The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-29

ST. AUGuSTINE'S SCHOOL.
The Commencement Exercises at Met
ropolitan Hall Last Night--Warden
TunneIl's Address.

lie blSHop Oh NOFtn Carolina IN ms |
robes of office presided at Metropolitan |
Hall last night, and presented the |
speakers. The occasion was the com
mencement of st. Augustines normal
and industrial school for the colored
race, which institution is under the |
patronage Of the Protestant Episcopal |
church,
Besides the graduating class and the |
faculty, seated on the stage were
Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire, Rev.
DR.. Marshall, Rev DR.. Smedes, State
Auditor Furman, Rev. William Walker,
Rev. Dr. w. Y. Tunnel, of Washington,
d. c.. and others.
The graduates in the classical course
are; Louisa f. Bridgers, Mary Howe,
Theodore f. Williams. Graduates III
normal course: Dora J. Alexander,
Harriet c. Butler, Cornelius M. Howe,
Wiley j. Latham, G. Estelle Norwood,
NJ. Ellen Noyes, Lucy ID. Palmer, Clara
". Whitehead
After the professional hymn, the
Apostles Creed and prayers were said
The programme proper was opened
with semi-cho:.S, Lift up Your
Heads, 0, We Gates The salutatory
by Clara w. Whitehead was the follow
ing number; and then Lucy d. Palmer
read an essay on Jason's Quest for
the Golden Fleece. w. J. Latham
sang solo, "Odi Tu?" from Tito
Mattel. Louisa Z. Bridgers read an
essay on "Vox POpuli," and w. j.
Latham delivered an GRAFTON on Cuba
Libre, taking as his subject, Free
dom's Latest Struggle" G. NJ. Howe,
who has a fine rich voice, sang Franz
Abt's 80, Youth, How Delightful Thou
art!" Theodore f. Williams delivered
an grafton ON THE Conservative and
the Radical" Florence Perry and w.
b. Crittenden sang "Oh, That We Two
Were Maying," and rendered it with
such expression that they were en-
Enthusiastically applauded.
The valedictory was the best essay
% the evening. Mamie NJ. Howe was
the valedictOrian, and had THE New
Woman" for her subject.
The new woman" she said, SIS now
entitled to stand side by side with the
'lord of creation" entitled to share his
toll, his joys, his sorrows, his sports
and even his trousers" She contended
that the new woman" must be all that
the old woman was, and more. The
three great elements in her makeup
should be character, influence and in
telligence.
The semi-chorus Protect us
Through the Coming Night" was rem
deEed.
Bishop Cheshire said: This is the
only school of this grade which oc-
cupies leading position in the
church in the South. This school has
"a,
in which our cOlored candidates for
orders enter upon the preparation for
their theological studies. st. Angus
tines School is the training school, the
stepping stone to a theological semi
nary that has been established in
Washington under the name of King
Han. And at the head of this institu-
ton, so closely connected, with ST.
Augustine's, is DR.. w. V. Tunnel"
He. then introduced DR.. Tunnel
Mr.. Tunnel has telling voice and
speaks with a precise accent in an
earnest and forcible manner. He made
an excellent address.
These commencement exercises, y
he said encourage me and give me a
new stimulus to fresh endeayors
You ought to be proud that there is in
your midst such an institution as ST.
Augustine's School. Three years ago
/ paid the school visit and was then
impressed by the work being done.
But the material and intellectual pro-
gress the institution has made in these
three years is phenomenal. / take
courage and thank God that ] have the
honor to be connected with this insti-
tuition. II stands, first, for the train
ing of the hand, believing in the di-
yinity of the body; it stands for indus
trial training, for cultivation of the
hands to do their part in the useful
arts of the world. ! thank God for the
work that such schools as Tuskegee
and Hampton and St. Augustine's are
doing for the solution of the race
problem. The second aim Of the insti-
tuition is to train the mind and develop
the intellectual life. | am not one of
those who believe that every negro or
every white man should receive the
higher education, but when this God
given faculty of intellectually is be-
slowed on any man It should be cult
waited to it's highest development.
Third. the aim and purpose of this in
stitution is not to turn out intelligent
rascal, but well-rounded men and
women that viii be a power for good;
and so it endeavors to i'm not only
the body and the mind, but the soul.
The institution stands for the dcvel-
opment of moral character, making
men of moral worth, men and women
of character" He made a special adj
dress to the graduates admOnishing
them to be men and women of purpose
and convictions, and quoted the lines
from Longfellow:
Life is real, Life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returndst
Was not spoken of the soul"
AT the end of Mr.. Tunnels address,
Rev. A. b. Hunter, principal of the
school, in a short address, appropriate
and simply eloquent, delivered the
diplomas to the graduates.
He then read the honor roll for the
sc ssion.
Estelle Norwood and Ellen Moves