The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-07
ELIZABETH COLLEGE.
Leading Features of Commencement
Day.

Leading Features of Commencement
Day.
Charlotte, N. c., June 6.-The most
abeth College closed to-day. A large
number of visitors. representing a num-
Der of states. were present. Virginia,
South Carolina and Georgia contrib
uted largely to the number. In the
morning the senior class exercises took
place on the beautiful college campus.
Each one of the eight young ladies in
the graduating class had a part in the
prOgra-.me.
In til afternoon an Alumnae Assoc
citation was organized, as follows: Miss
Van Landingham of North Carolina,
president; Miss Holloway of South
Carolina. vice president; Miss De-
woody of Arkansas, second vice presi-
dent; Miss Kohn of South Carolina,
secretary; Miss Bennett of North Caro-
lima, treasurer, and Miss Probst of
Georgia, historian.
The institution has drawn patronage
from two Northern states, and nearly
all of the Southern states. The rec
ognized advantages of the institution
have drawn a select class of girls to it.
Last night the commencement eXer-
cises were held in the college auditor
luIIs WHICH, was Diitu ny al ulluSu dllg
intelligent audience. The college re-
quires the young ladies to leave theses
attesting their scholarship, with the in
Stitution. The senior class, with the
consent of the faculty, had elected DR..
Parson of Washington, D. c., to de-
liver the address of the evening. His
subject was "A Bit of Stag From an
Old Furnace" He asked the scientific
questions, what is the age of the
% ~ nd atNNhof dnac world
mean in the light of It's long prepare
tion?" He referred to the fact that
Sir William Thompson, probably the
greatest scientist of the present time,
gives the earth's age as approximately
four hundred millions of years. If
world building has been going on that
long, and on so stupendous a scale,
what a wonderful preparation towards
some end!
Emerson says you do not build
magnifciently for MICE" so we infer
our destiny from the preparation for
man. Development is constant in the
worlds history; there is always a pro-
eress, a progress from a moluscan to
articulate, from mammal to man, from
man in savagery to man in barbarism,
from man in barbarism to man in CIV
ilization, and so from lower to higher,
until in these last days We fall upon
the highest ideals of life, duty and
destiny. Shall we see the principal
fail us just when it would become most
valuable? Shall it hold for the molusc
and fail for man? Shall man be COM
PEELED to see all other spheres of ma
ture interpreted in his own life and
his own life be an uneXplainable
enigma? The poet voices our cry when
he says:
Thou wouldst not leave us in the dust
Thou madest man, he knows not why;
He thinks he was not made to die;
And thou madest him, Thou art just
In the story of the worlds building
we not only learn of ages past, but
of ages yet to be, Unless we are pre-
pared to endow the rock with immor-
tally and withhold it from him who
thinks upon the rock.
The spiritual life is the highest
Your teachers" said he addressing
the calss, ARE net materialists. Nor
must you be. Your first duty is the
duty of a spiritual life
The evening closed with the award
ing of diplomas and appropriate re-
marks by President King. He remind
ed the senior class that honor brings
responsibility, and that as the institu-
ton honored them with it's diploma 1t
would expect from them loyalty to the
| institution, and to the higher interests
| of life. Thus closed the most success
| full year in the successful career of
| this well known institution.