The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-12
OPENING OF PEACE
The Largest Attendance in
Its History.
Opening Exercises Held Yesterday at II O'clock
Addresses by Mr.. Primrose and
Or. Daniel.

Peace Institute opened yesterday morn
ing with the largest attendance IN us
history.
The opening exercises took place at
II O'Clock in the institute chapel, con-
sisting of a scripture selection ana
prayer by Rev. Geo. F. Smith. pastor Oh
! Edenton Street Methodist church, ana
short addresses by President Dinwiddle
Mr.. w. S. Primrose and Rev. DR.. Eu-
gene Daniel
President Dinwiddie in welcoming the
Young ladies to the institution said that
for the first time in it's history
every room in the dormitory Dulidlhs
was filled on the first day; not only this,
but a nearby residence has been leased
for dormitory purposes and that also IS
filled. Dr. Dinwiddie added:
"And among these students are some
of the best girls in the State, representa-
tives of many of the best families.
think also I may say we have the best
faculty that could be obtained; selected
with particular care to carry out the
idea we have of education.
1T is our purpose to thoroughly train
our girls in mind, but in doing so we
try to form character. l like to turn out
from this institution girls of finished ed
ucation, but / want them also to be girls
of character and conviction.
1.-THE age of the dependence of woman
is past and gone With her independence
must come strength of character. she
stands just as man in all the relations
of life, and all it's issues must be trled
by character, just as in the case or men.
Mr. w. S. Primrose welcomed the young
ladies to the city and to the School. he
told them that their coming to such an
institution was crisis in their lives
which no one could meet and determine
for them He pointed out the avenues or
usefulness to which duty invited and the
high places to which women had attained
in art and literature, and to which ambl-
tion ever beckoned
The speaker called attention to
the Importance of a fixed purpose in lie
and in study, and said that only in that
way could the greatest measure of sue
cess be attained.
1.-The Curriculum of the school may
sometimes seem hard; it will but the
better fit you for the real battles OF life;
for sooner or later you must go out into
the world. and that world will be to you
just what you here prepare yourself to
make it..
DR.. Eugene Daniel the pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, where the
young ladies of Peace Institute worship
every Sunday, thought he ought to be eX-
cused from speaking, as the young ladies'
would doubtless hear enough from him
later; but still he couldn't resist the
temptation, he said, of just adding few
words. He had always been fond of ad-
dressing the ladies; it was fayorite
failing of his when he was younger.
81 stood here three months ago and
saw a class graduate and go out from
these doors. Today l stand here and see
you come in to begin your course of
study This occasion is as interesting
and as important as that.
I'VE are here today to welcome your
coming, as we were here to invoke bless
ings upon their going. You have come to
one of the best schools / have ever
known, to one of the most faithful and
you have come to one of the most beauti-
full cities of the South, with its handsome
homes, pretty streets and cultured peo-
pie So l say you are fortunate today in
having this institution to throw the pro-
tecting warmth of it's influence around
you. You are among friends, among con-
genial surroundings, and wish you every
happiness, and the best that the coming
session has to give"
After some announcements by the
President in regard to the formation of
classes and the selection of studies, the
visitors were dismissed, and the work
of the session entered upon by the stud
ents
Glasses will be formed today and re-
citations will begin tomorrow.