The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-27

going TO the graduate with an average
OF : per cent or more on each study.
the second for an average OF - per cent
or more on each.
Graduates in Literature and Science
Miss Anna Howard Baker. Tarboro. y.
&. with first honor. Miss Mary Lacy.
Raleigh. y. c.
Graduate in Literature and language
Miss Elizabeth Joyner Burton. Raleigh.
\. c, with second honor. Miss Willie
Richardson Law. Raleigh. y. G. Miss
Mary Alma Marsh. Monroe. y. G.. Miss
Margaret Estelle Mercer. Elm City y G.
In delivering these Or, Dinviddie spoke
highly OF the class. and In his remarks
urged that the lives OF the graduates be
based upon the teachings % Jesus Christ.
saying that IL they started With this in
view that a path straight onward woGid
bring them back at the close OF life 10
the same condition in which they entered
Upon the duties beyond the school room.
An interesting fact in connection with
the exercises. spoken OF by President
Din~iddie during the exercises ot the
day was that three OF the graduates were
daughters OF alunnae Of Peace and their
mothers were in the audience. These
ladies were Mrs. J. III. Baker. % TarSoro.
Mrs. Irene Marsh. OF Marsnville. and Mrs.
Z. K. Lacy. OF Raleigh. Miss Mary Lacy.
who was among the graduates. is not only
the ughte OF an alumnae. but is the
granddaughter OF a former superintend-
ent, Capt. John b. Burwell. and the great
granddaughter of Rev. Robert BurwHil,
an early superintendent OF the school. her
Observation-Disclosures. Mrs. Burwell having
been also a teacher in this famous instl-
tuition.
PROF. j. =. CARLYLES ADDRESS.
Then came the annual address, deliv-
cred by Prof. J. B. Carlyle, who was
| presented by President Dinwiddie.
The theme of this address was "Wo-
, mans Work. which the speaker pre-
! faced ny expressing his high appreciation
of the honor of addressing a school.
whose daughters, found in all parts OF
North Carolina, by ther conduct and cul-
ture reflected credit on their alma mater.
He smoke of the successful session Just
closing, and said that the institution was
| blessed in having for its head a man 50
.ble in leadership. so thorough IN adj
ministration and so filled with culture as
President Dinwiddie, surpassed by no
| educator in the State, whose short bac-
! calaureate address he c~omplimentcd as
the best he had ever heard.
Entering u.on his theme Prof. Carlyle
in abiding to the cultured women sent
out by Peace Institute, said that so long
as the fires in the temple OF Nesta on
| the hanks of the Tiber We're allght the
city of Rome and the country were helu
to be safe. Il Rave thought, said ne
that so long as schools like these, send
ing out educated. cultured and none W.
men kept the Vestal fires of purity ana
-~ fla- old q
be safe from sedition Wlthlh anu ION
attacks from without.
.The old century's progress and de-
vo,onnent have been wonderful. but this
is to be followed by one of still more
wonderful nrogress. AS we face II We
can see that the issues to be met vii
he solved. the duties done and the rat
Ties fought along three lines, when IL
tbem have the elimination of the TWEEN
tieth century"
.,The first Of these is that 1t VIII Do
> life of strenuous effort. 1t is no acct
don't that to begin this century there Is
in the White House a mar who IS ,n'
embodiment of this strenuousneSS. =
will be an age of push, progress, perse-
verance. mems energies being devoted &c
noble services and sublime deeds.
Second. 1t will be an age of nope
fu1ness. We will reach the highest plane
of optimism and enthusiasm while pes
simism will have no place in the earnest
hOpefulness of the new century. FOR u
the golden age is behind the sunrise
the best 70 be is yet to come.
..Tbird. The century will be marke,
by a spirit Of continual expansion. We
will reach higher ideals and these VIII
constrain men to deeds of philanthropy
while Christianity will unfold its lie
dogma WELD to loving humanity anc
duty clad in a nobler garb Will marct
forth to new fields. seeking new laurels
and new victories.
Into this new century, young ladies
your life will take you as you take W
.Woman's Work" 1t is not to b ions
at the ballot box. Your work IS tot
great in it's scope, too grand ana TOO
sweet to be married by mingling IN the
mud and mire of petty party strife. IL
is not to be in what is termed woman :
RIGHTS That woman has rights none
question, but when their exercise renders
her tickle and fippant, they are nc
longer rights to be coveted, but wrongs
to be stunned.
"Woman's work is to be done in the
realm of the spiritual, and only here
can famous monuments be reared o.
lasting results achieved. Carthage
queen of commerce, built on materlallsm
is only a memory, while Athens, WboSt
existence was marked by matters spirit
ual, wrought in a literature that grow
with the passing centuries. So 1t is
with woman. She may not promulgatf
new political or social theories, she may
not amass great fortunes, nor be th'
captains Of great combinations OF carl
tai, nor build great Industrial empires
like Cecil Rhodes, but in the realm o.
spirit, in the sanctuary of mans soul
woman may build a monument that VII
abide after the wealt of Rockefeller
Gould, Vanderbilt and Morgan has passed
away.
I'm this great realm of work there are
FIVE things oman must do, and the mrs
of these is that she must utter a pre-
vailing protest against the spirit OF ma
terialism. The dollar must not be
deifed, nor on its altar must the best o.