The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-28
STATE NORMAL GETS
ADDITIONAL $4,000
81, 500 Conditional From Gen.
Education Board.
ALUMNAE PLEDGES SIS, 900
he Henne Bynum and ArmfsId scOIal
shps----The Senior Glass Day
Exercises on the
Lawn,
ALUMNAE PLEDGES SIS, 900
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Greensboro, N. c., May 27.-The senior
class day exercises of the commencement
OF the State Normal and Industrial Col
lege took place on the lawn in front of
the main dormitory yesterday afternoon
at O'Clock The profusion of the class
colors-red and white-of the class flower
the carnation, red and white-the fair
faces, the white robes, the green grass.
the air of sympathy and appreciation
which shone on every face, made a spec
taele which was most beautiful There
fore was eminently successful as is every
thing undertaken by the Normal students.
The president of the class, Miss Mary
Taylor Moore, OF Mount Airy, conducted
The exercises, and the history, the pro-
phecy, the poem and the song were pre-
scented with strength and a clearness
which one wondered to hear from the
young voices in the open air. The pc
culiar feature OF the occasion was the
presentation of momentoes to the lower
classes from the retiring seniors. When the
class records were buried the taps" sent
a sadness to the scene which impressed
all and brought a realizing scene OF the
separation which has come to this class
and its college after four years of loving
mutual service. The Gate City Profess
sional Band made music which was wor-
thy of the occasion.
Last night six representative essays
were read and the judges President f. X.
Vcnable, OF the State University; Rev.
L. w. Crawford, and Miss Mary Apple
White, of this city,--decided that Miss
Annie NJ. Kiser, of Rowan county, was
entitled to the Whitsett prize, a set OF
Ruszins works. Her subject was Little
Bread Winners, and her essay was an
eloquent appeal for the protection of chill
dren who are forced to work in mills, fac
tories and other places
The graduating exercises this morning
attracted another large crowd. For the
first time in the history of the college de-
grees were conferred on class of seven
young ladies, their names and the sub
jects of their essays being "Glimpses Of
Dreamland, Lewis Dull, 1899, Forsyth
county: "The Press and It's Power, Mar
garet Perry, 1895, Wilkes county; with
the Brethren of Old Salem, Mary Callum
Wiley. 1894, Forsyth county; '"The Villege
Schoolmaster," Frances Winston, 1901
Wood Life" Virginia Brown, 1902, Gull
ford county: Conceptions of a Future
State" LYDIA Humber, 1897, Moore coun
ty: Science and Life" Emma Lewis
Speight, 1900, Edgecombe county. The de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred
on the first four, and Bachelor of Science
degree on the other three of these young
ladies'. Representative essays wdre read
by Misses Mary Callum Wiley, Virginia
Brown and Margaret Perry.
DR.. McIver announced that during COM
mencement $4,000 Of the $4,000 loan fund
had been pledged by the Alumnae Asso
citation and other friends. Miss Susie
Baker Saunders, of Washington, N. c..
was announced as the winner of the $25
cash prize offered by the Alumnae Asso-
citation to the writer Of the best essay
on North Carolina history Miss Saun-
ders' subject was Legends of North Caro-
ina" This is the second time Miss Saun
ders has captured this prize. Dr. McIyer
stated that DIR. c. Alphonso Smith, of
the State University, had offered $25 each
year to be applied on the expenses of the
student writing the best essay on North
Carolina in fiction.
The following, who composed the grad
uating class. received their diplomas
Bertha Albright, Alamance county; Olive
Allen, Vance; Mary Horn Bridgers, Edge
combe; Gertrude 0Bryan. Pender; Flossie
Byrd, Harnett; Ida Edwards, Greene
Ida Clayson, Sampson; Lucille Foust,
Forsyth; Ellen Lynch Garrett Guilford !;
Eula Glenn, Castor; Leila Hampton, Gull
ford: Ida Hawkins, New Hanover; Sudie
Harding, Pitt: Bessie Harris, Gmlford;
Frances E. Hodges, Lenoir; Gereyieye
Jennings. Guilford; Florrie King New
Hanover; Annie NJ Kiser, Rowan; Bette
Aiken Land Guilford; Sallie Lewis, Gull
| ford: Lillian Massey, Durham; Mary Tay-
lor Moore, Surry; Florida Bowden Morris,
Henderson; Nettie Leets Parker, Bun
combe; Ida Saterthwaite, Beaufort; Ida
Richardson Smith. Lincoln; Christine M.
Snyder, Ontario, N. Y; vii Warder Steele,
Buncombe; Mary Isabel Ward, Buncombe;
Pearl Eugene Wyche Vance.
| President McIver made the following
report of the progress of the year:
PRESIDENT MEYERS REPORT.
'The past scholastic year has been one
of marked progress in the history of this
college It's enrolment mas reached four
hundred and ninetyfour, exclusive OF the
practice and observation school, which
numbered three hundred and sixty-six
! The health of the students has been
decidedly above the average and the gen
| eral department and spirit of the college
unusually good.
During the past year seven of the for
mer graduates have availed themselves
OF the opportunity for advanced scholar
ship, which has been made possible by the