The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-06
Step in Educational
 Ladder.
Dr. Massey Bade Touching Farewell to Class of 1908 and pr. Duncan
 Delivered Mastcrfui Address.
By Frank c. Burrows.

class of 1906, the Tuskeeee institution took a step which places 1t on a par with the leading musical conservatories in the United States. and which places 1t, In it's music department, above any other institution of like kind in the South.
 Never before in the fifty years of the college history has this exalted degree been given by the Conference school More than this, the degree has never been given by any educational insti- tuition of rank recognized as qualified to do so. by other musical schools south of Baltimore. By the conferment of this degree the college has taken rank with the leading schools In music in the country.
 There are perhaps half a dozen cities in the United States possessing musical schools which considered from the standpoint of musical education, are qualified by their course of instruction and by their teachers. to bestow this diploma. In these cities the total mum Der of schools hardly equal a score. IJn- til today the bachelors degree in music has never been recognized by musicians Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, New York. Philadelphia, Cincinnati and from Ober- lin College in Ohio. Today the name or ruskesee, and the Alabama Confer snee Female College was added to the
 An additional fact which makes the
 conferment of this degree the more
 notable, is that of the four who were
 ject. only one had received scientific
 instruction before entering the Confer
 ence school. four years ago. Their
 progress has been practically the work
 of four school terms. Miss Mabelle
 Massey. the daughter of the president
 Of the institution. graduated there in
 music five years ago. Afterwards she
 pursued her studies in Lynchburg, Va.
 later returning here to take advantage
 of the higher instruction which her college was then able to offer
 The other three have received their school. They are Miss Ella Mae Chris topher, student from the State of Texas, and Misses Mary E. Fagin and
 Annie B: Moore: both of Alabama. and the excellence of the training they have received here is recognized by | others. Is evidenced by the fact that | months ago. each of the four accepted partments of other schools. Mss Chris | topher, apon leaving Tuskegee, will | take up her work at a private school | in Arlington, Texas. Miss Fagin has | been named Director of Music in the Normal School at Roanoke, Alabama. | Miss Massey will become member of | the faculty here in the Conference col-
 lege. ana Miss Moore has accepted the
 position of Director of Music in the public schools of Tuskegee
 l pr. Massey's Appeal.
 sey. president apsas of the Alabama one confer eT lence Female College, to the seventeen
 members of the graduating class con- ciuded the fiftieth annual commence mept exercises of the institution. may not meet you again in this life;a said the venerable educator. 'for you Will go out from here to your homes in other parts of the country But l shall always remember you. ] shall expect well of you. Make good
 women, and true women. beautiful and
 nament in the homes you may enter; do honor to whatever sphere in life you may be called upon to fill. May | you be polished after the similitude of l the palace. The good women are the | cornerstones which hold together the 1 fabric of civilization, and the fabric of I the church Let your influence always i good. Press onward toward that
 Promised Land. and if I precede you,
 let me feel secure that you will fol | As the president who had guided the | steps of the young wofen before him I spoke. his voice trembled. Ills appeal
 request to them to FUm iIve tSer fai hHsT ives | along the lines which he has endeav- | ored to lay down In the conduct of his I school Purity and the nobility of wo-
 mans sphere, have ever been the aims
 of his teaching since he first took up
 thirty years ago. The ennobiement of | l by the noted educator and his asso-
 ciates in their work Instruction in | the courses of the curriculum has never
 in any sense lost sight of the more | president gave his final charge to tre
 young women leaving him today. his
 appeal was fraught with the wisdom which he wished them to carry with | them as the one thing above all others | he wished them to carry out into lifc with them.
 | The panrpipo xrxag idxot
 ment day Sunshine warm and Ian 1 guor-compelltng beat down upon the l yellowed front, of the old college build
 ings. On the lawn. scattered here and | there among the trees were little spot | Of gold, the siftings through the heavy
 foliage screen Within the chapel
 dows. the students. factulty and friends of the graduates had gathered await. | ing the arrival Of the class
 1 Granddaughters of Institution. Among the number were mothers 1 who. had themselves studied under the | tutelage of Dr. Massey at the college years before. Five of the graduates to-
 ay Rf Gaeq for ve of Sa
 mothers. who, years ago. graduated as l they graduated today. As they sat | there. time rolled back and represented
 to them anew the scenes of their own | commencement day, when clad in white and wearing the cap and gown, l even as their daughters today, they too | NaQ recelNed the DedLly wrapped dlDlO-
 mas which bore evidence of their rec l ords In the school.
 | Promptly al 10 o'clock, the process | sion entered the auditorium. led by pr. | Massey and pr. James A. Duncan. pas | tor of the First Methodist Church of
 Birmingham who had been selected to l deliver the baccalaureate address. Sev- ] enteen maidens wearing the conven- 1 tional cap and gown of the graduate | followed after. on the left breast of | each gleaming a little golden class pin. a trinket to be worn hereafter in mem ory of pleasant years at their alma | mater.
 l A prayer was said by pr. S. M. Prov ince pastor of the Baptist Church of | Tuskegee In QuaverinR voice he 1 sought the Divine blessing upon the 1 lives of those who were about to leave | lections by Miss Lillian Allen, an un- ! der class pupil, completed the intro | ductory portion of the morning pro { gram.
 l Rising Dr. Massey then conferred the degrees upon the members of the | class As their names were called the | graduating pupils stepped to the plat ! forn, to receive their diplomas from l the hand of the president in person 1 Each roll of sheepskin was ornamented with ribbons of old gold and green. the sooirs of the class of 1906.
 The following pupils received the de-
 grces of Bachelor of Arts Misses Fam | nie Belle Cook, Mary Dees, Frances l Fleming, Winona Hill, Estelle Peavv and Cornelia l. Pope.
 1 Eleven degrees of staster of English Letters were conferred upon the fol- I lowing: Misses Carrie Christopher, Ei-
 ing, Carrie Will Howell. Edna Ruth | | azanbV Martha Frances Iazenby Varo