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COMMENCEMENT AT AN END.
Each Member of Graduating Glass
Promise 81 Year to Seminary.

Each Member of Graduating Glass
Promise 81 Year to Seminary
The final exercises of commencement
week at Mortified seminary were held I
yesterday morning at 1915 in the Au-
ditorium. A beautiful sight was the |
procession of 600 seminary girls, dress
ed in white as they marched down |
four aisles of the hall to centre seats |
while the vesper choir sang, Jerusalem, |
the Golden. w. R. Moody presided and |
was assisted in the opening exercises |
by DR.. Hersey of Boston
Rev. w. II. Sperry of the Central |
Congregational church of Boston de- |
hvered the commencement address. He
said in part: Matthew Arnold in one
of his poems said, 'ESee life steadily
and see it always To you who arc
graduating this is the true meaning of
commencement. Tolstof said in his
great book, The Kingdom of God, the
most important thing for you is for
you to unite with man and the worst
thing is for men to go apart from one
| another. One of the most interesting
things IS the coming of life into con
seriousness. Developing self-conscious-
ness is to differentiate oneself from
the crowd. Developing ones individu-
atty is most important. Like the
Prodigal Son, the thought should come
to each of you at some time, when YOU
say: FGive me the heritage that is
mine You will find in all your study
of the literature of all ages, that the
making the most of individuality is a
high and holy duty. You may think
your pride, your hopes, your ambition
are unique, but as you look about YOU,
you discover your individual life is the
common universal experience of all
people. You find everyone passing
through the same experiences that YOU
have passed through. You come to real
lZe your experiences are common ones
What is one going to do to adjust one
self to the rough and ready WAYS of
the world where individuality is sup
Ipressed Our education is to develop
us to meet the common life. Be united
to the crowd rather than separated
from it. This is the real essence Of
tChristian religion Jesus Christ was in
form and face like other men and lived
close to them. So live that one can
take ones stand as did the Master
At this time w. r. Moody read the
announcements from the graduating
class, that each girl had promised one
dollar q year to Mortified seminary as
long as she lived. Also that the gift
of the graduating class to the school
was flag pole and flag of our country
to be placed on the campus east of
Kenarden hail. Principal c. E. Dick
erson then presented diplomas to the
81 graduates. He followed with pray
er and the choir sang, The Lord Bless
Thee and Keep Thee. The following
are graduates:
In the college preparatory course,
Alice Downing Evans, Del; Esther
Elizabeth Finley, Egypt. Gertrude
Swing Fisher, Del; Emma Moody Fit.
Mass; Alice Louise Griffiths. Conn.
Evelyn Weeks Hersev, Mass; Alice
: Alden Logan, Pa; Florence Ansley
McKelvie, n. Y; Lisette Miller, Ko-
, rea Katherine Isabel Sherwin, Y. Y;
Helen Curtis Townsend n. Y; Dorothy
f Erline Weeks. Mass. In the English
/. course, Sibyl Buker. \. H.; Pearl Leon
ard Chamberlin, Conn; Ruth Josephine
Doo1ittle, Conn; Ruby Mildred Glea.
: son, Conn; Annie Luverne Mattox
. China; Vera Fairbanks Ross, Mass
Ruth Maria Sargent, n. Y; Ruby Nav
Sheldon, y. H.; jean MacGregor Turn
: bull, Mass; Grace Margaret Vale
: Bermuda; Eliza b G Ii Woodmansce
Wheeler, Conn; May Euniee Wilkins
S n. II. General course, Edith Lillian
). Bey, Mich; Esther Burr Flagg, n. J.;
Martha GAM, n. J.; Florence Isabe
c Gibson, VT; Alice Geraldine Goebell
: \. J.; Alta Beatrice Grant, Mass
Eleanor Pendleton Lord Conn; Marion
! Schaffner Morse, n. "; Alice Bynor
IA Mundee, Me-; Marguerite Abbie Purdv
n. H.; Gertrude Dorothy Sibley Mass
:, Olivette Roanna Swallen, Korea; Div,
r Adele Wentworth, n. Y. Three Oh
these young women are from North
= field, Vera F. Ross, Gertrude Sibley
J, and Emma NJ Fit 1t is worthy q
note that Miss Fit, daughter of Mr.
: and Mrs. Arthur p Fit, is the grand
/ daughter of d. l.. Moody and is tn,
: first one in direct line of the founde
= of Mortified seminary to gradual,
from If