The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-02
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commencement at Bates college.

commencement at BateS College,
LEWISTON, July 1.-Commencement day at
Bates College opened pleasant but warm
Twenty seven young men and one young la
dy constituted the graduating class Follow
ing is the programme of commencement ex-
ercises:
Salutatory. w.. William Henry Hartshorn, Lisbon
The Literature of Our Age.
*Albert Edward Verrill, Auburn
General scholarship
Tho Problem Of Social Inequalities. ............
Herbert Summer Sleeper, Lewiston
(dodern languages honor)
Inc Daii0' IN 'ne joel Whitney Cor, sangerve
Natural scienees-irSt honor)
The Stability of Our Political System.
John Henry Williamson, Starks
MathematicS-Second honor.l
Albert Elmer Blanchard Pennington
(Rhetoric and English literature-second honor)
Harry Chapman Lowden, CORVALLIS. N. S.
General scholarship
Inc i-'0'i'e ~ '''iH % sFrank Edson Parln, Jay
General scholarship
nv o''' u i'ii George Edward Paine. Anson
(PSychology-firSt honorD
Self-Denial Condition of Greatness.
Angie Small Tracy Lewiston
General scholarship
Fred Herbert Nickerson, Swanville
PSychology-Second honor.)
Educational Value OF GnVSlCal sciences.
Charles Edwin Stevens, Lewiston
General scholarship
a Mans Influence is Measured by What He
ISL. Frank Weston Sanford, Bowdoinham
General scholarship
Edward Dow Varney, Windham
(Ancent Languages-first honor.
Scholarship Under Democracies. ;,;.....
Louis Henry Wentworth, Lebanon
(MathematicS-firSt honor)
The Demand for the Study of Sociology.
Harry Morrison Cheney, Lebanon, N. II
Modern languages-frst honor)
Albert Howard Dunn, Auburn
Natural sciences-second honor)
Trial by Jury Edwin Augustus. . Merrill, Auburn
Self Control is True Freedom. ...................
Sherman Grant Bonney, Manchester, N. IA
General scholarship
The Decline OF Monarchial Systems. ........
James Walter Flanders, Wilmot, N. Fl
(Rhetorc and English literature-frst honor)
Vaie0i''Ory-on'sfSa c6aries Hadiey Lewiston
GRAFTON FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS,
Institutions Distinctiyey American. ,......
@Nellie Little Clark Andoyer, Mass
Excused.
The degree of A. B. was conferred on the
graduating class that of A. NJ. on the class
of 1SS3 The junior prize original declama-
tion was announced. The first prize of $75
was awarded to c. S. Pendleton, of Nor
WlCU, N. L. ) SoCUuu plllO VI Wv w 1eo0SoO
Nelson, Canaan, Me-
The champion debate of the Sophomore
class for prize of 500, was awarded to A.C.
Townsend, of Mars Hill.
This evening. exercises before the literary
society took place, and consisted of an ora
ton by Rev. E. E. Hale, his subject being
'sThe Science of Success. Friday evening,
President Cheney gives reception to the
graduating class.
At the commencement dinner, President
Cheney announced that Hon. j. l.. II. Cobb
of Lewiston had pledged $25,Ooo for Bates
College, conditional that $4,000 additional
be raised. which will undoubtedly be met.
Glass Day at the State College.
ORoNo, July 1.-The final exercises Of
commencement week at the State College oc-
CURED today. The class-day programme,
carried out by the members of 'S6. was as
follows:
History. I: Black
Prophecy. IL. r. jones' Jf
Address to Under graduates. ...........B j Allan
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