Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-06
WORK IF A SCHOLASTIC YEAR FiftEI Young Ladies Leave the 6 Training School AgO ARE READY TO TEACH a = lights Exercises at 0'Brien's Will Be Very
 Interesting twenty-five Graduates
 10 Receive Diplomas.
) ARE READY TO TEACH

Last night the assembly room of the High school presented a scene of rare beauty. Th= floral decora tions were xu-
 pe1b, and everything com bined to make
 the evening delight 10 the large au-
 dience present. The occasion was the
 annual comm ncement of the Normal Training school. Fif.een young ladies
 marked the completion of their course
 by rendering an excellent programme.
 The theses were all connected in thought and constituted symposium in educa- tichal history. Each thesis was a com
 ple,e picture of the schools of the period described, and all were so related as 10 present a connected review of the schools from long ago till now" The exercises i-nare op med with prayer
 by Dr. E. H. Sloll, and Superintendent Phillips announced the following order of eXerclscS:
 Chorus. Stars the Night Adorning"- Glass.
 Symposium, Schools from Long Ago Till Now.
 Introduc.ion, "Bies of China"-Helen Eugene Lewis.
 '>School Life In InCia"-Janie Morton
 Moore.
 Persian Educsticn"-Annie Elizabeth
 PeguesL
 Among the Israelites"--Mary Ham,
 mond Sholl.
 ''The Land of the Pyramids"-Everona
 Bentley Mckee. lsextette, with Laugh as We Go Round'-Misses Cotton, Smith, Pegues, Lewis, Rumph and Moore. 'ILfiuence of Art On Greek Educa ton" -Addte Linton Norton.
 Roman Educa ation"-Elizabeth Nash Johnston.
 'lMonadtic Standardization Cotton.
 "rhe Age of ChivalTy y'-Margaret Chorus, Annie Laurie"-Class. Schools of Shakespeare's Tme''- Margarst Branch Donelson. German observation-disclosures Esaelle Rumph.
 "A Puritan Sohool-Eleanor Woods Castleman. Solo. "Serenade by Tosti"-Aileen Cot ton. Schools of Our Grandmothers' Times'' Bertha Natolie Koenig. Schools of Today"-iEdith Buell. "Schools of ths Future"-Fannie Ham, | ilton Meade.
 Presentation of diplomas | Chorus, Night Sinks On the Wave" l Glass. l Benedidtton.
 The diplomas were presented to the | class by President Ullman, of the board l Of education, in brief but forcible and l eloquent speech. The young ladies ac- | quilted themselves admirably and re- | fiected credit upon the instruction of | Miss Caroline w. McRair, the principal
 
 charge of the school but one year, com ing here last September an entire strang- CT. She thoroughly identified herself with the work of the schools and has proven her worth by her fidelity and ef- | fciency Her quiet strength of charac- l ter, mental equipose and nodesty have made a lasting impression for good upon l the young ladies of the class, and she | is not only appreciated and esteemed, | but loved by all The large audience | present last night thoroughly appreciat- | ed the training school and the work of | Miss McRair.
 | EXERCISES FOR TONIGHT. Tonight at the opera house will occur | the thirteenth annual commencement of ] the Birmingham High school, when a class of twenty-five bright young men
 and women will complete the course of 1 Instruction in this excellent school. The | prdgramme will prove exceedingly in- | teresting, because the regulation essay | will not be a feature. The sketches that 1 will be read have been taken from the | work in English prepared by the class | dUnlng the year, ard selected by the l teacher from their notebooks. The mark | ed features of these sketches are smplic- | ity and originality. The opera house will no doubt be | crowded tonight, and all are requested | to ssloure reserve seats. All the seats | in the parquet are to be reserved, and | also the first three rows in the dress cir | cie To enable all to be accommodated, | the box office will be open this morning | at o'clock where reserved seat tickets | may be obtained at 25 cents, or upon | presentation of tickets seats may be re- | served for 10 cents. The annual address will be delivered, | and the diplomas presented by Judge
 J. J. Banks.
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