The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-01

tinctICn Tor excellent WORK IN craNon
pOrtraiture.
Those who received honorable men
ton for work done in the art depart
ment are:
Misses l.. Placidia Bridgers, Temper
ance Hill. May Jenkins, Helen Gray, Hen
rietta Glover. Julia N. Parsley, Agnes
Makely and Annie Pescud
The distinctions in music are as
follows:
FIRST DISTINCTION IN MUSIC.
Piano-Misses Sue Hayes, Kate Hedge
peth, Mary Smedes, Eliza Drane, Eliza
Simmons, Mary Thompson
Vocal-Misses Louise Pittenger, Allie
Welsh, Helen Smedes.
Violin-Misses Helen Smedes, Hattie
Fleming, Florence Boylan.
SECOND DISTINCTION IN MUSIC.
Piano-Misses Betsy Montgomery. Ad
die Moore, Kinney Boylan Annie Ches-
hire Annie Root Bessie Woodland.
Vocal--Irene Wood.
HONORABLE MENTION IN PIANO
MUSIC.
Misses Julia Parsley, Jennie Hardin,
Mary Porter Ashe, Augusta Jones, Clara
Capehart, Arabelle Nash, Janet Hawkins.
l.
Selene Dortch, Maud Arlington, May
Montague, Altoona Copening, Lena Daw-
son, Clyde Dawson, Anna Howell Janet
Biggs. Kitty Coleman, Allie Welsh Flor
ence Raymond, Margaret Stedman.
In Violin Music-Misses Blanche Chad
bourne, Sallie Leach Elba Gotten.
Certificates in Academic Department
(signifying graduation in these branchcS)
were granted to Misses Julia Parsley.
Latin; Mana L. Bain Latin, History, lit
erature; Frances McRae. Mathematics.
STENOGRAPHY AND TYPEWRITING.
Misses Hattie B. Arlington, Sophie d.
Busbee. Eula r. Davis. Annie B. Duncan,
Mary Ellinger. Margaret B. Hampton,
Frances Jones, Margaret Med. McKesson,
Margaret H. Pruden, Olivia r. Smith,
Susie Undertake.
The graduating class are as follows:
Mary III. Andrews. (O Mamie Belvin.
Ellen B. Bowen. (a) Rebeccah II. Bird
gers. Mildred l.. Cunningham. Alice l..
Love, Annie S. Love, Caroline NJ.
Means, Anna Louise Pittenger. (a)
Annie Pearl Pratt. (aD Mary McA.
Rem. (a) Mary Cornelia Thompson.
Those whose names are marked (a)
on the Honor Roll
After DR.. Bratton had delivered
the diplomas to the graduates he in
troduced Bishop Cheshire. The Bish-
OPP said that he had hoped that the
Bishop of South Carolina would have
been present on this occasion. but
owing to unavoidable circumstances,
he was detained away. But
however he was glad to announce that
in his place today there was the Rev.
II. w. Barnwell of South Carolina,
who. though not a Bishop. was just
as good as if he was, and who would
address the graduating class.
Mr. Barnwell said:
when Bishop Cheshire turned over
to me this honor he let slip a great
opportunity But opportunities are not
so rare to a Bishop as they are to some
others. and perhaps knowing from eXper-
fence the pleasure of the sensation, he
designed to initiate me into the ar OF
speaking to chapel full of girls. vii;
speak to you this morning. and | don't
promise to confine myself to just a word,
either. on THE Weakest Thing in the
World" l shall not preach sermon but
| want you to understand that | do rot
consider religion and beauty and poetry
antagoniStic to each other
''You know what the poet has said
about the strongest thing in the world
guarding the weakest What / want to
know is what is life? You have been
bordering this subject. 1t has been
brought to you in the class room and
the laboratory. What do you think of
it. what do you know of yourself. You
know yourself better than any one else.
off To no ic
what you are: not what you may be
thought of by others. We know our
selves in our thoughts and feelings. Our
feelings are what make us weak, and also
what makes us strong We feel our
selves to be different from what we
were when children. We know our
selves in our feelings. AS our hearts
are, so are we.
Man is the most complex, therefore
the weakest of all creation. He has
heart that can feel, and the sum n of
all mans impulses is the sum of his
life. Man is weak because he may be
weakened from SO many sides"
THE difference that exists between
man and woman is more difference
of degree rather than kind Man is of
a sterner and more vigorous organiza-
ton imam woman. women are the weak
er and God has so ordained it that the
strongest things in the universe shall
protect the weak. Women are weaker
because they are more sensitive and
more responsive to impulses"
The man whose heart is never stirred
is never the man of action. We may
school ourselves to to a routine of work,
but it is not that that makes man. He
who would gain the nearer view of heaven
must be led by the great STRINGS of the
heart. What man is there who will reach
the highest there is in his nature if not
driven by stress of feeling. We are made
by our feelings TO do, not to sit idle in
this world of achievement and honor. If
we need these feelings to make us act
to live, then what is life? | am no pess
mist. The rainbow is most lovely after
the most violent storm. So it is not
merely the dark and stern things of life
that force us to action, but the Joyous
and the happy 1t isSife that makes us
know that we are the weakest and strong
est things in the world"
Woman is the weakest thing in the
world, because she feels the most, but
God has made her the strongest by
throwing around her safeguards. She is
the creature of home and as such is
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