The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-25

fly. loving greeting, that this, our first
 class of Southern girls-the first we ns 9s sa.a ciasPseys ihoPe wsicom soms ed among the alumnae of the Cal houn- Chamberlain school
 As we meet here tonight girls In our | familiar rooms for the last time in l the capacity of teacher and pupil, 1t IS | but natural, in looking over our years of work. together. for some of us have been working here for four years-that | really done. Just here comes to me the somewhat rrite slmiie of the block | of marble, and the wonderful possioil- ity which lies concealed within It, or | making visible to the world the beau ] tiful thought of the sculptor.
 | The marble pure and white-God's s l gift to each of you-your own indi-
 The beautiful ideal hidden surely l 7 And last, but equally important, the patient, untiring skirful use of the best and man this beautiful thought.
 If we have aided to develop in your souls this thought-thls conception of
 the ideal, if we have brought you to l purpose of God, that you are possessed f of faith In yourselves and in your own | ability to make out this perfection; If we have taught you a little how to use | the best means in the best way. so that | possibly not here but somewhere In | Gods universe, perhaps after long cicyles of time. this, your one own own of every other created being, may | stand out in all its perfection; if we 1 have helped you towards this end; we have done what we could : IT we nave | failed here we have failed utterly, no matter with. what wealth or facts we have helped to store your mind
 l And as you leave us, be 1t for TUT TUT ther study in a higher university aids | ad hr earned. and wise Instructors. or i in your own homes assisted only oy those silent, yet most eloquent oi teachers and books-for 1t matters not l so much as you may now think whlen course lies before you-the wise teach ing of today become the good books oi tomorrow. You are each Of you work-
 in out daily this, your task-thls the purpose of your creation:f | For out of our knowledge and the l accumulation of facts (for, facts are but dead things until they. become . | them through and thinking them out we build up a power of thought whicf may be turned at will on any subject
 thus having acquired the full use oi 9 all our faculties we become cultured T logically thinking creatures. And not books alone, nor the instruc- tion of those wiser than ourselves, bu,
 syerything nat1Fa FfbiS aT0und 1sour usupr hu hu
 man life with its joys. perhaps most oi
 its sorrows, help us onward, ana flxihe ouE eyes unSwerlngiy on pei4ectioi we make everything speed us towards
 And as some one has well said: We
 dAscern not only what we already are
 but what we may become and see l IT
 of a growth to which no bounds car lever set To you as to all our girls l woulc
 leave in parting this one thought
 That Miss Chamberlain and myself be- lieve in you have faith in you and ex- pect only good things from you. Witt the assurance of our warm, loving in
 terest which will follow you whalevei t diniomas of the Calhoun Chamberlain
 school, which you through hard, earn
 est. conscientious work have justly
 earned To you, Ella Klein. to you Cecil Loeb to you. Elizabeth Glass anc | to YOU, Mary Tyson, and again with ( hearty god-speed, goodbye.
 Rev. F. E. Cobbs's splendid address
 to the class, full of excellent advice
 to tbe audience. full of instruction or l educational lines, and full of highes
 nraise for the institution. followed. H.
 smoke of the Calhoun Chamberlain School as standing for culture-cul ture in its broadest, highest, nobles
 sense. He spoke of the graduating
 epoch of girls life as being one of th'
 sweetest and most momenttve. H.
 spoke of the pendulum OF value O knowleee as swinging far from. thu ola error way when the -cholar was SC anart from the rest of humanity, as no In touch with other mortals or th' things that interest mankind in every dav Iife-far to the other side, .the sid,
 of today, when the value of knowledge
 is too much judged from 8 standpoin of dollars and cents He advised rnedfum. between these two undesirabl,
 extremes.
 Mir. Cobbss was an interesting anC i,s+ructive address to the audience, tn, faculty and the student.