The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-26

DIR. ALBERT SMEDIIS.
Founder OF st. Marys school, the Cen
ienI,ial Anniversary of Whose
Birth Was Celebrated
ruins Of a failure and plncked there
from a harvest Of rich success. h
spot on which st. Mary's stands, Bisn-
op Strange said, had been bought for
a boys school aud failed. After a
time Bishop Ives met DIR. Smedes III
New York aud he came to North Caro-
lnia with the approval of the Bishop.
He opened the school and made that
which we are proud of today DR..
Sniedes showed the yaiu Of a man i'll
his teaching it was not the studies,
the &C ,mpiiShment of arts, the eli
mate Of Raleigh and the quality OF
the school, but it was the character
and personality Of the man who con
trolied and trained the hearts Of the
students. 1t was that Su~b-cOnSciouS
influence which came from the Utmost
recesses Of his being hat made girls
love and revere. him. There is that,
said Bishop Strange, which some men
haVe-Which some men and WOrneI
attracts the best there is i'll
others. So it was with DIR. Snedes.
In the attainment of true success it
- lid dCltl IdtI1Pi Hall iIliiu, pei
sonality rather than ability tina
makes the teacher a success.
After a beautiful iolin solo by Miss
Emile Rose Knox accompanied by
Mrs. KnOx ("IIliZa Smedes'), Mr.. Lay
introduced Miss Emile Watts McVea,
saying that she was the flower of St.
Mary's intellectual crop. Miss McVea
is professor in and also dean of women
at the University OF Cincinnati. SIN.
took as her subject Some Of the
needs of women today" discussing
the present day problem confronting
women With great wisdom and under
standing Miss McSea in her speech
declares that
The times are big with promise
for humanity. for men and for Wo-
men. but opportunities are coming to
women especially. with a suddenness
and iargeness almost binding. \
real danger lnhereS in these very Op-
portunities: The tendency to over
self-deyeloDment for the sake of the
development itself, a superficial pre-
paratiOn for some Of the many pos
Sible VOCatiOns, a rapid changing from
one line Of life to another. The chief
of Women's work today is
its lack Of solid foundation in knoUI-
edge and its instability. The result
of excessive self-development along
somewhat superficial ines results in
fadS and eCcentricities. Her educa-
ton. therefore. must remedy these
defects, and 1t is the spirit whic st.
Mary's has fostered that seems TO
om ~thorOUghness and the poisa
necessary Tor Il woman's highest &C
cOmpliShment. Against the ~eccentri-
cities and lads consequent upon the
change and disruption Of the old
order, against the excessive indiyidu-
alism Of the hour we would oppose
fhn ,Nc ~, va t1-.t
reserve a recognition of service owed
to church and community. he DOW
erS OF the Individual should be de-
Veloped, not Cor self. but for service,
The exercises in the auditorium
closed with Il trio. Dreaming" by
Harry Rowe Shelley, sung by the fol-
lowing young ladies': Sopranos. Misses
Lena Everett. Mamie Lee, Mary I.
Manning: second sopranos. Misses
Paula Hazard, Exum Meares. L.ilias
Pratt; Altos, Misses Julia Borden.
Aimee Moore, Helena Smith.
At 1:3O a luncheon was given to
the alunnae, followed by a~fter-dinner
speeches. There We're over 800 pres
ent, including $50 students. The rec
tor was toastmaster, ana the re-
Spo1f5eS were as follows:
The Welcome
For the School-The Rector.
For the Bishops-Bishop strange.
For the IruSteeS-Col Charles #
Johnson.
For the Students-Miss Paula Haz-
ard.
The Response
Tor the Alumnae-Mrs. r W
Winston.
For the smedes-Nr. W. A. Erwin.
For the Sister-schools-Dr. d IT
Hill.
ToaStS-
The Days of DR.. Albert
Mrs. j.. T. Mason.
The Ieachers-Nrs. Archibald Hen
dersOn.