The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-11
MESERVE'S SAGE ADVICE
Let Politics Alone and Foster Your
Schools.
MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE WHITE PEOPLE
CONNER cement Exercises at Shaw University.
Seventeen Graduates. Annual Ad-
dress by Mr.. Brown. Speech
by Gov. Jarvis.


The annual graduating exercises of
Shaw University were held yesterday
morning at 10 O'Clock in the college
chapel.
These exercises were of a most in
teresting character and were witness
ed by large number of people, among
them many white citizens of Raleigh
and visitors from other places.
The graduates, numbering seven
teen, were as follows:
Degree of A. B.-Andrew Jackson Chris
tian, William Henry Knuckles, Charles
Rivers Frazer, j. Walter Paisley, John
Thomas Doles. Mary Elizabeth DeLoatcf
and James Eugene Powe.
Degree of B. S.-Anna Elizabeth Cooke
Esther Narcissa Brockenton and Eenora
C. Mitchell.
Normal.-Nanne Kathleen Headen.
Degree of B. TH.-Willam Henry
Knuckles, John Thomas Doles, George
Oliver Bullock and Dorman James Avera.
Missionary Training School.-Clara Jane
Eaton, Ida Belle Logan and Harriet Ann
Duggns.
Honorary Degree of D. D.-Rev. c. S.
Brown, Winston, N. c.
The program of exercises for the
day was as follows:
Quartette-"Voices of the Night" Glover.
Misses Woodward and Mcmillan.
Messrs. Frazer and Graves.
Essay with Salutatory, Subject: The Ne
gro jim Literature.
John w. Paisley.
Oration-The Ministry-Its Influence and
Needs.
William H. Knuckles Theological De-
partment)
Duet-"In Meadows Green. Bracket
Miss Woodward and Mr.. Chas. Frazer.
Grafton, with valedictory-Subject:
Utility of Science.
Chas. R. Frazer.
Solo-"Angels Serenade''. Bragga
Miss Hattie Douglass.
Annual Grafton. ....... Rev. c. S. Brown
Violin Solo-"Old Folks at Home" Stobbe.
Mr.. John Haywood.
Awarding of Diplomas, Rev. ]. A. Whitfield.
Prize Announcements and Parting Adj
dress to Graduates.
President Meserve.
The prize announcements made by
President Meserve were as follows:
Industrial Department:
Prize So 5O-Charles r. Evans, Column
bus, Miss.
Prize $2.5O-Eugene Logan Tiger, N. G.
Prize $250-Walter w. Harris, War
renton.
Prize So 5O-Cora Whidbee, Norfolk. Va
Prize $25O-Addie Moore, Scotland Neck
Prize S25O-Esther Lassiter Morrisville
Sight Reading college Department.
First Prize, $5.OO-Mammie Humbert
Darlington, S. c.
Second Prize. $3.50, Charles L. w
Smith, Smithfield.
Normal Department:
First Prize, $500, Ivy Cole, Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Second Prize, $3.50 Emma C. Friday
Charlotte, n. c.
Current Events:
First Prize, $780, Charles r. Evans, Co
lumbus, Miss.
Second Prize, $780, Louis A. Fletcher
New York.
First Prize, $500, Mamie D. Humbert
Darlington S. c.
Second Prize, $3.50, Mary N. Watson
Henderson, N. c.
NJ f. Roberts prize in penmanship.
A gold pen to Charles r. Evans, Co.
lumbus, Miss.
The chapel was appropriately dec
grated for the occasion and all the
exercises were of an unusually high
order.
Among those who occupied seats on
the rostrum was Ex-Governor Thos. j.
Jarvis, and after the address of the
day President MeSerye said:
I'VE have with us today one of North
Cardinals most distinguished citizens
Ex-Governor Jarvis. He is friend to the
colored race. l heard of him many times
before l came to the State l heard that
he was friendly to the colored race and
by the establishment of Normal schools
was doing much to educate them And
then since l have been here l have found
that the things reported abroad of him
are true. At the meeting of the Baptist
State convention in Greenville last year
/ was his guest and the recipient of many
kindnesses and courtesies from him and
Mrs. Jarvis. 1 know you would like to
hear word from him."
SPEECH OF GOVERNOR JARVIS.
Responding to this invitation Governor
Jarvis said he had come with no idea
of being called on for speech.
But" he added, wherever there is a
school or church, no matter how grand or
humble, whether a university of log
cabin, for the whites or the colored people,
it's a place of interest to me; for there is
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