The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-31
4S NEW WOMAN LAWYERS
GOT THEIR CREDENTTALSLIST NIGHT
CAN PRACTICE NOW.

Prize Scholarship Awarded to Mias st. Clair
and Mrs. Mulqueen Because the Com
mittee Couldn't Decide Between Them
A Gift of Big, 900 to Garry On the Work.
Forty-eight pupils who had completed the
course in the woman's law class OF the New
York University received their certificates at
the closing exercises OF the class last evening
In the concert hall OF Madison Square Gar
den. The graduates OF the class wore
their gowns and caps and enterad the
hall in procession at the opening OF tho
exercises. sitting in tho front seats In the
middle OF the auditorium. Prayer was offered
BY the Rev. DR.. George Alexander. and Mrs.
John p. Mum. the President OF the Women's
Legal Educational Society. delivered an adj
dress, in which she sketched the history OF the
woman's class during the nine years OF
It's existence. During this time the class
has relied on tuition fees and voluntary con-
tributions to its expenses. Mrs. Mum an
nounced that during the last month a fund OF
$4,000 had been given to the university to
sustain the work. Essays were read by Mrs.
Washington A. ROebling on the Disabilities
OF Married Women" and by Miss Lottie
w. Booth on The Punishment of Crime
The university prize scholarship. worth 500.
in the form Of two years free tuition at the
University Law School. was awarded to Miss
Helen st. Clair and to Mrs. Mary Gilroy Null
queen. the committed being unable to decide
which had passed the better examination for
the Chancellor's certificate. Tho Mrs. j.
Hedges Crowell prize Of $50 was awarded to
Mrs. Roebling for the best essay on what an
American Woman Loses by Her Marriage
with a Foreigner"
Miss NJ. Cary Thomas the President OF Bryn
Mawr College. delivered the address to the
graduates. In it she said that the brightest
promise Of the future in this country lay in the
competing colleges and universities. which
she believed would in time outclass the
German institutions OF learning. Miss
Thomas questioned tho advisability OF
tho establishment by Congress OF o national
university. on the ground that IL men are
taxed to support 1t they will cease to give as
freely to other institutions as they have In the
past. She continued:
To decide in favor OF founding Q national
university in the face Of such arguments as l
have briefly enumerated would require the
most mo-, overwhelming weight OF evidence: yet,
lumber" o OF Women iSr f have s" BANDED seidptehh eGs sfises
.kssssSSGdISSation and have bssSS e Esise
PLY. has not even, been decided, on by
tHrHfo WI" bTan a5s 70 Of al thps Goion ia b bsIness and
1apghters Of the Revolution and women's
tions 81 the members Of the George Washing:
ton Memorial Association and have passed
rSSolp thint. IN na afSGr to to s s1e th a uRb. efors bpass sSls
sSsh been Gi niy t. the a%SsstfiSPR H. whst r..
opponents, of the measure have very
sGs Object been f@6s ar GrG tSs dbis to point Int out
first thought to. women who have not had much
ton or of the difficulties attending the man
aagement OF higher Institutions Of learning.
to have been, the sentimental argument. and
yet the results of such a university when es-
tta aliiys ns h mnit f ns reoE %Sss Y WV Mas HHsGattm snd
Jefferson and others Of four early statesmen did
think that there should be a national ~uniyer-
France to decide some burning issue Of the
men oil, the time Of, the French Revolution
aani tions of Of Hf iRe uni tsS s ThiFd' h TRs com com.
At the time of Washington and Jeffer-
SW2e h faseo o MGte to nP pe grSa so Ame Of the e reeenS ives
Of Washington. or the life Of Franklin that has
aust apnearGd; to reallzs that the men Of that
eyes the changed conditions Of to-day. would
the very different conclusions Of a century ago.
would he the first to oppose the founding OF a
national university under present conditions.
II his hsauc st should contribute : to br ! II about
a TTG6S s no l4h itc ne ~ would waIs now I rseS ? h. cb,nco,,or
Actracken To- these graduates:
R Fa" All N f;'g H A5 5iS"5 HEil1 s ! XIII NE NJ NJ t HIN ! ISs Sss
IH 1ston u baolH, S&G.s'fA m @lSs E iGs'' sa% % :
Eroekc alice M fraveS Mar Miss J. GsrtrP Pit,si StslIa
Barrie t Ford. Mis- Si:s Ella Eis'G Park io' Hsmiii tons Fo a@eie
Mrs; Annie Marie Glass, Miss Marshsrits
beth ninm9an. EMiss, Edith jacobs: Miss
ss SFmsI eo sets H NSi!' kfiIee Al DAM Bs Reyes EsS Y Miss
Jane KniGkerhoeker, Miss Helen .Landray.
n faoso H3rr M4s Claire nl,y 1I; s,EsII. MisS RsItha A..
CMIacksn; Miss lisa ADELAIDE MiilSI, Irs Mary GiiToy
Wilson Pearson, Mrs" Emily Warren RoeSiins.
Hcicp E sehIssi HSSnEM t Ko FiSysPfie s &isf s Befsis
SM cth; Hsn mIth Sn n / He SitsSss3 81. a Slsirl MIMI Miss E E1ins,
Miss H Hf1nSn n es1 Wi1Ilso; T W5is atflke wardsIl''
Rro9k!yn Eagle Mrs. Roebling Is the wife Of
n MSi"'F she is ' Wee. si ees w Of soaosis. e&aF Fs.
sisgel is the editor Of a mazayine and has
Norma Leslie Munro is a daughter OF
the publisher and is a wcll-known horse
woman. Two, Of her cousins. Miss Pearson
and Mrs. Goodspend. are members Of the class.
eX-Mayor Gilroy. Miss Leonard IS q grand
daughter o.. Justice Leonard OF the Supreme
Court, and Miss Ethel Pearsall ia the daughter
Of Il Brooklyn lawyer. Miss MacCracken Is a
daughter OF the ChRncellor and a graduate Of
Bryn Mawr. Miss Helen st. Clair is a graduate
Of Columbia. Miss Kaliske and others have
taken degrees at the Normal College.
BRYAN At 4 81 BANQUET IN TOPEKA.
He Talks About the 1000 Platform and thu