The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-06-05
VACATION NEAR.
WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY
COMMENCEMENT NEXT WEEK.
Tome Institute and Delaware College
Close for the Summer the Follow
ing Week.

The summer vacation is growing very near
for the college students and which all are
looking forward to with pleasure.
Next week West Nottingham Academy that
venerable county institution closes its doors
for the summer for the one hundred and fifty
sixth time. the commencement exercises
being held on Thursday, June 10th, at . p. nj.
The commencement address will be delivered
by President Z. D. Warfleld of Lafayette
College. The members of the graduating
class are Mary L. Gillespie, John A. Nesbitt,
+. Palmer Williams and ". Arnot Shaw.
Miss Gillespie is the presentation orator; Mr..
Williams. historian, and Mr.. Nesbitt, sauta-
torian.
The commencement exercises at West Not
tingham are always largely attended, the
residents of that section of the county taking
much pride in this institution. To ac"ommo-
date the crowd in attendance the exercises are
usually held in the grove adjoining the
academy, and which gives an attraction to
the exercises. A special musical program
will be carried out under the direction of
Miss Mary E. Gillespie.
TOME INSTITUTE.
The Tome Institute at Port Deposit. which
through the year has been Il busy scene-of
pupils and teachers working with success and
pleasure and under the most attractive con-
ditions, with every modern facility at their
hands-will stop for a while on Wednesday.
June 16, for the summer vacation.
Tuesday and Wednesday the 18th and 10th,
the Institute will he open to the parents and
friends of the pupils and to such others as
may care to examine their work. The work
to be placed on exhibition HIS not been pre-
pared especially for exhibition purposes, but
will be made up of representative specimens
of work regularly done in the different
departments during the year. Applicants for
admission are required to present themselves
for examination as follows: Those wishing
to enter primary and first grammar grades
on Friday, June 11th. Candidates for other
grammar and high school grades on Wednes-
day Thursday and Friday June 0, 10 and H.
DELAWARE COLLEGE.
Commencement week at Delaware College
which now has quite Il number of Cecil
18th with the Baccalaureate sermon by the
Rev DR.. Thomas A. McCurdy. OF Wilmington,
In the College Oratory at p. m. Glass day
falls on Monday, and the class exercises are
set for O'Clock in the afternoon.
The defamation contest for which prizes
are offered takes place Monday evening
Tuesday morning at II o'clock the trustees
meet in annual session. At s p. IN. the
Athenaean Literary Society holds its ami
versary exercises. Hon. Lemuel Ely Quigg
OF New York will address the society, and
there will be speeches by VIM. Ellis and Lee
o. Willis, members of the graduating class.
Commencement day proper is Wednesday,
June 10th. The exercises open at half past
ten O'Clock in the morning. Degrees will be
conferred upon the graduates. and upon such
other persons as may be selected for the
honor. Howard Pyle, artist and author, of
Wilmington, will make the chief address Of
the morning. and there will be orations by
four members of the graduating class. The
exercises of the day and the college year will
close in the evening with the anniversary OF
the Delta Phi Literary Society. William s.
Hiles, Of Wilmington, is the orator OF the
evening, and there will be special addresses
by Ira l.. Pierce and E. W. Sipple, members
of the graduating class. At the close of the
anniversary exercises the annal commence
Ment hop, given by the students, will open.
Special excursion tickets on the Pennsy-
vania, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads
will be sold to such commencement visitors
as obtain from the college authorities cards
emitting the holders to such privilege.