The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-10
Justice HOke Delivered
Closing Address.
WERE SO GRADUATES
Beautiful Class Day Exercises On the
Campus. Address BY Or. Peabody,
of Harvard. Loan Fund Increased.
Gift of $500, From W. ].
BRYAN.
Bryan.
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Greensboro, N. c., June AT two
o'clock today the final and most i'm
pressive exercises of the State Normal
and Industrial College commencement
closed. Associate Justice of the Sill
preme Court, w. A. Hoke, delivered
the final word in a most excellent, in
structive and comprehensive address
to the graduating class in presenting
each of the 80 copies of the State and
Federal constitutions.
Beginning with the first constitu-
tional convention of the revolutionary
fathers, he showed the genesis of
American government, and mentioned
the great names of those who formed
the first constitution, speaking of e
as the most momentous gathering and
the breeder of greater consequences
for the uplifting of the nations, ami
the people of the earth, that was
ever assembled for a civic purpose in
the history of the race. He showed
how it was the critical period of
American history, because at the close
of the War of independence, after the
danger and the peril for existence had
been passed, there succeeded the peril
of discord, the spirit of envy and con-
tention between the various States,
which only a constitution could have
dissipated OF Washington's speech
before the convention in opposition 20
makeshifts proposed to ensure the
adoption of the constitution, he quoted
the celebrated passage in which APP
pears the paragraph: I'VE should raise
a standard to Which the honest and
virtuous may repair, and the result
will be in the hands of God, and we
need not fear"
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ent amendments, and showed how
North Carolina had made a deep en-
press on the national constitution by
her conservatism and judgment, and
her jealous regard for the rights and
liberties of the people. When he
reached the XI amendment, he showed
how it had been construed or dis
torted so as to allow South Dakota to
sue the State of North Carolina, but
the debt being established, the
legislature, the governor and others,
had promptly and satisfactorily dis
charged the obligation. The whole
address abounded in splendid .practi-
cal application OF every day topics IN
connection with State or national civil
life being in every sense a legal elias
sic as well as popular form Of presen-
tation.
Rev DR.. Detwiler, pastor of West
Market Street Methodist church pre-
scented the graduates with a Bible
each, making a most appropriate and
eloquent tribute to the book of
books"
DIR. McIver read a review of the col
lege work during the year, announc-
ing, amid applause, that the class of
'05 had made a gift of 5000 90 chs
loan fund. Misses Trina and Daphne
Carraway had established a loan fund
in memory of their mother Mrs.
Sarah Daniels Carraway, and Mr.. w.
j. Bryan. who visited the college in
1894, had just sent $500 to aid young
women to secure an education it being
part of the $4,000 left Mr.. Bryan
by Philo Bennett,
1t was a delightful scene when the
80 young lady graduates filed by the
rostrum and received from the hands
of President McIver their diplomas.
The names. of these graduates, not
mentioning those six who had been
selected last night for representative
essays, and the subject of their thesis,
are as follows:
The Unprivileged Glass of Middle
North Carolina, Miss Wetmore Bailey,
Rowan.
Life at an Orphanage, Nettie Bever-
ly, Iredell.
The Religion Of the Negro lone
Gates, AldIndHCe.
The Scotch-Irish in North Carolina,
Mary r. Coffey, Caldwell.
Education in the Philippines. Julia
Elizabeth Crowell, Mecklenburg.
The Negro OF Yesterday and Today,
Leah Josie Cameron, Warren
Southern Women as Bread-winners,
Bessie Daniel, Person.
The Evils Of immigration, Mary
Alexander Davis, Union.
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Scott Davis, Rowan.
College Settlement Work, Louise
Dixon, Catawba.
The Probable Defeat Of Russia, En-
ma Duffy, GuiIford
The Influence of Cartoons, Kate Fin
ley Mecklenburg.
What's in a Name? Ruth Fitzger-
aid. Davie.
Bachelorhood, Nellie 1nez Flow,
Union.
The Mountaineer Of North Carolina.
M. Jennie Hackett, Wilkes.
The Development OF Polypnonic
Music and its Influence on the Music OF
Today, Ethel Lewis Harris. Vance.
How Climatic Environment Has In
luenced Russian Life, Mary Hen
tricks. Guilford
The Forest Wealth of North Caro-
Ina, Mary Hunter Kennedy, IredelI
The Country Preacher. Mary VIII
lis McCulloch, Guilford.
Some defects of the Rural School.
Josephine Boyd Morton. Vance.
The Development of Advertising,
Frances Gordon Nicholson. Iredell.
Continued on Page Three.)