The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-16
WARNS CONVENT
GRADS AGAINST
LIVING IN CITY.
John D. Prince at Mt. st. Mary's
Commencement Scores
ClubwOmen.
DEPLORES SPECIALIZATION
IN MODERN EDUCATION
Bishop McFaul Presides at
Exercises Held on Noun
tainSide.
Especial to the Evening star.l

this afternoon at / o'clock. The con-
vent is situated on Watching mountain
and, with nature as a setting, a large
stage was built for the speakers and
graduates, and the m~ountainside. was
occupied by the friends and relatives
of the students. The exercises were
most impressive.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop James A. Nc
Faul, of the diocese of Trenton. con.
ferred the academic honors to the stu
dents; and DR.. John Dynley Prince
speaker of the New Jersey House Of
Assembly, made an address. Bishop
McFaul Is the sponsor for the convent
He spoke of the work which the sisters
of this institution are now accomplish.
tfg and told of the necessity in these
fdays of a higher education for young
men and young women.
DR.. Prince, in his address to the
graduating class, explained the true
significance of the work of a religious
order along educational lines. He said,
in part:
AuAcNvarm . iOus Feeiln&
There is no higher life than that de-
ligious and secular, and in these days
of lukewarm religious feeling, when a
too brutal indifference to religious ties,
be they Catholic or Protestant, Is in
sidiously making itself felt in all
classes of our social life. L feel tina
your exhortations and the example of
your lives in religious matters, as well
as your learning in the humanities are
Wa11 ao1nr1lafal 10 lhaa1r %ha .lra
upon the rising generation of this
demon of indifferentism. Let me say
just a word On his subject of the hui
manities as 1t used to be customary to
call these studies pertaining most close
ly to the development of the individual
culture such as Latin. poetry or the arts
OF any sort. 1t has become the fashion
Classical cIiaagi and aas artistic ha .n edu Usa oys. and to to
insist that nowadays no education is of
any avail save the purelypractical learn
ing of a trade or profession. In other
words. the opportunities Of modern edu-
anything not in direct connection with
the students avowed aim in life
So much do 1 disagree with h mod
e~rnistic view of an exclusively special
lied education to the detriment of all
broad training that / always breathe
a sigh of relief when I enter an old
fashioned school such as ours here,
and most of our public schools in this
State where essentials are still insisted
upon and the pupil is not turned into
half-1edged specialist before the neces-
sary ground work has been laid. The
time to specialize is later on If you pass
to the university, which is now the
school of specialization, but in schools
such as this the essentials must be
taught and taught as only the old
fashioned method can teach them, by
real lard work and application, n not
by mennonite kindergarten jugglery.
l have mentioned before an indiffer-
800 a. - haao.a
too evident in every circle of society.
/ regret to say that this peculiar ten
dency to general carelessness seems to
be an inherent CHARACTERISTIC OF our too
variegated modern American life. The
cause Of it all clearly lies in the re-
markable material growth of this coun-
try during the past fifty years. a
growth which has produced a haste In
everythfng-an unreasoning hurry to
get through the increasingly compli-
Gated life-tasks. This shows itself per-
haps most noticeably among our city
men. most Of whom hon tn in t pnT g efeass o snd
spend feverishly day after a a life
which Is destructive not merely to the
nervous system out also to the calm
ideal of Christian morals.
"scores "City Woman"
The same lamentable phenomenon is
seen among the city women of certin
classes. In fact, / do not hesitate to
a that In many instances the Amer
lean city has almost destroyed the nome.
The skyscraping apartment. where
everything is done for the mother OF
the family of moderate means that she
loses her taste and ability for her natu-
raj home duties has produced a type
of woman unknown fifty years ago., a
woman whose life is largely spent In
places of amusement or in the many
All this naturally tends to injure Sc
riously the influence of the home, with
out which our civilization is bound to
perish, and be replaced by a mere
of city women-and they are, thank
heaven, not yet in the majority-the
element of careless indifference to duty
is bound to be developed to an alarm
ing extent while training of any sort is
c-onspicuously absent.
Pray do not imagine that I am depre-
ciating the American m There Is
no woman in the world with a more
brilliant aptitude for accomplishment
than the American woman. am mere
ly pointing out to you what / deem 8
grave dangerIa danger caused by thu
centralized effort of our busting times
1t is probable hat the difficulty vii
regulate itself to a certain extent, be
cause our great cities. where this evil
is most rampant, are becoming more
and more each year mere workshops
human bee-hfves unfit for residence
This will result in the increase of thu
American home now SO APPLY exempt
u lICu OdLoldC LIN SikAVo - liz - %
districts or in smaller residential cities
In fact, the first signs of such an exodu
are already beginning to show them
selves.
The chief function of the woman o
today is to be the home-maker, the rea
centre of h family. No training /
better adapted to impress this cogen
fact upon the mind of the young Amer
lean woman han hat which you hav
received here. A liberal education i
the arts in the best old-fashioned sens
| of that word, coupled with insistenc
upon the fundamental facts of a guild
ing religion. must inevitably tend to tn
development of a healthy-mindee
woman. The true American woman |
the cultivated woman of the home.
The s~alutatory was delivered by Mis-
} Edna Kahny, of Princeton. The grad
yates were: Miss Anna Belle JoneI
: Of Goldsboro, N. c.; Miss Edna
Kahny, of Princeton; Miss Irene Austi
Smith, of New York; Miss Grace Regin
/: Rafferty,, Of Plainf1eld; Miss Marguel
lite Frances McDonough, Of Plainfield
. Miss Marion Ellen O'Hara. of Ne
, York.
!, The vocal and instrumental program
follows: Orchestra selection; choru
"Our Festal Day." vocal class; essa;
Joan of Arc Miss Irene Smith
Mountain Maid Revel, juniors; Youth
Soul Meditation, seniors; "Partin
: Thoughts" graduating class; VOC
e chorus, 1.-The Day Is Done" VOC