The age-herald., 1898-06-23
Left Filled With the "NeW Era" Spirit
 Now Prevalent.
ORATIONs DELIVERED
Samuel Henry Sprott, of Livingston, Was Awarded the Prize--DipIomas Awarded to the Graduates Able Address
 by 0r, Powers.
Special Dispatch to The Age-Hera1d. BY EDWARD EUGENE KERSH

Tuscaloosa, June 22-The sixty-seventh annual commencement of the University of Alabama is now history, and will ever be recalled as one of the most brilliant of recent years
 Large crowds of visitors have been in at tendance and are leaving, filled with 'The New Era spirit. This has been com mencement day. At il O'clock this morn ing the senior orations were delivered. The following delivered orations:
 Samuel Henry Sprott, of Livingston "The Dangers That Threaten Our Republi- can Institutions;" George Gilmer Tait, of Camden, Battling With the World Makes the Strong Man. Offa Lunsford Shivers, of Marion, "The Higher Education of Wo- man." Frank Harvey Fielder of Benton Hope Incentive to Human Action"
 For the best oration the committed awarded the prize to MT. Sprott. It was announced that the Ready Writers prize had been won by O. L. Shvers; the Min erology to E. c. Perkins, of Tuscaloosa the Law prize to Francis Marion Purfoy.
 Diplomas were awarded as follows: Bachelor of Arts, George Tarleton Bestor, Mobile; Ernest Gray Bingham, Talladega James BrOck ElllS Balley springs, GTdHh Harvey Fielder, Benton; Walter B. Flow CTS, Forest; Robert Taylor Majors, Tusca- loosa; Robert Watkins Price, Jr, Dayton Offa Lunsford Shivers, Marion; Joseph Motion Smith, Birmingham; Robert Davy Sprott, Livingston; Samuel Henry Sprott, Jr., Livingston; Louis Leopold Steinhart, Greenville; George Gilmer Tait, Camden Frank Shelley White, Jr., Birmingham.
 Bachelor of Science, Vernon Hope. Tus- calOOSa: Shaler Charles POuSer.- AnniS- ton
 Graduates in schools: Joseph Forsyth Black, Noble; Miss Mabel Eloise Bealle, Tuscaloosa; Miss Mary Carter Hill, Tus- caloosa; Carney Graham Laslie. Tuskegee; Miss Lida Peck Martin, Tuscaloosa; James Marvin McCleskey Northport; Augustus Hoke Nichols, Tuscaloosa: Miss Lois Par ker Tuscaloosa; Miss Katie Louise Pow CTS, Tuscaloosa; Miss Annie Ross Searcy, Tuscaloosa; William Thomas White, Bir- mingham; Miss Alice Searcy Wyman. University.
 Powers Able Address
 President Powers address to the class was able and full of splendid advice.
 The honorary degree of IL. D. was con- ferred upon Hon. J. Q. Orn, of Columbus, Miss.
 Honor Roll, Senior Class-Earnest Gray Bingham, Frank Harvey Fielder, Robert Watkins Price, Jr.; Samuel Henry Sprott, Jr. George Gilmer Tait.
 Junior Class-Francis Boykin Haynes, Ben Phil Powell
 Sophomore Class-Thomas Jefferson Brothers, John Anderson Coleman, Lee Leva.
 Freshman Class - Donald Cameron Bing- ham, John Osborne Eey, James Ross For man, Hugh Wilson Hill, Harry Levy, Rob ert Irving Little, Earle Farley Moody, Charles Clifton Moses, Allen Parker, Thos. Scales Plowman, Jr.; Frank Houston Powe, William Basil Wood
 Scientific Course, Junior Class-Willlam Augustus Denson, Russell Bliss Edgar, Will liam Robert Harrison, Charles Shelley Lawson, Reynolds James Powers, Edwin Campbell Street, Robert Jemison Hargrove
 Freshman Class-David Dare Patton.
 Engineering Course, Junior Class-James Ward Stickney.
 Special Students-Mabel Eloise Bealle, Mary Carter Hill, Alice Searcy Wyman
 Law Department-Dallam Wilson Craw- ford Francis Marion Purifoy.
 shake-up in the Faculty
 When the board of trustees adjourned to- night it was given out that the prediction in my Monday dispatches of shake-up in the faculty had been verified. There were five changes as follows: Dr. A. A. Pearsons, of the Florida agricultural and mechanical college to succeed Dr. J. M. Rickell, chair of chemistry; Dr. Herbert A. Sayre, of Johns Hopkins, to succeed Col. George M Edgar, chair natural philoso- phy; Eli Abbott of Tuscaloosa, to succeed J. J. Hains, quartermaster; pr. William G. Sommerville, to succeed Dr. w. A. Hes- ter as surgeon. The chair of romance lan- guages was established and Dr. Brownell, of Cornell, was elected to fill it. The new men are all highly equipped for their work. The trustees hay been doing faithful work for the university at this session, adopting many recommendations for its advance ment.
 Address by E. L. Russell
 At il o'clock yesterday morning Hon. D. l.. Russel( president of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, delivered the address be- fore the Alumni association of the Univer- sity of Alabama,
 MT. Russell is not an alumni of the uni versity and his selection for this duty is possibly the first instance in the history of the association that an outsider has been accorded the distinguished honor.
 The speaker was introduced by Hon. Alex M. Garber, president of the assoc.a tion He thanked the association for the honor, and privilege of addressing an au- dience so vast in numbers, so imposing in the individual character and intelligence of it's older men-so promising in it's pros- poets and in the possibilities of its young men, and so fully reviewed and the speak, CT declared that the accomplishments of the university were but the chronicles of the lives of its alumni. He wondered if the first faculty of the institution-Alva Woods, Henry Tutwiler. Burden Salton- stall, john F. Wallis and Henry w. Hill liard-on that calm, spring morning sixty seven years ago, dreamed of its future possibilities
 of they did, and dreamed that this university would exert influence for good as wide as this land of ours; aye. wider, and that this influence would con- tinue to grow more potent as the years rolled by-then we are authorized by the facts to thank God that their dream has been and is being fulfilled"
 Many Great Achievements
 MT. Russell spoke of the many great achievements of the alumni on the su- preme and subordinate benches of this and other states; at the bar-citing John Little Smith, Thomas H. Herndon and Gailord B. Clarke of his home cityI Mohlel as three