Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
SEMINARY FOR GIRLS
ADDRESS TO GRADUATES BY MRS.
DELLA sMALLwooD.
Diplomas Delivered to Twelve Grad
uates-The Glass Day Exercises
Program of Music.

auditorium presented an attractive scene
The platform. on which the fifteen gradu
ates were seated. was decorated with palms
and flowers.
The exercises were opened with salu-
tatory and essay Life and Service" by
Miss Kehoe Miss Peterson read paper
on The Renaissance" Becker's Spring
time was rendered by Miss Rim. Miss
Bride read The Novelist of Yesterday and
the Novelist or Today" THE Child of the
Municipality the subject of paper
by Miss Shute. Miss Dyer rendered die
Lorelei." Miss Davis read a paper entitled,
The Growth of American Painting" Miss
Melick gave a piano solo by Chaminde.
which was followed by a paper on the
Power and Privilege Of the Senate read
CONFORMITY by Miss Rogers and Miss Mar
garet Rim.
A violin duet, ''VaIse." by Dancla, rem
dered by Misses Ewing and Barstow,
earned applause. Miss Hargis read the class
nistory and Miss Sterner presented the
class prophecy. Miss Pattia sang con-
ratio solo, Heaven Had Shed Tear"
The yaledctory. by Miss Lorinne Davis.
was fraught with sentiments of affection
Tor the seminary and regret at leaving 1t
Mrs. Della Graeme Smallwood the princi
pal. I'm a final address. The Splendor of
the Minority" called on the seniors of 1906
to preserve through life that of right
and goodness which would lead them ulti-
mately TO their eternal object. God
In the course of her address Mrs. Small
wood said:
All DECISIONS In the worlds work are
made by the majority. 1t is right that it's
affairs should be 50 settled. Since all must
be governed. 1t is best that the Will Of the
many should have precedence over that Of
the Few. We are SO used to this majority
rule that ii is felt too often that only with
them can safety be found, position secured
or emtnence attained.
Facts in the past disprove this conciu-
sion. for. In the great pageant of history II
Is not always numbers that stand out most
plainly, nor that have left the deepest i'm
preston In the progress of the world and
on the lives of mankind.
1T is the minority that educates the
world, that leads its workers. that sets the
speech for the aCtors-the minority in edu-
cation. philanthropy. science. government
and morality, that, like the pioneers on the
frontier of civilization. blazes the trees for
Il new path to the promised land. They
are always needed as leaders, guides and
examples.
THE world loves bravery. and no brave
or good action is lost. but. on the pages OF
the volume of heroism. the deeds of men
who have been few in number and opposed
10y many stand out most boldly.
Instances Cited
what heart does not beat faster as one
reads OF the great army of Xerxes with
its two and one-half millions of soldiers
and many slaves and camp followers,
held at bay several days by Leonidas and
his three hundred Greeks and six thousand
allies. This army was eight years prepar-
Ing for the conquest of Greece. IL took
seven days and seven nights to pass given
point. Leonidas killed two hundred thou
sand at the pass of Thermopylae. When at
last the Persians advanced a by-path,
Leonidas dismissed the allies. and his three
hundred men held the pass to the last. Do
we remember the host Of Persians, the
handful Of Greeks?
1.-THE Crimean war. great as ii was would
DE fOrgOtten by many were IL not that Bala-
kava and the charge of the Light Brigade
still rings its Forward call to the living
as IL did to the dead.
"Our own revolution lives in both memory
and pride, because the birth of this new
nation was the work of a small band of
devoted patriots against the foremost coun-
try of the world.
Against Superstition and Ignorance.
mot only against numbers her heroism
takes its stand. but against superstition.
ignorance and conservatism. Calico, after
his invention of the telescope, gazed with
rapt admiration at the mountains and val
legs Of the moon, the phases of Venus. the
satellites of Jupiter the myriads of flaming
stars. and the luminous nebulae of the
Milky Way, but he had 10 stand on trial
for his life for saying the world had
daily rotation.
Columbus stood on trial before the au-
gust council OF Salamanca for declaring,
I'm the face of the scholastlcism of that day
that the world round.
Fulton received the jeers OF the onlook-
ers when the Clermout was launched at
New York for expecting a boat to walk
on the water Derision was heard on all
sides when the first ironclads were pro-
posed. Every one knew iron would sink.
but the navies Of the world testify to their
utility
1T is said that when Morse tried to get
an appropriation through Congress to place
trial wire to Baltimore, one of the mem
beers sarcastically moved that an appropria-
ton be made TO build line To the moon.
Yet, what would the world do today with
ont the telegraph?
When the first machine power looms
were put in use. riots had to be queled on
oil sides. for the workmen said nothing but
starvation faced them. Today not even
their descendants would go back to hand
power.
Courage and Sacrifice.
In the field Of philanthropy we find today
theories that have been accepted and con-
ditlons approved and warmly supported that
were once held by few only to be right,
snd who have won their places in the
worlds esteem by courage, sacrifice and
iard-fought struggles.
THE splendid Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION. generally loved. had its early
Struggles in company with its founder, Sir
George Williams.
THE London Charities for Children. so
generous and popular. were not thought
OF till Dr. Bernard found his first little
street orphan sleeping In barrels and sewer
pipes. Then the warm sympathy OF the
nation followed him in providing for these
little ones.
The great China Inland Mission owes its
inception to Or. Hudson Taylor. The Sal
walton Army world wide In its influence.
was once scoffed at and its followers ar
rested
III was considered a visionary scheme
when Mary Lyon started her seminary for
the higher education of women" Laws
have been enacted for better property,
family and labor rights of women that
have grown out OF the efforts of the once
maligned Susan Anthony. The glorious
work OF the Womens Christian Temper
Bnce Union had its days OF small and de-