New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-17
At ST. ELIZABETH COLLEGE.
Bishop 0'Connor, Of Newark, Speaks on the
Higher Education of Women.

At the forty-fourth annual commencement at ST
EHzabeths. now college, Convent Station, y. J,
yesterday afternoon. the Right Rev. Bishop J. J.
O'Connor, of Newark, addressed the graduates. in
part, as follows:
On an occasion such as this IS though feelings Of
Joy are uppermost in every heart and our lips
10 REMIND S1i M %; n ma a4T Is lpI
70 moral risks which others less favored intenectu-
any are not so maple 10 encounter
those whose mental faculties have been cultivated
and developed are apt TO be influenced by the spirit
Your inestimahie advantages Of culture and refine
ates OF coeges IN which religion IS condemned TO
posiu9h OF inIeriority or, perhaps. utterly eX-
CURED your part TO withstand the skepJicisn or
bI'9d Oh 1doSe VINO reject reIislous truth as
cause they have had no experience Of its power 20
turer judgment may bring ycU into contact W. n
the subtle sophisms which perverted ingenuity 5
apt TO devise against the most sacred dogmas snd
the most cherished principles of morality. Your
the problems OF life from various points OF view may
suggest TO your own minds the difficulties that &C
ties which the human mind is powerless to answer
SO adequately as to satisfy the demands of captoUs
These are some of the dangers inevitably allied
eve they VIII be saf1 and sre 9Gt P
e at Tao Ike you have crowned their course Of
II What h9e sa3 Be- true of all the
OF our colleges, 1t is especially of women who
nave had the rare privilege of college course.
IN every period OF history. but never more SO than
at present The best efforts Of men seem TO be alb
20 ne exclusion; IN many instances, OF any true
The eId Of activity that here presents itself to
eeduGated women is one that calls for the utmost
mites If, as appears from indications at present to
cS are TO De lntTusted the most precious in
OF life religion. morality. education Such in fact
is se a fSG Being the bear T6s d te
worthy discharge OF the duties which have always
an ar ~.
OF discharging those duties with greater credit to
be the meaning of the wonderful development
which has taken place in the education OF women
az true lovers or God and religion will have reason
sb Wf4 III these prospects , IN view how happy
IN fostering the higher education Of women, How
this INSTITUTION viii exert when after I' few TsdT
II VII rejoice in long list OF graduates rejecting
others the blessings that are sure 10 accrue from
their fidelity TO the lessons they have learned.
The graduates Misses Frances Filnann
and Mary E FIanDery. OF Brooklyn. both of whom
received the degree OF A B. Miss Anna NJ
Thomas Of Newton, Mass. took the degree OF
~ aS s'1I, OK 9lusic. Mss Mary augusta RemanG
McGOvern, OF Drumhanny, Ireland, received di-
Plomas Of graduation from the academic caDart-
ment OF study. Gold medals were awarded as fol-
1oWs3 Ethics. Frances HIlman; philosophy. Mary
class. Miss Corinne Jennings. OF Rochester gold
Weaa4 Tor the best essay in the sophomore class
medal for the heighest average in the academic
S-4tONesS4N l'AS year Was won Dy Miss
Eileen Kelleher. OF Hackensack. Next in merit Tor
TINS honor were Misses LeOCadie Farrell OF New
aoTk, and Mary Mccarthy. OF Boston The prize
medal IN the academic graduating class was won bv
Miss Reimann, OF Summit, N J.
Ihe honors in the classes were follows: Junior
h. pize rqr log1G and arguInent ation. Miss Jose
prime hine HinchIne; Paterson; prizes for compost
ZION and theoretical biology, Miss Louise Horyan.
Hoboken; prize for theuatics. Miss q JeTnf7,cs
ftochsster; Tor microscopy Miss Alice FyIand.
Babylon, y Y for English literature and church
history Miss Alice Bour. Canton Ohio. Sophomore
cIass the prize for English. for Latin ana for his
tory- MISS Theodore Blake, Bedford Ohio, FOR
p u history and ror Greek. Mary Hinchlifge
FAterson freshman class prizes FOR religion an.
Church history. for English. for Latin and for
nlt theille tics. Miss Desauges Cfenereux Webster
>ss the prizes for the best essay for Ii-a-ar17ra
ana 81 German, Miss Mira Misner. Peoria III
Gistinction Maxima cum laude." won bv NTissaS
margaret Flynn, Elnira. n. Y: Margaret PussaIi
NeT-HAven Conn. and Hester Sullivan Brooxlvn
Inc 'priN d'honneur," awarded annually for N.
So5As man who has excelled in al branches
az won the vote OF the teachers and pupils va a
conferred by unanimous acclaim upon Miss ia
DannenUiLer. Of Canton. Ohio. ~ Ni'0s