Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-22
M STREET HIGH SCHOOL
CLOSING EXERCISES AT THE
METROPOLITAN CHURCH.
Orator for the Occasion Fails to Put in
an Appearance-Mr. Macfar-
lands Address.


| The graduation exercises of the M Street
High School were held last night in the
| auditorium of the Metropolitan A. NJ. T.
Church. Lightweight young men and wo-
| men receiving diplomas certifying to their
| thorough public school training. Because
| of the failure of DR.. w. E. Burghardt Du
Bots, professor of social science of the At
| lanta University, to put in appearance, he
| having been chosen by the board of edu-
cation to deliver the address to the grad
| uates that portion of the program had to
| be suspended
The graduates occupied seats on the plat
| form, which was Hastily arranged with pot
ted plants, while overhead was suspended
! the words Glass 1904 in red on a black
background. The class colors, red and
| black. were everywhere in evidence, as were
| also the national colors. Mrs. john r.
| Francis a member of the board of educa-
| by Rev. Walter H. Brooks. Commissioner
H. B. F. mcfarland awarded the diplo-
mas and Mr.. James F. Bundy. member
| of the board of education, conferred the
scholarships. The Columbian Orchestra I'M
| der the leadership of Sylvester Thomas.
gave well selected musical program;
! Commissioner Mcfarland In his address
to the graduates said:
None of the graduates of our high
| schools deserve or receive more hearty con-
| gratulations from the Commissioners than
| those to whom We give diplomas tonight
| We realize that you have had to make
greater effort than many others to improve
to the end the opportunity offered ny our
| high school system. We know that 1t has
meant much sacrifice on your part ana on
| the part of your relatives. But there Is all
| the more rel ,icing among you tonisht, ana
YOU are stronger and better for the strug-
! gle The discipline of mind and heart Is
| the most valuable part of education Those
| of you who are able to go still farther'
| through the Normal School, ana SO INTO
the teaching force. will be the better pre-
| pared for this higher training and that
! higher service.
| "The community has reason to congratu-
| late itself that you have had such prepa-
| ration. You are better, and your people
| are better, for it and as nothing can neip
or hurt any of us without helping or hurt
| Like every one of these occasions TINS CON-
| mencement, with It's record and Its prom
Use of achievement, is full OF nope. AS yot
| know l am an optimist. on all our great
| questions because l believe that Coo rules
and that He will help us to meet them as
| He has helped US in the past
Progress by Comparison.
eve can see the progress that has been
| rada nv COMPARISON with thirty years ago,
nroeress unexampled and full OF encourage
ment for us all. We are the people who VIII
have to settle our problems. We cannot get
away from them. We must settle them by
mutual action. and it will have TO De zone one
| in a spirit of altru1sm ana loyai'y " 'ie
best ideals of the republic vou,,
| DR.. Wallace Radcliffe of the New YORK
| Avenue Church was introduced by MIS-.
| Francis and made speech, telling the
| eraduates of the great opportunities be-
| fore them He was unable ne saio' 70
| coo in the future any problem which would
| be too great for the race to conquer.
| The Scholarships Awarded.
| Scholarships we're awarded to the follow
ing pupils:
| Howard OVERWHELMINGLY. Ada Al
| bert: dentistry Benz. Boyd; Howard Uni
yersity College, Normal or Commentator
ballot of High School faculty-Margaret
Flagg and VIM. Clarke; Provident Hospital
and Training School for Nurses of chicago
Mary Taylor and Marie Thomas; Lincoln
sylvania-Chas. Turner; Oberlin college
Maiorie Hill; Western University of Penn
sylvania-Chas Turner; o perm S ouaen
| Brown University-Daniel Edmonds; Hem
| menway gymnasium of Harvard University
-Marde Vass.
Hugh Francis will take Harvard University
entrance examinatio in the fall; Mr.. Louis
! Jackson will take entrance examination at
| Yale
| Diplomas were given to the following:
| Academic course-Ada Celeste Albert,
| Julia Jessie Allen. Sadie Beatrice Armi-
| stead, Grace Lillian Bailey, Daisy Marie
| Louise Ball, Pearl Marie Barbour. Orrie
| Belle Boyd, Nellie Beatrice Buckpan, Clara
May Campbell, Matte Beatrice Clark. Eva
| Margaret Cole Ethel Davis. Sarah Cathe-
rine Proctor Diggs. Grace Lena Evans.
| Margaret Alberta Flagg. Florence Amy
| Freeman, Fannie Harrod. Marjorie Arizona
| Hill, Florence May Hunt, Mary Resale 1rv-
| ing. Lillian Lafronda jackson, Marie Eliza
| Vivian Kennedy Nellie Annie Lloyd, Carrie
Isabelle Lonesome, Florence Smith Lovett,
Mabel Elizabeth Magruder. Irene Aurelia
Montgomery, Reta Auwilda Parker. Rosa
Anna Piper. Sadie Irene Proctor. Cornelia
Queen. Annie Victoria Robinson. Flor
ence Lorine Scott: Aline Myrtle shef-
Smith. Rosa Virginia Smith. Martha
Mabel Stewart, Bertha Delania Stokes.
Ethel Beatrice storum, Mollie Louise Tan
Taylor, Mary Louise Thomas, Nolie
liam Vass Fannette Edna Walker. Ethel
Bell waller smma JIs Washington
Wheeler, Maud Theresa Whips. Julia Err
nestine Whiting: Jennie Orris Winfield.
Armstrong. Robert Henry. Ashton. Henry
Joseph Booker Benjamin Day Boyd,
Franklin Winston Childs Albert Robert
Dyson. Daniel Webster Edmonds, William
Henry Davis Evans. Hugh Richard Francis,
West Alexander Hamilton, Isaiah Truman
Hatton, George Richard Joseph Holland,
John Cecil Hughes. fired Louis Jackson.
Albert Cornell Knorl, Willard Mercer Lane.
Edward Howard Lawson. Ulysses Grant
Baldwin Martin. Leon Leroy Perry, George
Collins Shipper, John Jay Hamilton Smith,
| Oscar Harvey Smith, Charles Alexander
Turner. Benjamin Thomas Withers.
| Scientific course-Pauline Minerva Bruce,
| Olive Costello Lynch, Lucy Elizabeth
| Lumpkins, Edna Romena Murray, Florence
Eva Ricks Lucy Beatrice Shaw. William
| Clarke, Anthony Towns.
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