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ENDING COLLEGE LIFE.
THE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
DEGREES OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF THE Gradual
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MIDDLETowN, Conn.,, June 25.-The COM
exercises Of Wesleyan University were held
to-day Despite tho oppressive heat large audience
was present The speakers from the graduating class
in competition for the rich prize were r. H. Williams.
"Henry Winter Dayis"j W. III. Mitchell, saint Pat
rick, II. O. Williams, "The Education Of Citizens"
F. 8. Townsend, "The English Puritans"; F. B. Up
ham, Edmund Burke and tho French Revolution"i E.
p Clark. Heroism in Politics.; A. T. Sutherland, In
dian Civilization g. o. Curtice worship OF Demeter"
The prize awarded to s. o. Curtce. Tho degree OF
Bachelor OF Sciences conferred on Edward Augustus
WEIGH The degree of Bachelor Of Philosophy was con-
ferred on James Franklin Fellows, Irving Samuel
Haynes, and Bella Bceton Pullman. The degree Of
Bachelor of Arts was conferred stephen Sturgeon
Abbott Edward Daily Bassett Frank Davis Beattys
George Davis Beattys, Francis Truman Chester
Ernest Perley Clarke Saul ober Curtice
william Montgomery Crook, William Scott Foster Add
son Loomis Green, Frank Leslie Hayward, Homer
Thomas Hollingshead George Thomas Judd. James
Strong Judd, Levi Oscar Kuhns Jacob Christian LANCE
Frankiyn Norton. WILDER Everett Rowell, Javan Mason
Russell, James Alfred SAKE, John Walter SAKE Jesse
5aSn Tasssft Dewitt Burton Thompson John Little
field Tilton, Frank Sumner Townsend, Frank Bourne
williams Robert Henry Williams. Frederick shenstone
Woods, Winnie May Crook, Catherine Amelia Gardner,
Ida Rachel Gridloy, Flora Elizabeth McGaufiin Evene
Lovancy Rolman.
The degree of Master of Arts in conferred
Charles Morse Allen, George Dana BARTLETT George
Milton Brodhead, William Livesey Burdick,
Joseph Gerard Valentine Halenbeck, Frank Kirkwood
Haock. Karl Pomeroy Harrington, Herbert Paryn Jer
rell. Elwood Westingbrook Mattson, Ernest Arthur
Markham WilliaEs martin ifu1er, Charles Reynolds, Jo
seph Richard Taylor, Henry Emerson Trefethen.
The honorary degree OF Master OF Arts was conferred
on David j. Dean, York. The honorary degree OF
Doctor OF Divinity conferred the Rev. Robert
Newton Young OF England, the Rev George r. Reed OF
Brooklyn, and the Rev Gilbert II. Gregory ofNew-York
About three hundred OF the alumni and guestssatdown
TO the commencement dinner. At the exercises which
followed tho Rev. Dr. g. f. Upham acted as toastmaster
President Beach responded to the toast Wesleyan uni
yersty" and the Rev. Dr. ID. ID. Whedon poke for the
trustees The alumni represented by the Rev. Dr.
Cummings, former president OF the University Pro
lessor Harvey b. Lane responded for the class OF 1880
Letters read from two other survivors OF that class
A. Merrill, of san Francisco and Bishop j. c. kecna, OF
New-Orleans. The Rev. Dr. j. H. simmons represented
the class OF 1860 Tutor H. White that OF 1882 the
Rev O. A. Littleheld that Of 1884, and the Rev. ID. D.
Thompson the graduating class. Professor Rice re-
spondsd for the faculty Professor Westgate, VINO lies
at the point OF DEATH feelingy alluded to, and his
absence threw a feeling OF sadness over all