The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-23
ST. PAUL NORMAL
SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
IsawreiceyiIe school Closes Year Of
Splendidly Successful Work.
List OF Graduates.


Especial to The Richmond Virginian)
I.awrenceville. Va. May 22.-The
twenty-seventh annual closing exercises
of rae ST. Paul Normal and Industrial
School took place Wednesday night
before an audience SO large that 1t
was necessary to use both the chapel
auditorium and the chapel itself in
order to accommodate the immense
crowd. the largest in the history of
commandments. The program was
divided and carried out simultaneous
ly both upstairs and downstairs An
unprecedented number of white
friends Of the school, local and coun-
ty were present.
The events OF commencement week
began Sunday. May rs. with the
splendid haccaulaureate sermon by
tie Rev. f. +. cambridge. rector OF
St. PauTs Church, Petersburg, Va,
taking Elk. AZ for his text: What Is
That in Thine Hand. \ Rod The
leading thought was the opportunity
training and education gave the class
for useful service. Celebrating. he
impressed upon them that they
should strive TO do four things; make
the life of Christ more real to them
and their people; use the rod of OPP
portunity in their hands for not sell
fishly for themselves alone. but for
humanity; to help Christianize. beau
fifty and purify life wherever round.
and the evil of complaining Com
planning. he declared. sometimes
caused the loss of some of the sweet
est things of life, In closing, he ad-
5ured them to remember theideals
and teachings of the school, the spirit
OF social service incuicated, and the
tE7esY tssHN -
and hand,
Other Events of Week.
The other events of the week were
in their order, the meetings of the Y.
NJ. G. A. and Y. W. C.. A. Literary
Societies, Parish School Closing. Glass
Day, Prize Oratorical Contest and
Competitive Drill. The prize winners
were: Prize Oratorical Contest. first
Prize. "Simmie p. Onner Memorial
Prize" $40 in gold. Miss Lydia Holly,
Haiti: second prize, Known as the
Founders Prize. SIS In gold. George
E. Malette, North Carolina: third,
IS, Miss Ruth Lewis, Newport News;
fourth. So, Miss Harriet Spriggs,
Mathews County. Va: harriet Car
per Memorial Prize" for the best
work in senior English. SIS in gold.
I'll. NJ. Woods, West Coast, Africa.
Dairy prize, $40, George f. Majette,
North Carolina; The Mortified Prize.
$2.50 in gold, Miss Martha Claiborne,
Lawrenceville, Va.
Quite an Ella borate program has
been prepared with a view to an out
door exercise. The different indus
| tries were to have been illustrated by
floats blacksmithing. Carpentry
printing. etc.---but the cool weather
made an indoor program necessary
Prayer was said by Bishop Tucker.
Miss Gussie Love. of Lunenburg Coun-
ty. was salutorian, subject, What Is
Expected of a st Paul Graduate:
valedictorian. Miss Sarah j. Short,
The Places Domestic Science Holds
in Girls Education The other
features were demonstration In
housekeeping with a paper by Miss
Martha Smith. tailoring and dairyfng.
The alumni were represented by Mr.
James A. Lightfoot, '01, an attorney
at law. Atlantic city. N T., and Miss
Mamie Travis. Brunswick County,
Iva.
DIR. Egglcston Unable TO Speak.
The address TO the graduates was to
have been given by President j. d.
/ Eggfeston, of the v p. ], but he sent
a letter of regret advising that ne was
sick and his doctor forbade him COM
ing. The other address was by the
| Rev. &C. II. Bratenat1f d.. u. OF
tha.g SNashbnGtan Province. DIR. Brate-
rsssh took srawt h. soTs bis as3bie0ts
He said in part that the main object
of education was not TO assist one in
! getting hold of MASSACHUSETTS, ftvh
getintg hold of material things, but to
aid mental growth, and to broaden
| and quicken the conceptions The
growth OF the mind should be the SUI