Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-22

Ipeople in their peerless Graded
Schools was again and most enthusl-
Eastically manifested Wednesday night
lin the great audience that thronged
the Opera House to witness the
concluding program of the COM
imencement exercises.
The scene when the vast audience
had assembled and the large gradual
ing class, the trustees, and those to
participate i'm the program were seat
ed on the commodious stage was the
most creditable we have ever wit
messed to Goldsboro's splendid citizen
| ry. their high intellectuality, their
unfailing public spirit, their united in
terest i'm the welfare of their school.
| their progress thus achieved and their
progressivnesS. It was just such an
audience, and assembled under such
| auspices as to make the superbly con-
| cedved and sweepingly comprehensive
l address of DIR. Edwin Minis, of the fac
ulty of Trinity College, sound like the
| inspiration of the hour, as it was of
rare genius and master-philOsOph
Dr. Minis was introduced by Rev. j.
Fl. Frizelle, and for more than an hour
he held his great audience spellbound
~ his matchless summary of life and
it's possibilities, individually, collec-
lively, of the Individual obligation up
on every boy and girl to acquire an
education, of the power of education
In the community, the State. the Ma
is the work of a lifetime, growing
with the growth of the individual. It
was, doubtless, all in all, the greatest
ethical, educational, political, opti-
mistic address ever delivered in Colds
boro-and this means in the State
der the utterances of the most master
ly minds of the age, and therefore
when we accord to DR.. Minis this
need of praise we have said all that
we could possibly say in appreciation
OF his matchless talk to the graduates
and more AS a citizen of North Car
olina, whose spirit is attuned to DR..
Minis own high chord of optimisim,
we are proud and grateful that the
youth of our State in this day and
time have the priceless opportunity of
sitting for instruction under such a
man as DIR. Minis, and as a citizen of
Goldsboro we thank him for coming |
to talk to our graduating class and
our citizens, as he did last night.
At the conclusion of his address, |
Superintendent Woltz announced that |
the University scholarship had been
awarded to Mr.. George J. Kirby Free |
man. third and youngest son of Mrs. |
A. B. Freeman, and the Normal Col
Iege scholarship to Miss Yetta Motzno, |
which announcements were hailed |
with great applause.
Col. A. c. Davis. then, in behalf of |
the board OF trustees. after paying a |
tribute to the superintendent and fac |
ulty of the school, delivered the |
diplomas, prefacing the act with some |
well-chosen words of appreciation and |
advice to the class.
The following constitute the grad
night and is the largest class in num-
Der ever graduated from the school:
Misses Mary Lily Aycock, Mary
Moore Allen, Ellen Douglas Biz
zell, Annie Louis Smith, Emma
Elizabeth Hollowell, Eunice Woot-
en- Bizzell, Annie Ruth Middle
ton, Louise Wood Crawford, Mary
Eleanor Morgan, Elizabeth Lee Mark
ham, Zuba Irene Markham, Octavia
Daniels Mozipgo, Hattie Yetta Motzno,
Annie May Outlaw, Iona Sula Snipes,
Sara Albert Wooten, Lura Savannah
Fonvielle, Gertrude Griffin, Annie
Gertrude Johnson, Lula Cashwell
Ipock. Messrs. Paul Robey Bryan,
Henry Arnold Dennis, Charles Will
son Davis, William Theophilus
Dortch, George J. Kirby Freeman,
Kenneth Claiborne Royal, Robert
Edgar Stevens, George Walter Waters,
Jr.
1t is, we feel, no unfair comparison
to say that the graduating class this
year is not only the largest in the
history of the school, but is one of
the best in standard of scholarship
and In the quality of graduating exer-
cises the school has ever turned out,
which is an all-round gratifying real
ization, since it sustains, in this as in
other respects the oft-asserted truth
of The Argus in regard to Goldsboro,
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