Evening star., 1900-05-25
DEDICATION CEREMONIES
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FGs. GIRLS AT
ST. ALBANS.
Gathering of Representatives of Pro.
testant Episcopal Church-Ad-
dress by Bishop Satterlee.

With simple but impressive services the
beautiful building which has been erected
at Mount St. Albans through the munifi-
Cence of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, and which
will be hereafter known as the Cathedral
School for Girls. was dedicated yesterday
afternoon in the presence of a gathering of
representatives of the Protestant Episcopal
Church from every part of the city.
Previous to the formal exercises. and
while the audience was assembling. the
Marine Band. Prof. William H. Santelmann.
leader discoursed a number of selections
appropriate to the occasion.
The exercises proper were begun upon the
entrance into the assembly hall of the in
stitution. where the people had assembled.
of Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee escorted by
Rev. John H. Elliott. rector of the Church
of the Ascension. and Rev. DIR. Randolph
Fl. McKim. rector of the Church of the
Epiphany. A service specially prepared for
the occ ision was conducted by Mr.. Elliott
and DIR. Mckim. This was interspersed at
proper intervals by music rendered by
choir of girls from the Pro-Cathedral of St.
Marks. under the direction of Mr.. Ernest
T Winchester as leader and organist.
Dedication Address.
The dedication address was delivered by
Bishop Satterlee. who said:
"A year ago. on this Ascension day. after
the dark storm clouds passed away and the
golden sunshine burst through the clouds.
We laid on this spot the corner stone of this
cathedral school for girls. In the compass
of the Intervening year. through the splen-
did generosity of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst.
whose name will go down to posterity in
connection with the first hall of Christian
education erected on the cathedral close.
this beautiful cathedral school for girls has
been built All honor and praise to her
whose holy thought for Christ and His chill
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substantial a form.
THE chief aim of this school is to build
up character. by developing equally the
spiritual. moral intellectual and physical
life of its pupils: by deepening the sense of
Christian responsibility and personal loyalty
to Christ; by aiming for the highest intel
lectual standards of modern education and
cultvating trained habits of study; by Civ
ing special attention to physical health.
out-o door study and exercise: by sur
rounding the scholars with elevating social
influences and the refined atmosphere of
cultivated home life.
This cathedral school. which will be
opened October |. 1850 is stately stone ed
itice. built in the Italian renaissance style.
and contains over 100 rooms. 1t cost
S2W.0D and is fireprOof throughout. Stand
of this park of thirty acres. covered with
fine old oaks. it is within sight of the libra
ries. museums and public buildings of the
nations capital. While 1t is 400 feet above
the city. 1t stands on Massachusetts ave
nue the principal street of Washington
where it commands view of the whole
city. Spread out beneath us, from the dome
of the Capitol to Georgetown. that has been
time and again likened to the beautiful
prospect of the city of Florence. as seen
from the heights of Fiesole. are distant
only twenty minutes by carriage or electric
cars from the White House.
Choice of Principal.
Last. but not least, the cathedral board
of trustees has chosen Miss Lois Adelaide
Bangs as principal and Miss Mary Bartlett
White as vice principal of the school, not
only on account of the testimonials to their
character. ability and experience received
from distinguished educators in various
parts of the country. but because of the
hlgh position which their own academic
school for girls in New York has achieved
for itself among the educational institutions
of the United States.
"On yonder corner stone is inscribed the
prayer That our daughters may be as the
polished corners of the temple May the
school for girls. standing at the corner of
the cathedral close. ever live. I'D TO that
high ideal: may our daughters ponder those
things they learn here and keep them in
mind, and may they live in this present
world that their children and their chill
dren's children shall rise up and call them
blessed.
At the close of Bishop Satterlee's address
me choir sang the hymn beginning "Our
+ d'htrS tou 10 lhee, which was set to
the tune America" and following the
benediction they rendered For Thee. o
Dear. Dear Country"
Flag Presentations
The formal exercises being concluded Miss
Bangs. the principal of the new school, was
introduced, and in the course of short ad-
dress she presented to the board of trustees
of the cathedral school an immense Ameri-
can flag. the largest, she said, that could
be bought. and which was the gift of a
group of girls attached to a school in New
York over which Miss Bangs presided for
a number of years. She further said it was
the wish of the donors that the flag should
be displayed from pole fifty feet high,
beginning with the day the school Is opened
In a few graceful and becoming words
the bishop accepted the gift. and promised
in the name of the trustees that the wishes
of the donors of the gift should be compiied
with.
Bishop Satterlee called attention to the
fact that the dedication of the school was
taking place on the birthday of the Queen
OF England. and at the suggestion of DIR.
Mckim and Mr.. Elliott. the bishop was
authorized TO convey to Lord Pauncefote
the congratulations of the audience that
the queen had been spared long to rule
over her people. This part of the exercises
closed with the playing by the band of one
verse of God Save the Queen"
Principal Aim of Management.
At the request of Bishop Satterlee Miss
Bangs in q few words outlined the ideas
which will prevail in the management Of
the new school. The principal aim would
be, she said, to make of the girls who at
tend women who would be able to cope
with their fellows. and at
the same time go out into the world
equipped with all the armor of purity that
belongs to women who are as their mothers
would have them AT the close of Miss
Bangs remarks she given an informal
reception, during which she met besides
those already named Rev. DIR. A. -1ackay
Smith. former Senator George F. Edmunds,
Dewey, General John NJ. Wilson,
Messrs. John A. kasson. Charles J. Bell,
ieorge Truesdell. H. E. Pellew, c. c. Glover
and many others.
The cathedral school has been already
fully described in The Star.
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