Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-04
FORTY-TWO GRADUATES
CLOSING EXERCISES OF THE sPEN-
CERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Justice Barnard of District Supreme
Court Presents the DIPLOMAT
Program ofsExercises.

The graduation exercises of the Spence
rian Business College, which were held yes
terday afternoon at the Academy of Music,
were attended and enjoyed by an audience
which taxed the cal acity of the theater. 1t
was the thirty-fourth annual commence
ment, and forty-three young men and wo-
men were awarded the diplomas which
guarantee their qualifications to enter prac-
teal business pursuits
Ihe floral tributes from parents and
friends to the class of 1900 were marvels
OF beauty. After Twilight 1.-The Fortune
teller and the Man Behind the Gun" Sc
lectlons by Weber's Band. the class came
upon the stage in the "Spencerian College
March, executing a series of graceful fig
ures, the ladies being in Grecian costumes.
The exercises We're opened with an invo-
cation by Rev. A. w. Pitzer and the grad
yates We're presented by Mrs Sara A. Spen-
Ger with Few Introductory remarks.
VIM Macarthur Green of Alexandria,
whose father, James Johnston Green, as
mrs. Spencer explained, graduated from the
coiiese IN 1876. delivered the address Of
welcome on behalf of the gentlemen, de-
claring that the college had been Il con-
unual revelation of the height and breadth
and depth of what business means-its
ethics, mutual rights and obligations and
social relations.
Miss Mabel Grey Elliott salutatorian for
the ladies, said that the nation is devoting
large part of its wealth, its brain and
Drawn to war and conquest and sends
forth tens of thousands of young men an
nually. selected because of their strength
courage and ambition with slender chance
of bringing them home again. Other tens
OF thousands follow after for adventure and
to see the new world.
Now" sad the speaker. I'VE are not
content to remain weeping maids at home.
We will rise to the level of the need and
master betimes every art and craft tina.
VIII build up the home and protect the aged
and helpless
After ""Queen of Beauty Waltz by the
band Mr.. Hoyt Lacey Johnston of Ohio
delivered the valedictory for gentlemen.
He described some princely men of the
national capital who had helped to make
this city great and famous, and who did
not drift with the tide after a youth spent
IN sowing wild oats. but grew to their
splendid altitude by striking downward and
reaching upward and outward, thus becom-
ing blessing to every worthy work, ter
ror to every form of evil
MISS Elizabeth Mary Leeper of New York
delivered the ladies' valedictory. I'VE. the
young women of the class of 1900" she said,
came to this college because We wanted
to come We were determined to be up
and doing. with a heart for any fate A
new world of thought and action has been
opened to us. 1t calls us forth with clear
commanding voice and some of US go hence
to return no more, entering upon new
careers with broader fields before US than
We dreamed of in earlier days"
After music, Hearts and Flowers Mrs.
Spencer presented the class of 1900 in a
few earnest words. saying that 1t had been
difficult this year to keep a graduating class;
the demand upon the college for its best
workers had been so extraordinary.
DR.. Marigold; or, Life In a Cart, study
In Delsarte expression was rendered all
the graduates taking part, and Miss Anna
Craig Mills and Miss Salome Wingate sang
What Are the Wild Waves Saying?'
The Graduates.
Justice Job Barnard of the District SUI
preme Court awarded the diplomas after ad-
dressing the recipients, paying a high trip
Ute to graduates of the college, many of
whom he knew
The list Of graduates consists of: Miss
es Antonette A. Heitmuller, Mary z.
Hutchinson and Goldie C. Miskell, Dis
trict of Columbia; Anna NJ. Rau, West
H. Scott. New York; Annie NJ. Sim
clair North Carolina; Messrs. Charles l..
Bovee, New York; Wyllis NJ. Bryce and
David F. Caldwell, Virginia: Philip NJ. Car
Virginia; Hoyt L. Johnston, Ohio: Stephen
l. Sheehy. District of Columbia: Jacinto
Torras, Cuba: Howard b. Yost, William f.
Tanner and Frank T. Jost. District of CO.
lumba. Shorthand and typewriting-Misse
Charlotte l. Crane, Virginia; Antoinette A.
Heitmuller, Florence L. Irwin and Goldie c.
Miskeil District of Columbia; Letha l..
Morgan. West Virginia: Helen e. Pullman
District of Columbia; Anna NJ. Rau, West
Virginia: Nellie F. Schlosser, District of CO.
lumba: Cora II. Scott New York: Annie
NJ. Sinclair North Carolina; Edith A Vir-
gin, Minnesota: Messrs William McA
Green, Virginia; Stephen I. Sheehy District
of Columbia: Ford B. Stevens Virginia.
Misses Mabel G. Elliott and Lulu c. He'll
District Of Columbia; Elizabeth W. King
Maryland: Mrs. Cora C. McMullen, Penn
sylvania Messrs. jerome C. f. Blanc Cali
fornia John NJ. Faris Indiana: Nicholas j.
Clifford. Ohio; Frank NJ. Hoadey New
York: Charles w. UNDERESTIMATE and Ru-
dolph H. Yeatman, District of Columbia
Convicted md Eined