Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-02
AT GALLAUDET COLLEGE
Graduates and Others Were Presented Vari-
GUS Degrees
Addresses by Students and by the
Postmnster General-The Silent
Language Used.

College attracted large crowd to Kendall
Green yesterday afternoon, and the big
chapel was filled to the doors with the
friends of the institution. AS is always
the case with exercises of this college, the
program was of the most interesting sort,
end the various features gave great pleas
IRE to the assembled audience. number
of students of the college who were not vet
up for graduation were also in the chapel,
and followed the exercises with close at
terton. All of the literary features which
were prepared by the graduating class were
translated into sound by the professors OF
the college, but were rendered in the sign
language by the students themselves.
A number of dissertations were presented
yesterday afternoon, and these are won
,derfully clear and concise in their literary
style. Deprived of the senses of speech
and hearing, 1t would seem as though the
students in deaf and dumb college de-
veloped extra powers of observation to
make up in way for their loss. The dis
sertatons were on practical subjects con-
nected with the college work of the stu
dents, and. in the opinion of many, showed
more care and research in their prepara-
ton than would mark papers of this sort in
any ordinary educational institution.
The Papers.
The dissertations that were formally pre-
scented were as follows: Alfred Fl. Cowan of
Canada. on Common Sense" Jay c. How
ard, Iowa. "The Poetry Of the Bible;"
Laura V. Frederick of Pennsylvania, Ills
tory of Needlework;' Ralph II. Drought of
Minnesota, Elements of National Life"
Max Marcrosson of Kentucky, Art in Ad-
THE Chambered Nautilus" The disserta-
tons presented by title We're as follows:
Arnold kiene of Iowa, Municipal Govern
ment in Europe and America" Richard
NJ
OF Wales" Harvey w. Peter of Pennsyl-
yania, The Importance of invention"
Christina Thompson of Iowa. THE Red
Cross Society" and Ernest Bingham of
North Carolina, The Bookkeeping Indus
try"
Degrees Conferred.
In presenting the candidates for degree,
DR.. Gallaudet said that he was happy to
present, in addition to the college candi-
dates on the program, the names of five
others upon whom the degree of master of
arts would be conferred. OF these, three
were old students of the college, ]. S. Long
Of Wisconsin. w. G. Jones of New York
and Phillip Hasmstort of Illinois. These
degrees were won in the pursuance of the
regular college course. Mr.. Long and MIR.
Jones are still teaching. and Mr.. Hasm-
stort is a regularly ordained Methodist
minister. who has been doing church work
among the mutes of Chicago, where he has
church and a large congregation. The
other two recipients of degrees were ]. NJ.
koehler of Pennsylvania and Rev. Austin
W. Mann of Ohio. Both of these gentlemen
arc Episcopal clergymen. Mr.. koehler was
the only one of the five candidates present,
and at the end of the exercises delivered
the bene0iction, both speaking and using
the sign language.
Some Addresses.
The address to the students yesterday af-
ternoon was delivered by Postmaster Cen
eral VIM. l.. Wilson. who gave the class an
earnest, eloquent address, which was trans
lated into the sign language for the bere-
fit of those who could not hear by DR.. Gal
Mr.. Wilson has for number of years been
member of the beard of trustees of the
Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.
The invocation was delivered by Rev. DR..
Alexander Mackay Smith, rector of St.
Johns Church. The members of the col
lege who received their degrees yesterday
were as follows:
Master of arts-Wesley o. Conner, B. S.,
Georgia School of Technology: Edgar f.
f. Day, B. Phi, Brown University; Josiah
Dearborn, 8. "a, University of Michigan.
Bachelor of arts-Ernest Bingham, AL
fred Harper Cowan, Laura Virginia Fred
erick, Jay Cooke Howard Arnold Kiene,
May Martin, Max Nathan Marcosson, Chris
tina Thompson and Richard Wallace Will
liams.
Bachelor of science Ralph Henry
Drought.
Bachelor of philosophy-Harvey William
Peter.
The class festivities for the season will
be closed with dance tomorrow night in
the gymnasium hail.