The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-06-06
WoMAN'S COLLEGE.
COMMENCEMENT EXER-
CISES ENDED.
Governor Smith Presented the
Diplomas and Makes Ad-
dress-Rev. Schiedt Makes
Address to the Graduates
Events of the Week in Detail.

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Events of the Week in Detail.
The annual Commencement
Exercises at the Woman's College,
this city. ended yesterday with
the awarding Of diplomas in the
College Hall by Governor John
Walter Smith of Maryland. 1t
was a fitting close to a series of
most excellent and enjoyable
functions, for which this institu-
tions has long been noted.
Since Sunday evening when the
Baccalaureate sermon was
preached and the exercises form
erly begun, the college has been
alive to the requirements of the
occasions and each was met and
disposed of most happily.
The College Hall yesterday was
packed to the doors with the rela-
tives and friends of the graduates.
The program for the occasion
contained several vocal and in.
strumental solos.
The address to the graduates
was delivered by Rev. Richard
Conrad Schiedt, Phi d., of Frank
lin Marshall College Lancaster,
Pa. He spoke of the Ideal
woman" and his remarks of a lofty
and inspired character.
Governor Smith before present
ing the diplomas, made few re-
marks about higher education of
women and how they taking their
places today in the business OF
professional world.
In part he said: This you know
is a practical age. Women are
beginning to enter into active
competition with men in many
spheres of business life.
What change has taken place
in this respect within the last
thirty or forty years. Until
within a comparatively short time
ago, who ever heard of a women
doctor or a woman lawyer? Yet
the former is found in every large
city. Even in conservative Bal
timore a women has been adj
mitted to the bar quite recently,
and is now engaged in t he prac-
tice of her profession.
If you will take the trouble to
look through any of the large
office buildings in one of our
cities, you will find nearly, if not
quite, as many women as men at
work there. Frequently such
women belong to the best families,
who deservedly stand among the
first IN social circles. They are
engaged in the laudable enter
prise of making living, and in
many instances not only for them
solver, but for dependent parents,
or other relatives.
| know of a case in this State
where a woman is president of a
national bank.
One Of the most conspicously
successful and efficient officers of
the State Government is woman
and her department is spotlessly
clean in every sense of the word &,
The State of Maryland is large
ly dependent upon the efforts of
women to accomplish the educa
tion of the masses of the people
III the public school. Out of
about 5000 public school teachers
in the State nearly 1000 of them
are women.
These are but a few of the in =
stances of tie many | might men
ton where the influence of educa-
ton of women is making itself
felt.
| feel confident the young ladies
of the graduating class realize the
dignity and Importance of their
position as parts in that scheme.
| believe you will do your share
toward helping others to share
the privileges that are yours, and
that you will remember more is
expected from you than from
others by the world, because you
have received more.
The tendency of the times is
that women shall enter the realms
of business from which they have
hitherto been excluded. Is it not
right that they should do so? If
they have the capacity and the
opportunity to make money, why
should they not do it?
For generations the only bust
ness a lady could engage in was
teaching. 1t is so no longer. The
prejudice against departure
therefrOm is fast fading away.
The time is not far distant when
it shall have entirely disappeared.
The time is coming when the
employment of women will not be
confined to teaching and type
writing and dress making, but
will be extended to higher avOca-
tions and wider opportunities.
| believe that as a rule women