Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-05-31

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ried off the honors.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
When the crowd began to assem-
BILE on Wednesday morning to at
tend the exercises given in honor
of the Alumni-Alumne Associa-
ton of the S. c. c. l., itwas with a
tender feeling of regret that the
commencement season was almost
at an end.
A we'll executed piano duet by
Mrs. Bailey and Miss Minnie
Rambo, introduced the program.
Misses Mary Holson and Julia
Tompkins next manifested the
results of patient faithfulness to
duty, and in a pleasant style, rem
dered, the first, a recitation, and
the saccnd a piano solo.
| Hon. John J. McMahan, of Co.
lumbia, Superintendent of Educa-
ton, delivered the annual address
before the Alumni-Alum@ Associa-
tion. The subject, "Why should
the State educate?" was ably pre-
sented, and evinced great depth of
sober reflection, clearly illustrated
1t ia not often in an address of any
kind that new ideas are conveyed !;
the variety which makes the dis.
cussfon of most subjects accepta-
BILE and enjoyable, is in the man.
ner of speaking, and in the diver
sity with which the thought is
clothed. In this dissertation, how
ever, much was said which brought
into existence new views and con-
ceptions of education and made
the people moro earnestly consld-
crate for the elevation and maln-
tenance of the educational stand
ard. Some dashes of droll humor
were scattered among the more Sc
rious and practical truths, and
made them the more palatable.
A double piano trio was render
ed by Cadets Mcmillan and Entz-
minger, Misses Matte Lyon, Sallie
Smith, Stella Atkinson, and Sallie
Rountree; also vocal quartette
by Misses Bailey and Toole, Prof.
Entzminger and Cadet Entzmin-
ger.
A medal was presented to Miss
Kate Sheppard for having oeen
present at school every day during
the session; to Miss Stella Atkin-
son for standing longest in the
competitive drill among the young
ladies; to Cadet Ben Adams for
the most general improvement in
penmanship, and to Cadet B. R.
Griffin for special penmanship.
These medals were presented by
Prof. Entzminger, Capt. R. B. Cain,
Prof. Long, of Trenton, and Rev. P.
P. Blalock, respectively.
A mandolin solo by Miss Maxcie
Sheppard preceded the exercises
of the Alumni-Alumna Associa-
tion.
4. essay read by Miss Annie
May Willis, of Williston, on the
Education of Women,' was much
praised for it's intrinsic merit. This
with her intelligent delivery of it,
did marked credit to her alma
mater.
Mr.. NJ. P. Moorer, of st. Georges,
all alumnus of the S. G. c. 1. in an
eloquent address on Progress" F"
gave striking evidence of the un-
usual advantages which the S. c..
G. I. affords as an educational GEN.
ire. No better object lesson than
this is needed to prove the broad,
all embracing efficiency of the
former and present faculty of the
South Carolina Co-Educational
Institute.
President Bailey directed few
words in closing to the old grad
yates, than whom no others are
more justly loyal and devoted to
their alma mater, or it's honored
president. To the eighty-seven
young men and women all over
South Carolina aud other States,
who are graduates of this Institu-
tion, President Bailey is the ex-
ample of nobility and strength
worthy their emulation, and his in
terests are theirs.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
'The stream is calmest when it nears
the tide,
The flowers are sweetest at eventide
And the birds more musical at close OF
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