The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-03
An Eloquent Address by State
Superintendent JOyner.
DIPLOMA BY GOVERNOR
Exercises Splendid and Interesting .--Presidtni
Of the Board George Allen Tells Of the
Fine Record Of the Blind h.
stilution.

for the Blind is always a pleasing event.
Yesterday was no exception for from start
to finish the exercises were of the high
est order and the splendid concert last
night was fitting end to memorable
day.
There was an audience present that
was deeply interested in every thing that
| took place. The distinguished men who
graced the exercises with their presence
1 made yesterday a red-letter day in the
annals of the Institution. Governor Ay-
cock, who is always to the fore IN all
| educational matters, found time from his
many duties to be present. State Super
/ ntendent Joyner came to Raleigh es-
pecialy to deliver the address. State
Treasury Lacy was also on the rostrum,
with President Allen and the other mem
bers, while there likewise was DR.. Alfred
H. Moment, the distinguished Presbyterian
minister.
The exercises opened at II o'clock At
ter the opening prayer by DR.. Moment,
the anthem, king of Kings, was well
rendered by the advanced class in sing
ing. Mr. Evan Mcknight, who has so
often delighted Raleigh audiences, with
his fine tenor voice, rendered the solos
particularly well.
There came the especial event which
marked the day, and this was the pre-
sentation OF the diploma granted by the
school, this being preceded by an address
by Miss Josephine Manor, of Durham,
who was the only graduate of the year.
Dressed in a dainty white organdie gown,
she made a very pleasing appearance as
she read her essay entitled Success.
The manifest ease with which she ex-
pressed her views showed that she had
mastered her subject, and was prepared
for the obstacles every one must en-
counter in the path of life,
Governor Ayeock presented her
diploma in his usual happy manner. In
few well chosen words he expressed his
pleasure in being present and his inter
est in the work done at the school Turn
ing to Miss Manor, with Characteristic
courtesy, he compnmented her upon fin
ishing the course required for graduation;
the hard study it required, he said, was
sacrifice of the present to the future.
Commenting upon her essay, he followed
the same line of thought she had already
embodied in it. "Chararter and Truth,
he said, "are necessary to success. "
Sacrifice, also, in which We must follow
the Divine example, who we are told was
made perfect by suffering"
The institution band, which is winning
for itself an excellent reputation in Raj
eigh, played several numbers and the lit
tie tots sang merrily of The Little
Brown Bird" and 'Margery's Almanac.
These led up to the annual address, and
| the speaker of the day, State Superintend-
ent j. Y. Joyner, was introduced to his
audience.
| Mr.. Joyner pleasantly referred to the
work of the institution and spoke OF the
| important part it had in the educational
system of the State and OF the interest he
had in its success. Speaking upon the
| line Of material things he said that he
| feared the dangers of the practical and
the unitarian, unless these were toned
and softened by other elements Of Re.
This led him to his subject which he
announced as being ''The Beautiful, the
| Imaginative, the Emotional" three things
| which held to be linked together in getting
the best of life He divided his address
| in the three distinct heads of his subject
and discussed these
| He plead for the beautiful in life and
/ toll Of the divine that was in it, and
how it lifted us God-ward. He dwelt upon
/ the beauty of nature and as he painted
in eloquent words the beauties OF trees
and flowers and brooks and waving hill
sides and mountain tops he played 1T with
/ the touch of a master upon his audience.
! How these should be brought into life
and how they could come for the asking
| he told and then passed on to the ques-
/ tion of the imaginative and then to the
/ chr ffs
/ cultivated in man and should be part Of
every educational scheme, declaring 1t
To be the divinest thing in life, the very
essence of life. The imagination he de-
/ clared to be the very eye of beauty CIV
/ ing to the man who has it the power to
see beauty everywhere, to see more IN
sunrise or sunset than patch OF red
to see more in the yellow primrose than
in the mere flower.
He urged upon his hearers that the
beautiful, the imaginative, the emotional
should be cultivated, for in them he said.
there is all that is likest to God. In clos
ing his beautiful address Mr.. Joyner SAID
They tell US that we of this sunny
Southland, in the twilight of this dawn
ing century, are standing at the begin
ming of an era of marvellous material and
lUuustFlhl QeNelOpIIltnO. DSASNS ~
hail with Joy its coming.
/ bid God-speed to every sort of edu-
cation that will hasten it. 1t means
wealth, it means power to the land OF
cur birth, the land of our love, but !
would not have US forget, in our mad
pursuit of this, that there is another
sort of progress that we must seek
through another sort of education. Along
with progress in money must go progress
in men; along with progress IN plenty
must go progress in peace; along with
progress in luxury must go progress IN
I life. In the dazzling light OF this ma
terial development. we of the New South.
must not forget
"How wide the limits stands
Between a splendid and happy land"
: We want the education that viii give
the knowledge and develop the power to
utilize our vast material resources and
create wealth, but we must never neglect
the education that will develop the pow
er to use wealth. to enjoy what wealth
can give, and to enjoy what God has
/ f,;x,o,, ,,,tt,a,,f xpaa 1fh For IN a.