Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1898-07-01
The Andrew Small Academy Com
mencement.

The Andrew Small Academy Com
mencement.
The Andrew Small Academy Of barnes
town held its commencement June II, and
it is the unanimous opinion OF an apprecia.
tive and cultured community that never in
the history of the institution has more
elaborate and entertaining program been
rendered. The entire program reflected
great credit upon Prof VIM. Nelson and
his corps OF teachers, who are to be cor
daily congratulated upon their system of
thorough instruction.
In defamation, as in many other things,
the Academy rivals many an institution of
higher pretentions. All praise to each and
every declaimer. Your gestures were pcr-
feet, your delivery beautiful, and your grace
exquisite.
The defamation prize offered by Mr..
Reiche, the elocutionist, was won by Miss
Maude Virginia Broome, and the selection,
"Rebecca the Jewess," was written by Mr.
r. The contest was extremely close be.
tween her and several of her class mates
notably Misses Elsie May Byrd and Amanda
Griffith, and the decision was weighed in an .
impartial scale. the judges being Mrs. DR..
Nourse, Mrs. John H. Gassaway and Prof
A. S. Marye.
In "Sweet Casette," vocal 50, Miss May
Thompson acquitted herself handsomely. Mr..
Tnk 10
tain'y is good to me-" was received with
ecstatic rapture Could the "Pirates of
Penzsnce" have heard Miss Daisy l. Bis
coe, the vocalist, sing "Poor Wandering
they were sailing the sea of sirens. Miss
Briscoe, with Miss Berthe Ward, produced
a selection from martha" with a graceful,
easy touch and pleasant expression.
We dream the dream OF Fary-land when
we think of the twenty little girls and boys
in the hoop and gun drill and wonder if
Uncle Sans militiamen would not like the
A. S. A boys to teach them tactics
Mr.. Garnet Ward made typical "Monk |
in bis coister," for halo OF mystical study |
and meditation seemed to enVelop him as !
his eyes rested intently upon the books and
skull that were before him. Immaculate
purity was never more sweetly portrayed
than when Miss Vandelia Tschitfely ap.
peared in black and white with her cruciflx
and prayer book as "Nun at her deVO-
tions."
In the "Patriotic Representation" the
characters were truly typical-John Read
ing, as Uncle Sam, held sword thrust |
through the heart of Spain, Upton Bur.
rough, and Cuba, Miss Jessie Kirby, was
kneeling at the feet of the Goddess of Liberty.
In the dialogue of verse between Terry |
Keefer, Ivy Phillips, and the others men
toned, an air of inspiration waited through |
the atmosphere as the Goddess of Liberty, |
Miss Sadie Magruder, pronounced these
closing words:
"All hail thou land of Cuba, free;
May thine be great prosperity
And hail the land that gave to thee
A freedoms home and liberty"
The preceding was climaxed by the school
singing Scuba Libre."
If happiness is the best elixir the audience
ought certainly to have enjoyed normal
state Of health when DR.. Sloe, John Albert
SmalD the colored professor, found that
(when he sat on a little tack about three
inches long, "Moral feelossify is the power of
penetration" But Deborah White, Simon
Nicholls) was put in state cause Andy,
her daughter, (Roger Ncholls) said Tur
KEYS alters next to Grease il its well
roasted" But the Doctor kept on with his
class (Howard Dufef, Campbell Rice and
John Snyder and Pete said "Golly extrac
tin er root is pulin' back toof out But
Zeke johnson swell sur, he gifts wus
and Sam Snow, he opened his mouf and
says, Fifteen and one am sebenteen and
seben ober. so we'll just turn over to de
next item"
Statuary flake them aud cut them out
in little stars,
And they will make the face Of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship 10 the garish sun"
Prof. A. s. Marye, Of Gunston Ins titute,
w Washington, d. G., then delivered an elo-
quent address, after which the principal,
Prof. VIM. Nelson, in his usually pleasing |
manner, delivered honorary certificates.
From the orchestra, composed Of Mr.. and
Miss Snyder and Mr.. Hanshew, mellow mu-
steal strains filled the balmy breezes through
out the evening.
AS even the best of things must end, so
did the A. S. A. commencement of '9S with
a medley of national airs, and as the last
piece, the Star Spangled Banner, was sung,
and each pupil waved the stars and Stripes
every heart in the room drew full breath
of patriotic enthusiasm X.