Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-23
AN NUAL EXERCISES
FAIRMONT SEMINARY COM
MENCEMENT HELD TODAY.
Chinese Minister Attends as Guest Of
Honor-Address to Members
of the Glass.

The commencement exercises of the class
of 1905 of Fairmont Seminary 2701 18th
street northwest, took place this morning
at II o'clock before an audience that filled
the chapel of the school to its capacity.
The reception rooms of the school and the
chapel were tastefully decorated with cut
flowers and potted plants, and the air
seemed pervaded with a touch of SPRING
time as if to impart to the sweet girl grad
yates, the remembrance that they were en-
tering upon the springtime of their lives.
Mrs Arthur Ramsay greeted the guests In
the reception hall and conducted them to
the door of the chapel, where they were
met by the ushers, Misses Helen Chand!ee,
Christine Borchers of Washington, Pa, and
Alice Blake of Cleveland, Ohio, who con-
Quoted them to their seats.
The program began with a selection by
the orchestra from Nicolas Merry Wives
of Windsor" after which the Rev. DIR. Wal
lace Radcliffe, pastor of the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, delivered the
invocation. A selection from the tuneful
music from "Woodland by Luders was
then played by the orchestra
Mr.. Arthur Ramsay, the principal of the
seminary then arose and in q few BRIEF
words introduced Mr.. Henry B. F. Mac
farland, the chairman of the board of Com
missoners of the District of Columbia,
who made the address to the graduates
Mr.. mcfarland said in part:
Address to Glass.
II congratulate myself that I have ar
rived at last at this seminary, for in the
years that have preceded this 1 have been
so unfortunate as to have had to decline
invitations to speak here Many girls think
of matrimony when they leave their alma
mater, and / always think of the story of
the Salvation Army lass who was married
at one of the public meetings of that Or
ganization, and the groom upon being ask
ed to repeat a verse of scripture at the
close of the ceremony. said that the only
one he remembered well was There Shall
Be Wars and Rumors of Wars and when
the girl repeated hers 1t was from the ola
hymn This is the way / long have sought.
l want TO congratulate you ana 10 say that
1t is a happy moment for me to be with
YOU for a mere man probably ought not
to address the superior sex; ne was born
below the angels and should not De on
the platform above them. l remember
once having addressed an audience Sucn
as this, but it was an audience of one, and
while l was successful / remember that at
the time l considered myself most auda-
cious.
Give the girl all the education that you
give the boy. We do not speak of woman
when she has the right of suffrage as the
gentleman at the banquet in one of the
western states. when called upon to an
swer to toast, said. Hitherto our supe-
riors; now our equals but in the District
of Columbia, as far as suffrage is con-
cerned, they our equals; but the other
walks of life our superors. Women have
shown that they can take the higher univer-
sity training as well as man can, and she
has also demonstrated that she can do the
work of man, but in taking the higher edu-
cation she must be more woman.
1--WE want to see the American girl de-
veloped. but she must be one thing, and
that is herself. She must not cease to be
what she is. What is most essential is
womanliness and grace, which we all adj
mire She must also develop the beauties