Professor CARPENTER’s Preparatory School






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Brooklyn Union Argus
June 5, 1882

Commencement Exercises
Professor Carpenter’s School at Music Hall-A Brilliant Scene and Interesting Exercise

   Seventy bright-faced boys, who will not long be in their teens, sat on the
flower-girt and flag-festooned platform of Music Hall last evening, and a large
audience, among whom were many brilliantly arrayed young ladies, sat in the body of
the hall and looked at them. The boys were the pupils of Professor CARPENTER’s
Preparatory School, who were celebrating their annual commencement and the audience
was made up of their invited friends and relatives in front of the boys on the
platform sat 
Professor C.H. CARPENTER, President and Proprietor; 
Mr. J.R. TOWNSEND,Principal and Instructor in History and Mathematics; 
C.H. BAYLIS, Instructor in Penmanship and Bookkeeping; 
Albert DOOLEY, Instructor in Mathematics and English language;
 Thomas Lewis DOYLE, Instructor in Vocal Music 
Samuel HENDRICKSON,Instructor in Drawing, 
together with the Revs. J. HOPKINS, A. J. HUTTON and Charles Cuthbert HALL. 

Flowers in profusion formed a lovely foreground for all, over which
the youths who bore the honors of the evening spoke with the reassuring influence of
good surroundings. A liberal programme of twenty-six numbers was provided, opening
and closing with prayer by the Revs. Charles Cuthbert HALL and A. J. HUTTON, and
consisting of songs by the school, 
a piano duet by Messrs. T. L. DOYLE and W. A.MEYER, 
a vocal solo by S. Blackwell SNYDER, 
piano solos by A. Wilfried MEYER, 
an address by the Rev. Charles Cuthbert HALL 
orations declamations and essays by:
Masters PHIPPS, 
F. H. WILLIAMS, 
C. H. HARTSHORN, 
P. L. WOOD, 
B. FRANCIS, 
R. L. IRISH,
H. G. STARLING. 
O. S. A. CRAB, 
C. J. MANCHESTER, 
F. W. UNCKLES, 
J. W. WALKER, 
C. F.SANGER, 
F. J. PEARSALL, 
F. T. NUTT, Jr.
G. C. PECK.  
The performances were remarkably well sustained and were much enjoyed by the hearers.
   At the conclusion of the exercises Professor CARPENTER announced that he would be
glad to meet his guests in social intercourse in his school rooms upstairs, and many
accordingly availed themselves of the permission to wander through the handsome well
furnished school rooms, where much fine work of the pupils in spencerian penmanship,
colored and plain crayon sketches, cyphering, etc. was on exhibition.

Transcriber:
Margaret Ransom
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