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22 THE OREAD. the most interesting, perhaps, was that on "Transcendentalism." There have also been entire evenings devoted to the life and works of one author. The Howell programme was most interesting.

On the evening of February 26th the following programme was rendered in the Seminary Chapel by the members of the Oread Society:

PROGRAMME.

PART I.

1. Address of Welcome	By the President, Louise Baler.

2. E. H. Sherwood	L'Heureux Retour—Caprice Brillante. Luella Glass and Ada Buttz.

3. Essay		" Importance of a Determined Purpose." Lulu Rock.

4. Tennyson (a) "Break, Break, Break." (b) "The Bugle Song." Tressa E. Fourt.

5. Hiller	Murmuring Zephyr. Besse Blamer, Nellie Foster and Luella Glass.

6. Oration		"Is Literature Indicative of National Progress?" Florence Bastian.

7. Moszkowski—Valse in A	Besse Blamer.

8. Longfellow—"The Famine." Besse Hutchinson.

9. Carl Bohm—" Still Wie die Nacht." Louise Baker.

10. Tableaux. { (a) An Angelic Choir.

(b) Under the Mistletoe.

PART II. 1. Play—"A Society Sham."

Written by Lynne Waddell, Brandonville, W. Va.

Characters.

Mrs. Fortney, a Chicago widow	Luella Glass.

Mernice Fortney, her eldest daughter	Mamie E. Tapscott.

Lenora Fortney, her second daughter 	Frances Ballard.

Helen Fortney, her youngest daughter	Chloe Baker.

Thespia Colbroke, her niece	Nellie Foster.

Persis Henderby, an old maid friend of Thespia	Ada Buttz.

Prof. Nelson, Lenora's teacher	Harper G. Hicks.

Mrs. Watson, a woman of position in Chicago	Catharine Mastin.

Blanche Scott, a fashionable girl 	 Besse Blamer.

Tilly O'Larry, the Irish maid	Minnie M. Fourt.

2. " America." (Audience join.)

The parts were well performed, and all who heard the programme were highly pleased with its execution.

The Library of the Society has been much improved this year, until now there is abundant opportunity for excellent and extensive reading.

PRESENT OFFICERS.

President	-	Besse Hutchinson.

Vice President	-	Tressa Fourt.

Secretary	-	Catharine Mastin.

Librarian	Jessie Capperune.

Treasurer	-	Nelle Foster.

Few parents are called upon to have so many pass out from the home nest, in their early years, as have Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Hutton. Some years ago, a daughter just entering early womanhood went to her eternal home. Last July we chronicled the death of the regal Grace and this year the suffering, loyal Floy has been laid beside her sisters. A few years ago, Floy and Grace were members of the seminary household and each made her own place, won and held her friends, and has been mourned by a large number of schoolmates widely scattered. The father, mother and brother who remain have the deepest sympathy of these who have known and loved their Floy and Grace.

THE FORTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

MOUNT CARROLL SEMINARY.

Recitals by Graduates from the Conservatory—May 8th, 14th, 15th, 24th and June 3d. Attendance by invitation.

SUNDAY EVENING, JUNE 2.

Baccalaureate Sermon	Rev. J. P. Philips, Baptist Church.

MONDAY, JUNE 3.

2 P. M.

Class Exercises	     Seminary Campus.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4.

2 TO 5 P.M.

Art Reception	Seminary Studio.

8 P.M.

Commencement Exercises	Baptist Church.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5.

10:30 A. M.

Business Meeting of the Education Society..Oread Room, Seminary.

2:30 P. M.

Public exercises of the Reunion Society at Baptist Church—Address by Mrs. Winona Branch Sawyer, of Lincoln, Nebraska.

8 P.M.

Annual Concert of the Conservatory......Baptist Church

There was a large attendance at the Baptist Church on Sunday evening. It being the occasion of the Baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. J. Philips, before the forty-second class of Mt. Carroll Seminary. The teachers and pupils were there in full numbers, and in the front seats, especially reserved for them, sat the sweet girl graduates of '95.

The Rev. Mr. Philips was assisted by the Rev. Mr. Stuckenberg, who read as the Scripture lesson the 144th Psalm, and after the anthem offered a prayer. The music, specially prepared for the occasion, was beautiful in itself, and finely rendered. There was an anthem by the quartette choir, "Still with Thee," and Miss Troutfetter sang "Ave Maria," by Migand, with violin obligato by Mr. Grove.

The quietness of the congregation attested to the interest that was taken in Mr. Philips' most able and helpful address. His text was from Zachariah 9-17: "For how great is His grandeur and how great is His beauty." A brief synopsis of the principal thoughts is as follows:

It is our part to take the goodness and beauty of God into our lives and then to give it out to others. The vision of Daniel regarding the dominion of the four great beasts was cited. These signified the four great dominions of the past, whose one element in common was that of brute force. Their destruction was foretold. They were to be conquered by a dominion which should be eternal, that of humanity in its highest sense, "Like unto the Son of Man." It is the duty of us all to help to put down this brute force and to raise in its place the dominion of "His goodness and His beauty." The elements which make up this beauty which we must spread arc, patience, corollation, purity, power and the ability to see the opportunities for beauty in the things nearest us however small. Not many are the great or celebrated women of each age. These are raised tip for special emergence. But all have the chance to aid in putting down the brute, in bringing in the kingdom of the Son of Man, and in showing forth His goodness and His beauty. Mr. Philips closed his sermon with a few words of thanksgiving in behalf of the young women who are about to leave their school days and step out into the arena of life, and prayed that they