Wesleyan College Junior Exhibition; Camilla Hemingray Essay

The Junior Exhibition of the Weslyan Fe­male College was held, last evening, at Wesley Chapel. We dropped in a little after 8 o’clock, expecting, in accordance with our previous experience at college exhibitions, to put in a long, and of course hot evening, and were not a little surprised to fine [sic] find the performance already half through; and when at the close of the exercises we discovered the clock point­ing to only 9 o'clock, we could scarcely believe the evidence of our eyes. We had not yet began to feel the slightest symptoms of fatigue, and the essays were so short and the young ladies followed each other in such quick succession, and the whole was so agreeably interspersed with music, that we were actual­ly just becoming fairly interested when we found ourselves at the end. We scarce­ly remember a similar occasion, where the value of brevity seemed to have been so well understood, and was so happily illustrated. We commend the example to in­stitutions of learning generally. The church was so well ventilated ss to render the heat scarcely perceptible.

The following was the programme. The Address before the Lyceum by Mr. Goddard did not take place, being postponed, we pre­sume, until the closing exercises of commencement.

Music...........................................................Hymn

Music — Chorus.........................................School.

Essay — Grandeur of the Missionary Enterprise. — Carrie O. Meagher Vicksburg, Miss.

Essay — Fascination in the Pursuit of Knowledge. — Rebecca T. Shaw, Point Pleasant, Va.

Essay — Mental Improvement a Progressive Work. — Eliza S. Davenport, Prairie Mer Rouge, La.

Essay — Old Time's Scrubbing Brush. — Sallie Heath, Lafayette, Ind.

Essay — The Past Half Century. —Nannie J. Minor, Cincinnati.

Essay — Do well and doubt not. — Anna C. Hart, Cincinnati.

Essay — Life a Battle. — Emma C. Titus, Cincinnati.

Essay — Power of Woman with the Pen. — Louisa J. Pfaff, Cincinnati.

Essay — All things are engaged in writing their own History. — Mary J. Ridenour, College Corners, Indiana.

Music Instrumental Duett. (Grand Valse Brilliante, Schulhoff.) — Prof. H. J Smith and Sallie A. Reynolds.

Address before the Lyceum. — By Rev. Kingston Goddard, D.D.

Music — Serenade from Zampa. — Glee Class.

Essay — The Classics in Woman's Education. — Anna V. Bruce, Cincinnati.

Essay — Universality of Law. — Matilda French, Avondale.

Essay — Unrest of Spirit — Sallie J. Reynolds, Lafayette, Ind.

Music — Vocal Duett, "Arrayed In Clouds.1" — Eliz­abeth Fries, Mary W. McDowell.

Essay — Silent Power. — Jessie S. Wilber, Cincin­nati.

Essay — Space. — Camilla Hemingray, Covington, Kentucky.

Essay — "Per Aspera ad Astra." — M. Augusta Clark, Cincinnati.

Essay — Poetry and Science. — Florence J. Seegar, Fairmount.

Music — Chorus. — School.

Benediction.

To-night and to-morrow night the com­mencement exercises of the graduating class will be held at the same place, (one-half of the class performing each evening,) and will doubtless be both brief and entertaining.