The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-05-22
1Ntkll-A|NE YOUNG
LADIES GRADUATE
Al THE INSTITUTE
PRES. cAPERS DELIVERED scHo-
LARLY ADDRESS OF MORN.
ING TO LARGE AUDIENCE.
EDUCATION" WAS HIS THEME
This Year Marks seventy-Ninth Time
That Commencement Services Have
Been Held--Many Parents and
Friends were In Attendance.

Been Held--Many Parents and
Friends were In Attendance.
Inc seventy-ninth annual COM
mencement exercises of the Column
Dia Institute took place this morning
In the recreation hall at IL o'clock.
They were attended by large and
cultivated audience, made up of many
from the city, and large crowd OF
visitors from other points.
The exercises were among the most
beautiful and impressive that have
ever been rendered at this historic
institution Of learning. Clad in their
dainty commencement gowns, the
young graduates. twenty-nine in num-
Der, formed beautiful and inspir-
ing sight as they marched into the
hall.
The professional was rendered by
the whole audience standing. The
creed and prayers were then said by
Rev. R. M. w. Black, rector of st.
Peters church. After the award OF
medals and prizes, Professor Mud
roch, teacher Of violin at the Insti-
tute, rendered beautiful solo.
President Walter Branham Capers
then gave the address of the morn
ing, taking as his theme "Education.~
1t was scholarly exposition of the
modern theories upon this much
nooted subject, the speaker finally
summing them all up. and giving the
one that appeared best in his opinisn
and estimation. It will be published
in full hereafter.
Rev. H. J. Mikell, rector of Christ,s
church, Nashville, awarded the diplo-
mas and certificates to the graduates.
Those who received them were as fol-
lows:
Full MISUNDERSTANDING Clark,
Martha Glass, Cornelia Alexander,
Angela Powell, Frank Sanders, Marie
Hardwick, Annie Baker Jones.
English diplomas-Maud Arthur,
Marie Cook, Gladys Gillian, Daisy
Harrell. Charlotte Watson, Robbie Ia
tenn. Charlotte Hughes, MaNnerite
Page, Anna Bell Shelby.
English certificates Wilkin-
son, Licile Taylor, Eloise Morrow,
Flora Phillips.
Music certificates Marie Little,
Lucille Taylor, Angela Powell.
Voice Observation-Disclosures Clark
Domestic science certificates, Clara
Carneal, Clara DeBardeleben, Anna
Lee Soule, Eloise Morrow.
Domestic science, Sewing-Angela
Powell.
The winners Of the various medals
and prizes were as follows:
Ewell medal. in literature-Corne-
liza Alexander
Gotham medal, in piano-Miss An
gela Powell, Orrick, Mo.
Graduate medal, in voice-Miss
Marjorie Clark, Columbia.
Best first years work in voice
Miss Flora Phillips, Chicago, Ill.
English Bible medal Charlotte
Watson, Columbia.
Columbia Herald medal Charlotte
Hughes, Columbia, subject, "Good Cit
izenship.
Medal in domestic science offered
by executive board-Miss Clara Car
neal, LeCompte, La.
Best first years work in domestic
science,-Miss Reba Stevens, Nash
vile.
Best second year in domestic SCI
ence Elizabeth Watson.
Mrs. Caper's prize for neatness and
order (best kept room during the
year, Katherine Gates, Marion Bur
NETT, Tiptonville, Tenn.
Memory Work in Bach, prize by
Miss Ashton-Miss Marie Little, Bay
Minette, Ala; Irene Sowell.
Daughters Of the Confederacy med
al, best essay on 1.-THE South In Do
Tense of the Nation"-Miss Margaret
McKennon.
Mary Boyd Carpenter art medal
Miss Gladys Gillian, Of Paducah, KY.
Prize for best undergraduate work
n sewing-Miss May Spencer, OF
Grace, Miss.
The following seven young ladies'
have had 100 in punctuality each
month throughout the entire school
year-Misses Mary Louise Gresham.
Lemyra Harlan, Leila Barr Anderson.
Anna Belle SeIby, Marie Little, Clara
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