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Show ST.. MARY'S ACADEMY The school work of December being cut short by the holidays, the reports for the month, though recorded, will not be sent to parents or guardians. At the end of January the regular semi-annual bulletin of examination marks will bear a report in detail tf all the work done by each student since her entrance, while the monthly report card will show the averages for December and January. Among the comforting reflections which will doubtless add to the pleasure pleas-ure of the Christmas vacation for those inclined to be anxious about such matters, is the thought that several sev-eral of their examinations are already i over. Latin and algebra in the first and second academic classes were the subjects of such thorough written tests during the week as to obviate j the necessity of further examination j until the end of the year. I The last meeting of the fourth academic aca-demic literary society was unusually interesting, the time remaining after the routine exercises being spent in debating the question: '"Resolved, That knowledge is a greater source of good for mankind than wealth." Sister Superior Su-perior was present and followed the argument with keen interest. The victory, though rather difficult to decide, de-cide, was finally accorded the students of the negative side, Misses Sidenfa-den, Sidenfa-den, Davis, Chipman and Shannon. The Sodality of the Holy Angels has been reinforced by the addition of seven new members: Alice Sheehan, Bernadette Ryan, Beatrice Wilkinson, Genevieve Giles, Mary Sheridan, Margaret Mar-garet Reynolds und Helen Cuddihy. The reception took place .Sunday afternoon, aft-ernoon, the Rev. D. Slattery, chaplain, performing the ceremony of conferring confer-ring the badges and medals. The act of consecration was read in the name of the candidates by Bernadette Ryan, and after the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Father Faber'a "Dear Angel Ever at My Side" was sung by the choir. The officers of the sodality for the year were elected on the Sth of December, the feast of Our Blessed Mother being chosen as an auspicious occasion for organizing the society and placing its interests and endeavors under the patronage of th Queen of Angels. The election resulted result-ed as follows: President, Evelyn Paddock; Pad-dock; vice president, Genevieve Giles; secretary, Marjorie Mundy. One of the most welcome visitors at the academy for many days was the Rev. Patrick Power of Livermore, Cal., who called oiv the sisters, of whom he Is an old and well-tried friend. Sunday morning. Returning as he was from a trans-Atlantic trip of several months, he had much to tell that was of more than ordinary Interest to many whose native places he had visited on his way. He saw the Passion Play, and his impression corresponds with that reported by all who have had the good fortune to witness it: "It simply beggars description." descrip-tion." Father Power's visit was one of those whose pleasure endures far beyond the hour of personal presence. The long-awaited "last day of school" was greeted with a prevailing exuberance of the home-going spirit Wednesday morning. Regular class duties extended up to the very hour of the Christmas program that brought a happy conclusion to the scholastic exercises of 1910, and ushered ush-ered in most fittingly the joyous Christmastide. The little folks of the minim department, as if fully aware of their greater rights in the celebrations celebra-tions of the season, had a program of their own at 9:30. After the reading of their notes for December they presented pre-sented several appropriate selections in excellent style, the "Merry Christmas' Christ-mas' 'idea dominating both the recitations recita-tions and the songs. A bountiful treat of candy added a touch of substantial reality to all the ideal sweetness that characterized this pretty little closing lor the holidays. An exhibition of colored col-ored drawings was one of the interesting interest-ing features to the visitors and revealed re-vealed some very clever interpretations interpreta-tions of Christinas subjects by these nrimflrr artissto The Christmas program was given I at 2 o'clock, at which early hour there was a large audience in the auditorium audito-rium of the assembly hall, all doubtless doubt-less filled with expectations grounded on past experiences of seeing only the best presented by St. Mary's students. There was no cause for disappointment, disappoint-ment, the entertainment being fully up to the standard both in the matter of the selections and in the merit of the performance. The minims In full force sounded the keynote of the program pro-gram in a pretty chorus with the burden bur-den of the refrain: "Wish You a Merry Mer-ry Christmas." Miss Catherine Chip-man's Chip-man's piano solo, "Caprice," by Josef-fy, Josef-fy, Avon from the audience the hearty applause which this earnest student of her art well deserve. A graceful expression of the thought and sentiment senti-ment which art, literary and pictorial, has attempted to express on the inspiring in-spiring theme of Christ's birth was presented by Miss Virginia Shannon in the form of an address entitled "Pictures of Bethlehem." The little girls of the junior department depart-ment appeared in a cantata, the character char-acter roles of which were well carried by the Misses Evelyn Paddock, Martha Mar-tha Struck, Bernadette Ryan, Genevieve Gene-vieve Giles, Gladys and Myrtle Coxe, Marguerite Keiley, Anna Gillis and . . Mory Dooley. "The Christmas Tree" was a taking number, in which Miss Patsy Spenser, soloists, sang the pre-eminence of the Christmas tree above all othera that grow upon the earth. The leading vacolists of the school in double quartette gave two selections selec-tions from their repertoire: "Ave Maria," Ma-ria," by Henneman, and "Silent Night." Th members of the club are i the Misses V. Shannon, E. Mercier, H. i Brown, A. Smith, W. Sosinskey and P. i Ford. i In instrumental ensemble "Gavotte" by Sitt was given by the representa- tlves in their respective classes: First violin. Misses M. McDonough, R. Ja- i cobson, M. Ward; second violin, Misses G. Gavin, F. johaston; third violin. Misses A. Brownlee, D. White; 1 cello, Miss X. Mahon; piano, Miss A. i O'Brien. ! "The Gift That None Could See," a l charming Christmas tale by Mary E. 1 Wllklns, was recited with good ex- 1 pression by Miss Phyllis Ford. i The violin duet, "Sextet from Lucia 1 de Lammermoor," was perhaps the I musical gem of the program, this pop- 1 ular composition being rendered by the Misses M. McDonough and R. Ja-cobson Ja-cobson with such evidence of technical tech-nical precision and exquisite style of expression as to elicit the fullest measure of praise from the most dis- i criminating. Miss A. O'Brien accom- panied the violinists on the piano. : The entire vocal olass In a chorus, "In the Gypsy Life We Read," from i "TlTe Bohemian Girl," brought this ; very entertaining program to a grand i finale. Miss Virginia Shannon carried the solo in her own distinctly pleasing I manner, and Miss Catherir.e Chipman was at the piano. -t |