The log cabin Democrat., 1914-05-28
GENERAL SESSION
 COMES 10 CLOSE DIPLOMAS GRANTED 10 q
REV. JOHN J. HURT DELIVERS MASTERFUL ADDRESS TO
 GRADUATING CLASS.

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 With the presentation of diplomas and certificates to 21 members of the graduating class and the award of medals and honors for the year, the twentieth annual session of Central ICollege came to a successful close this morning. The feature of the final 'eX- ercises was a masterful address by Rev. John Jeter Hurt of Durham, N C., former pastor of the First Bap- tist church at Conway.
 This mornings exercises opened with professional from Strauss, and after the invocation and a piano solo by Miss Anna Wilson, the president, Dr. John w. Conger, announced the nearly every case the successful stu dents won by narrow margins and Dr. Conger read the names of large number who lacked only small frac- tions of equaling the grades of the winners. The awards were as fols lows:
 Medal for best housekeeper-Miss Eddie King.
 Dr. Runyan expression medal Miss Vashti King.
 Mrs. Joseph Frauenthal art medal Miss Ruth Hartje.
 Dr. C. E. Witt voice medal-Miss Jane Cammack.
 Music scholarship medal-Miss Fern Hornberger.
 Rev Ben Cox medal for greatest improvement in Christian graces- Miss Estelle Reeves.
 Wm.N D. Upshaw medal for best ready writer-Miss Ada Allen.
 Preparatory scholarship medal Miss Gladys Chick.
 Collegiate scholarship medal-Miss Estelle Walton.
 Following a duet, T Would That My Love-" by Misses Alice Reynolds and Mildred Johnston, pr Conger then awarded certificates and diplo- mas to the following:
 Literary-Misses Ada Alien, A. B., Indiana; Meredith Clark, A. B., Con- way; Mae Allison, B. L., De Queen; Nannette Akin, B. L., Conway; Ger aldine Lambright, B. L., De Queen; Doris Owen, B. L., Conway; Alma Sledge, B. L., Helena; Vestal Witt, B. L., Morrilton.
 Piano-Misses Zula Roe Ward, post gratudate, Rector; Fay Livingston, B. M., Conway; Mildred Johnston, Batesville; Alma Sledge, Helena; Pearl White, Russellville; Anna Will son, Conway; Eddie King, junior course, Pine Bluff; Alice Reynolds, junior course, Russellville. Expression-Miss Meredith Clark, postgraduate, Conway.
 Art-Misses Hattie Donnell and Ruth Hartje, Conway; Miss Lola Bowen, certificate in ceramics.
 Domestic Science - Misses Mary Jones, Prescott; Alice Rachels, Scar cy; Estelle Sledge, Washington (state).
 Stenography-Miss Ethel Lane, Blytheville.
 The graduates were recipients ot an immense quantity of floral offer ings, as well as many beautiful gifts.
 On behalf of the board of trustees, Judge M. J. Manning of Little Rock made a short address, in which he re- counted the struggles and sacrifices which had brought Central College to it's present high place, and he paid strong tribute to the labors and con- tributions of two local members of the board, Col. G. w. Bruce and J. Frank Jones.
 Dr. Conger then announced the speaker of the morning, Rev. Hurt, who expressed his great appreciation at being invited to return to the scene of his former labors and his abiding love for the college over which he was for many years the pastor Rev. Hurts subject was "The Rightful Place of the Christian Religion in the American College" Defining educa- tion as that which best prepares one for the largest and the longest life, MT. Hurt said that Christianity should occupy an important place in ones