The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-16
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
Commencement Exercises Of State
University.
STUDENTS WHO RECEIVED DEGREES
Texas Historical AssOcintfon Begins
Its Session TOday--sOidiers Are
to Get Diplomas.

Austin, Txas, Jun 15.--At 1890 o'clocl
this morning the University commences
ment exercises were opened with prayer by
Rev. E. b. Wright OF this city.
Robert Daniel Couch, University repre-.
sentative from the academic departing Mt
read an essay on Causes OF Discomfort In
the South and West" Leslie Waggener
representative from the law department
read an essay on Our International Duty.
Both papers were ably written and showed
extensive reading and thorough UNDER
standing Of the questions in hand.
The commencement address was then de-
livered BY Hon. Alexander w. Terrell Of
Austin. His subject was "Land-lts In
diyidual Ownership and Intelligent Culture,
the Surest Safeguards OF Free Govern
ment."
The next thing on the programme was
the comforting of degrees. which were
awarded as follows
Master of Laws-Charles Henry Huber
ich OF San Antonio, Anton Norwall Mour-
sund of Fredericksburg, John Crawford
Sauer of Dallas, jeff Davis Todd OF st.
Elmo.
Bachelor of Laws.-Decatur Boyton AK
tell of Waco, Texas; Alexander Galpin
Blackjack of Cleveland, Tenn; William
Stuart Bailey, Fort Worth Texas; Lamar
Bethea, Seven Oaks, Polk county, Texas;
Charles William Batssll, Sherman Texas
William Franklin Boyette, Tyler Texas;
Tom Terry Connally, Eddy, Texas; j. o.
Caldwell, Austin, Texas; Meek Levelle
Daniels. Grandvlew, Texas Andrew
Walker Denmark, Rancho, Texas; Robert
A. Dunbar. Campbell, Texas; j. w. Don
aldson, Window, Texas; Allison Thompson
Folsom Austin. Texas; Berp.rd Boyle
Hemphill, Ennis. Texas; Leonard b..
Isaacs, Rockda!e, Texas; Jack jenkins,
Bastrop, Texas; Harry Philip Jordan Aus
tin. Texas Moritz o. Kopper, Galveston,
Texas; Thomas l., Kelly, Haynesylle, La;
Harry Tom King, Houston, Texas; Joseph
Louis Lockett, Rockdale, Texas; Henry
Ebert Lassiter. Tyler. Texas; Max K.
Mayer. Fort Worth, Texas; william p.
Midkiff. Gainesville Texas; Robert F.
Nixon, Luling Texas; Howard Parker.
Mount Vernon, Texas; John Calvert Palm,
Austin, Texas; William Pierson, Haskell,
Texas; Daniel Parker, Calvert, Texas; Clayd
Henry Read, Brownsville. Tenn. James
Hesley Sellars Cleburne, Texas; Curtis
Edwin Spalding, Austin, Texas; William
Halderman Thompson. San Marcos, Texas;
Robert Benjamin Wilton, Grand Saline,
Texas RUDE Samuel Wells, Paris, Texas:
Leslie Waggener Austin, Texas James
Wiley Young. Bastrop Texas; John Wood
son Lewis. Willis, Texas; John Harris Mas
terson, Galveston, Texas; c. Pope Caldwell,
Austin Texas Coleman G. Witherspoon,
La Plata Texas.
Master OF Arts.-Manuel Marcus Garcia,
San Antonio, Texas; Henry George How.
ard, Jacksboro, Texas; Florence p. Lewis,
Austin, Texas; William Roy Smith, Austin,
Texas.
Bachelor OF Ltterature.-zoe Lenore
Baldwin, Austin. Texas: Agnes Brady,
Austin, Texas; Mabel Brooks, Austin,
lam r. Decherd Austin, Texas: Franz
Joseph Dohmen. Austin, Texas; Vera Har-
ris. Austin, Texas Eula l.. Hill, Austin,
Texas; Yancey Wendell Holmes, Leesville
Texas: Florence Magnenant. Austin, Texas;
Lawrence Harry Schweer. Denton. Texas.
Civil Engineers-R Denny Parker,
Calvert, Texas Otto Andrew Pfeiffer, San
Antonio. Texas.
Bachelor of Arts. William 7. Boyd, Aus
tin, Texas; Margaret Eulalie Cobb, Cam
eron, Texas; Daniel Robert Couch, Has
kel, Texas; Lourania Miller, Kileen,
Texas Edward Taylor Moore, Jr., Austin,
Texas; Vernie Rosborougb Morris, Belton,
Texas; Florence Edna Rowe, Dallas.
Texas Herbert Sprngal. San Antonio,
Texas; Ernest Wildbahn Townes, Aus In
Texas Thomas Augustus Whatley, Hunts
VILE Texas.
Bachelor of Scence-Rlley Andrew IA.
ker Gatesville, Texas; Waddey Winpfield
Battle Waco. Texas: Mary Robbie Davis.
Rector Texas; Carrie Lee Mcdonald. Aus.
tin, Texas: John William Matlock. Airing
ton Texas; John Adalr Monroe, Paris. |
Texas; Hardy Ror Stiles Taylor. Texas;
Moses Henry Wheat Marshall, Texas.
5fonlght the grand final and recention |
at the Driskill closed the exercises for 1898, |