The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-29
FIRST GRADUATION.
Thirty-four Young
Ladies Receive
Diplomas.
INTERESTING PAPERS READ.
President Perkey Of Dread
Institute Speaks on Edu-
cation to Graduates.
INTERESTING PAPERS READ.

The audience present at the first
graduating exercises of the Dread In
stitute yesterday afternoon, filled the
large lecture room on the lower floor
and overlooked into the hallway.
Promptly at 2.3O o'clock the gradual
ing class, "a in number, marched upon
the platform, and the exercises were
opened with a few words of greeting
by Miss Edith N. White of Pennsylva-
MIA This was followed by a paper on
House economics" by Miss Vernetta
Hinde of St. Louis. Demonstration
cookery came next, and Miss Mabel r.
Miller of Rhode Island showed how 10
make angel cake, and Miss Ruth Math-
eson of Montana gave the demonstra-
ton of peach Bavarian cream.
Miss Sallie Maxey of Oklahoma, the
first young lady to arrive at the IN
stitute, read the class poem, which
dealt with the life of the girls at the
school, and was heartily applauded. A
paper on Foods" was read by Miss
Carrie Alberta Lyford of Illinois, and
then came the emergency demonstra-
ton by Misses Morrissette, Kirk, Muir
ply, Daniel, Pentacost, Jones, Strong,
Daugherty, Dorcas Clark, Maxwell,
Gibson, Lynch, Whitaker, O'Neil and
Matte Clark. The demonstration
showed how the girls were taught to
act in case of accident, and with skill
of practiced surgeons bound up brok-
en- arm and revived fainting girl.
A paper on Marketing" was read by
Miss Nettie Wilson of Canada, and an
other demonstration in cooking fol-
lowed, lobster salad given by Miss Ma
bel F. Woodward of New Jersey and
omelet and tomato sauce by Miss
Madge Virgins of Nebraska. The
class prophecy was delivered by the
class prophet" a skeleton concealed till
the right moment, and operated by
Miss Louie Matter of Racine, Wis.
The diplomas were awarded by II. d.
Perky, who spoke as follows:
The completion of a prescribed course
of study in an institution of learning is
but preliminary to the turning of a new
leaf, the beginning of another chapter
where are found lessons more advanced
than those of the preceding pages.
If this were not so, there would be nc
progress. Too often and too generally
does the idea prevail with the gradu-
ate that there are no more lessons tc
learn, that henceforth there shall be nc
need of further investigation and re-
search.
The world will not permit you to die
| tate or direct what it's policy shall be
but it will make known its wants tc
| you, and if you are equipped toperforn
| its requirements, it will seek your EN-
ployment.
The purpose of the Dread Institute II
| the first term of its existence has beer
to equip each one of you with know
ledge and a practical experience tha
will enable you to enter that specia
field of occupation for which you have
so Zealously worked and prepare your
selves, and also for which the world /:
so earnestly calling for laborers.
The class of '99 being the first to gra
duate from Dread Institute, a specia
| interest and significance attends you
departure. The lines upon which you
have been instructed are depression
from conventional methods, and fol
| that reason a greater than usual inter
est will be manifested in your future
work.
But there are special opportunities
awaiting you. The field of domestic
science, and all that it comprehends, IL
| but little occupied by those whose par
! ticular aim should be the direction Of
this science in such manner as shall en-
| tighten where now there is darkness
You should seek for the truth, for there
| is no sciencec worthy of the name thai
does not have truth for its foundation
| truth for it's superstructure and truth
for its complete edifice; when you have
discovered a truth, seek also for the un'
derstanding. Thus alone may you be-
come effective teachers.
There are no substitutes for truth
but man, in his conceit, attempts tc
| improve upon truth, and in respect tc
an important feature in your education
-food-man today, either in his ignor-
ance or for greed or gain, is busily en-
gagged waging war upon truth in his
attempt to improve upon the chemistry
OF nature, and in his alleged benefac-
lions whereby he proposes to alleviate
the sufferings of mankind he has the
effrontery to suggest Improvements on
natural organization in food products.
In this boosted 18th century civiliza-
ton in the face of expert testimony,
the highest in the land, that 80 per
cent of our manufactured food is adul-
terated, we behold the spectacle of the
congress of the United States being pc
titioned in vain for a law, the tendency
of which would be to protect the con-
sumner in the enjoyment of the unadul-
terated natural fruits of the soil OF our
wonderfully productive country. But
the law maker like too many OF his
constituents, Is lBHOIdlll VI tHlS 6AC1S
truth. and, as teachers. it will be your
greatest duty, as it will be a high
privilege, to teach your pupils and
comfort the mothers of children with
the understanding that will tend to
avoid the development of appetites and
propensities which are the cause of
degradation, degeneration, suffering
and grief.
As teachers, you may always urge,
feeling confident of the correctness of
your position, that a simple diet of
properly cooked or prepared naturally
organized food is all-sufticient for that
part which food contributes to the de-
velopment of the tremendously con-
structed body.
AS we read the history of the peoples
of the world wherever we find labor dig
nified-where all are taught in prac-
tical way to work with their hands,
there we find a happy, contented and