30 Aug
2009
30 Aug
'09
9:25 a.m.
An audience of three thousand people on the evening of June 2d, attested
the interest felt in the school and the work it has done in West
Tennessee. A varied program of essays, orations, recitations and
personations, with musical selections of choruses from composers of high
rank, all occupying fully two and a half solid hours--these made the
crowning event of the twenty-seven years' work of Le Moyne Normal
Institute. The proud and eager interest of the masses of the colored
people in those of their young men and women who persevere in the face
of great difficulties and many discouragements to complete a course of
study, presents a very attractive and hopeful indication to a student of
the rising race. One who has carefully and for years noted the position
and influence of these graduates among their own people, the stand they
generally take for order and system, and the force and intelligence they
naturally bring to bear on the many questions of social and moral
well-being constantly arising to be dealt with by the masses of their
people--one who has noted the complex working of the moral and
intellectual forces largely represented by the grad
