Evening star., 1897-06-09
Degrees Conferred Upon a Large
Number of Graduates.
ADDRESS TO CLASS BY JUSTICE BROWN
Cash Prizes Awarded by Justice Cox
Of District Supreme Court.
LIST OF THE BACHELORS


sion being the thirty-second annual COM
upon graduates of the school Of law Of the
Columbian University.
AS on the previous evening, the deco
rations of the building were magnificent,
United States flags and the colors of the
university being entwined wherever it was
possible to place decorations of that kind.
The persons on the platform were largely
hidden from view to many In the audience
on account Of the great profusion of flowers
which adorned the front Of the stage, and
which had been sent there by friends of
the graduating class. Above the platform
was huge floral banner inscribed, &c. IT,
Law School, 81"
On the platform, besides Rev. DR.. Whit
man. president of the faculty of the uni
versity. who presided, were Judge Cox OF
the Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia, Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court John NJ. Harlan,
former Assistant Attorney General Viii
liam A. Maury, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States David
]. Brewer, District Attorney Henry K.
Davis Commissioner of Patents Benjamin
Butterworth, Rev. DR.. ]. Haven Richards,
president of Georgetown University; Prof.
William F. Mattingly and Prof. Tracey l..
Jeffords. Prof William G. Johnson Prof.
Lee Davis Lodge, Prof. Melville Church,
Rev. DR.. Muir, Justice Brown and the mem
bers of the graduating class. Music was
furnished by the Marine Band, Prof. Fan
ciulli, conductor.
Justice Browns Address.
After prayer by Rev. DR.. Muir, the ad-
dress to the graduating class was delivered
by Justice Brown. The Justices remarks
consisted principally of review of the
progress made by the legal profession dur
ing the last 200 years. He created much
amusement among the audience and the
students as well, by telling some incidents
in the practice of the barristers of the
seventeenth century, during which period,
he said, the principal requisites for a law
yer to possess were certificate that he
had paid lis cook, washwoman and a few
other menials whatever money he might
have owed them. and had also dined a
certain number of times at one of the inns
courts in London.
Up to about a hundred years ago, JUS
tice Brown said, there were practically no
law schools IN England, and the only ap-
proach to an institution of that character
were those known as the inns courts. The
first law school in this country was, the
Justice said. estab blished in Litchfield, Mass,
in 1873, and there for the first half century
OF our country most Of the eminent lawyers
of the day were educated. For forty years
following its establishment the school was
without a competitor.
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while they might become successful law
yers and yet not possess the gift of elo-
quence, 1t was absolutely essential that the
successful lawyer must be a man of In
tegrity. 1t was to the possession Of the
strictest integrity, he said, that such men
as Rufus Choate and Lord Erskine were
sought after and retained as counsel in
most of the important cases which got into
the court before which they practiced. A
dishonest lawyer would. he said soon be
found out. and SO tar from becoming emf
nent in the profession would be driven out
of Its ranks. Justice Brown deplored the
fact that SO many prominent lawyers, not
SO much those of the present day as those
who lived forty or fifty years ago, mani
tested supreme contempt for polite litera-
ture
In conclusion, Justice Brown urged the
graduates to aim to achieve the highest
success. ard also to remember that they
could not reach that goal unless they had
a character that was beyond reproach.
These Received Degrees.
The degrees were conferred by President
whitman on the members Of the gradual
ing class, as follows:
Bachelor of Laws-HoweN Bartle James
Wilson Bevans. John stidham Bonebrake,
Stephen Duncan Bradley. Frank Walter
Brandenburg, John Waggaman Brawner,
Bernard John Cain, Joseph A. Dempf,
Henry Pelouze Doolittle, Samuel Carroll
Ford, Charles A. Johnson, James Benton
Lackcy, Henry Leonard, George Refss
Linkins David Pelton Moore, Spencer b.
Prentiss. Charles S. Shreve, jr., John J.
Snodgrass. Gordon Sewers, John Walton
Steward e. Hume Talbert and Ferdinand
Albert Weller of this city; Maurice LIE Roy
Alden. Kansas; Robert Lewis Ames, Web
ster s. Ruckman. Michigan: Percy Frank
lin Archer. Otho H. w. Talbot, Joseph
Wickes Welsh, Maryland; Francis Moulton
Benjamin, Clifford Tichenor Curry, William
James Hays. William Martin Smith. War
der voorhees,. Harry o. Weaver, Ohio;
Howard Ray Blanchard, Rudolph Forster,
Lewis Henry Machen, Ralph H. Riddle
berger, Frederick Dillon Riggles, Virginia;
Robert Huntington Bosard, North Dakota;
Brown. New Hampshire: Arthur Augustine
Buck, Edward Thomas Scully, Massachu-
sctts Henry Clay Carlson. James Edwin
jerks. George Washington Peterson. Min
Daniel Clark, John Hibbett De Witt, Ed
ward Stuyvesant Firth, Frederic Briscoe
Goodheart. John Thilman Hendrick, Ten
nessee; Henry A. Conner, Madison Ralph
Samuel Dalzell, Claude E. Miller, Augustus
Franklin Specht. Pennsylvania; James
Louis Consar, Augustus Marion Fulk.
Kissach Crook. Texas; Fred c. Croxton.
William Lewis English. George Jacob Hes
selman. Charles Eugene Phelps. Cyrus
Campbell Wells, William Francis Woolard,
Illinois; George Walton Dalzell, L. William
Cannon. Fred. L. Tarbox, New York:
Leon Lamar Dye. Mississippi: Edward
]. Henning, Herbert Cooper Sanford, Wis
consil: Frank Keifer. VIM. H.Lopp, Indiana;
John Wilmer Latimer, Harvey Faris Smith,
West Virginia; George Dallas Mackay jr
New Jersey; George Madison. United
States navy; BENJAMIN Martin, jr., South
Carolina: Henry Howe McLendon, North
Carolina: William Mehn. Louisiana; Elliott
Kaye Pennebaker, Kentucky; Samuel Platt
Nevada: Joe Powell shoup. Iowa; WINS
Eugene Sullivan, Idaho: John Lilburn
Thomas, jr., Missouri; George Prescott
Tucker, Nebraska; Pere g. Wallms, Con-
necticut.
Master Of laws-George Wilson Baker,
Guy Elliott Davis. Charles A. Hines, Col
ton H. Lee, Robert Lee Maddox, John A.
Massie, Leonard J.. Mather. Charles Stot-
hard Muir, Henry Orth, jr.. Bennett Peck,
Arthur Bingham Seibold. James A. Tam
ner. Charles Frederick Wilson, District Of
Columbia: Rufus H. Baker, Sherman E.
Burroughs. Frank NJ. Barnes, Minnesota:
Grove Sidney Beardsley, John Wesley
Gardner. Alexander d. Lunt. J. Franklin
Philip, John Sarsfield Tucker, New York:
Frank Cory Bliss, Charles Burkhart Hard
ing. Abraham B. Keefer, Aionzo Waiter
Skunk. Pennsylvania: Eugene J. Boi.en,
Mississippi: H Leroy BrowninA J. Castle
Ridgway. Robert Wharton Test. Illinois;
Charles Benedict Calvert, George Henry