9 were prepared. Allowing for the trepidation inseparable || Caroline De La Montagnie, Caroline M. Hertzel, Maria C. Clearman, Frances S. Camp, Susan E. Dimon, As on former occasions, the fancy and plain needle.work In the Sixth Department, under the care of Miss Brewsby the young ladies, was exhibited, and called out theter, premiums of the first grade were awarded to Missespraise and admiration of a large number of visitors. The Room of Drawings and Paintings has been particularly at. tractive. The Drawings showed that attention had been properly given to those principles which lie at the founda. tion of this beautiful art. Signor Calyo, a well-known Italian artist, has had charge of this Department during the last year. The interest of this examination has been increased, by an exhibition of portions of the Calisthenic system, which has been introduced during the year. This system promises to be an effectual check to the tendency to spinal and other physical disarrangements, to which the youthful female system is exposed by want of exercise in the prosecution of studies. On the review of the whole, the Board feel, that their thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the teachers for their faithful and persevering discharge of their arduous duties, and that there is ground for felicitating their patrons and friends on the increasing success of the Institution, and the promise of its reaching a still higher point of eminence. As new facilities are constantly furnished, and the course of instruction is enlarged, the tone of education must become more and more elevated. Five years are now completed since we began our effort, and they have happily shown what may be done for an object which takes rank with the most important in society. The kind Providence which smiled on our outset, has continued its propitious influence and encourages our onward career. After the Reports and Prize Compositions had been read, the President proceeded to the distribution of awards, according to the following Report of a Committee of Trustees which had been approved by the Board. Report of premiums and testimonials, as awarded by the Board of Trustees, for scholarship, deportment, and attendance, for the six months preceding the close of the academic year, July 12th, 1844. In the Second Division of the Seventh Department, under the care of Mrs. Green, premiums were awarded to Misses Of the second grade, to Misses Evelina M. Davis, Louisa W. Megary, Harriet A. Thorp, Ann E. Holmes, Louisa J. M'Namara, Maria L. Perry, Mary W. Richardson, In the Fourth Department, Second Division, under the care of Miss Clark, premiums of the first grade were awarded to Misses Margaretta Addoms, Lydia A. Smith, Of the second grade, to Misses Caroline M. Odell, Cornelia S. Dayton, Hannah M. Raynor, In the Fourth Department, First Division, under the care of Miss Jennings, premiums of the first grade were awarded to Misses Frances B. Allaire, Jane Hardenbrook, Ann J. Pray, Harriet L. Winslow, Jane S. Woolsey, Martha M. Harris, Sarah Hull, Isaphene M. Luyster, Amelia Montague, Arietta Rogers, Mary M'Intosh, Cecilia C. Smith. Fourth Department, First Division, Misses Theresa Fletcher, Louisa Bradford, Emma Rowe, Elizabeth Robb, Louisa Rowe, Margaret Wilkie. Third Department, Third Division, Misses Laura A. Bragg, Mary O. Lodewick, Mary C. Hill, Phebe Corwith, Mary E. Hedges. Third Department, First Division, Misses Hannah M. Fuller, Cornelia Martin, Eliza J. Vanderbilt, Margaret A. Hillman, Alice Stanbury, Catharine E. Penfold. Premiums for Needle and Fancy Work have been award. ed to the following young ladies: First Division, Third Department. Premium for needle work, to Miss Cornelia Martin. Second Division, Third Department. Premium for needle work, to Harriet E. Hubbard. Premium for needle work, to Caroline B. Newcomb. Premium for needle work, to Eliza D. Colton. For fancy work, Eliza A. Mickles. Second Division, Fourth Department. Premium for needle work, to Emma A. Ostrom, For fancy work, Lydia A. Smith. First Division, Fifth Department. Premium for needle work, to Mary Anderson. For fancy work, Margaret A. Williams. Second Division, Fifth Department. Premium for needle work, to Eliza C. Pray. For fancy work, Julia Waldron. Sixth Department. Premium for needle work, to Rachel C. Crane. First Division, Seventh Department. Premium for needle work, to Charlotte L. Williams. For fancy work, Emma Polhamus. Second Division, Seventh Department. Premium for needle work, to Rachel E. Keeler. For fancy work, Georgianna H. Horton. 