The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-01
STATE NORMAL CLASS
TWENTY-sEVENTH ANNUAL COM.
MENCEMENT AND 113 STUDENTS.
EpwOrth Delegates at Marion-Indi-
annapolis Symphony Orchestra at
Music Teachers Meeting.
Special to the indianapolis Journal

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. June 30.-The big
assembly hall at the State Normal was
crowded with the 1.2G0 students and friends
this morning to attend the twenty-seventh
annual commencement exercises. The plat
form was decorated with flags including
the Cuban. President Parsons says that,
with the standard as it was six years ago,
the attendance this term would have been
two thousand instead of ! 200. The exercises
opened with chorus singing from the Mes
siah'' after which Dr. Terrence of the Cen
trail Presbyterian Church, offered prayer.
President Parsons introduced DR.. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones, of All Souls Church, Chicago,
who spoke on Horace Mann, the Prophet
of the Common Schools" President Par
sons followed with a few words on the
growth of the idea of state or government
support of free normal schools. The
lightweight graduates of former years,
who are entitled to diplomas, which
are life licenses to teach in the
schools of the State, and the 113
graduates of to-day, who received certifi-
Gates. the diplomas coming only after two
years satisfactory work in the schools,
found their rolled documents on a table In
a side room. There was no reading of es-
says formal handing of the certificates
or diplomas TO the young men and young
women. This is the last year they will be
even required to write essays, but instead,
a further course in composition will be
taught. The state board of trustees at the
meeting this morning, reelected all the fac
ulty and added another assistant for Vice
President Sandison in the department of
mental science and method.
The following are those who to-day were
awarded diplomas. They were graduated in
1895: Josie I. Adair, Henry d. Alldredge.
Elsie Andrews, John z. Ballard, Eta Bar
rett, Maud (Weltom Beckes, Lydia Bell,
Allie May Bland, Mabel Bonsall, Walter c.
Boyd, John II. Brooks w. S. Bull, Jennie
Cammack, Omar Caswell, Anna M Clay
baugh, Edward S. Christen. Fannie E.
Clark, Mary E. Corbin, Lotus D. Coffman,
Henry N. Coffman, Anna Combs, Mary Con-
ley. Samuel M. Conway, Zella n. Cox, John
Crowley, Rose Danielson, Stella Deem,
Grace Dinwiddie, Mary Lambeth, John F:
j. Driver, Jesse f. Evans, j. Ellsworth
Ewers, James A. Fisher Helen Garrett,
Lydia Gemmer,. James W. Hadley, Oscar
Hardisty, Clodia Hays, Florence B. HON.
mon, Stella, Hunter, Frank H. Huntwork.
Joe f. Kelley, Lillian Kemp William H.
Kessel, Nora Shipley-Kerr Ezra e. Lollar,
William o. Lynch, William V. Mangrum,
Charles Magek Emile Meyer Josephine
MORAN, William =. MCCULLOUGH, Henry u.
Nicewanger. Dosia Owens, James w Par
ris, KATRINA Pfrimmer. Charles NJ. Piercy,
Lena L. rPoerr, Belle Quinlisk,. Dudley D..
Ramsey, II. Herbert Ratclif, Maggie Ride
nour, Charles S. Royce, Joseph Saal, Anna
3. Sankey, Mary Schafer, L: Nay Slaugh-
ter, Lillian c. Smith, Mary E. Smith, Will
liam Smith, John w. Shepherd. Fanny
Splaty, Minnie Uahn) Stahl, George Z.
Stevenson, Eva Stokesberry Charles E.
Talkington William M Timmons, Francis
NJ. Walker, Sylvester Ward Margaret
Weesner, j. Howard Wagner, Minnie M
Wortinger, Rose Ward.