The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-22
=*:$==== NACHMAN & MEERTIEF.

| learning and furnishing it with its am | pie facilities for imparting instruction | you have given conspicuous proof o1 i your design to promote the we'll being
 of society at large and to exalt tht
 condition of the female in particular | Having for a considerable period oi | time enjoyed the advantages here SC | liberally provided, 1 would be wanting | in sensibility If did not feel the live l Hest regret at the prospect of being deprived of those means of intellectual | and moral culture which I am happy
 to believe has contributed much to lay | the foundation of my future happiness
 l can only add that fin years to come l | shall gratefully remember that to your 1 interest in the cause of female educa- | tion. your public spirit and your lib- eral views and exalted aims I have
 been most deanly indebted.
 It is my most sincere desire that in
 future anniversaries. you may have | great numbers of highly educated daughters of Alabama who shall re- ceive at your hands the honors of this institution.
 And now while I address myself to | those agents who have so faithfully carried out the admirable principles | of instruction and discipline which you have prescribed. permit me. gentle men. to tender to you a respectful fare- well.
 To My Instructors.
 Respected instructors, in this pub lie manner and on this deeply interest ing occasion, I would express the emo tions of gratitude I feel for the un- wearied Kindness, assidutty and faith fulness with which you have urged me to cultivate noble aims, and to seek after high attachments in knowl- edge, wisdom and goodness.
 Guided bv vOur couraged by your example and in spir- ed by your urgent and incessant appeals !. the members Of this Institute must be successful in their attempt to reach a high standard of intellectual and moral excellence, or if they fall they must suffer poignant anguish under the mortifying reflection that defeat Is to be attributed to their own stupidity or perverseness. In taHing leave of those who have commanding claims to my sincere affection and respect. l cannot but remember that I have too often repaid your kind endeavors for my welfare. with indiffernc or per verseness, too often yielded to ca price or petulance.
 For your patient forbearance and your reiterated efforts for my good shall never cease to preserve grate- full admiration. And while you kindly cast the mantle of forgetfulness over my deficiencies. | will make 1t my con stant aim never to dish0nor the la bors of those valued friends who zeal ously sought to lead me In the paths of wisdom, of virtue and of peace. Honored and beloved tea 'hers. I bid you farewell.
 My dear school mates. words cam not express the depth and tenderness of the regret l feel as l am now be- come fully and painfully conscious that I am about to be separated from you. I have often anticipated this event and I knew 1t would be an affecting moment. yet the thought of home from which I have been so long absent, and the prospect of a peaceful and happy residence with parents and friends, have prevented me from foresaeing the full extent of the suffering I must undergo in the tender ties of affec- tion which bind together the hearts of school companions Here attachments have been made which shall never be dissolved. here confidence and affec- ton has been awakened only to xrow