The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-06-12
Commencement State Female Normal
School, June 40, 1908.

The exercises began at the Presby-
terrain Church at | a. m, Sunday wheh
Rev. j. Gray McAlister preached The
baccalaureate sermon to the graduating
class. The audience was an immense
one aud fully representative OF the
school and Farmville. We may be per-
mitted To say that the beauty aud chlv-
airy Of each were there and the scene
was brilliant and impressive one.
The text, "For unto whomsoever
much is given of him shall much he re
quired, and to whom men have com
mitted much, Of him they will ask the
more, Luke l2:iS, was handled with
the skill Of an artist aud the strength
Of master. The opportunities oil re-
ter, to whom the words were primarily
addressed. were brought in vivid
contrast with those of the age in when
we live, aud emphasis was laid upon
the fact that our advantages consist In
the possession Of > 900 years Of history,
an age, "A race, a nation and a section
of THAI nation rich in blessing and preg-
nant with responsibility. In closing
the gifted preacher touched for mo-
ment upon the peculiar advantages, in-
tellectual and moral, which had been
enioved by those who he had been
asked specially to address, and left
these words ringing in their ears: For
unto whom much is given, ofhim shall
be much required.
At5p. m. the Y. w. G. A. of the
school was addressed in the Assembly
Hall, by DR.. Sears, Of the faculty, who
selected as basis Of his theme these
words: "That our daughters may be a
corner stones, polished after the simili-
tude Of palace"
He reviewed the history OF woman
hood through the ages gone, dealing
with the causes that tended to elevate
woman, the ages in which they Wer'
operative, concluding that in this ag'
and in this land her highest good haC
been attained and her brightest polisl
given.
Happy allusion was made to TIN
good work done by the Association II
the school during the session nov
closing, and anectionaIe words o
goodbye were spoken.
Right in the midst Of the festlvltle
incident to Commencement season
members Of the graduating class inNi
ted their friends to meet with them a
S o'clock on Monday evening in tn
Assembly Hall, TO witness cuisines
Meeting" more generally accepte'
than is usual for the room was literall
hacked with others asking for standin
room.
The following programme was rem
|, dered in charming style:
People Of the Play.-Mrs. Smytl
President-Mary Goggin. Miss Salln
Gray, Secretary-Grace Adams. Ml'
Sharpe-Mary Daniel. Miss keen'
Otelia Harvie. Mrs. Hoyt-Mar
Yonge. Mrs. Henderson-A II n /
Gresham. Mrs. Browne-Grace Wa
] rem. Mrs. Crowler-Loulse Bergman
D Mrs Lowell-Grace Holmes. Ml'
z White-Nellie White.
Their Graduating Essays; Rose
e Laura Carter. Eleanor-Neville wa
kins.
j Farewell to School-Tableaux.
The play brought to the front col
: spicuous talent. the essays aboundt
= i'm bright thought and happy local hi
but the Farewell to SCHOOL, was
u sad as a goodbye.
d We need an Assembly Hall whl'
IL will hold thousands instead OF hu
j. dreds and one so constructed that ev
rybody present may see and hear
70 DAISY DAY.
u For the first time in the history
d the school Daisy Day was celebrat
d and TO say that the occasion was one
thrilling interest is to put it mild
The scene was laid on the grassy 81
face Of the well-kept lawn Of the M
NAL and beneath the protecting sha
p trees that lift their graceful domes
. intervals on it. a great crowd gath
.r ed at . p. M. Of Tuesday and encircI
10 the spot made memorable now by
D.; debut of Miss "Daisy Chain"
OPP The graduates, dressed in spotl'
m white. and radiant in the freshness
Youth and aglow with the hopes u
- fiji and thrill the "sweet girl gradual
-. emerged from the front door OF
- school building in double column be
ing upon their shoulders an artistica
forged daisy chain, and for a quar-
of an hour wound in and wound O
IS writing monOgrams, tracing hguI
ll, keeping faultless step to well rehde
ng march and delightiug the vast au
ok ence with exquisite grace OF movem
IN aud charm Of pose.
nj The nower-burden, or BOND the ia
pa er. was then gracefully laid on
cir grassy bed, while the young Lac
formed in closer ranks, and then
ceeded to sing, recite take prom
glances into the future and give ten
~ farewells to "Dr. Pill Box" and OF
~ dear guides through the may pa
VI Of student life. We, Of Farmville, h
49, nov and then looked upon such Il
~ " scenes as they have been pictured In
,,s columns Of the Ladies' Home Jour
w. but until now have been stranger
Sc them as enacted in real life, and
=" places us under renewed obligation
'' teachers and scholars Of the Nor
VI who are so often adding Lew beams
ife's brightness.