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http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
July 1875
Contributor
Kelly Holler, Michelle Seref
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Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
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LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.1 (July 1875), p.5
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MESSRS EDITORS:
We would like to put a few lines in The Gray Jacket, about the commencement exercises of the Montgomery Female College,
The exercises of the first night, Tuesday June 22, consisted of essays, recitations, vocal and instrumental music, by the young ladies of the Societies, all of which performances cannot be too highly praised.
Wednesday night, we had the commencement exercises proper, consisting of the essays of the graduates, of whom there were five, the awarding of medals and diplomas, and the whole diversified with excellent music,
Looking over the programme and reading the subjects of the essays, "Cobwebs," by Miss Ella Shelburne of Christiansburg, attracts our notice, and we wonder what the young lady will make of this strange subject, When she finished we wondered what she had not made of it. She spared no pains in festooning her subject with the cobwebs of fancy and intimately and delicately, as by the silken toil of the little insect, she interwove beautiful imagery and moral truths.
Miss Minnie Ewan of Maryland, read a charming essay on the subject :
"What is, outshines what seems,
Earth bath no time for idlers,
Life hath no time for dreams."
Miss Bettie Barnitz of Christiansburg, took for her subject, "Across the Alpine summit lieth thine Italy," so eloquently did she handle the sub- ject that it inspired us poor pilgrims to the Italy of knowledge, with new life and strength to struggle up the intervening Alps.
"Through the shadows of the world we sweep into the younger day,
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay,"
by Miss Ella Price of Christiansburg, was a really excellent composition and marked the young lady as a first class thinker.
Miss Emma Parish of Salem, Va. delivered the valedictory and selected as her subject these lines,
"Farewell fond scenes, where many a day has passed,
In joys whose fond remembrance long shall last,"
This was considered by many, the best essay of the evening, It displayed great depth of feeling as well as thought, and was admirably read.
Mrs. Pollock, who has been connected with this institution for the last five years, has done a great deal towards making this school one of the best in the State. She is the right woman in the right place, and throws the energies of her whole soul and mind into the work of education. Seed that she has sown begin already to bear rich harvests. We wish her much success.
Beta.
We would like to put a few lines in The Gray Jacket, about the commencement exercises of the Montgomery Female College,
The exercises of the first night, Tuesday June 22, consisted of essays, recitations, vocal and instrumental music, by the young ladies of the Societies, all of which performances cannot be too highly praised.
Wednesday night, we had the commencement exercises proper, consisting of the essays of the graduates, of whom there were five, the awarding of medals and diplomas, and the whole diversified with excellent music,
Looking over the programme and reading the subjects of the essays, "Cobwebs," by Miss Ella Shelburne of Christiansburg, attracts our notice, and we wonder what the young lady will make of this strange subject, When she finished we wondered what she had not made of it. She spared no pains in festooning her subject with the cobwebs of fancy and intimately and delicately, as by the silken toil of the little insect, she interwove beautiful imagery and moral truths.
Miss Minnie Ewan of Maryland, read a charming essay on the subject :
"What is, outshines what seems,
Earth bath no time for idlers,
Life hath no time for dreams."
Miss Bettie Barnitz of Christiansburg, took for her subject, "Across the Alpine summit lieth thine Italy," so eloquently did she handle the sub- ject that it inspired us poor pilgrims to the Italy of knowledge, with new life and strength to struggle up the intervening Alps.
"Through the shadows of the world we sweep into the younger day,
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay,"
by Miss Ella Price of Christiansburg, was a really excellent composition and marked the young lady as a first class thinker.
Miss Emma Parish of Salem, Va. delivered the valedictory and selected as her subject these lines,
"Farewell fond scenes, where many a day has passed,
In joys whose fond remembrance long shall last,"
This was considered by many, the best essay of the evening, It displayed great depth of feeling as well as thought, and was admirably read.
Mrs. Pollock, who has been connected with this institution for the last five years, has done a great deal towards making this school one of the best in the State. She is the right woman in the right place, and throws the energies of her whole soul and mind into the work of education. Seed that she has sown begin already to bear rich harvests. We wish her much success.
Beta.