Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-01
RECEIVE THEIR REWARDS
DIPLOMAS AND MEDALS FOR WOODS
COLLEGE STUDENTS.
Graduating Exercises mt National
by Commissioner POwder1y.

The graduation exercises of Woods Com
mercia College took place last evening at
the New National Theater and were wit
messed by a large and representative audi
ence. The graduates. who occupied seats on
the platform. were: Business department,
Mary Ellen Carroll Sara Cecilia Carroll,
Robert Ashton Cissel, Edwin ]. Greer,
james T. Hainey. John G. Kaiser, Claude
Edward koss. Alvin Clyde Miller Abbie
Virginia Minnix c. II. Morgan. Mabel Win
fred Perkins. Harry James Pirie. Ernest De
Witt Smith. Carrie +. Wanstall and Frank
Selkirk Wolfe of the District of Columbia;
Charles 4. Aycock. Ernest Oscar Aycock
and Robert Lee Fitzgerald of North Caro-
lima; Elise Doerfing, Ralph Rockwell and
Jesse Walter Rohrback of Pennsylvania;
w. Earle Hellmuth. Joseph Lafayette Nor
ris. jr.. and Charles b. Richards of Virginia;
Clara Harriet Jones of Ohio. Lille Eliza
beth Nicholson. W. w. Plummer John
Camdron Temple Simon Peter Wagner and
Marshall Mauray Wa ker of Maryland and
Emma Sherman of Michigan.
Shorthand department-Mary Ellen Car
roll. Sara Cecilia Carroll. Helen johnson,
Mary Kennedy. Ruth Mitchell, Eva Ger
trude Pearson. b anche Stoutenburgh. Geo.
F. Teachum, Emanuel III. Waldecker ana
Frank Selkirk Wolfe of the District OF Co
lumbia; jamie Herbert Etheridge and Mary
f. Etheridge of Alabama: Ella Mary Free
man and Mary Avondale Haynie of Mary
land: Emma Koontz Hess of West Virginia,
and John c. Temple of Illinois.
The exercises were begun with an over
ture from Bach by the National Theater
Orchestra which organization furnished the
music throughout the evening Alter the
overture the orchestra rendered selections
by Herbert. and during the Playing of a
march. The American Student. by
Wheeler. the members of the graduating
class took seats on the stage provided Tor
them.
Prayer was offered by Rev. George +.
Maydwell, pastor of Waugh NJ. f. Church,
and after "A song entitled THE Holy City,
Mr. Terence V. Powderly. commissioner
general of immigration, delivered an adj
dress on THE School of the Future In
part Mr. Powderly said:
Tho mistake is sometimes made that
education begins at the primary school and
ends with the reception of the diploma upon
graduation. This is a wrong idea. Some of
the most useful and influential men of today
self-made men-men who have received
their education from nature" There was
nothing. he asserted, insurmountable to
him who would climb. but it was well to
remember that step ladder was frequent
ly a very useful article. Mr.. Powderly
said there are men today occupying pulpits
who would make better carpenters or black
smiths and that there We're those following
the trades mentioned who might be good
preachers.
Invention" the speaker went on to say.
and no workman can approach the shop
without feeling that the day may come
when the machine will take his place from
him Expansion has been in progress ever
SINCE Adam turned his back on beautiful
Eden. and it will go until the end of
time. Turn where you will, one cannot
fail to be convinced that there have been
more useful inventions during the nine
teenth century than there We're in all the
centuries that preceded it. The stage coach
has passed away, and those who have
stage coach ideas must take places in the
background
Mr.. Powderly urged those whom he adj
dressed to avail themselves of every adj
vantage that may offer to them in the
future to perfect their education and to fit
them for competition with their fellows.
Diplomas and Medals Presented.
The diplomas were presented by Prof.
Court F. Wood, who, after the last one was
delivered to its recipient. gave the mem
bers of the class some good advice rela-
tive To the course they should hereafter
pursue in order to achieve the highest
measure of success.
Gold medals were given to the following
for proficiency in the studies named: Sara
Cecilia Carroll, shorthand; Ella Mary Free
man. typewri;frg; Robert Ashton Cisscl.
bookkeeping: Ernest De Witt Smith. gram
mar; Abbie Virginia Minnix. penmanship:
Claude Edward knss. mathematics; Harry
James Pirie. orthOgraphy; Ethel Haler-
man. hest essay: Frank Selkirk Wolfe