The age-herald., 1901-05-29
WHITE AND RED ARE
 BLENDED BY GIRLS
CIor Scheme Was Brilliant and
 Effective at Seals Hall
ADDRESS BY OR. DUNCAN
He Spoke to PoIIoek-stephens cradu ates on Natures Color Scheme. Full List of Those Receiv-
 ing Diplomas.

Bunting of white and red, roses white and red, girls appareled in white and red, and mere beautiful than all, cheeks blending white with red, made brilliant and fitting the stage setting at Seals Hall last night on the occasion of the commencement exercises of the Pollock Stephens Institute, over which Mrs. E. T. Taliaferro has the honor to preside. The decorations were very elaborate; the cut flowers showered upon the graduat- ing class came by the wagon load, and altogether the scene was one long to be remembered
 The hall was filled and the audience comprised the flower of Birmingham so- ciety.
 The programme was as follows:
 March-Mr. H. T. Staats, Miss Head.
 Invocation-Rev. A. c. Davidson, D. D. Solo-(a. Aus deinen Augen, Ries; b. Maidens Song, Meyer -Helmund) Mrs. Ma- rife Kern-Mullen.
 Address-"The Color Scheme of Ma ture," Rev. James A. Duncan, D. D. ,(in- troduced by MT. Edward H. Cabaniss).
 Piano Solo-(valse op. 42, Chopin MT Henry Taylor Staats.
 Presentation of medal offered by the Jesse French Piano Co., MT. Edward H. Cabaniss.
 Conferring Diplomas-Rev. A. c. David son. D. D.
 Parting Song-Graduating class.
 Benediction-Rev. George II. Read. pr. Duncan, the orator, made pro- nounced hit. He spoke long enough to develop his theme = Natures Color Scheme"-but not long enough to weary his hearers. In half hour he said what he had to say. But so felicitous and stim- ulating was his message that had he continued half hour longer in the same strain the audience would have hung up- on his words. It was an uplifting address and on the whole entirely out of the com mon run of commencement orations.
 Dr. Duncan began by a graceful allus- ion to natures scheme in flesh and blood surrounding him. He then branched out on the true and the beautiful as pre- sented in inanimate nature. With the skill and spiritual insight of Ruskin, he pictured the rainbow, the hills and the valleys, the waving grain fields, the
 
 sea- the clouds, winter and summer and day and night And all these beautiful | phases of nature were to teach, the | speaker said, that the great heart of the l Creator was beautiful; that we must strive for something higher than the dol= | lar. The message of natures color l scheme was certainly calling us to the higher spiritual life.
 Dr. Duncan's discussion of the kinship of the beautiful in nature and the beau tiful in the spiritual world was both subtle and impressive and the applica- tion of this kinship made his address as timely as It was poetic. Diplomas Delivered.
 MT. Cabaniss presented the Jesse French medal for proficiency in harmony and theory in music to Miss Ida Lewis.
 The graduating class receiving diplomas was composed of the following young ladies: Misses Grace Andrews, full grad uate; Edna Snow, full graduate; Annie Earle, full graduate; Lucie Dwyer, full graduate; Fannie Read. full graduate Nellie Kirke Ware. full graduate; Flor ence Lewis, full graduate; Alvena Heidt, full graduate; Harriet Dobbins, profess sional graduate; Clara Belle Mooar, Martha Estes. Kate Smith, Bennie Caffee, Margaret Hogan. Louise Gaston, Lara Elliott, Rebecca Robertson, Emmie Eubank, Rasky Lewis and Mary Mitchell | (certiflcate).
 In awarding the professional diploma to Miss Dobbins Dr. Davidson took occasion to remark that Pollock Stephens trained students thoroughly for the profession of teaching, and he explained it's relation ship to the University. He classed it with Wellesly and other great colleges of the East