The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02
Graduating Exercises Held
Yesterday.
ELEVEN GET DIPLOMAS
THOUGHTFUL ESSAYS BY THE
GRADUATES.
MISS CHRISTINA BUSBEe, VALeDIcTORIAN
Address 10 the Graduates by Rev. Or, Mar
shall. Diplomas Presented by Bishp
Cheshire. Roll Of Honor and
DistinC ions.
Distinctions.

Cheshire. Roll Of Honor and
Distinctions.
Owing to the fact that the Christmas
and Easter holidays were each shortened
Il week this year the commencement ex-
ercises at st. Mary's School have been
held two weeks earlier than usual
They began Wednesday with the me-
mortal services in honor of DR.. Smedes
the late rector. Yesterday was Grad
uation Day. The exercises were of a
high order and testified to the excellent
work that is being done by this famous
institution.
The graduating class was composed
of the following young ladies':
Graduates: Miss Christiana Busbee,
Miss Minna Curtis Bynum, Miss L..
Catherine Cannady, Miss Lucy Birdie
Clifton, Miss Kate Bronson Connor
Miss Lily Elizabeth Dodd, Miss Annie
Margaret Dughi, Miss Nina Watson
Green, Miss Josephine Ashe Osborne,
Miss Margaret c. Trapier, Miss Alice
Doane Smallbones.
The programs of exercises was as
follows:
Piano duet Romance FaIantella
Tours by Miss Mary c. Thompson ana
Eliza III. Simmons.
The salutatory was read by Miss
Minna Curtis Bynum.
Master James Thomas rendered Air
Polonais (Moffitt), on the violin
Miss Nina Watson Green read an es-
say THE Attraction of the Unknown
Air de Ballet (Charmindale) by Miss
Eliza ii. Simmons.
Essay-The Reading Fad--by Miss
Lucy Birdie Clifton.
Baracarolle Goddard by Miss Eliza
HI. Doane.
From Out Thine Eyes (Ries) soprano
by Miss Louise Pittinger.
Essay-The Art Of Lying by Miss
Kate Bronson Connor
Sonata tSchuberD violin, by Miss
Helen Smedes.
Essay-Ghosts and valedictory by Miss
Christiana Busbee.
The Old Oak tCampbelD sopranos.
Misses Bynum and DeRosset, Mezzo-
soprano, Miss Pittinger.
Miss Bynum's salutatory was as fol
lows:
u aIthent walls and all that you enfold--
JOY for the future--sorrow for the
past
But first the tender memories you hold
Whose light that wraps us halo-like
will last
Thro' endless ages after we who now
Have only memories have gained the
real,
0, memories so sacred that we bow
Our heads before you as for that
ideal
We hold most high-the memory of our
Our leader. who for two and twenty
years
Our guide, spoke from his heart the
truth. who led
His pure life uncorrupt. Now where
the tears
God wipes away rests on His holy hill
Dwells in His tabernacle-O, thou
still,
And even now among us, tho we part
On earth a while, thy influence has
wrought
Into our hearts. We thank Christie
for all
Thy past Xample.--present love that
brought
And bound our hearts together lest
we fall
But most of all the future, that we.
too.
May hear the spirit words:-we, too.
may know
The joy of him that overcometh true.
We greet you, and thank God for you
again,
Our memories, our Alma Mater. You,
Our teachers. who have helped our
mind and brain,
No more that heart and soul the days
TO months will grow to years, but still
the thought
That greets you now will live to greet
YOU then.
We who go forth to conquer now have
brought
More than salutation till again
vdctors yet
In life, as in the smaller battle won
o friends and classmates. should Il
dark regret
Spring from IA seeming failure, there
is One
Who knows a conquered failure will
be yet
A victory O class of ninety nine.
1 greet you. And my salutation
springs
From thoughts of past and future
yours and mine.
And may the loving daisy-chain that
brings
Our hearts together hold them always
so.
With ''Vive Victor" craven ON our
shield,
First conquer sef-til all the weary.
slow,
Dark course of little days at last
shall yield
The glad reward of faithful duty done
And memories that will not pass
away,