The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-23
PROF. CARLYLE IN WILSON
He CHARMS A LARGE AUDIENCE
6Y HIS ELOQUENT SPEECH.

| 6Y his EIOQOENI SFGGSn'
1t Was the Occasion of the Success fu
Close cf the Wilson Graded Schools
Prof. Mangum He'd in the Highes
Esteem.
Wilson. y. c., May 22-(Special)-Om
very excellent and most admirably con
Quoted graded school closed "a very sue
cessful session on yesterday with very
instructive and delightful and most IN
teresting entertainment. Prof. Mangum
n gentleman of profound erudition and
ripe scholarship and admirab bic executive
ability, is superintendent, and the splend-
idly equipped Prof. Allen, for he Is
learned and polished and refined and high
toned. and wears at all times the pure
white rose of a perfect Christian gentle
man in fullest bloom and beauty, is the
most efficient and acceptable principal.
These two are most ably assisted by Il
corps of lady teachers. whose superlors
can not be found in the State. And being
thus so admirably equipped, the Wilson
Graded School is riding the topmost wave
of success, and is basking in the nOon-tide
briliancy of brightest prosperity. And
it is the opinion of our entire community
that the trustees acted wisely when they
secured the services of Prof. Mangum, for
he is broad guaged and liberal and pro-
gresiye. asnd full of grit and push and
enterprise, and holds all of those qualities
which command success. And the delight
full exercises which marked the closing
scenes showed that the FIVE hundred
pupils had been faithfully trained and
disciplined by skilled and able teachers.
The exercises on Thursday night consis-
ted of a Cantata, a drill and dumb bell
exercises; and on Friday morning u well
Written history of the Graded School by
Miss Abbie Deans, and an appropriate
vaiidictory by Miss Kate .Cennor.
These y5nng ladies acquitted them
selyes admirably, and won enthusiastic
praise from all who heard their very ap-
propriate productions. A prize was
awarded to Miss Clements for having
written the best essay, while Mr.. Mark
Farmer won the University scholarship.
He is Il bright young man, and a brilliant
future is before him.
But the chief attraction yesterday was
Prof. CARLYLE. of Wake Forest College,
who, was to deliver the annual literary
address. His reputation as scholar, a
thinker and logician had preceded him.
anu sharpeiied tile appetite for that
sumptuous intellectual Dabulum which he
was TO spread for our mental edificatipn
and enjoyment. And our people were
not disappointed. for the address was
timely opposite. ornate. rhetorical. and
in excellent taste His theme was .ery
appropriate. and his sentences wore all
of that exquisite beauty and graceful
drapery and gorgeous tinting seen in
the luxuriant foliage of spring robed trees
and flowers. He selected for his subject
The Duties of the Present" and he
handled it with the skill of master. 1t
was indeed the effort of Il scholar. patriot
and statesman, for in point of power
and ability and breadth and scope and
beauty and eloquence it will rival, if not
srrpass, the greatest productions that
have ever been delivered. 1t was deep,
profound, thOughtfuL symmetrical.e well
rounded. admirably chiseled and exqui-
sitely polished. Every sentence pulsed
with the warm, high-throbbings of "A pa
triOt'- heart. Every utterance showed the
deep channel of that broad current Of
craftsmanship, upon whose bosom float
those argosies which make a country
great. happy and prosperous. Every
pressions which told of the ripened and
mellOwed fruit in the well-tended or
chards of true and genuine Christianity.
And all of these fine sentiments were
robed in the exquisite garniture of richest
eloquence, and empowered with all the
seductive allurements of the most fasc-
Mating delivery. while many of his utter
ances were winged with the eagle piniOns
Of genuine OratOry. and scared into the
highest sky Of dramatic impressiveness,
and reveled amid lis thrilling fires and
dazzling luminations. Yes. inded. it was
an address of great power and incOmpara ra-
BILE beauty and conquering elOquence, and
never will its effect be erased from the
memory, or the thrilling and electrifying
outbursts of the gifted and impassiOned
speaker be forgotten.
IIrNIDEn nnWN THE WEI L