Get these qualities---at no matter what cost---and start out again to victory.
"Girls, be women.

Stop and think what it means to be women.
All the sweetest, truest and gentlest attributes of the human race.

Be women, every minute of your lives, and you will have reached heights where not even the most soldierly boys may follow you.

Be women, and the men of our race will reverence and honor you.
"Young ladies and gentlemen, this day comes to me once in every year.

It is an old practice with me, as I see each class go forth in our last hour together, to feel that I am watching the departure of the best and truest class that I have yet taught.