Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-21
NOW READY TO TEACH
NORMAL SCHOOL GRADUATES
GIVEN THEIR DIPLOMAS.
Exercises at the Franklin School Build
ing Commissioner Mcfarland
Delivers an Address.

In the assembly hall OF the Franklin
School building. which was tastefully dec
GRATED with flags and potted plants. the
graduates of District Normal School No.
were given their diplomas at appropriate
exercises this morning at 1890 o'clock. The
presentation exercises were presided over
by Mr.. ]. Holdsworth Gordon and the diplo-
mas were presented by Gen. H. v. Boyn-
ton. Commissioner Mcfarland delivered
an interesting address to the graduates, in
which he paid tribute to the work they
had done and pointed out what was open
to them for the future.
The exercises opened with a march played
on the piano by Miss Mason and Mrs. By
ram and when the pupils were seated, the
Invocation was delivered by Rev. Samuel
H. Greene.
Mr.. Macfarland's Address.
At the conclusion of the invocation Com
missioner Mcfarland was introduced and
said in part:
1T is great pleasure to bring you the
congratulations of the Commissioners on
this browning day of your school career.
You have taken the full course and the full
honors of our public school system, so that
you are Its perfect flower. You are about
to become the teachers of our public schools
In the noblest profession, second only to
the vocation of Gods ministers. You are
the ministers of the state, serving not SO
much for money as for love. You are sue
cessors to a long line of noble men and
VIC men, including the present admirable
teaching faculty of your school and of all
the schools, who have here for hundred
years trained the children and carried the
torch of learning, handing 1t on from gem
era ton to generation without ever letting it
fall. You have the wealth of their Ideals
and accomplishments, and you are to add
to them foi the benefit of the future. We
are perfectly willing to trust you with this
great responsibility. / do not greatly re-
greet that there is no young man IN TINS
graduating class i do not agree with the
foreign critics who deprecate the fact that
NC st public school teachers are women be-
cause of its effect upon the manliness OF
boys.
I'VE do not need what these critics sug-
gest, a cultivation of the fighting qualities
of our boys. We are all. men and boys,
too ready now to fight. We are race OF
fighters. with many barbaric instincts,
which need to be repressed rather than ex-
pressed. Our high school cadets, our base
ball. foot ball and track athletes show that
our boys are the equals of any In physical
development and manly qualities. what
we want to see graduated from our schools
is the boy who Is a gentleman Il wish 1t
could always be spelled with a hyphen) or
the girl who is gentle woman. that fine
word. which is so much better than lady.
Our schools. largely in charge of women
teachers. more and more graduate just
such boys, just such girls. 1 will match
them against the graduates of any other
system in the world. for strength. for in
telligence, for character and for efficiency.
They are better for being taught by wo-
men, less barbaric. more civilized, for the
lesson of civilization, is less war, more
peace, less hate, more love. less of the
animal. more of the spiritual"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Macfarland's adj
dress there was an address by Mr.. c. S.
Clark, in which he complimented the stu
dents upon the work they had done and
pointed out to them the opportunities of the
future
v. Boynton of the board of education in a
few appropriate remarks. Gen. Boynton
had some pleasing words Of advice for each
of the students as he presented the sheep
skim The exercises were closed with mu-
sic.
The Graduates.
Those who graduated were:
Josephine Rose Baker, Sarah Irma Bra
shears, Theresa Agnes Carroll, Charlotte
Minerva Crawford, Anna Gertrude Du-
gan, Edith Emma Everett. Minnie Wheat
ley Farr, Mary Van Ness Fauth. Fannie
Pitt Ferna!d, Lena Fowler. Grace Louise
Fuller Blanche Pauline Galiher, Mona We'd
erstrandt Gill, Mary Maud Greenwood, Ida
Harmed. Clara Hartogensis, Elizabeth Cum
mings Henderson, Alma Jones, Ellen Eliza
beth KaIb, Carrie Faye Kent. Marian Lar
ner, EIeanore Park Lewis, Minnie Hender-
son Lippitt. Mary Margaret Marsden, Ethel
Marie Nelson, Bessie Burford Otterback,
Edith Eloise Page, Mabel Clara Pimper,
Ethel Lillian Price Bessie Lemoyne Raun.
Elsie Sanders, Virginia Davis Schaefer,
jamie Alice Smith, Marian Olivia Speaks,
Margaret Wilson Stamford, Maude Rosie
Steuart Agnes Stewart, Clemence Marie
Stinzing, Emma White. Bessie Whitford,
Pearl Willis, Olive Wright Marie Yoeckel:
The class officers Of the Normal School
are Edith Emma Everett. president; Mar