The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-18
EXERCISES AT
 MONTEVALL0 The Fourteenth Annual Commencement. MANY VISITORS ARE PRESENT Rev. w. J. E. Cox Breaches the Commencement Sermon. The Formal Graduation of the Senior Glass VIII Take Place Tuesday.
 Program Contains Interest,"
 ing Events.
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M0nteVauo, May .Af--topeCidij--Ah l ne fourteenth annual commencement of was begun Saturday and will be con- cluded Tuesday. with the formal graduation of the Senior Class.
 The students of the institution will be, in the meantime. busily concerned with exercises to display their pro- gress in tho various arts and sciences in which they have become skilled and learned during their stay in the college and in lighter, yet hardly the less im- portant. spirit with the ceremonies with which those are celebrating who now having completed their studies. are leaving their Alma Mater and their fellows in the work that nas held them together so closely and through tne power of memory. will continue to re- tain. them hound one to another throughout life.
 The first gathering of the harvest. SO to say, was the meeting of the Aiumnae Association Saturday morning. The aftermath,-and 1t Is really the af- termath, that will in the minds of the teachers, at least determine In part what the harvest will be-the after math will be the annual meeting Of the Board of Trustees, who will receive re- ports of officers. decide the personnel of, the faculty and say what their sal aries will be- In the meantime, during tho reaping of the main part of the neld. theer has been and will be plenty to. Interest. to instruct and please.
 ..-- <. A Dramatic Recital.
 Saturday night was marked with an excellent dramatic recital under tho d. rection of Miss Maude Hayes. of the school of expressions> and with the an- nual reception of the Castallan Club.
 Today Rev. W. J. E. Cox, D. D., of Mobile, preached the commencement sermon Tonight the Young Woman's Christian Association held its annual meeting and heard a sermon by Rev IZ. A. Bowling, of Montevano. \ It. was the service in the chapel thit imorainRr that afforded the best sight oi ] the. school, of the persons. some of them fold, enough to be called young women Ian of theta young enough to be. called \ girls vho- make and are the school f Dressed in their summer dresses. in lnew1 bloom their summer uniforms ot white. they marched into the chapel more than three hundred strong. In appearance and in department, they re- nected a gerat credit not only upon themselves, but upon the institution which has afforded them opportunity tor education of mind and body. And not. the less notable is. theira gracious E ness to their visitors. many ot. whom are guest rather through suneroncs
 
 might have seemed at first blush. and the bushes were really among the men who stood unarmored and with visors down in the midst of so many lovely amazons.
 Tenuyson's Princess has been chosen as the first public performance. As line followed line and precept fol- lowed preeept in reproach and depreca- : ton of the falsely. arrogantly assumed superiority of man over woman. the Princess Ida's dominions began to take in Tor tfiez masculine portion of the audience at least, a very parlous hue of F darkness But the Virgin Univer- tsity," whose realms lie upon the beau nteous hills of old Shelby. Is ruled by prtncesses graciously inclined to the scorned sex; and was readily percepti- bie. still to follow the poem. that they had given orders for the Ringing Wide of the gates.
 The preceptors and monitors now become in the fest of academic glory, In which disciple for the nonce com manded pedagogue, their gently will ing servitors, those "prudes for proc tors, dowagers for deans" were obeis- ant to the sweet girl graduates in their golden hair, and had flung the gates very wide indeed so that all men were taccorded hearty welcome from the tow-headed tots 6 years old or as old as persons of their age and tempera- ment ought to be, to the ancients who, nerhans. then looked with interest up- on the scholastic behavior and accom- plishments of grandchildren.
 An Important Year.
 That the year has been an Important one Is patent. Just what the report of the President Thomas W. Palmer. IL. D.. will comprise may not now be told, of course, but it is certain that there will be stressed the growth of the Industrial Department
 The endeavor to make the curriculum complete ip every detail so that each pupil of the school, no matter how classiealiy bent, will and must have a thorough training In domestic and practical sciences has been crowned with a success that augurs we'll for even more improvement in the coming year.
 sessions that follow will have finished the entire course.
 Among the matters of especial in- ,terest to the visitors are the new wings of the school buildings. They have mot been completed, but are sufficientl | advanced towards the finality of con- struction as to give ample indication of tn cir proportions and appearance.
 "OId Girls Gather"
 A notable gathering of Saturday was the convention of the Alumnae Associ- ation in the morning. An interesting program was rendered, new members admitted and officers elected for the ensuing term.
 Following is a copy of the program that has been prepared:
 Opening song. A. c. I. S. Hymn.
 What the School Has Meant to the Teaeher"-Una Belle Gilbert '01.
 What tEe- School Has Meant to the Teachers of One Years Experience"- Mary Peters. '0e, or. Piano selo-Sara Crawford, '0S.
 What the Matron is Indebted to the School For"-Theodoro Farris Hutehison, 'o4.
 What the School Has Meant to the Young Woman in Business"-Margaret McArdle. 'so.
 Piano solo-Belle Mcdonald Vernon 'o1
 For What is the Professional Libra rian Indebted to the A. c. I, s. ?'-Nan- nie Shlvers, '02.
 vocal duett-Daisy Dunlap. Minnie Beech, 'oS.
 what the School Has Meant in the Social Life of One Young Woman Lucille Wilkinson. 1900.
 Piano duett-Bessie MeCary, 0a Kathleen Shivers. '0s.
 nTea Blossoms Love Story" (Read- InR)-IJrsula Delchamps. 0S.
 ''What the School May Do for the Trained Nurse"-Cleo Strickland. 'O3
 'eThe Schools Progress in or. 'os"- Clara Thompson. '08
 ''Plans and Suggestions for the Flu.