Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-15
LELAND AND GRAY.
Notable Commencement Exercises
Held Last Week in TOwnshend,

Prize Speaking Wednesday Evenings
Graduation Day Thursday-.-Theme
Considered by the Grsduates---AIum-
nj banquet and the Receptions.
The exercises of commencement week
at Leland and Gray seminary were Of an
unusually high character. The exercises
of the week were begun by the baccalaL-
reate sermon Sunday morning by Rev. NJ.
f. Hardy, Townshend. The church was
very prettily decorated with potted plants,
ferns and palms. At IL o'clock the class
ushers Ralph Martin and Harold Bishop,
ushered the graduates and faculty into the
church to the march played by Mrs. Phil
lips, who presided at the organ.
An appreciative and attentive audience
listened to the inspiring words of the
speaker, who took for his subject Life"
The music was well rendered.
Public examinations Monday and Tues
day were very pleasing to the faculty and
the few who attended, for thorough, con-
scientious work had been done.
The prize speaking took place Wednes-
day evening in seminary hall, before the
largest audience ever assembled there. The
speaking was of a very high order and
many from out of town and who had had
much experience said that it was the best
they had ever heard The students had
been under the instruction of Miss Lena
d. Harris, Detroit, Mich, of the Emerson
| college of oratory, and their work reflected
much credit upon themselves and their
teacher. The judges were Mrs. Davidson
and Mrs. Hescock of Newfane and Mr..
Osgood of Bellows Falls. The first prizes
were awarded to Miss Abbie Starr and
Frank Underwood. The second prizes to
Miss Esther Dale and Merle Willis. Fol
lowing is the program.
Music
| Invocation
Kentucky Belle. Constance Fenimore woolson
Florence A. Kiddef.
Lille servosse's Ride, Tourgee
Mabelle j. Sage.
Save the Fallen, John B. Cough
Orrin B Hughes
How the Fiddle Told the Story, Norah C. Franklin
| Edith G. Grout
Coin Somewhere, c. B. Lewis
| Let us Follow Him. HENRIK sienkiewlcz
,-, Merle Willis
Mabelle Phillips
| The Fail Of Pemberton Mill.
Esther Z. Dale
The Nartyrdom Of Lygia
From Quo vadis by senkiewicz
! o,-.-.- Frank @. Underwood.
| A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
Robespierre, Victorian sardoy
! Abba Starr
| The Hero Of the Tower VIII Carleton
Ralph Martin.
Thursday was graduation day. The ex-
ercses were held in the Baptist church at
10 A. NJ. The church was crowded. Di
rectly in the front at the head of the CEN
tire aisle was erected a large arch of ever.
green and meadow pinks, both sides of
which were tied with the class colors. olive
and pink. Palms, ferns and potted plants
were artistically arranged about the stage,
and at the back to the centre was a stem.
ladder filed with potted plants in full
bloom pink and green being the only COL
ors used reaching nearly TO the class mot
to, Films opus coronat."
At 10 O'Clock the vice president and fac
ulty took seats on the platform and the
class ushers marched up the centre aisle.
united the ribbons of the arch and with
them made path down the centre aisle.
and led in the class TO the march from
Lohengrin and seated them in the front
seats. This was an especially pretty fea.
ture of the exercises and was greeted by a
round of applause.
The saluiatorian, Hortense Lillian Switz.
er, welcomed her audience in the words OF
Lady Macbeth, "Our hearts speak. Won
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pleasing salutatory and the ESSAY "The
Beauties of Nature showed the writer Ia
be a lover and keen observer of her sub.
jet. Leon John Thompson delivered a
well written and scholarly grafton on Paul
Kruger, showing that he was in close
sympathy with kruger in his up hill
struggle for liberty. The Trials of a
Scholar" by Minnie Blanche Livermore.
carried all her listeners back TO their own
school days. II was very pleasing part.
"Self Culture" by Arthur Garfield Burbee
American Ideals" by Annie May Garfield
and the class Grafton, Edmund Burke. -
by Harold Calvin Bckford were of an
exceptionally high order and showed the
writers to be students of thought and
culture. The parts were also well deliver
ed.
Perhaps the three numbers that elected
the most applause were the ''Class History
by Edith Mae Clark, which was fine
part and well delivered; "Our Flag by
George Edward Hardy, stirring patriotic
GRAFTON, and the class prophecy by CLARK
Lawrence Aldrich
The three speakers held the closest at
tention of the audience from the beginning
to the END and well merited the applause
which they received.
hal9 OtSolC AudLls udu IOT ler suO1eCl
THE Daisy" the class flower. Mis-,
Adams wore crown of daisies and they
were also festooned about her gown, ShC
told in pretty manner the story of III,
daisy, speaking of its purity and how. al
though daisies were nearly hidden by tn,
tall grasses, they carried sunshine into tn,
great world and ended with the quotation
I'VE bring daisies, little starry daisies,
The angels have planted 10 remind us of the sky
when the stars have vanished they twinkle thei
mute praises,
Telling in the dewey grass Of brighter fields n,
high"
"Woman's Work in the World" was tn,
subject chosen by the valedictorian, Ev,
Angelina Austin. Miss Austin had a wei
written part and applied herself closely L
her subject. Miss Austin showed in he
essay that woman was able to cope will
man successfully in all the activities O.
life, and as long as she carried womanly
instincts and a pure character into he
work she would be admired and loved.
| The presentation of gifts by Miss Gar
field was a very bright, witty production
full of good hits, and the class will by Mis-
Livermore ELECTED much merriment.
Owing to the absence of the president
DR.. Holton of Brattleboro, the diplomas
were presented by Rev. l.. B. Curtis, tn,
vice president, after which was the sing
ing of the class ode. 2
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