The perfect order which prevailed throughout the exercises was in striking contrast to former days when pistols and "moonshine" whiskey were most fearfully in evidence.
Of the graduates, one of the young women will teach school the coming year, the young man will seek work somewhere for a year and hopes then to enter the State University at Knoxville and so fit himself for some useful calling in life. These graduates are earnest young Christians who will go out from their alma mater to reflect credit on the School and to do honor to those who have generously given of their means that the children of the people stranded on these mountains may "see a great light." The year just closed was the most prosperous one in the history of Grandview school. The enrollment was the largest the school had ever known and was considerably above two hundred.
Next year, if the juniors all return, as is expected, the graduating class will number about twenty.
COMMENCEMENT AT PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY, TENN.
The graduating class of Pleasant Hill Academy numbered six—three girls and three boys—most of the number coming from the Highland Rim instead of from the mountains proper. There were four others in the class, one from Alabama, but ill-health and other causes reduced the number to six.
Two or three will continue their work at the University of Tennessee, one at the University of Missouri, one at Peabody Normal, Nashville. All expect to teach, and one expects eventually to become a trained nurse and missionary.
We have been interested in tracing their ancestry, which follows: one English, one Scotch-Irish, one Irish, one Scotch-Irish and Dutch, one English-Irish, one Scotch-Irish and French. In the class are Cumberland Presbyterian, Methodist South, Free Baptist, one Mormon and one of Unitarian preferences.
One of the women is the wife of a blind preacher who is doing a good work in this region.