11 The Report of the Committee on Penmanship being taken up, it was found that the Gold Medal had been awarded to Miss Martha F. Hutchinson, of the First Department; and the second honor to Miss Isabella A. McWilliams, of the First Department; to Miss Agnes C. Chichester, of the Second Department; to Miss Fanny T. Coffin, of the First Division of the Third Department; to Miss Harriet E. Hubbard, of the Second Division of the Third Department; to Miss Charlotte W. Nash, of the Third Division of the Third Department; to Miss Emeline G. Taylor, of the First Division of the Fourth Department; to Miss Eliza Q. Walton, of the Second Division of the Fourth Department; to Miss Julia Duff, of the First Divi- || sion of the Fifth Department; to Miss Mary K. Murray, of the Second Division of the Fifth Department; and to Miss Louisa Megary of the Sixth Department. In the Painting Department, the premium for the best Oil Painting had been awarded to Miss Isabella O. K. Shaw; for the best Crayon Drawing of the human figure, to Miss Mary J. Smith; for the best Landscape in Crayon, to Miss Sarah C. Clark; and for the best Flowers in pencilling, to Miss Ellen Watkins. When it was requested that the writer of the Essay enti. tled "Jesus Marchant sur la Mer" should come forward and claim the French Medal, Miss Isabella O. K. Shaw presented herself in the aisle. the Committees, and they are named according to their relative merits, the best being placed first. In the First De. partment, "Excelsior," by Miss Mary Pomeroy; "The Artist's Wife," by Miss Julia L. Larocque, and "The Postman," by Miss Phebe E. Hull. In the Second Depart ment, "My Wishes," by Miss Catharine B. Ferris; "The Spirit Land," by Miss Jane E. Arcularius; "The Forest Leaf," by Miss Mary K. Arnoux; "Song of the Brooks," by Miss Marianna Seaman; " Poetry of Nature," by Miss Minerva Ostrom; "The First Murder," by Miss Lavinia J. Sands; "Incidents in the Life of our Saviour," by Miss Mary Hall;"My Mother's Love," by Miss Helen M. Kissam, and "Willoughby's Journey to India," by Miss Harriet M. Price. And in the Third Department, "Thanks be to God for Mountains," by Miss Harriet L. Winslow; "The Magic Mirror," by Miss Arrietta S. Rogers; "Castle Building," by Miss Mary L. Philips; "The Pilgrim," by Miss Jane A. Newcomb; "The Death-bed of Mozart," by Miss Augusta H. Smith, and "The Life of Luther," by Miss Martha M. Harris. The Mathematical Medal, the highest honour in the gift of the Trustees, was then conferred upon Miss Emily R. Cartwright, of Brooklyn. These interesting exercises, which had occupied three hours, were concluded by awarding Diplomas to a Class of eighteen young ladies who had completed the course of study in the Institute, and had sustained satisfactory examinations. Their names and places of residence are as fol. lows:-Misses Elizabeth C. Bangs, of New York; Rachel J. Brouwer, of New York; Emma C. Carter, of New Canaan, Ct.; Angeline Crane, of West Bloomfield, N. J.; Emily R. Cartwright, of Brooklyn; Electa C. Cook, of New York; Charlotte H. Freeman, of New York; Phebe E, Hull, of New York; Mary E. Knowlton, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Julia L. Larocque, of New York; Mary J. Murphy, of Brooklyn; Mary Morgan, of New York; Catharine A. Reed, of New York; Ann L. Skidmore, of New York; Julia West, of New York; Jane Westbrook, of New York, Jane E. Wilson, of New York, and Martha A. Young, of Brooklyn. This is the largest class of graduates that ever left the halls of the institution. They were briefly and pertinently addressed by the President upon their responsibilities to society, in consequence of the distinguished advantages they had enjoyed for intellectual and moral culture; upon the importance of the future prosecution of their studies; upon woman in Christian and Pagan lands as contrasted in her intellectual and social condition; and above all, upon their obligations to God for His peculiar and abounding mercies toward them. His address was replete with instruction and affectionate solicitude for their present and future happi ness. The next academic year will commence on Monday, the 2d of September next, The successful competitors for the Gold Medals in the After singing an appropriate hymn, the benediction was several departments for composition, whose names were un-pronounced, and the vast assemblage of gratified auditors known to the Committees as well as to the Trustees and dispersed. Teachers of the Institution until they presented themselves for the golden honours, were Miss Martha A. Young, of the First Department, Miss Sarah C. Clark, of the Second, and Miss Jane S. Woolsey, of the Third Department. Miss Young's was the Poem commencing with the line "Soft be Parents living in remote parts of the city, who are de. the glance of a Seraph's eye;" Miss Clark's, the Essay en-sirous of availing themselves of the advantages of this instititled "The Vision of Dreams;" and Miss Woolsey's, "The Wind's Soliloquy." 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