A larger number of people never assembled in the Town Hall than was there on Wednesday night to witness the closing exercises of the Plymouth Academy.<\/p>\n
A more entertaining program was never arranged or more perfectly rendered than on this\u00c2\u00a0occasion. That Prof. HASSELL<\/strong> has done his full duty as a teacher, together with his assistants, was fully demonstrated by the manner in which the students discharged their duties. \u00c2\u00a0This night was devoted to the advanced classes, and a medal offered on oratory, and so equally matched were the contestants that the judges could not agree as a whole, having halted between five of the contestants, Mises Emily FAGAN<\/strong> and Eva CHESSON<\/strong>, and Mess. Richard LUCAS<\/strong>, Cleveland BEASLEY<\/strong> and Louis GAYLORD<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0After remaining out some time, the judges returned a decision, two to one, in favor of Louis GAYLORD<\/strong>, and the medal was fittingly presented by Mr. W. Fletcher AUSBON<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Last night the Junior, or Primary department, had its exercises, and was a most pleasing event. \u00c2\u00a0We may say more of this later.<\/p>\n The names of those receiving medals or prizes will appear next week.<\/p>\n Source: Roanoke Beacon, 8 Jun 1900.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A larger number of people never assembled in the Town Hall than was there on Wednesday night to witness the closing exercises of the Plymouth Academy. A more entertaining program Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}