Evening star., 1901-06-18

white and gold. was handed to each grad
uate by Gen. Boynton, a hand-clapping
cOngratulation was extended by the audi
ence, and after the f0rmalities had con-
cluded these congratulations were made
personal, and a happy, informal reception
held by the class.
Mr. Macfarland's Address.
Commissioner Macfarlands address.
which was the main event of the day, was
as follows:
1t is with real feeling that 1 offer the
congratulations of the government of the
District of Columbia to the first Normal
School graduating class of the twentieth
century. 1t means much to the community
as well as to you that we are celebrating
today the commencement of your profess
sional life, for you are of the chivalry of
this modern time, giving yourselves, like
your brethren the ministers and the news
paper men, the artists and the writer's, to
the service of the race without hope of
material reward You are undertaking the
training of the future citizens OF the DIS
trict of Columbia. You are to make in large
measure the citizenship of the national
capital in the opening century. You are
to do it. not for money, although you will
be partly paid in money, and you are now
assured by one of the WiSeSt acts OF the
board of education of tenure by merit; but
YOU will do it for love of the work Itself
and for the joy of its results. To freely
give again what you have freely received,
adding to it from day to day and learning
as you teach-this will be your satisfaction.
To be able OF say in the noble words OF the
Old Book "Oh, Lord God, Thou hast given
me the tongue of learner that might
speak a word in season." will be your inner
qualification, compensating you for What-
ever you may lack of the ordinary prizes
| of the world. To have worthy task ana
| to do it worthily is perhaps the best thing
possible here, and that, We are sure, VIII
| be yours.
AS the national capital has grown the
responsibilities Of the faculty of teachers
| in it's public schools have increased in a
| geometrical proportion They have TO deai
with the children of a remarkable popuia-
| tion, sifted from the best of the people IN
| all the states and territories. and con-
| stantly increasing in general intelligence,
and therefore. in exacting demands. They
| have to work in the midst of constantly
| swelling flood of new books and new
! methods which must be proved before they
| can be used. They have to work under the
| high pressure of social conditions con-
| stantly becoming more complex. All this is
| appreciated by you. Yet you courgeouSly
and cheerfully face the duty as an oppor-
1 tunity and you have painstakingly quail
| fled yourselves to do so. Rest assured
! tat as you enter upon your stewardship
| you have not only the congratulations but
the hearty sympathy and prayer of all that
| is pest among the people of the District of
Columbia.
| List of Graduates.
The graduates were: Virginia Josephine
| Arnold Rosa Anna Baier, Carrie Augusta
| Barker. Margaret Roberta Benjamin, Helen
| Bickford. Hildur Christina Bostrom, May
| Paul Bradshaw. Helen Marion Brown. Rose
| Evelyn Castelle, Amy Louise Concklih
Maud Clara Conover, Ida Adelaide Gran
ford. Florence Nisbet Crossfield,. Lucy
Agnes Cuddy, Mabel Cameron Davies
Marie Lulu Dodd. Clara Louise Donovan
Juliet Elizabeth Dyer, Margaret, Emma
Foliin. Clara Anna HinZen, Eleanor
Bruce Hoyme, Annie Cecilia Keli
her. Johanna Helena kenealy
Henrietta King. Gertrude Louise I4adson
Emma Neota Lansdale, Mary Lena Leins
Mary Laurieston Linn. Mary Frances Mars
den, Nellie Blanche Moriarty. Louise A
! Mourning, Josephine Gertrude Murphy, Jo
seph Alexander Murphy, Grace GadsoI
Newton, Lena Reed, Rosalie A. Robinette
Martha Schultz. Margaret Genevieve Sill
vester. Christianna Houseal Thomson, Rub!
Ella Thonssen. Sophia Adelia Vogt. Mar,
Ellen Whelpley, Margaret Eva Whitzell
Royden Keith Whitford. Anne Elizabetl
Wright, Marion Eleanor Yoder.