The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-22

er for this school have gone up to their
coronation. If it is given them to view
the scenes and events of earth and to
share the feelings of mortals this will
be notable day with them in Heaven.
But to you most of all is this hour
eVentful 1t marks the invisible boun-
dary between girlhood and womanhood.
1t is the gateway to a new life for you.
Hitherto you have simply been the daugh-
ters of your parents. You have shone in
their light and been known by the names
they gave you They have borne your
troubles and stood mainly in your stead.
Henceforth, you are to stand alone,
known by your own names, judged by
your own deeds. You are to begin in
earnest the making of a career, and in
this initial hour of that larger life many
egaer eyes are upon you.
"But now as we face one another for
the last time in the old relation of stu
dents and teachers, now ere the hour
strikes which transforms the school girl
into an alumna, suffer this parting word:
You have been forecasting the future,
and possibly with some anxiety have
asked, What shall make of myself
| beg to suggest an answer for each and
all, namely, make a woman. Seek first
own true selves Gods last and noblest
gift to the world-a woman. This is for
you the primal question, how with the
| material in hand to produce the best re-
| suits, something that may worthily be
called woman. l know not what the
future holds for you. Some of you, and
possibly ALL may be compelled to look
to yourselves for food and raiment. So
be it. God wills. But even in that case,
| the supreme question is not how to male
a living but how to make life. For
the life is greater far than the living,
even as the body is more than raiment.
Given the right kind of life, and the liv-
| ing will come. For by the very constitu-
| tion of nature, which is simply the stead
fast ordinance of God, the best life sur
wives When the wise king said, Trust
| in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou
dwell in the land and verify thou shalt
be fed he was speaking as a believing
prophet. to be sure; but he spoke also
as a divinely inspired philosopher.
| But how to accomplish this supreme
task how to build this incompatible
structure. Five things enter into all
| model and effort. The foundation has
been already laid. beginning far back
in the days of childhood The materials
are at hand, around and within you. For
each of you has in her the making of a
genuine woman. | must take for granted
too, that you appreciate the need and
value of effort for this conception has
been a part of your training here Per-
nit me to lay your minds with somewhat
more of insistence those other two es-
sentials of great building. The one, you
| remember, is purpose. l charge you to
| begin at once the making of purpose.
| Resolve strongly and highly. No great
| life was ever a purposeless life. Men and
women come to greatness as a result of
great purpose, and only thus. For all
greatness is the outcome of struggle, and
| every lofty struggle is born of a heroic
resolution. Be not content simply to be.
But resolve to be something that will
| both count and weigh in the sum of hu-
| n anity.
II charge you also to set before your
| selves a noble plan. Seek nothing less
| than the loftiest models, for none rise
above their ideals, and most of US fall
| far below. 1t is mournful to mark the
| wrecks of misdirected effort, strength,
and genius, all over the field of time.
successful human life is much more than
| the qualification of appettes. the salts
| faction of ambition. or the repose of sell
| fish ease. That inner monitor which pro-
| claims your divine kinship will keep sig
mailing that not one of these nor all can
| fill up the measure of life The
worlds noblest livers have been those
who held themselves a part of all that
was; to whom nothing that concerned
humanity was a matter of Indifference;
who loved righteousness and hated ini-
nioto Cd
with the oil of gladness above their fell
lows Make models of those lofty souls.
Your building will rise slowly, with many
disheartening handicaps and with some
seeming disasters. Be not impatient,
forty and six years was this temple in
building.
Discussing the term 'Scuttle' as ap-
piled to the Philippine policy, he de-
clared that what the minority now asked
to be done as to the Philippines was
precisely what leading Senator'S of the
majority wanted to be done in the be.
ginning, and yet the opprobious term
"scuttle" now was applied to the sug-
gestion of the minority. He read from
speech by Mr. Spooner in support of
| his assertion, declaring that the Wiscon-
son Senator had committed himself to
| INC piOpOolIiOu JIdb VIC ouShb hoI ~ ~
tain the Philippines, but that we ought,
to establish a government for the
Fiipinos.
Senator Bacon did not conclude his
speech today, being compelled to stop
on account of the bad condition of his
| throat.
ALUMNAF, ORGANIZED.
Yesterday afternoon the Senior Glass
met and organized the Alumnae AssoCia-
| lion of the Baptist Female University.
Miss Sophie Lanneau, of Wake Forest
was elected president, and Miss Rosa
Paschal, of GCldston. Chatham county,
was made secretary and treasurer.
BANQUET TO SENIORS.
Last night at 8 o'clock the faculty and
trustees of the University gave a ban.
quet in the college dining hail in tonor
of the Senior Glass
Preidents Appointment.
(By the Associated PrcssD