The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-06-04
At GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE.
Twenty Seven Sweet Girl Graduates, and
The Subjects They Wrote Essays On.


GREENSBORO, May 27-The gradu-
ating exercises of the Greensboro Fee
male College commenced at 10 o'clock
this morning, the following pro-
gramme being followed:
Essays were read on "The Political
Sequences of the English Civil
War;" by Miss Lizzie Price Jones :;
Emusic and Morals" by Miss Annie
Williams Pierce; "NOrth Carolina
Folklore" by Miss Maud Castlebury.
In presenting the diplomas and BIZ
bles to the ~ young ladies of the grad
uating class, President Peacock gave
the members of the class, about as
much excellent advice as could be got
ten into ten minutes talk. The fol-
lowing is list of the graduates and
their theses:
Made Bell, Harlowe, cart In Its Re-
latiOn to History; Ella Edith Bur-
rOughs, Conway, 5. c., art as an Ed
ucatOr and BenefactOr of the Race :"
Maud Lee Castlebury. Method, an orth
Carolina FOlk-LOre;" Minnie ElOise
Clark, Reidsville, "Some Phases of
Form Study" Martha Elizabeth Cros-
land, Rockingham, "The Influence of
Civilization Upon the Indians of
North American" Pearl Dixon, Kings
Mountain, "Victor Hugo and the Ro-
nance MOvemement," Bessie Marvin
Dunlap, Paris, "The Puritan in Eng
lish Literature;" Lillian May Fowler
New Berne, "The Purposes and Re-
suits of an EducatiOn;" Kathryn
Edith Griffin, New Berne, "A Plea for
North Carolina Heroes and Historic
GrOund;" Margaret Richardson Had
lev, Wilson, art of the Different
Ages;" Media Deona Holder, Chalk
Level, "Three Victorian Poets and
the Relation they Bear to Their
Times" Mattinette Johnson, Rocking
ham, "The South's Industrial Regen-
eratiOn;" Claud Anterior Johnston
Littleton, "The Education of the Ro-
man YOUTH" Susie Irving Johnston
Littleton, "The Ideal and the Real -
Lizzie Price Jones, Raleigh, "The pOlit-
ical Sequences of the English Civil
War;" Maud Etha Mayo, Conway, s.
c., "The Influence of the Gods Upon
Rome;" Annie Williams Pierce, Wei
don, "Music and Morals" Mollie An
ME Pugh, Morrisville, "The Evolution
of Education in America" Gertrude
Satterfield, Roxboro, painting and
Sculpture :" Elizabeth Bethania Spar
ger, Mt. Airy, "What Causes Have in
fluenced Southern Literature;" Mary
Stephens, Winstead, "The Influence OF
the Monastic System OF Modern
Scholarship" Lazinka Zouline Swim
dell, New Berne, "A Plea for Woman's
Rights" Lottie Edith Utley, Apex
"WOmen as Bread-winners;" Hattie
Jones Warrington, Greensboro, "Fads;
May Wells, Shelby, "The Practical
Value of ElocutiOn;" Sallie Whitaker
Raleigh, Evolution of the Heroine in
Literature;" Elizabeth Lunda Wyche
Henderson, "The Possibilities of Phys.
ical Expression"
The following received certificates
for proficiency in stenOgraphy
Misses Marie Parker, of Mooresville
and Annie ShOber of Greensboro. Thos,
who received certificates for book
. keeping and typewriting were: Mise
, Florence and COrrinne WOoten. Osi
! ShufOrd, Eva Evans and Belle Ruper.
: The annual address by Rev. f. +
: HOss, d. D., of the Nashville Christian
Advocate, was treat, Astounding il
humOr and at the same time full o
u wisdom as an egg is of meat.
The subject of DIR. HOss' address
was "The Forces That Make Charac
: ter" The Speaker discussed at lengt
6 and very Interestingly the effect G
heredity on character. Said he: at i
! not known definitely and formally, q
it has always been known in a loOs
and popular way, that more or les
: men are likely to transmit to their of
spring every one of their physica
mental and moral characteristic
, How, then, does it happen that eac
succeeding generation is not an exa'
It COPY of the generation that went b.
:. fore it! Leaving out of view for til
: present the potent fact of free will, "
Il may say that this state of affairs
= largely due to the other fact that j
= each new child born into the worl
70 many different streams of heredii
II meet and mingle themselves and MOT
q ify one another. 1t is due to this fa,
r that we explain these apparent freal
d of nature which are grouped togeth'
Is under the general head of atavism {
n grand fAtherism, such as the une,
i pected Temperance in a particul,
family of red head or q violent ter
u per. We must reckon wi,
q this force of heredity in all our effOr
g at self improvement of others. To t.
le to set it aside would be as foolish as
try to stop the sweep of the sun. In
20 strong sense we are what our fathe
W were before us.
~ zone of the unfortunate facts wi
y US all is that We cannot pick our a
cestofs. If there should happier
flow in our veins the ignoble bio
that has crept through scoundr'
D. ever since the food, we have nOthi
to do but grin and bear it. The |