The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-13
Commencement ExerCiS-
es Began Sunday.
THE EDUCATORS MEET
National Funeral Benefit Association
of the Jnnior Order in Session
This Week. School Election
SquabbIes. Superior
Court.
Court.
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Greensboro, n. c., June 12.-This
morning ushers in one of the most
strenuous weeks of turning about
Greensboro will ever know. Hardly
have the reverberations of the bonn
bardment of speech making at the
banquet to Secretary Shaw Saturday
night died away before tramp of
strange feet are heard on the pave
ment. and the sound of orators and
esayists and declaimers and statisti-
clans is re-sounding here. The Secre-
tarY's short address was simply great
in IFS breadth of ScODe and freedom
from partisanship, dealing principally
with the question of finding markets
for American products other than
food products which the outside world
took because they had to have them,
and which needs no drumming to
secure their custom. SO broad and
powerful was the presentation of this
point and so practical the application
to present conditions of our trade re-
lations with the outside world, II
would be impossible to convey a fair
impression of the argument he maUe
without transcribng the notes in full.
Pressing demands for pressing transi-
necessitate the postponement of
working" this address of Secretary
Shaw until later date. and it will
be reproduced for next Sundays edi-
ton, because it is worthy to be read
of all men and TO live. The only sad
feature of the banquet was that Mr..
Shaw had to leave as soon as he got
through
What enlfvens the city today is the
III nf in a a.
ance on the commencement exercises
of Greensboro Female College Of at
least $50 advance delegates from North
ern States to the annual session of
the National Funeral Benefit AsSocia-
ton of the Junior Order to meet here
tomorrow; of three or four hundred
advance members of the North Caro-
lima Teachers Association. which be-
gins tomorrow; of visiting lawyers to
attend this weeks term of Superior
court; of delegations of citizens from
two contested special school tax cleo
tons in Guilford county, and the
members of the Board of County Com
misSoners i'm special session to pass
upon the contest.
Greensboro Female College.
Commencement exercises began last
night at West Market Street church
where Rev. DR.. G. II. Detwiler
preached a beautiful and powerful
sermon to the Y. M c. A. of the coll
lege and to everybody else present in
the packed building.
His text was the "Old Fashioned
Womanly Graces." These he repre-
sented as mOdesty. sympathy, beauty
lin the sense that Rusllin used the
word) Prefacing his argument with
the statement that recently he had
occasion to look up the old Saxon
meaning of Lord" as n title and find
ing it meant simply "bread-winner,"
he examined the origin of the word
Lady and found it meant bread
dispenser" he proceeded to give one
of the most needed and most beautiful
and powerful pleas for a constant
recurrence in this strenuous age to the
old fashioned yet divine fundamen-
tails of wOman's part in the true de-
velopment of human life and charac-
ter, mOdesty sympathy. beauty. The
sermon was pronounced one of the
best heard here at any commence
ment occasion any time by all old
fashioned people, while not one of the
new fashioned We're observed to
slumber or have been heard to criti-
else
Tonight in the college chapel
large audience assembled to hear the
graduating recitals of the Expression
Department of the college. which
showed careful training and excellent
application on the part of both in
structors and students. Tomorrow
morning the baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by Rev. DR.. Taylor.
of Richmond. Va. An interesting
feature of this commencement is the
presence of those of the old senior
class who. on account of the fire had
been unable to have the pleasure Of
personally enjoying the thrill of re-
ceiving their graduating diplomas in
the ideal commencement way They
will be given that distinction and de-
light and honor this week when, on
Wednesday this part of the exercises
is reached.
L. B. of the United States.
Trains last night, early this morn
ing and at noon today have been
bringing large numbers of delegates
from all parts of the United States in
attendance on the National Session of
this department of the Junior Order
of American Mechanics. At least
fifty arrived last night from Philadel-
hia and New Jersey alone. At least
a hundred made a pilgrimage this
morning in carriages to Guilford Bat
tie ground. This order bears about
the same relationship to the Junior
Order as the Endowment Rank does
to the knights of Pythias One dele
gate from each lodge in the United
States is sent to the National Asso-
citation. and as there are about half as
many in the Funeral Benefit Depart