The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-06-27
NORMAL SCHOOL.
Graduation Of the Fifty-third
Glass Today.

The graduating exercises OF the SD
class OF the Rhode Island State Normal
school were held In Normal hall, at
1880 o'clock this morning. a large, repre-
sentative audience, completely filling the
hall and the galleries above, being In at
tendance.
The platform OF the hall was very
beautiful with a wealth of palms and
ferns, which were most artistically
grouped together. Seated upon the plat
form was His Excellency Gov Kimball
together with members or the state
board OF education. Hon. Thomas B.
Stockwell, Hon. $. w. K. Allen Rev
c. j. Mlnte. and others.
In the rear OF the platform, adjacent
to "A bank of palms, was stationed Reeve 8
l.~-- Orchestrone, with Herbert IT,
Clarke. leader. and delightful orchestral
music was rendered previous TO and dur
ing the exercises.
The exercises opened with the invoca-
ton by Rev. Lester Bradner, rector of
st. Johns church. followed by song
'I ne Star Beyond the Cloud, by the
school.
Miss Gertrude Burden Hickman, repre-
senting the class then gave an address
full OF inspiration and encouragement. In
behalf or the class she presented. most
gracefully. two beautiful statues, one OF
Venus and the other OF Longfellow, 10
the school
he principal OF the school accepted the
gift, voicing at the same time his high
appreciation OF the scholarship and gen.
eral character of the class OF 1902.
Prof. Edward Howard Griggs, the chief
speaker OF the morning, was then intro
duced, and spoke for more than half
hour, with great eloquence. and power.
on the subject.
THE obligation OF culture"
In beginning. he dwelt briefly on the
charm and the significance of the com
mencement season and its relation to and
harmony with nature.
This commencement day" ne said,
marks the close of one chapter In your
life and the close of one chapter Is but
the beginning of newer and larger
chapter of human living
The value of the chapter Just closed
Is chiefly TO discover its value to the
new chapter that is to OPEN"
The speaker then passed to discuss the
meaning of culture and what II meant
by the pursuit OF culture.
In this connection he dwelt upon two
aims In human life, viz: The aim OF
seeking not only TO live and to grow and
TO develop ones self, but to help others
to live and to grow.
Self culture" he said "is one-haf of
the end of human life, and the other half
is equally significant. for IL is our business
not only to live, but to help others to
grow"
After dwelling at length in a most elo-
quent way on these two points OF his
subject the speaker closed with signif-
cant and helpful thoughts on the teach
er's vocation and its great responsible
ties.
A song by the school "O'er the Flower
Bejeweled Meadows" followed, after
which came the presentation of diplo-
mas by Governor Kimball. Previous TO
the presentation Governor Kimball ad-
dressed the graduates briefly on the re-
lation of the Normal school to the state.
The graduates In the regular course
were as follows:
Annie Frances Adams, Lizzie Aldrich
Adams, Grace Barnes. Bessie Mae Bat
cheler Amelia Louisa Brayton. Jane Kent
Brennan, Catherine Irene Cahill, Ida
Maria Carpenter. Ruth Mildred Carpen-
ter, Lillian Gertrude Mary Dowd. Daisy
Harriete Gleason, Mabel Gertrude Greene,
Catherine Ellen Hanley.' Anna Margaret
Harvel, Gertrude Burden Hickman, Jo-
sephine Olive Horrigan. Lottie Hurd,
Mary Teresa McGinn, Heleen Sayles
Mowry, Katherine Mary Murray.
Annie Josephine Nixon, Katherine Eliz-
abeth O'Brien, Irene Katharine Q Reilly,
Emeline Amy Orswell. Florence May Per.
kins. Jennie Florence Rnthbun, Margaret
alena Louise Rovelto. Rose Anna Scallon,
Gertrude May Slocum, Julia Eta Stable.
Mary Elizabeth Straight. Mabel Mary
Stratton, Katherine Isabelle Sweeney,
Emma Bascom Tucker, Bertha Elizabeth
lyn Watts, Mary Daniel Whalsy. Lillian
Graduates in other courses were as fol-
lows
kindergarten course-Ethel Burdick
Dora Moses Edwards, Anna Louise CAL
bert Louise Boyoe Hobson. Ethel Ger
trude Laughln, Bertha Marshall Flor
ence Marion Williams
City training class-Marion c9lver
Abrams, Zerlina Luella Ballou, Lulu
Barber, Bella Boas. Lillian Eliza Crane,
Edith Russell panielson, Mary Shedell
Eaton, Bertha Louise Feeiey. Winifred
Ellen Gleason, Mile Jane Hartley, Ger
aldine Marie Kilkenny, Olga Johanna
Lunden, Winifred Josephine Monahan,
Clara Moore, Mary Columbia Moran,
Emma Grace Pierce. Jessie Garfield Per-
kins Bessie Irene Rogers.
The exercises of the morning closed
with a song by the school. Lady, Rise,
Sweet Morns Awaling," and selections
by the orchestra,