The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-05-28
THE STUDENTS BUILDING
The Masons and Military Participate
in the Exercises.
-FOUR HUNDRED YOUNG GIRLS IN LINE
Miss Lewis Dove. Class of '9i, Tells Sweety
and tlCquently Of The Objects Of TIE
Building. Class Day
Exercises

Especial to the News and Observer)
Greensboro. N. c., May 26-The cere-
monies attendant upon the laying of the
cornerstone of the Students Building
this afternoon were the most beautiful
and elaborate. if not the most impress
siye that have occurred in the State
The whole situation and programme was
largely the young women's ideas and the
result of their work. The scene was
clevating, inspiring, touchingly beauti-
ml.
The entire student body. headed by the
faculty and the Alumnae Association,
marched out of the front of the main
building, meeting the band, the military
company. the Grand Lodge of Masons and
prominent visitors at the intersection of
two flower-decked graded driveways in
7he campus, and from this point marched
90 the site of the new building
The Masons and the military gathered
about the prearranged- stone while the
four hundred young women dressed in
snow white, each wearing the colors of
her respective class, formed a surround
ing column purer and whittier than any
marble that was ever mined. Those who
get il.
When the line had been formed the
vast crowd sang that soul-stirring song
Carolina. Carolina, Heaven Blessings
Attend Her" Then DR.. Clarke, the
grandmother, began the ceremonies. The
grand chaplain, Dr. Bell, opened the ex-
ereises with prayer. and which We're then
completed after the usual form of an
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Grand Past Master Coltan, Acting Grand
Senior Warden +. II. Busbee, Grand
Junior Warden S. NJ. Gattis and Grand
Marshal Bradley. When the ceremonies
were over the great crowd repaired to
the auditorium where the exercises were
concluded.
DR.. McIver introduced Miss Lewis
Dove. of Winston. of the class of 81,
which class began the subscription which
has secured the erection. Miss Lewis
in a ten minutes talk, eloquent and
touching, told of the objects of the build
ing, of the devotion of the alumnae for
the institution of the sacrifices that the
women had made that this structure
might be built, of the great good that
had resulted and would hereafter result
from the establishment of the institu-
ton Her sweet voice rang out clear,
but it now and then quivered with the
sweetest and tenderest emotion and sym
pathy for the cause she had espoused
1t would have melted the heart and
opened the purses of a Sage, a Rockefel-
Ter, Carnegie.
Prof. Joyner followed for the board
of directors in most happy and feeling
response Mr.. F. 3. Busbee spoke
fuently and forcibly for the Masons.
Carolina" was against sung and the au-
dence dispersed to the campus TO witness
the class day exercises by the graduating
class.
The programme was as follows: Ad-
dress of welcome, Miss NOEL, PRESIDENT
history. Annette Morton: class song by
the class, burial of records by the class,
presentation of spade to the juniors. pre-
sentation of lantern to the freshmen. A
Chronicle of 1902 by Florence Maher-
berg; farewell by the class, poet, Carrie
Sparger.
The speech of ex-MayOr Taylor, OF
Greensboro. at the afternoon exercises
was one of his characteristic gems. He
spoke eloquently of the appreciation of
the citizens of Greensboro for the
Normal and Industrial College and de-
clared that instead of regretting that
they had contributed $50, 200 to insure
its location in this city they would con-
tribute five times that much rather than
its doors should ever be closed.
The exercises and ceremonies here to-
day form one of the brightest and most
interesting pages in the history OF TINS
noble and wonderfully successful institu-
tion and praise and congratulations ior
McIvar the Sam Jones of education, and
his coworkers are heard on every side.