The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-28

Phelps, RockVllle, conn, lion. IL. w. Cleaveland, New Haven, Conn.,; c. w. Pickett, Esq, New Haven, Conn.
 The Edward Thompson company prize: A set of the first or of the sec ond edition of the Encyclopaedia of Law or set of the Encyclopaedia of Pleading and Practice, as the success ful competitor may elect, to that mem Der of the middle class who shall pass the best examination in the required and optional studies of that year.
 George Elijah Hinman.
 Kent club diplomas for excellence in debate in the regular exercises of the Yale Kent club were awarded to the following members of the senior class:
 Edward William Beattie, B. A., Yale university, 1895.
 John Franklin Douglas, B. A., Uni versity of North Dakota, 1895.
 Clement Austin Fuller, B. A., Yale university, 1896.
 Gilbert Lawrence Hedges, B. A., Yale university, 1896.
 Daniel Vincent McNamee. Honors.
 Degree of M. l.. cum laude-David Edward Moulton, LLB., Yale unver- sity, 1S97 attorney -at-law.
 Arthur Ashford Wilder, LL.B., Yale university, 1897, attorney-atlaw.
 Degree of LIB, cum laude-William Livesey Burdick, Samuel Peterson, Ph. D., Yale university, 1897; William Bradford Boardman, B. A., Yale uni versity, 1893.
 Middle Class Honors (tI,o ,lo, yU;I1;oyo piralu R Vale mi yersity, 1896. George Elijah Hinman. Frederick Stephen Jackson, B. A, Yale university, 1896. Thomas Francis Noone. Junior Class Honors. Theobald Matthew Connor, B. A., Yale university, 1897. Arthur Linton Corbin, B. A., Univer- sity of Kansas, 1894. Leslie Elmer Hubbard. Albert Francis Judd, Jr., B. A., Yale university, 1897. Harvey Lucius Montgomery, B. A., Center college 1897. Edward Lawrence Smith, B. A., Yale university, 1897. Louis Michael Sonenberg, B. A., Yale | university 1897. Charles Heitler Studinski, B. A., Yale 1 university, 1897. | George Zahm. Honor to Student in Special Course. John Warren Edgerton, B. A., Trim | ity college, 1894, M. A., Yale university | 1896.
 The exercises were interspersed with music.
 | The hall was comfortably filled with l friends of the graduates and the exer- 1 cises were unusually interesting. l The oration of Gilbert Lawrence Hedges of Oregon City, Ore, winner o1 | the Townsend prize, was on the sub I ject, "The Debt of Virginia to Jeffer- son." and was as follows: 1 Let Greece write the story of hel
 Solon; let Germany sing the praises o1 | her immortal Luther; and let all na' tions honor the educators of mankind I But no stories will be richer, no songs of praise more melodious, and no honol
 more fitly bestowed than that which
 belongs to Thomas Jefferson-the law | giver, the champion of religious tolera' tion, and the educator of old Virginia Aye, more. It was he who broke dowr
 the corrupt aristocracy in his nativ' state and taught his fellow-man tn, | creed of democracy: That governmen which knows no castes, which recog | nizes no empty titles and which knows l man by his deeds. | A glorious opportunity was offered t | Jefferson when the spirit of revolution l began to burn among the colonies. | loyal people was being ground unde
 the burdens of unjust taxation. A mon arch, seated on his throne across th sea was condemning them despite thei 1 just defence. Under these acts of ty | ranny all the colonies were ablaze witl l indignation. A war cloud hung in tn,
 sky. In the midst of this wonderful display of patriotism stood Jefferson urging his countrymen to defy the ty rant, and with the sword, to secure fo themselves the blessings which belong
 to free people. | War came. Through the smoke O that famous conflict, amid the rattle o musketry and thunder of cannon, tn
 American colonies marched forth t independence.
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