The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-01
A GREAT SUCCESS
ST. MARY'S SCHOOL
Nine Graduates Receive De-
served Diplomas
HONORS OF THE YEAR
Bishop Cheshire Speaks of Handmade
Bishop Cheshire Speaks of Handmade
ems of the Lord.
THE OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR THE FUTURE
The Plans Of The Trustees Who Were in Session
During The Commencement Consider
ing The Future Work Of St.
MarY's School.

Time IN It's cycling mas brought 10 It's
close another school session of st.
Mary's. The year has been most sat
isfactory one for this noble institution
and the end has indeed crowned it's
work
At II o'clock yesterday morning there
assembled in the parlor of st. Mary's
many of her friends. her student body
and her faculty, to honor by their pres
ence and their sympathy those young
ladies who yesterday finished their
course. The literary exercises were as
follows:
Overture to Rosamunde. Schubert
Miss Trapier, Miss Lena Taylor.
Salutatory-
Miss Eliza H. Drane, of Edenton.
Song: Vol che Sapete ........ Mozart
Miss Pixley.
Essay: The English and the Greek
Drama as Illustrated by King Lear
and OEdipus Coloneus.
Miss Elizabeth Montgomery.
"A l. Hongroise". ........ 1. Scharwenka
Miss Capehart.
Valedictory-
In her salutatory Miss Drane offered
most cordial and graceful welcome to
St. Mary's guests, a welcome fully felt
and appreciated by all, if one would
judge by the applause and flowers which
followed.
The next representative of her class,
Miss Montgomery, entertained her audi
tors by most carefully and most ex-
cellently prepared essay on the Greek
and English Drama, comparing, testing
and proving the merits of each. The
two was deservedly rewarded by ready
expressions of approval and pleasure.
Then the valedictorian, Miss Boykin,
spoke her formal farewell to the board
of trustees, to the bishop, the Rector,
her teachers, her fellow-students, her
classmates; and no one remained UNI
moved by the expressions of love and
a grief that were genuine.
After this the rector introduced Miss
Annie Lee Bum, the first TO finish the
course prescribed by the new standard,
the first to graduate from st. Marys
College under it's incdeased provisions
AS she was thus class in
herself it would have seemed awkward
to greet herself and to bid herself fare
well, so the rector most fittingly and
pIeasingly did it for her, and with her
the faculty and students rising in APP
probation of the young lady so unique
ly honored.
Thus We're the literary exercises end
ed Then in order, the clergy, the fac
ulty, the graduates, the student body
and as many friends as it's small but
hospitable walls could encompass
marched to the chapel some to receive
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to hear and join in the Thanksgiving.
After the opening exercises, DR.. Brat
ton, the rector, read the roll of honor,
presented the diplomas and awarded
the distinctions
The reading of the roll of honor be-
ing concluded the Right Rev. Joseph
B. Cheshire, of the Diocese, and chair
man of the board of trustees, addressed
the graduates. He first spoke in APP
probation of the gratitude rendered the
board in the graduating exercises. The
trustees had very closely at heart the
welfare and growth of st. Mary's Col
lege, and were rewarded for what they
had been able to do when on this occa-
sion they saw the fruit of their labors.
4 The Bishop then spoke of what ST.
Mary's had ever endeavored to do for
her girls, to inculcate the doctrines of
the Beauty of Holiness, the Holiness
of Beauty. that in the end they might
say in words of the Virgin, to whom
st. Mary's is consecrated: Behold, the
Handmaiden of the Lord"
1T was "Ancilla Domini' that had
been inscribed upon the medals given
to lady friends of the college this week,
and upon the reverse an Annunciation
lily. symbol of the Virgin Mary, as
were the words, The Handmaiden OF
the Lord" and it was this teaching
that made st. Mary's the home OF
young women seeking a Christian and
social life in this world and higher
life in the world to come. Each grad
uate stands for the principle of service
to God here and in the world to come
His landmarks here to do His will and
His landmarks in eternity to serve
Him.
The Bishop said that today no one
disputed woman's equality with man
and that never in right thinking minds
had there been any idea inferiority II
woman's sphere. Women are brought
by their natures and their stations in
life more intimately into oGd's work
than men, and a woman, truly hand
maiden of the Lord may lead her fel'
low-creature onward and upward to 9
higher better life.
With the close of the address Of
Bishop Cheshire the commencement ex.
ercises were over, and in reverse order
the pupils of the school left the chapel
singing as they marched, Ancient Of
Days" Tt was a beautiful sight as the
pupils all clothed in spotless white
from the members of the primary class
to the newly made graduates, passed
singing in unison from the building in
to the beauty of the sunlight beyond
the portals of the chapel, within which
they had worshipped and been laugh
the duties of a Christian life during
the year and years in which they haC