The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-02
WOMAN S.COLLEGE
7. FINALS ARE Held.
Mr.. Booker Pays Respects to
What He Regards as
Society's Ideals.
GLASS UNUSUALLY LARGE
Boston Girl Carries Away
Writer'S Medal, Presented
BY Pollard 1.i

In the presence of an audience
which packed the Academy OF Music
last night, the graduates of the Wo-
mans College received their diplomas,
their mountain OF flowers their need
of applause. and went forth to conquer
the world. The number OF gradual es
this ycnr is unusually large.
The final address was delivered by
Rev. George Booker. d. D., of Peters
burg, who with his lance of wit and
tloqncnce attacked modern concep-
lions of society-a word which he de-
clared grated on him moro than any
other In the dictionary. One could ex-
cusc tho society OF former days lie
said. which was based on blooo and
breeding. but he excoriated what no
said was the society of to-day---based
on wealth. The son of toll, no matter
how high his character nor how brill
liant his mind. would. he asserted.
be unrecogpized by the circle of this
day.
Instructions in Dress.
Also he had a few things to say
about painting of faces and other aids
to beauty. declaring that when these
arts are procticed the ordinary man
cannot tell where the humbug ends and
the woman begins.
Fifty years ago. said DR.. Booker, had
speaker at commencement oocas-
Ion predicted day of intellectual prog.
ress for women, he would have been
criticized And set this is the era Of
the twentieth century. as compared
with the past. when women were sue
cesstvely praised for physical prowess.
for grace of form. and for the ideal
of estheticism.
Rev J. y. Latham. OF Centenary
Methodist Church, offered prayer Dr.
James Nelson, the president OF tho col
iege. who presided, introduced DR.
Booker. li
Professor NJ. a. Martin delivered the
school diplomas and certificates. Tho
writer's medal. the gift of John Gar
land Pollard, was awarded to Miss May
johnson, of Boston. Mass. The music
medal went TO Miss juliet Anderson,
of Barton Heights.
List of Graduates.
The GRADUATES are as follows:
Masters OF Art-AIiss Aura Rather
inc Blanton, Caroline county; Miss
Ruby Elizabeth Goode. North Carolina;
Miss ~. Frieda Koontz. Luray.
Bachelors of Arts-Miss Jeanette
Bryce. Richmond: Miss Elizabeth Gar
nett, Madison county: Miss Mary celia
Herring. Louisa county; Miss Virginia
Pearl Koontz, Luray; Miss Estelle
Scott Nottingham, Accomac county.
Bachelors of Science--Miss Minnie
Constance Anderson. S aluda; Miss
Dorothy Claire Fitzpatrick. Nelson
county; Miss Dorothea Ashby Mon
cure. Fauquier county: Miss Annie
Peasants Page. Albemarle county;
Miss Marjorie Beatrice Yates, North
Carolina.
Bachelors OF Letters-AIiss Corina
Crawford Condor. Goshen: Mics Sallie
*. Fuller. Tatum. s. c.. Miss Mary
Margaret Kent, Fluvanna county; Miss
Mildred Emes Lipscomb, Virginia: Miss
Louise Harrison McCraw, Buckingham;
Miss Massey Osborne Moore, Loudoun
county; Miss Mary Henley Murray,
keysville; Miss Margaret Kennard Not
tinsham, 'Accomac county; Miss Susan
Madeline Pryor, Chester, S. c.; Miss
Elolse Gray Robinson. Powhatan coun.
ty; Miss Madeline Sue Reynolds, Rich
/ mond; Miss Ruby kIarie Stolz, Rich
mond; Miss Mae Wood Stringfellow,
Culpeper county. &a
Bachelors of Music--Mies Juliet May
Anderson. Richmond; Miss Eva Estelle
Barbee, North Carolina; Miss jessie
Lee Ham, Richmond; Miss Ellie Ryland
Voolfolk, Cum berland county; Miss
Lucy Herndon Wills. Culpeper; Miss
Nina Coleman Leedy, Lursy.y
4at VIII Leave Richmond.
Miss Marian Forbes, who for the
cipal Of the Woman's College, ended
her connection with the school at the
close OF the session last night. Her
associates have been warm in their
praise Of her services Z
Miss Forbes has accepted position
with the faculty OF the new Normal
and Industrial School for Women at
Fredericksburg, and will assume her
new duties with tho opening OF that In
stitute in September.
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