The colored American., 1903-02-07
THE STUDENTS ENTERTAIN
And Give Packed Audience all that
VAS Coming to it-AR Unique Debate
Bs.ween Young Women and Mon
Tho Women Wen.


munity united on last Friday evening,
the goth ult., in the enjoyment, in the
auditorium of the Metropolitan NJ. e.
Church, of one of the richest, and most
carefully prepared programs, rendered
bv the students of the Academy, for
years 1t was refreshing and enthusi-
astic from the beginning to the end
The students showed that they had
been drilled with the most painstak-
ing care in every part that was render
ed The oratiOns, declamations and
Rotations were mastery delivered;
then came the discussion, viz, Re
solved That nature has more influence
over the formation of character than
education. The debaters being two
young women against two young men.
Affirmative, Misses BaiIy and Steven
son; negative Messrs. Parker Moore
and II. Richardson. The participants
received the closest attention from
large audience. No one thought at the
beginning but that the poor girls
would be weighed in the balance and
found wanting but like women are in
everything they undertake, when the
end came they stood at the head. The
people of Princess Anne, in fact the en-
tire peninsula, should congratulate
themselves On having come to them
such a scholarly gentleman as Prof.
A r. Marsden, A. B. who was master
of ceremanies, and under whose eye
the boys and girls entrusted by the
principal to be trained for rhetOricals
Last Friday evenings exercises proved
him a master of the science of rhetoric
exercise two of the professors Of the
industrial department, made most eX-
cellent and stirring addresses of their
department and the school generally,
namely Prof. w. w. PrivOtt, of the
blacksmithing and Wheelwrighting
department, and Prof. ]. l.. Richardson,
of the carpentry department. They
are both master mechanics, and the
people readily regard them so. MI
Parker Moore, director of the printing
plant took part in the debate. He is a
bright young man. They collected a
handsome sum at the door, which
they presented TO the church, and in
return the church extended them many
thanks and prayers. One more member
has been added to the faculty in the
person Of Prof. A. L. Mebane, B. S.
Ayr. a graduate of Amherst College.
Mass, VINO has charge or the agrlcuI
tural department. The little infant
child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Handy.
died on Tuesday night, the 27thth ult.
They have our deepest sympathies in
their bereavement. DR.. J. 0. Spencer.
President OF Morgan College, Balti-
more. was visiting Princess Anne
Academy last week. He was very much
pleased with the work at the Academy,
and says there has been a great i'm
provement made, but stated that it
hasn't reached they place they expect
II yet. He made special emphasis to
the fact that on the 18th of the present
month, is set apart for a special col
lection from all the churches in both
The Washington and Delaware confer
ences for the cause OF education, and
made a special request of the students
to arouse their friends and parents TO
the need of making a special effort on
that date. Prof w. P. Todd, principal
Of the manual training school, at
Salisbury Md, gave a very interesting
talk to the students on the 31st ult.
number Of registered fowls and
swine have been placed on the academy
farm in the last week, and are eX-
pecting ten head of registered milch
COWS during the week from New York.