The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-01
CLOSING COLLEGE DAYS.
The Flow OF Commencement Oratory
Still Continues.

Still Continues.
HANOVER, N. H., June 30.-At the COM
mencement exercises of Dartmouth
college this morning the following homo.
ary pegress were conferred:
LII. D.-Horace Russell, ,'65, New York;
Nathan 8. Lincoln, '50., Washington, ID.
G. d. d. George A. Gates, '73, Iowa
College, Grinnell, Iowa; A. NJ. Nathan
B. Sargent, West Boxford, Mass; Rev.
Geo. w. Grover, Nashua; Robert B.
Andrews, Cambridge, Mass; Chas. B.
Rohan, Boston; Fred A. ChasS, Lowell,
Mass.
At the adjourned Alumni meeting held
at $50 the question as to the number OF
vac cancies to be certified to In the board
of trustees and to be filled at this time by
alumni was q special order. The point
was a. to whether the Alumni should in
sist upon two resIgnations now as agreed
upon last year. or waive their claims and
be content with one, it being understood
that some Of the trustees preferred the
latter plan. The principal speakers were
Speaker Barrett, Hon. Thomas w. Proc
tor, Hon. Luther Farnham, Isaac f. Paul
Of Boston, G. F. Matthews of New York,
Rev. DIR. Arthir Little OF Boston, Rev.
Davis Foster of Winchendon, Rev. w. A.
Bartlett Of Chicago.
After very spicy disc ussion modified
resolution was unanimously passed as
follows:
"Tnasmuch as the question has been
raised by members OF the board OF trus-
tees, whether the Alumni Association
would be satisfied with one vacancy at
this time, the association hereby express
es its desire that the understanding Of
last year between these bodies be strictly
observed, and that the vacancies be certi-
fed to the Alumni"
Voted, that the executive COMMITTEES
consider the expediency of the plan fol-
lowed by Harvard, Yale and other coll
leges in nominating candidates for alumni
trustees, to the end that the large body
of alumni be given better opportunity to
exercise their choice.
On motion of w. L. Burnap OF Burling-
ton, VT, the following resolution was
passed: Resolved, that the alumni of
Dartmouth College desire to express
their high appreciation OF the con-
spicuous ability that has characterized
the administration OF President Bartlett,
that we congratulate him and the coll
lege upon the prosperous condition OF the
institution, whose management he now
relinquishes after 10 years untiring de-
votion and energetic and efficient official
service, and that he carries With him into
retirement our best wishes for his future
happiness and the sweet content of his
For the few who voted against the res
olution, Speaker Barrett explained that
II was not on account OF any personal
hostility to President Bartlett that they
took that position, but because OF their
disapprovai in some respects Of the man
agement of the college. A vote of thanks
was extended to William Everett, Phi. D.,
Of Quincy, for his scholarly and mastery
Grafton before the association yesterday.
After adjournment a procession was
formed in front OF the old chapel led by
the band, Rev. Howard +. Hill, marshal,
and marched to the college church where
the commencement programme was car
ried out.
The order of exercises on. the com.
mencement stage was as follows: sslu-
tstory address in Latin, with grafton,
"Latin America" Elmer Carlton Potter,
oration, "German Lyric Poets" Alex
David Salinger, Rochester,; English
Grafton, "The Partition Of Africa"
dissertation, "Lowell's Americanism,"
Charles Hermon Noyes, Atkinson Depot;
disputation, fought Trusts to be Pro.
hibited" Allen Curtis Cummings, North
Thetford, VT; Charles Hall Gould,
Minneapolis, Min mi, Mimi; .a. dissertation,
etry," Merrill shurtlefi, Manchester;
philosophical oration, "The Intellectual
Development OF the New SOUTH" Walter
valen McDuffee, Thetford, VT; disserta-
ton, "The Constitutional Convention
and the Presidential Tcrm," Henry
Herbert Folsom, Dover.
English oration, "The Struggle for Ex-
istence In the Chemical Industries," Ed
ward Norton Libbey, Cornish, Me-; Eng
lish oration, "The Origin of Life, - Vernon
Augustus Doty, Bradford, VT; disserts-
tion, "The Real Columbus,n Edward
Kimball Hall, Winchendon, Mass; ora
tion with vsledictory address, 'Some
Phases Of Socialism, william George
stoughton, st. Johnsbury, Vt.
Special honors have been awarded to
members OF the graduating class ~ fol-
lows:
Greek, Walter valen McDuffec; Ger
man, Nathaniel Bernstein, William Fred
erick Greiger; English, Barron Shirley,
Marshall Putnam Thompson; chemistry,
James Scribner Brown, Edward Norton
Libbey; natural history, Samuel Prentiss
Baldwin (cum lsude), Chss. Henry Rich