The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-10
THE COMMENCEMENT DAY
or MRS. CADY'S SCHOOL OBSERVED
YESTERDAY.

Some of Those Prcsent--A Pleasant Oc-
oasion.
Commencement exercises of Mrs. Ca
dy's school were held at the United
church chapel at Ii o'clock yesterday
morning
The platform was tastafully decorated
with palms and flowers and the desk
draped in the folds of the school flag.
The pupils entered after the audience
was seated, the girls marching, with
the senior class leading. A vocal solo
was very gracefully given by gradu-
ate of the class of "a. who had come
from Michigan to attend the commence
ment,
Miss Emily Smith, the dean of Bar
nard college. was introduced by Mrs.
Cady and addressed the class. She was
very pleasing, and evidently had care
fully prepared her subject. She spoke
briefly and with some degree of ear
nestness of the influence of the educat-
ed woman.
The address was followed by the sing
ing of the Star Spangled Banner" by
the school The singers We're arranged
in front of the platform and the chorus
was ably conducted by the choral
teacher.
Next came the presentation of diplo-
mas by Mrs Cady, who made @ brief
address to the class as follows:
Young Ladies of the Graduating Glass
This is a day of congratulations
place this word has in our vocabulary?
AT your birth your parents We're con-
gratulated; when your first tooth ap-
peared more congratulations; also
when the first birthday arrived and the
birthday cake, adorned with it's single
lighted candle, towards which the little
hands were stretched to grasp the pref
ty light Later the birthday cake was
adorned with five lighted candles and
little friends brought gifts, and you
yourself received the congratulations,
and you were made to understand that
you We're now "old enough to go to
school," and life for you had a new
meaning. Your school life commenced
and has continued until the present
day. Now we congratulate you that
you have persevered until you have
completed a course of study. When
you think of the many who set out with
you after the five candles had illumin-
ated the fifth birthday cake, who have
for one cause or another failed to con-
tinue, you will understand why you de-
serve to be congratulated
To continue in a course commenced
until the end is reached is praiseWor-
thy. In your ethical study you have
learned that all true virtue presupposes
struggle; that temptations to evil, re-
sisted and overcome, are the chiefest
conditions of adVapcement; that the
power for good is greater and controls
all the forces of evil; that all personal
duty comes under the three-fold law of
morality-it must be loving, benetcent,
right; that as free beings you are
charged with the shaping of your own
character; that the condition of the
highest possible blessedness is "the
consciousness of a perfect character in
connection with the divine fervor; that
in the formation of character you
should take the highest and most per-
feet IDEAL you must yield to every right
impulse from within and to every good
influence from without, and resist and
overpower every wrong impulse; that
seeming hindrances turn to helps when
rightly met and trusted, and that you
are to cultivate with great care the
three departments of spiritual activity,
the sensibility, intelligence and the free
will. remembering that the great bust
ness of life is to seek to learn the end
for which you individually come into
the world, and while here Ito find your
niche and fill it; to find your place and
occupy it; to find your work and do it.
So. with these testimonial. we, your
teachers, present our heartiest congrat-
ulations and our best wishes As ]
said to the class last year, when you go
home I ask you to take your Bible and
find Numbers vi: "a, rs and 26, and
write in the margin June 8, 1896, and
read these words
"The Lord bless thee and keep thee.
The Lord make His face shine upon
thee and be gracious unto thee. The
Lord lift up His countenance upon thee
and give thee peace"
The school song, "Dulce Domum,"
was sung after the class had received
their diplomas.
A luncheon was given by the Alum
nae association at the school, at which
the graduating class was present and
had seats of honor Over fifty men,
bers of the association attended. At
forwards all assembled in the large
drawing ROOM the president calling the
meeting to order. Minutes of the last
meeting were read by the secretary.
Teachers formerly connected with the
| school, who were present by invitation
| of the alumnae, were called upon to
| speak and all responded very heartily.
| The West End Institute club of Michi-
gan was represented by several men,
bers. who reported interesting reunions
A vote of thanks was extended by all
present to the executive committee and
chairman of the luncheon committee.
The former teachers who made brief
remarks were Miss Sarah J. Hume, Miss
Emma j. Sloan, Miss Forrest, Miss
| Eleanor Cutler and Miss Crossette. The
alumni association was formed last
year on the occasion of the twenty
| fifth anniversary of the school The
| officers of the association elected last
! year for three years were: President,
| Mrs Flora Peck Human; treasurer,
Miss Ellen Dutton Townsend; secreta-
reS Mrs Louise Morse Curtis and Miss
! Ella Humphrey. At the business meet
| ing o9 the association held yesterday
| admitting associate members was pre-