The Portland daily press., 1881-07-01
by TELEGRAPH.
BATES COLLEGE.

Exercises of Commencement Day.
LEWISTON, June 3O-Commencement Day
exercises at Bates College took place today.
The following was the programme:
Salutatory,
Orvlle Henry Drake, New Hampton N. H.
True and false success,
Walter Paul Curtis, Auburn
Natural Scences-Second Honor0
John Edgar Holton Boothbay
Natural Sciences-First Honor)
The Eternity of the Past,
Henry Beecher Nevens, Auburn
(Modern Languages-First Honor)
Music.
The Ethics of Evolution,
*Eugene Dunbar Rowell, Fairfield
Nlodern Languages-Second Honor9
Charles Sumner Haskell, Auburn
SRhetoric and English Literature-Second Honor.)
William Blair Perkins, Lewiston
(Ancient Langnages-Second Honor)
The True End of Life,
=. Herbert Everett Foss, Lewiston
The Development OF Sense of Beatty,
John Henry Parsons, Eusts
(Ancient Languages-First Honor9
The Strength of the Union
George Lawrence Record, Auburn
General Scholarship
Eddy Thomas Pitts, Lewiston
(Rhetoric and English Literature-First Honor)
civil anu lsostSOH,
Charles Albion Strout, Minot
(Psychology-Second Honor)
Absence oil Reverence in American Character,
Charles Sumner Cook Harrison
(AIathematcs-F Honor)
Music.
The Critic, Emma Jane Clark, Lewiston
Psychology-First Honor)
The Future of our 'untry,
Winthrop Jumper Brown, Auburn
Mathematics Honor)
The Secret of Prometheus
William Prescott Foster, Weld
(Class Honor)
Valedictory-The Method of Progress
Henry Ephraim Coolidge, Canton
Music.
Comforting Degrees.
BenedictiOn.
Excused.
The class was ranked as follows:
Orations. Winthrop Jumper Brown, Emma
Jane Clark, Charles Sumner Cook, Henry
Ephraim Coolidge, Orville Henry Drake,
Charles Albion Strout, John Edgar Holton,
Henry Beecher Neyens John Henry Parsons,
George Lawrence Record, Eugene Dunbar
Rowell.
Disquisitions-Wal Paul Curtis, Herbert
Everett Foss, VIM. Prescott Foster, Ransom
Eugene Gilkey, John Henry Cooling, Charles
Sumner Haskell, VIM. Crosby Hobbs, Charles
Walter Williams, George Edgar Lowden, Otis
Theodore Maxield, Charles Laforest McClee-
ry, VIM. Blair Perkins, Eddy Thomas Pitts,
Bates Sewall Rideout, Frank Arthur Twitch-
ell.
Theses-Oscar Davis, Fred Clarendon Emer-
son, Harry Peter Folsom, Wilson Warren
Hayden, VIM. Thomas Perkins, Henry Sands
Roberts, Reuel Robinson, Clifton Packard
Sanborn, John Franklin Shattuck, Frank
Henry Wilbur.
The degree of A. B. was conferred in course
cd the graduating class of thirty, and the usual
degrees on the six graduates of the Theological
school. Honorary degrees were conferred as
follows:
LII D.-Hons. VIM. P. Frye of Lewiston,
Moody Currier of Manchester, N. H., and
Hiram Orcutt of Lebanon N. Fl.
D. D.-Thomas Goodby, President of Chill
we'll College, England.
Phi. D.-Charles G. Rounds, Pennington.
Prizes were awarded as follows: T. A. Low
ell of Lewiston, junior prize declaration;
sophomore champion debate, e. G. Sargent.
At the commencement dinner speeches
were made by Gov. Plaisted, Ex-Govs Gar
celon and Dingley, and Hon. John D. Phil
brick of Boston. Prof. bennett of Colorado,
the alumni
This evening Rev. E. G. Bolles of Salem de-
liyered the address before the literary socie-
ties.
Tomorrow evening the President will give
reception to tine graduating class.