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Date	1896/08/19
Organization name	Grove Female Seminary Wayne County Centennial Celebration
Industry Sector	Educational Services > Colleges / Universities / and Professional Schools
Year	1896
Newspaper title	Wayne County Democrat
Page number	1
Article title	A Glorious Week Was Wayne County's Centennial The Celebration Drew Immense Crowds to Wooster

"A Glorious Week Was Wayne County's Centennial The Celebration Drew Immense Crowds to Wooster: Our Educational Progress Patriotic Camp Fires, Church and Sunday School Histories, Reunion of Pioneers.

Our report of the Wayne County Centennial Celebration closed at noon of Inauguration Day last Tuesday at the end of the march of the great procession of over two miles in length

debate in Parliament, or by a Cromwell and like a Cromwelt?

Time may wipe out your deeds in war and peace, but the gift you gave of the public school no despotism shall destroy. We can live without constitutions and without the meeting of our General Assembly, but without education, religion itself would become a mere rhapsody of words. Ohio never felt the touch of a slave. No slave ever hacked the primeval forest or put the yoke on unwilling steers to plow the virgin soil.

What of the future? Will we foster and perpetuate the common schools and hand down to our posterity with as pure a light as we received it from ours? Never has there been a greater occasion to teach the duties of life than at the present time. To the commandments of Moses I would add an other. It is, Educate, educate. Never since the wiping out of the feudal system has there been such contention in life for the opportunity to live as now. We must roll back the rock from the sepulcher of our dead selves and let out the spirit of our better lives to instruct and illume mankind. Before us gleam our campfires. We must launch a Mayflower, and steer boldly through the stormy seas, much

the academy. Among the number was Hon. John K. Cowman, now President of the great Baltimore & Ohio railroad. From 1865 to 188_. Pro. Eberly conducted the Smithville Academy with hundreds of young lady and gentlemen students and the academy is to be reopened the 1st of September next.

Prof. B. C. Smith, principal for years of Fredericksburg Academy, could not be present.

Song by Miss Webster's chorus.

Mrs. E. M. Pope, who for many years successfully conducted Grove Female Institute in Wooster, was unable to be present. Therefore, her son Dr. F. F. H. Pope of Dalton was requested to speak in his mother's place and did well, saying that away ...."