The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-05-28

washington, May Z6.-COmmenCe-
ment week at Howard University
began last Sunday afternoon at 1870,
with the baccalaureate sermon, by
President Gordon in the Andrew Ran
kin Chapel on the campus.
DR.. Lucy E. Moten, principal of the
Minor Normal School was the princi-
pal speaker at a mass meeting OF
mothers at Metropolitan A.. NJ. E.
Church Sunday. Her address, which
was an eloquent appeal for better
ideals, was listened to- very attentive
ly, and was warmly applauded. She
predicted a happy future for the Afro
American, but she urged that this fll-
ture was to be attained only through
proper home training. She described
the work and discipline OF the train
ing school, and argued for the old-time
home discipline. - Miss Moten set for
the mothers the task"of cultivating
and refining their daughters. Other
speakers of the meeting were Miss
Victoria Tompkins;. principal of Ran
dali School, and Mrs Rosetta Lawson
| On the, summer school faculty at
Howard University in July will be the
foremost industrial educator. and also
one of the foremost educators of the
United States. They are Booker T.
/ Stanley Hall, Phi. D., LII. D., president
of Clark University, an institution to
which only men Of high educational
attainments are admitted.
Miss Mary L. Europe, a young Afro
American lady of this city, has
promising future. Last Friday she
was presented. by Miss Mary Kimball,
a leaderSin high social and musical
circles, in recital in the parlors OF
| The Portner and played an exacting
programme for one who has studied
only a short time. Miss Europe is the
accompanist Of the S. Coleridge Tay-
| lOr Choral Society, and her playing at
the performance of "Hiawatha" at
tracted the attention of the wealthy
and highly musical white ladies in the
audience. -. .. :.,
Her programme Friday. included
the Prelude in E minor, by Mendels-
sohn; the moonlight Sonata, by
Beethoven; Godard's EAU Matin;"
Raffs *:La Filieuse;;" Macdowell's
"Witches' Dance" Sindling's 'Fruh-
lingsrauschen,' and the. Prelude in G
sharp minor by Rachmaninoff. For an
encore. at the: end of the programme
she played "Chaminade's "Air de Bal.
let with great. delicacy and artistic
finish. Miss Europe has, a technique
which almost dazzles with it's bril-
lance and shows a sense of artistic
! finish and RHYTHM which is very un-
usual. She played all her numbers
from memory and without hitch, and
! displays Temperament and a depth of
! musical feeling which: bid fair to make
her an artist who will attract attention
professionally, as she has already done
in local circles. ..,~,...>... 49,. -.
+ She has a wonderful gift of sight
! reading, and can read new compost
/ ton and trahspose it at the same time
I Fin any key or in all' keys: She has
almost:the keen ear which mad e ::Blind
Tom' famous, sandsis so quick in mem
I orizing that she1 can do it:twith only
!; two for three readings of. a piece of
music. Her touch is both delicate and
| powerful, and she dashes off the. most
dif1cu1t technical passages with the
! greatest ease: She has written con.
SlucIdU1e HUSH duu Is d CLOSE SUI
dent Of composition, and her; impro
visingais at times most beautiful: An
1 audience of several hundred people sat
throughout the programme and were
most enthusiastic. }E,,y :,;trs i, 49,.
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Mr.. Alburtus.. Brown gave a dinner
at his residence 1925 10th. N. W, last
Thursday evening, to few of his
classmates who have just graduated
from Howard University Law School
Those present were iMessrs. Thos J
i Galloway, Thos. III. r. Clark, John X
Wright. -J:tiiG. Campbell, x7Robt.: Pei
, ham q Jr:ssssNe Nel il HI, Thomas Phil
Quincy, William Darden and VIM. l.
n 10 HAWKINS lr; So, II Tza9=>t ."lE1,~' -
THE closing exercises of Bethel Lit
erary and Historical Association tool
:; place on the Eth inst: On this oeca
A sion avery able paper was read: By
q .Proft1tE. 1M..: Dent ;of, Georgia. His
+ theme was ran: Appeal for Our Boys
}: Prof. Dent. presented the fact that thu
great majority Of our boys go LITTLE
farther than the 9Th grade in the com
, mon schools, and that only very few
Of our youths finish collegiate or in
dustrial course. The speaker present
/ ED statistics from Georgia and TIL
. tDistrict s5of Columbia as proof agains
u the assertion that education makes TT
81 AfrO-Ameficans more criminal and :;
) very eloquent appeal was made t
, have our boys educated as American