The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-04
College Influence on the
 Gentle Sex.
COMMENCEMENT
Students Listen to Address by Hon.
 (. D. Carmichael.
Speaker is Presented by Dr. Massey Who Pays a Glowing Tribute To The Name He
 Bears.
BY WILL T. STEPHAN.


 ruskegee, June 3-(Special. )--Dr. John Massey submitted today to hls Board of Trustees, his annual report. was his thirty first and showed the splendid condition of the Alabama Con- ference College on the eve of its re- moval to Montgomery,
 The College property here has been valued at $125.000, and the college this year has had a total enrolment of 1858. Of these, there were 12S boarding stu dents.
 This enrolment was limited by the capacity of the college; in fact, 1t has been limited for several terms. Year after year students have been turned away, but the number of those turned away for lack of accommodation was more than usual.
 The physical portion of the college has been increased during Dr. Massey's presidency. but the increase has fallen short of the growth and development of the institution. Dr. Massey has made this increase out/ of the yearly increase of the school. These physi- cal Improvements have been accom- plished out of the annual business of the college. and at the same time. the equipment and the curriculum have been lifted and improved.
 In consequence of this the Method ists place upon the college property valuation of $125,000. and 1t will have a high valuation. even when the Wo- mans College at Montgomery has be- come the great reality which has been planned for 1t by its promoters and friends.
 The feature of the commencement exercises today was an eloquent liter ary address by Hon. c. D. Carmichael. of Geneva. This address was the lar ger part of an excellent program, ar- ranged for the morning services. The music. in which the large audience found much to applaud, was contrib uted by Misses Estelle Grey Corvan, Mary Brooks, Estelle Peavy, Stella Chapman and Lilly Allen.
 he day was given over to the exhi- bition of those graces and accom- plishments which have characterized the cultured woman of the South. The well bred Southern woman differs from her sisters of every section, and of other nations for that matter. The differ ence may be difficult of analysis. but it Is none the less pronounced for that. Perhaps, the most notable expression of that difference Is the gentleness and refinement that is so pronounced: char acteristics which are so associated with true femininity. These woman ly and gentle sgraces come to her through a combination of heredfty and environment.
 South's Highly Cultured Women.
 In the South higher education has been bent to the preservation and improve ment of these graces. Such has been the endeavor of the Conference Col Iege-the conferring of an education 9hat makes for refining, gentle and re- 9igious influence.
 The modern idea that woman is mans rival and should be equipped to meet him, and wage an industrial war fare with him-an idea which has found root in the north and West has, happily, not as yet prevailed here No thoughtful Southern man would have it prevail-not that he fears an industrial rival, but he would not will ingly see the disappearance of the Southern woman, whose charm and whose influence has received honor and acknowledgement, wherever the bless ing of her presence has been conferred.
 It is the indefinable atmosphere of the Alabama Conference College. the moral tone. the refining infiuences an influence from which gentleness ctnes naturally and inevitably. That 1t is hoped, may make the character of the great new institution at Montgomery
 Today, commencement visitors. mo- thers, fathers. brothers and some few masculine callers who were not bro by the musical program, and by the excellent art display which had been spread out for their approval. At the fine arts exhibits and highly praised the students work.
 In the afternoon the Board of Trus