Smyrna times., 1892-06-22
Commencement Day.
PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES AT DET.A.
WARE COLLEGE.

The commencement exercises of
delaware College were held Wednes-
day morning in the college oratOrv and
were attended by about eight hundred
people.
The members of the faculty. the
trustees and the graduating class were
seated on the platform from which the
graduates delivered their Orations
The graduates and the degrees CON
terred upon them by President Raub
are as follows: Bachelor of Science r
Albert Bedford, of Marshallton and s
KirkwoOd Martin, of Seaford: Bach.
elOr of Arts, Charles w. Jones. LaureI
D Edwin Grant, Cherry Hill, Md.
James w. LattOmus, Green Spring
T: Blair Pie, Newark; Frederick Il.
Eicards, Bridgeville; Benjamin B.
smith, Wilmington; Willard s. Smith.
Newark; Master of Arts, A. F. Polk
OF Georgetown, a recent graduate.
julius II. Wolf of Missouri. was
awarded the Ferris prize $50 90 for the
best standing ia organic chemistry. and
Alexander J. Taylor was given a val
liable set of drawing instruments. the
Manlove Hayes prize, for proficiency
In civil engineering.
The exercises were interspersed with
musical selections from popular operas
The orators and their subjects are as
follows:
The Empire of the South"
=. r,,,,o,,,,,,.. -. r-,. Fred Read Ricards
ingenuity its Triumphs and its Progress"
.o Samuel KirkwoOd Martin
O.. Ti2 2?I anu OTatoTy .......Pierce Blair Pie
The Bible in the College Curriculum"
,.r Samuel Edwin Grant
g i ue Ii1uuGSllul, '..;:.B benjamin Biggs Smith
America Rowing, Not Drifting,
Money and its Uses" ''''y 'oH's
American Patriots" --'' 11'0e'' Deuiord
Our National Motives for TnteIIecuai FWer iGs
~ Willard S. Smith
Inc commencement exercises took |
all the morning and part of the after
noon.
The afternoon was devoted to mill |
tary tactics and company drilling for |
the Roberts gold medal. Comn9nvs
A and Is were the only competitors for
the coveted prize, and these two an
peared on the campus abOut4 O'Clock
Colonel q. w. Marshall was iudpe
and he kept record of the different
movements the companies made. After
the drilling and sham battle were
over Colonel Marshall announced he
mad Kept a table and that COMPANY r
had won the medal by $3.50 to 50 so
credited to Company A.
Colonel Marshall then presented the
medal to Captain Willard Smith of
Company B.
Alter the skirmish or sham battle
was over, the cadets were loudly an
Plauced by the spectators, who mum.
bered 800.
ln the sham battle each companv
was divided into three squads. The
squads and the number of shells each
man received are as follows Firing
squad, IL shells; first reserves II:
second reserves, 8. During the skir. I
mlsh Company A acted on the defen. |
Slve. The bayOnet charge of Com I
pany was the main feature of the c
skirmish.
In the afternoon the Alumni Associa. {
non held meeting in the college ora
I0ry ana elected DR.. H. H. Bald presi-
dent and John Pilling, Jr., secretary.
me association also elected this year;s a
graduates to membership. E
In the evening a dress battalion h
parade was formed and performed t
many marching movements on the r
campus. Ii
At night the Delta Phi Literary Fl
society held its fifty. eighth anniversa- v
ary. Addresses were made bv the &
4on. VIC. P, Breckinhridge of Ken e
ucky, James w. Lattomus and C. w. A
Tones. II
The usual commencement hop was o
,iven in Caskey Hall. The COMMITTEES "
n arrangements was r. D. Hoffecker. if
Brooks l.. Ross and Woodland Stevens el
me music was furnished by Oglesby's
rchestra.
The annual report of President Raub
hows a total enrolment Of97 students
Turing the year, divided as follows.
seniors, e3 juniors, 2l sophomores al hi
and post graduates. He
recommended the employment of a ST
latrOn for attendance on the bovs W
nd the erection of a machine shop til
nd foundry for the mechanical depart- bl
lent, the money for which will have ut
be asked of the state.
The matter of the laxity of discipline pa
anne up and resulted in the passage so
a resolution authorizing the an. te
ointment of six trustees to take this tn
hand and settle any point the fac. w
ltY were unable to amicably agree NJ
pom. st,
Another step in this direction was da
le enactment of law taking away tn
he absolute veto power of the Presif- su
ent oyer the faculty. A O.thirds ba
Ote OF the faculty will now override tn
ny veto of the presidents. tn