The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-31

This year the electric light plant has
been practically built in duplicate. Its
service Is more excellent
third Emory dormitory has been
completed and fourth one well started.
The beautiful Tatum Hall for girls
has been finished and dedicated. The
large dining hall and kitchens are be-
ing rapidly pushed, the hospital has
been greatly enlarged and now has one
of the most commodious and well fur
nished operating rooms in the State.
Wednesday night was graduate night
and many who had come UP from their
various fields of work told of what they
had done. They covered period from
1889 to 1906. and a territory from South
Carolina to Texas Their stories were
most enthusiastic and encouraging.
Thursday morning opened beautiful
ly and large number of people were
early on the grounds. At 10 a. m. the
students and friends, led by the band,
marched to the chapel where the fol-
lowing program was carried out:
/. Observation-Disclosures
2. Farmers Mass. "Sanctus"-Choir.
3. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Whitaker.
T. Salutatory. How Negroes Have
Built Town-Jerry Decature McCord,
Eagleville. Tenn.
s. Cal Melody, Balm in Qilead"-
School. OBJ Melody. I'm Going to Lay
41oWu ftcdNy tIodu ~SHOlE.
6. The Relation of Hot Beds and
Cold Frames to Gardening-Melvin
Judkins, Cecil. Ala.
7. THE Nightingale and Rose
Choir
8. Some Experiments in Feeding
Cattle-Romulus Spencer Pompey, Live
Oak. Fla.
9. "old Black Joe'-Choir.
10. The Value of Education to In
II St
IL. AUD Lang Syne"-School.
This year instead of having separate
exercises for the literary and the in
dustrial the two have been combined
with most excellent results.
Dinner was served in the Hoven's
Grove and promptly at p. M, the
chapel was again crowded to Its ut
most capacity. The following program
was rendered as part second of the ex-
ercises of the day:
/. Observation-Disclosures.
2. Thou Crowdest the Year
Choir.
g. A Plea for cooking-Lena Eve
Ign Mckee. Berea. Ky.
4. Melody, 81 Know the Lord Laid
His Hand on Me"-School.
5. A Dinner for Six-Willie Loretta
Davis. Chicago. Ill.
6. Lullaby-Choir.
| Z.
work-Ernest Delriseo Brown, Atlanta,
| Ga.
g. Might Brings Gut the Stars
| Choir.
8. valedictory. Frederick Douglass
| Contribution to a Race-Andrew Battle
Mckenzie, Tallasee. Ala.
10. The Tuskegee Song-School.
At the beginning of the afternoon
| exercises DIR. Washington read a very
| interesting letter from Governor Conner
expressing regret at his inability to be
present today and promising to, come
next year.
Following the excellent plea for
| cooking came the actual preparation
of a dinner for six of four courses al
| an expense of twenty-one cents each.
The work was very daintily done and
| greatly pleased the audience.
The annual address by Rev. DIR. J
w. E. Bowen. president of Grammar
Theological Seminary, of Atlanta, Ga.
was next. ,ys4 ~
| DR.. Washington delivered the diplo
mas and certificates and announced
the following prizes for the year:
Charles F. Moritz Prize. $1o-Award
ed. to Mary Gooses>s. acC
W. Graham Tyies PRIZES. s5o-4win
ners: First prize, Mary Emma Foster
Russell Bingham. John Landon Ander
son. Jacy John stringer and Herfaal
Peter Warmack, all geniors. n
Banks Prizes. s25-Winners: Abra
ham Nettles, senior class. $40; Harri
son jackson, middle class, $40; anc
Henry Perry. Junior class, SIS.
General Armstrong Prize, the income
on $50o-Winner, George Weltons Lee
| Junior class.
Belknap Prize. Chest of Carpenter
Tools--Winner of prize. Joseph Will
liam North, A, Middle Glass, Carpentry
| Division.
Joseph Frye Prize. $10-winner of
prize, Ebba Cornelia Dorset, senior.
Sumner Prize, $20-Winner of prize,
| Claude Davis.
Nathan Alexander Prize, $10-winner
of prize. Claude Davis.
Joseph o. Thompson Medal "a gold
medaD-Winner of prize, Olyander A.
| Johnson.
Selig Gassenheimer Prize, $1o-win-
ner of prize, Dennis Andrew Starks.
A special prize of SIS was awarded
Melvin Judkins of the senior class for
his excellent address on agriculture.
| Leo Strassburger Prizes, two Prizes
| of $40 Each-Winners of prizes, In
strumental Music Bessie Galloway; vo-
cal music, Mary Runyon.
Trinity Church, Boston, Oratorieal
Prizes, $40-winners of these: First
pEl1e, JAMES L. bOuBIdSS, SenlOFs sec
| ond prize, Gladys M Baker, A, middle.
The total enrolment of boarding stu
| dents has reached / ,648 during the year,
| iii young men. 537 young women. In
the Tuskegee town night school, eigh-
| ty-eight were enrolled and in the Tus-
kegee town cooking school, seventeen.
Adding these to the number enrolled
in the training school, or Children's
| House, the total reaches about 1000.
They represent thirty-sixs States and
| Territories and twenty-one foreign
| countries.
The GLASS graduated today numbers 1Os.
| 100 from the Normal Department and nine
from the Phelps Hall. OF these sixty-two
received certificates for the completion OF
some trade, and several of them for the
| completion of two, and quite a number three
trades. Most of those in the senior class
who did not receive certificates today re-
| ceived them in previous years, thirty-ninC
undergraduate received certificates and ter
postgraduates, making a total Of 1873 indi-