"-Margaret
| Richardson Hadley, Wilson.
'Three Victorian Poets and the Rela-
| ton they Bear TO their Times"-Meda
Leona Holder, Chalk Level.
THE South's Industrial Regenera-
| ton -Mattinette johnson, Rocking
/ ham.
"The Education of the Roman
Youth''-Claud Atherton Johnston,
Littleton.
1.-The Ideal and the Real"-Susie
| Irving Johnston, LIttleton.
THE Political Sequences of the Eng
| lish Civil War"-Lizzie Price Jones,
Raleigh.
The Influence of the Gods Upon
| Rome''--Maud Etha Mayo, Conway.
| Music and Morals'-Annie Williams
Pierce, Weldon.
THE Evolution of Education in
America" Mollie Annie Pugh, Morris
vile.
Painting and Sculpture"-Gertrude
| Satterfield, Roxboro.
| what Causes Have Influenced
| Southern Literature ?"-Elizabeth Be
| thania Sparger, Mt. Airy.
THE Influence of the Monastic Sys-
tenn on Modern Scholarship"-Mar
| Stephens, Winstead.
| "A Plea for Woman's Rights
| Lazinka ZouIfne Swindell, Newbern.