The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-05-26
MEMORIAL
SERVICE
For the Late Miss Dana Held
in the First Presbyterian
Church on Sunday.
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES MADE

OIueI Vi SCI flCO Webo % ANAAN -
Organ Prelude e." O Rest in the Lord"
Mendelssohn
Tnvocation- Rev. f. B. Dwight
HymIl--s' Ten thousand times ten
Thousand"
Scripture Reading John Il,
= - Rev. W. r. Bennett
Anthem sThere is a Land" Smieton
Address-The Rev. John Macnaugh-
tan, d. d.
HYMN" We would see Jesus
Address The Rev. VIM. M. Hughes,
S. T. d.
Hvmn." o Love that wilt not let me
Prayer and Benediction
Rev. Philemon f. Sturges
Response Gently, Lord. Oh Gently
Organ Postlude- March Funebre ct
Chant Seraphs Gullmant
DR.. Macnaughtan said the most
striking fact in the life of Miss Dana,
who for thirty years had the RESPONSE
bilities of the school bearing her name,
was the completeness of the surrend-
er of all she had to its life. The school
was the outward expression of her in
ner life. She could not endure the
nomenclature, and the names under
which the institution was known
passed from institute, seminary, to
Miss Dana's School. 1t bore the stamp
of personality and shows the drift OF her
thought as to what school should be.
Thirty States of the Union have
been represented by the pupils, beside
nine or ten countries of Europe and
Asia. It's graduates have made names
for themselves. not only as home max
erS. but in music, art, literature and
as missionaries to foreign lands. Since
her death letters from far and near
have attested the depth and endur-
ance of the impression on life made by
her. None of the successes of the pu-
pills were complete unless shared with
her. The school was blessed with a.
fine location, able teachers, but, back
of all, was this rare woman's soul.
Miss Dana, anywhere, would have
been force to reckon with. Her ca
pacity of soul and force of character
were conspicuous. By nature and cul-
ture she was stimulating and cultivat-
ing. She lived in big world and com
PEELED others to share in it.
Out of these grew her ideals OF
schools and conduct. Conventional
standards had no footing and she stroVe
for character, not accomplishment,
against fads and vagaries, for truth
and faithfulnees to self.
There was nothing morbid in a ma
ture such as hers. She had the saving
grace of humor and added spirit of
pure democracy. She had her own
deep religious conviction with no cat
echism or creed to hold another soul.
She sought to teach all the facts of
Gods universe.
Her life work was one of freedom
from the commercial and professional.
Finance could not be ignored, but was
never paramount. She was never
merely the head of an educational in
sUitution. She tried to be a mother
to the pupils, as companionable as any
of their own age. Her school and
purse belonged In large noble way to
those who had need of them. Her life
was an impulse and example to others.
Back of all lay the love of woman's
soul for her Lord and Master. Her
deepest feelings we're religious. A re-
ligion which sought the relation to
the invisible and eternal. Religion
was never evil spokenof in Miss Dana's
School. No soul was marred nor vision
dimmed.
DR.. Hughes took as the basis of his
remarks, John 5; 4. For whatso-
ever is born of God overcometh the
world; and this is the victory that
overcometh the world even our faith. ("
He said his part in the service was to
supplement the appreciation of one
of the noblest and sanest personalities
he had ever met by the more direct
purpose of baccalaureate Sunday. He
desired to offer congratulations, but
tempered. 1t is a duty to be critical
as well as courteous, careful as we'll as
genial. Graduation means larger lib
erty. Even at its best a school is re-
StrictiveS eSdisciplinary Graduation de-
pends on fixed hours, assigned studies
and rule. The one purpose of the
school is to ground in obedience to
authority. Discipline and drill are as
needful in school as in great army.
But the time comes when you are too
far advanced to be held by rules as
children and you enter the larger,
freer relation of graduates.
1t is not at all agreeable to teachers
Of any heart to force scholars, but as
graduates you forget the bitter hours
when forced to obey.
If a school is one Of half-baked clap
trap methods, the speaker said, he
might wish Joy for a days play. I'll
graduated with sentimental veneer,
but lacked broad culture. he might be
glad to have you free from such
school. 1t is fundamental to discrim-
mate between what is real and what
veneer.
He offered congratulations on Re-