The colored American., 1902-06-28
READY FOR E.IFE.
Ono Hundred and Twenty Four
Young People Receive Dipio-
mas From Our High Ard
Manual Training Schools.

marks the High School commencement |
as the social-intellectual event OF each |
wear was in attendance at Lafayette
Square Theater Tuesday evening or
last week. The graduates number ia
Young men and women, and Included
the classes of the NJ Street High School
and the Armstrong Woman's Training
School. On the stage were seated Com
missioner II. B. F. Mcfarland, Gen.
George H Harries, Gen. H. v Boyn-
ton. Mrs Bette G.. Francis, Mr.. j. r
Bundy. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, Mrs
Anna ]. Cooper. DR.. ". Bruce Evans.
while the fashion boxes in parquet and
mezzanine balcony were filled with
teachers and prominent citizens 10
the inspiring music of the Columbia
Orchestra. under the leadership of
Prof. Edward Amoler. the graduates
filed upon the stage and when they had
taken their seats in the several tiers,
embowered amid the many floral of1er-
ings of friends, the spectacle was
pleasurable TO behold. The toilettes OF
the young ladies were unusually hand
some and the male graduates wore Jne
conventional evening dress.
Rev. F. ]. Grimke. of the Fifteenth
Street Presbyterian Church pro-
nouneed the invocation. Trustee j. r
Bundy as presiding officer, delivered
an excellent address Of welcome. set
ting forth the High School idea and
congratulating the newer generation
upon its splendid opportunities for &C
Quiring thorough education.
Commissioner Macfarland, being in
troduced. spoke of the contrasts be-
tween the old and new conditions of
the Negro. taking the rise from slavery
NS nl-o-
Washington as a type. He paid high
tribute to the work the Negro youth
was doing for the advancement Of
civilization. and emphasized the in
creasing tendency Of the times toward
that specialization in training that
brings the student in the closest rela-
tions with the mission that nature or
individual advantage has marked out
for him TO perform. The boy was once
made to conform 10 the school. The
school now is built TO conform to the
characteristics OF the boy. The Com
missioner then presented the diplomas
to the graduates.
The address of the evening was de
livered by Rev. Walter H Brooks, pas
tor Of the Ninteenth Street Baptist
Church. Though brief. DR.. Brooks re
marks were full of wise counsel; II
was clear IN It's analysis OF C06 QOueS
of life. and not a superfuous word was
uttered to destroy the force and direct
ness OF one of the most practical ad
dresses ever heard upon a Washington
rostrum. In closing. DR.. Brooks pleas
ing reference TO the splendid schools
this city offered TO the Negro-bettel
than the whites Of the higher type had
at time within his memory-was
dramatic in the extreme, and evoked {
hearty demonstration. He was lis
tened 10 intently throughout
OF the graduating class passing the
examination for entrance to the Nor
NAL School are Rosa Bell Stokes. Clara
Brown. Alfred P Brent, George L
Sadgwar. Finetta B. Nalle. Blanch E
IanghOrn, Marion c. Harris. Lula Y
Turley, Edwin B. Henderson. Julia B
Collier, Elizabeth A Howard. Jane:
D. Campbell. Maud E. NJ Green, Ell
frida Kennedy. Helen Jones, Lillian H
Ford, Rosetta E. Orme, Josephine W
Clark. Viola Hamilton. Julia II. Smith
Sarah A Davis. Cornelia McB. ].
Young, Joseph II. Johnson. Ethel VI
Gibbons. Anna 8. Carter. Mary 8. vii
son. Grace E Scott Eunice T. Dorster
Kathleen Amber. Eugene a. Clark
Margaret NJ. Bruce. Rosa B. ChiIds
William E. Lewis, Geraldon :. Worm
ley, Eleanore c. Mnkins, Gerste1
SmaIlwood. Fanny Turner. Helen e
Webb. Cloille NJ Houston and Matti,
L Brown.