New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-16
END OF THE COLLEGE YEAR.
GRADUATES FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
ITS SCHOOL OF LAW. FOR TIE FIRST TINE. coz.

ITS SCHOOL OF LAW, FOR THE FIRST TINE. CON
FERs DEGREE ON A WOMAN
ithaca June Is (speciaD-Thc exercises OF the
ueny a,th CONNIE nee ment of Cornell University We're
he'd I'm the armory to-day. The procession Oh Tue
graduating class alumni faculty, trustees ana hVtcu
p,es,s found In front OF the library at 30 O'CLOCK
and proceeded TO the hail. On the platform win the
trustees and faculty were President Merf'h u.
Gates OF Amherst College General A. y. Barhes' o'
New York Colonel saunders, Of Wllansport frahe's
Ilascy Of New York. and others.
Tn, programme included these addresses' 'n'
r,pc,ons OF the Advocate" Andrew l.. Omsted
- Our Legacy TO the Future" Charles NJ. Lille "The
Classics IN EIucaton." sarah A. McNul'y; woman
suffrage Tbad1eus e. Henderson; "Portia ID 'ne
Nineteenth Century," Mary X. Brown; "The CROWN
OF Our Constitutional liberty Charles f. Murphy
Eulogy on Gladstone" Clarence d. Haaaen'
Mrs. Mary Kennedy Brown In "Porta In the Nine
c.uth Century, captivatcd her audience. Mrs blo"h
will be noted as the first woman graduate W '"'
Cornell School OF Law. The Woodford prize ln ora'o,
IN accordance With The result Of tho competition heiu
,a, evening was awarded to Ernest Ingersoll White,
NJ Syracuse. Mr. Whites brother Horace "m'c'
wop tho nrIze I'm 1887 They are nephews OF eA'
President Andrew D. white. The degrees were con
ferrcd by President Schnrmsn, who mace an impressive
address to the graduating class
A. II O'Clock over 200 trustees and the facui'y,
alumni and invited guests, sat GOWN 10 o"''
,rovidod bv the university, In Sage college, freS'
aont schurman presded. President Gates, Theodore
stanton General A. c. Barnes. Mr. llalsey ana DINERS
rosnopded 10 toasts Among the alumni present were
cy senator Frank IIlscock, Of syracuse; Henry All"
man Ruiyalo: f. II. Woodruff and o. L. Ehott' Oh
tho faculty OF Stanford University, and G. 5. frahe''
Troy, y. Y. ,s ,.
Tho reunion OF the class Of 70 last evening" VIZ
largely attended This class has somewhat the same
rcnutstion 10 Cornell as the class OF so NJ i"ie'
The total number receiving first degrees mere ""'
o5O exclusive OF first degrees in law OF whch ,"e'e
were sixty three The total number oil adV'hcea e
crces was fory-sx. OF those taxing au'au'cu W
crees David F. Hoy will next year be ASSISTANT rts''
t,ar OF Cornell University Ernest NICHOLS Is assS''n'
professor OF physics In colgate University "eo' -
~ scrurman Is brother OF President Schurhnn' ana
viii on,er law oiIico In New.Ycrk Immediately at'"r
graduation: Grant :. liopaus AMI W. W. howlee are
ro,b mc,nbcr Of the Cornell faculty; Albert a. Dird
h, heon reelected for the third time to university
fellow ships and will study abroad 'he c'u's =;
The Rev william r. BlackBan i professor ~, nd ID
sociology and Christian ethics m lai' ~;
victor T.. Comm professor REJECT VI ni'''i' !" ~
verSity Of Wisconsin.
Irizcs were awarded as follow. . Dan, vos
The Siblcy prizes in Mechanic Arts.Flrst fan Ms,
ser second Percy A. Robbn' ,hir MI nco,on.
The II. X. White prizes ~ veterinary Wn
poymond A. Pearson SO ond. Charles = Moor
Tho Ms 4 $ Bans shakespeare prze-Onar"s
Tho e'gh,y-six momori,l prize in declamatioh-
Prizes in The school Of Law Thesis priztsmtfI,S1,;;
Francis = Root second. divided pe'"e'h rr'''
o. Bl,scu aEd Henry ID. C3ville , r
Fries for excellence in de'n'c-FirSt' james -
Rogers second. George J. oCohnor'