The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-27

Ga She said: "Conmencanent ,s
the grand winding up of the years
work. We have finished our lessons
and examination. We are now GER
tam that we can really graduate. Our
commencement, the time to which we
nave looked forward for years has at
last come, and how much this day
means TO us. All of you who have
graduated can understand. You
know too how commencement day
brings above all a realization of what
a happy life we have here, for now
that our work is over. for the first
time we have leisure more thorough
ly to appreciate st. Mary's. For the
first we fully recognize what great
help our rector and faculty have been
to US. For the first time we fully
understand that without the love anu
sympathy of all the girls our years
at st. Mary's would have been years of
worry and monontonouS work instead
of years full Of brightness and happi-
ness. With this realization and With
heartfelt thanks to all Of you who
help to make life at st. Mary's what
it is, we salute you. We welcome you.
We welcome you, our reverend father
in God our Bishop, whose deep in
terest in us must but bind us closer TO
the school which feels So sensibfy
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give greetings and best welcome. To
our rector, our faculty and fellow
students to have been one with us in
all the varied troubles and pleasures
of your school life, we give our last
and our most loving welcome"
Then Miss Resale Bernhardt sang
Nevin's Necklace of Love with fine
effect, and after that Miss Esther
Barnwell Means read an admirable
essay on the Teutonic Myth in Mod
ern Poetry 1t was a fine subject full
of opportunities, and was spiendidly
handled Miss Susie Sims Battle fol-
lowed with a magnificent rendition of
Chopin's Polonaise op. 40, No. 1.
The Valedictory.
Finally came the Valedictory by
Miss Eliza Richards Brown, who said:
"Our salutatorian has had the pleas
IRE of welcoming you, and now to me
has fallen The less pleasant task of
telling you goodbye. Farewell Is 4
word often lightly uttered and readi-
ly forgotten, but when 1t makes the
rounding off and completion of Il
chapter in life, the severance of ties,
many and long cherished, the parting
of many friends at once, it becomes
indeed a word that makes us linger,
but it does not prompt many other
words, ii is best expressed in a few
First we say goodbye to our Bishop
and trustees, next to our faculty, who
gave us welcome as beginners and
throughout these years have borne
with our frailties. strengthened our
weak points and endeavorcd to bring
out the best in us and to oar rector
we extend our most affectionate fare
we'll. Though we have not always
appreciated your efforts, yet as we
grow older, we shall honor you more
and more and regret our failure to
take advantage OF lost opportunities.
At the same time we hone not to
shame you With n career in any way
akin to utter failure. We would not
harrow he feelings of our younger
friends finishing their first year, but
instead wish them their due portion
of the happy return of this occasion.
TO them and the intermediate classes
we extend a fond farewell, regretting
that we have not had the privilege of
more intimate acquaintance. To
the junior class, which this day sue
ceedS To our place, we wish all the
joys and honor of seniors. AS we re-
gretfully say goodbye we wish you
every success. To each member of
the graduating class and for each
member L say farewell. AS the
months and years of an association
have progressed, so Has our love in
creased yet we do not go away
empty-handed or alone We go
freighted and laden with inexhausti-
bly, happy memories of St. Mary'S, its
warm-hearted people and infinitely
happy days. May we retain only
rose colored memories of our school
days and lasting sisterhood of friend
ship for each other, and may each of
YOU be ever successful and always
happy.
"The saddest farewell Of all re-
mains for those we personally love
most Whether classmates or dear
companions, we sincerely hope that We
may not drop out of each others
lives, but that the sweet friendships
here begun may ripen with succeed
ing years, and yet, to our Alma Mater
and faculty our class mates and
dearest friends, we must not, after all,
say a permanent adieu, but only aui
wieden Sehen.
Graduating Exercises in Chapel.
Then came one of the most beautiful
sights of the day Two by two, all the
two hundred and forty-One girls of
the schools, the littlest ones in front,
led by the marshals, marched in line
from the main building till the front
of the long line touched the chapel
steps. Inc IHey ndlNCb, otiiu ire maj
shals divided the column into TWO
lines, one each side of the path. Then
between the lines came the Bishop,
the rector other clergy and trustees,
then the seniors and the rest of the
school closed in and entered the
chapel, to the singing of the Process
sional Hymn, Ancient of Days.
The services were conducted by Jo-
seph Blount Cheshire and Rev. Nc
Medley DuBose, rector of the school,
assisted by Archdeacon e. N. Joyner,
of South Carolina Rev. w. p. Whitseb
of Columbia, s. c.; Rev. DR.. John E.
c. Smedes, of Washington; Rev. Dr.
M. NJ. Marshall, rector OF CHRIST
Church, Raleigh; Rev Walter Hugh
son, of Morganton, and Rev. A d.
Hunter rector St. Augustine, Raleigh.
Mr.. DuBose read out the names or
the honor students and graduates, as
follows:
Honor Roll.
Primary Honor Roll-Henrietta
Schwartz
Preparatory Honor Roll-Juliet
Cdews, Ella Croft, Maude Eberhafdt,.
Josephine Knowles, Eleanor Mann,
Gilmer Mitchell, Marguerite Short.
College Honor Roll-Helen Bail