The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-29
The Graduating Exercises Held
Yesterday Morning.
EIGHT DIPLOMAS AWARDED
A YOUNG LADY OF CHATHAM
TAKES ALL THE MEDALS.
AND ALSO WINS FIRST HONOR
One Full Graduate and She From v'r'
ginia-.A Splendid Address From
Prof. HIlI--A Successful
Session.

The graduating cidSS At S"'o A"@'i
tute this year is composed of eight young
ladies, as follows:
MISS FRANCES CRADDOCk
OWEN. of Denniston, Va, full graduate.
MISS EsTELIlE McIVER, of Gulf,
\. c.. graduate in literature and Ian
guage
MISS ELSIE MAY PEARSON, OF
Pearisburg, Va, graduate in literature
and language.
MISS BYRDE NEATHERY LAW
RENEE, of Raleigh, graduate in litera-
ture and science.
MISS ANNIE MAY REEVES, of
Caldwell, Texas, graduate in literature
and science.
MISS ELIZABETH HODGES, of
Raleigh, graduate in literature and
science.
MISS MARTHA PEARL RODMAN,
of Waxhaw, graduate in literature and
science.
MISS MIRIAM WILLIAMS
STAMPS, of Raleigh, graduate in liter
AZURE anu science.
In the Peace Institute auditorium is
fine old painting from which looks down
the kindly face of a venerable man. Be
meath it is marble tablet bearing this
inscriptions: william Peace, founder of
Peace Institute, born March Z, 1878, died
July II, 1865. To be and not to SEEM "
Could the sweet-spirited original of this
portrait have looked, with the audience
there assembled yesterday, upon the near
two hundred students all arrayed i'm
spotless white, the eight graduates in
cap and gown. the learned president with
his crops of faithful teachers about him;
and more, could he have witnessed the ex
ercises of the day, he would have been
the great work he there inaugurated,
theg reat work he there inaugurated,
proud of the manner in which it is now
being conducted and he would have found
that it had been true to the motto upon
he launched it into the world-being and
not seeming.
If Peace Institute is anything it is
thorough. At such exercises as those wit
messed there yesterday there are thou
sand and one evidences of it. So far
as this school goes-and it goes pretty
far, can tell you-it is as thorough. as
exacting in its curriculum, as any school
in the State. male or female. And it is
upon this fact that it is building a repu-
tation that is spreading all over the South.
For sixteen years President Dinwiddie
taught mathematics to boys, for sixteen
years since, he has taught girls-taught
them upon exactly the same principle and
with the same thoroughness as he taught
kh, &c nnn fa
perhaps more than anything else, that he
has attained SO great success and estab-
lished his reputation.
At the close of the exercises yesterday
he referred to these things and took oc-
casion to pay the young ladies, just about
to 90 out into the world the highest posi-
BILE compliment The year just closed,
he said had been the most pleasant and
successful in the history of the school.
Never before at Peace Institute had
there been such uniform good be-
havior, such intense work and earnest
ness. he said. He feared he would never
see the like again-it had been year Of
work and no humbug. DIR. Dinwiddie said
he believed women ought to be educated
equally with men. Men cannot help her
in the duties and great chises of life. We
need women of character, capacity, wO-
men who can hoe their own row. he
motto of Peace Institute IS fnoroughness.
A certificate from this institution means
that a girl has honestly and thoroughly
completed the whole course"
The exercises of the day began with
prayer by Rev. w. c. Norman, pastor Of
Edenton Street Methodist church. 1t
was tender and most impressive suppl
cation, thanking the Giver of every good
and perfect gift for the institution, the
work it is doing and it's growth and pros
perity; and invoking the blessings of
heaven uopn the young women who were
within its walls seeking after knowledge.
Then came Rossini and Gottschalk' s
Overture to William Tell, piano duet
most skilfully rendered by Misses M.
Exum and S. Lee.
This was followed by the announcement
of distinctions by President Dinwiddie, as
follows:
MISS ESTELLE M'IVER, of Gulf,
n. c., first honor graduate, having aver
aged over 95 on every study during her
entire college course.
MISS BYRDE NEATHERY LAW
RENEE, Of Raleigh, second honor grad
uate, having averaged over 80 on every
study during the entire course.
In addition to being first honor grad
uate, Miss McIver won all the medals
offered-two in number-the DIR. ID. b.
Everitt medal on Mathematics and the
medal ON Latin. The Everitt medal is
worth $50 and the handsomest given III
the State.
The announcement of distinctions was
followed by two musical selections: A
Duet in canon FORM Marzials) by Misses
f. Mckay aRd S. McKinnon; Misses X
Richardson ahd l.. Stebbins; and Staccatc
Etude (BohmO by Miss B. Johnson.
Certificates of proficiency were then
delivered and the honor roll read by
President Dihwiddie as follows:
THF HONOR ROLL.
Those whd have an average of 90 OF
above above on all collegiate work are as fol
Estelle McIver, o. Harriet Haywood