Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-05-25

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Iyle's Splendid Adj
dress: Euolgy
to AycOck.
From Thursdays Daily.
The commencement exercises of
the class of 1905 of the Goldsboro
Graded School, held this morning in
the Messenger Opera House, We're
witnessed and enjoyed by a thronged
audience of GoldsbOro's citizens, who
are always alive to everything affect
ing our city's universal pride and
deeply sympathetic to its every in
| terest-the GOLDsBoRo GRADED
SCHOOL,
The exercises were opened prompt
ly at 1920 O'Clock by the singing of
henationalanthem ,"America" after
| which a beautiful, appropriate invoca-
| ton was offered by Rev. w. L, Gun
niDggim, pastor of st. Paul M. e.
| Church.
The president Of the graduating
class, Mr.. Robert Macarthur Wilson,
| then took charge of the class eXer-
cises and managed them with COM
menda3le dispatch and graceful ease,
himself delivering a we'll written and
enjoyable address.
The ''Class History" by Mis-
katherine Jehreys vas couched i'll
faultle 5 English, compactly bui land
most int resting and instructive.
The ''Class WILL" by Mr.. VIM
Faison Was drawn up il regulation
legal form, bristling with persona
witticisms and scintillating witt
iaughable illusions of real genius.
The "Cias5 Prophecy" by Mis-;
Willie Wilson Was rich, rare anC
racy, each member of the class com
ing in for a prophetic picture of theil
future, bring out in laughable relic
some personal idiosyncrasy.
In the report of the graduating
class, read by Mr.. w. L. Hodges
Principal of the school, the audience
were informed that Miss Lou Inc
BizzeIl had not only led her cla-s bur
had maintained the highest record il
the history of the school, which i;
indeed a rare distinction. She anC
Mr.. Robert Macarthur Wilson were
awarded the $50 gold prize each:
given every year by that great FRIEND
Of popular education Mr.. Henry
Well. This distinction carries with
it, also, a scholarship in the Univer-
sity for Mr.. Wilson and in the Wo-
mans College, of Ohio, for Miss
Bizzell.
Mr.. E. G. Brooks, the very efficient,
popular and lovable superintendent
delivered the prizes and also the di-
plomas, and then presented to the au-
dience DR.. j. B. Carlyle, of the faculty
of Wake Forest College.
His theme was "Democracy"-not
in the partisan political sense, but in
the broad meaning of the word, and
for more than an hour he held his
audience entranced by his most splen-
did presentation of the purposes, the
trials and the triumphs of Democ-
racy, closing with this thrilling trib-
ute t. our own foremost fellowcitizen,
that won prolonged and tumuituous
applause from his great audience:
"Some months ago, entering Ra-
leigh on d belated train, l paused in
the Capital Square before the statue
of the immortal Vance, just as the
first faint rays Of the rising sun rest
ed on his massive brow. With his
imperIous gesture, the great tribune
of the people seemed to be Welcom-
ing the coming Of a new day. Under
the spell of hal mighty presence /
looked into the future fifty years,
when my children, children now,
grown to hoary years then, shall
| stand at the South entrance of that
same capital square, when this good
| State shall be INK home of more than
| five millions of happy, cOntented,
intelligent, prosperous and patriotic
| people. when knowledge shall cover
| the State as the waters cover the sea,
when the rights of all shall be the
| regard of ali and the veal of all shall
! be the will of all my children stand
ing then there at the South entrance
| shall see another statue facing, not
| the faint rays of a sunrise to come,
| but the richer radiance of anoon-day
splendor Of ir~ultion, built of Carolina
marble, fashioned ny Carolina skill,
born of Carolina l9yalty and grati-
tude, bearing on its broad base the
| words CHARLES BRANTLEY
AYCOCK, THE GREAT EDUCATION
AL GovERNoR.'n
The following composed the grad
uating class:
Misses Lou Inez Bizzell, Eula Ge-
neva Bizzell, ILarfiette Maria Dewey,
Mary Louise Best, Susie Allen
DickensrSarah Louise Britt, Kathe-
rine Mcdonald Jeffreys, Glennie yell
verton, Willie Latourette Wilson and
Messrs. Robert Macarthur Wilson
and William Alexander Faison.