The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-02
FINE PROGRAM AT
WOMAN s COLLEGE
Class President Makes Delightful
Speech, Telling Of Future
and Past.

Speech, Telling OF Future
and Past.
With program filled In with many
attractive features, the class Of 1913
at Woman's College scored great
triumph yesterday, the exercises being
moro successfully presented than over
before.
Beautiful chapel decorations were In
palms, smlax and the iris, the class
flower. which carried out the class
required. Miss May held suspended
above the rostrum by purple ribbons on
background of gold, appeared the
class motto: "Ad augusta per augusta
against framing OF sintlax that
brought out the lettering admirably.
Professor Jacob Rcinhardt played a
professional and the class came III,
led by their president, Miss Mary
Warren May, a talented and charming
young girl, who bore herself with the
grace and dignity which the occasion
required Miss May held suspended
from her shoulders u wreath of smilax,
and the graduates who followed her
We're linked together with smilnx
chain.
The class song was given with great
animation and spirit, the chorus ring
ing out strong and true and clear.
The ushers for the day were under.
graduates gowned in white, the group
including Misses Helen Hammer!y.
Estelle Fitchett. Erma Saunders, Ella
Guthrie, Carrie Leigh Spivey and Pearl
carroll. They discharged their duties
IN delightful fashion. and were most
hat,
desires OF the audience
Address by Glass President.
Inc iddress OF welcome was deliy-
cred by the president, the central and
leading figure among the graduates
who said:
1T is with unfeigned pleasure that
.ile CLASS OF naughty eight welcomes you.
VINO are here assembled ON this tovous
occasion--our class day. 1t adds great.
~ TO our enthusiasm and Happiness to
see your Interested and expectant faces
nefore US. We feel that you are friend
~ ana sympathetic, for many Of you
nave experienced just such a pleasure
as we Joyously hail to-day. You will
Know how to pardon any overexuber-
ance on our part. and your charity will
accept our humble efforts in the spirit
IN which they are offered and bio to
our faults little blind
Io-day is our day of triumph. the
Gay when we throw off the shackles
OF the class room and stand at the
summit OF glorious freedom and at
tainment; we have at last reached
the goal of academic ambition, orr
pulses quicken and our hearts throb
IN sympathy With all that is bright
and beautiful in nature, with It's re-
hewed promise of peace and fulfilment.
II gives us hope and courage for the
uncertain future, upon whose thresh
old we stand. in the combined strength
and weakness of young womanhood.
the flush OF happiness and success upon
our faces.
This long wished-for day has been
reached only by undaunted courage
and tireless effort. We have realized
the significance of our motto: .Ad au-
susta per augusta and have striven to
need It's inspiring call through weary
months OF toll. We have not stood
still. hoping and expecting that in
some mysterious way greatness would
De thrust upon u.s. but we have be-
stirred ourselves and by toll and stress
nave, we trust, deserved the plaudit.
Well done!
10 greatness, through labor. Has
not this always been the motto OF those
whose broWs have worn the laurel?
VINO has ever reached the heights of
success without self-denial and sac
rifice? No name has ever been written
upon the deathless roll of immortality
but through years of struggle and
agony. Nothing is worth while but
the biggest things, and nothing will
win these but sternest self-devotion.
Through this. the motto of many
a hi iOnS nJrtf bn,
present success; nor should we ever
cast aside that which has been our
earnest incentive in the past Now. as
VIC enter life's battlefield, let us keep
our standard aloft. never falterng in
our allegiance, but with hands and
hearts united to make life and death
and that vast forever one grand sweet
song
you who follow after US along the
thorny paths of knowledge. we would
bid not despair; be faithful in each
days work. remembering it is the little
seeds OF knowledge garnered slowly
but surely day by day. that yield the
richest harvest by and by: that it is
the small. successive troubles conquered
day by day that pave the way Of duty
up to heaven"
The Other Features.
Following the lead of the president
and introduced by her. came Miss
Helen Gregory, the eloquent class
orator; Miss Mary Lewis Walden, enter
tanning class historian; Miss May
Lette. gifted class poet: Miss Bessie
Overton Hutchinson. astute class law
yer; Miss Eva Virginia Agner the
far-seeng class prophet. and Miss
Anne Chesterman Woodfin, who crown
cd the efforts OF those preceding hel
by her moving words as valedictorian
After the valedictory came the fare
! we'll song. one verse OF which wa:
beautifully rendered as a solo by Mis-!
Bessie Hutchinson, who sang 1t to tt'
| air of believe Me, If All Those En-
! dearlng Young Charms" and was hear,
| with great pleasure.
Then, With Miss May leading, tn
| graduates passed from the chapel Il
/ the lawn, where they listened and ap