Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-29

occupied Tor hospital PURPOSES. Inc col
lege exercises, however We're not sus-
pended,
March 3, 1873, Congress passed an act
supplemental to the organic act of 1921
providing that the corporation shall here
after be known mad called by the name of
the Columbian University" In 1879 it was
decided to remove all departments of the
university into the heart Of Washington
and in 1884 the present university building,
at the corner of 18th and II streets, was
occupied by the academic, law and scientific
schools of the university.
A Friend in Need.
John Quincy Adams was among the
earliest friends of the college to aid in its
need. He loaned it $4,000, a part of which
debt ne RENTED. From 1885 to 1861 John
Withers of Virginia made frequent gifts to
cancel debts, to make repairs to buildings
and for general purposes, amounting in the
aggregate to nearly $4,000 In 1865 VIII
liam w. Corcoran presented the college
with a building for its medical school, val
ued at $4,000 In 1879 he offered an es-
tate near the city on condition that $1,000
additional should be raised for a permanen.
endowment. The required sum was obtain
ed, and, with Mr.. Corcoran'S gifts conSti-
tutes the present endowment. The estate
was sold in 1888 and the university realized
$4,000 from it. In 1888 Mr.. Corcoran gave
$50 900 toward the cost of new university
building, and in 1856 he added S25,trtD to the
endowment fund
The medical department was established
in 1921, with Thomas SeWell, NJ. D., and
James NJ. Staughten NJ. D., first presi
dents. But the school was not formally
opened until March, 1925. The law school
as organized in 1896, was discontinued in
1927, on account of enharrasSments, ana
not re-established until 1865 1t is the old
est law school in Washington and was the
first in the country to establish a graduate
course leading to the degree of master OF
laws.
Within the last year a long cherished hope
of the authorities of the university was
realized in the establishment. in connection
with the law department, of the school Of
comparative Jurisprudence, in whsh the
law Of the world is taught, as historical
evolution and as philosophy. A scientific
school was established in 1854 and dental
school in 1887.
President and Faculty.
The Rev. DR.. B. L. Whitman is the presi-
dent of the university, and its faculty, re
garded as one of the ablest in the country.
is as follows: Rev. A. j. Huntington, dean
and professor of Greek; Rev. Samuel NJ.
Shute emeritus professor of English; JAS.
Howard Gore, Phi D., professor of physics;
Lee Davis Lodge, Phi D., professor of pc
litical science; Rev. James M. Sterrett pro
feSsOr of intellectual and moral philosophy:
Charles f. Munroe, Phi. D., professor of
chemistry; Herman Schoenfeid, Phi. D, pro
feSsor of Germanic languages and itera
lure, M. NJ. ramsey, A M, professor OF
Roman language; Charles c. Swisher, Phi.
d, professor of history; William A. Will
bur, A. NJ, professor of English; Charles
w. Downing, A. M, professor of Latin.
These have as associates in the law, med
ical, dental, scientific and other depart
ments of the university men who stand
foremost in their respective professions
and who have placed these departments of
the institution in the front rank of such
in this country,
Columbian College.
Bachelor of arts-John Henry Altschu, Al
phonzo Augustus Hobson, Charles Baldwin
Bacon, Alice Madeleine McKelden, Paul
Cockerille, Etheldreda Lord Norris, Ida
Draper, Stanton Garfield Peelle, Rolvix
Harlan Ina Augusta Smith
Bachelor Of science-BronsOn Chaplin Bux-
ton, Selma MarstelIa Mason. Edwin Kendall
Cutter, Frances Clara Newands, William
Saunders Manning, Preston Blair Ray
George Irving Raybold.
The Corcoran Scientific school.
Bachelor of science = In architecture,
Archibald Webster Brown; in chemistry,
David Holmes Blakeock, Edward Janney
SidweIl Lupton, William E1dridge Hillyer
Clinton P. Townsend; in civil engineering,
Eldrdge Roger Boyle, Roy Bagley Hayes,
Francis Repetti Weller; in electrical engi-
neering, John Phipps Alexander, Guy Ben
nett Marean, Robert F. Portner; in geology
and mneralogy, MayviIle William witch
ell; in general science, John Elmer Arm
strong, Nevil Monroe Hopkins, George
Lowman Beeler, George Carroll Todd, Maui
rice Owen Eldridge. Lineas Dot Under
wood, Charles Emerson Hood, Katherine
l-ulalia 1ancey; in language and literature,
James Edgar Hiatt; in mechanical engi-
neering, Ralph Brewster Marean, orion
Love Mejgs, Frank Eugene Skinner.
The school of Graduate Studies.
Civil engineer, Thomas Miller Fendall,
William Mather Lamson; master of science,
Aida Mary Doyle, William Skinner, Burton
Haines Esterly, Christian George Storm,
Fred Cragin Jones, Clara Mary Upton,
Eleanor Annie Lamson, Edward Warren
Vail, jr., Horny Orth, jr., George Keen
WoodWorth; master of arts, Benjamin
Lucus Ancel, Cameron Faruuhar McRae,
Christabel Forsythe Fiske, John Dufton
Minnick, Frances Mabel Jacobs, Lila Tay
Ter Albert Mayen Thinker, William James
Wallis, Caleb Clark Magruder, jr., Jacob
Morton White.
The Law School.
Bachelor of laws-L Q. H. Award, Geo.
w. Barrus, A. Farley Brewer, Bluford Will
son Brockett, Joseph Waddell Butts, Chas.
McC. Chapman, John Merle Chick, Ralph
A. Clark, Harry Lee Cooke Paul Cooksey,
Howard Addison Coombs, William Nevarre
Cromwell, James w. Crooks. Edwin Lamar
laws, Eu"dlh f-Neftlt benson, iSe L.
Du Mars, Frank c. Esterly, Frank A
Everts, Ralph Norton Flint, Avian H. Free
man, Bertram Grey Foster, Daniel Shays
Foster, Henry Finch Gardner John Ur-
quhart Gardner, L. X. C. Glover, Byron u
mer Graham, Henry d. Green, jr., Eugene
NJ. Gregory, Stewart c. Griswod, Walter
Davis Groesbeck, Thurlow w. Grim, Will
liam Meade Hallam, Robert S. Hardy, Her
bert Frederick Harris, Josiah G. Harris,
Charles Hartmann, Alfred Tennyson
Hawksworth, William Fairfax Hall, Rob
ert Mason Heth, Laurence Hufty, James
Monroe Hittle, F. Charles Hume, Glenn E.
Hustled, S. Howard Jacobs, Paul b. Jami-
son, Thomas e. Jansen, William Morse
keener, Aubrey Kline. Thomas T. Leual-
len, NJ. Creel List, William E Mattingly,
jr, George 7. May, jr, Charles Mcclure,
ir., James B. Mcclure, Adam McMullen,
Charles Gregory McRoberts, Joseph Hercus
Milans, Charles Coad Milburn, r Frank
Morgan, Thomas James Murphy, William
G. Norris, Charles Wesley Owen George
Preston Parkes, Charles W. Parks, George
IL Parmelee, Samuel Scoville Paschal. Al
yah w, Patterson, Harry Alleman Pierce,
Theron Potts. Charles Wesley Rastell, Jabe
{. Reader, Thomas Caldwell Ridgeway,
Howard Lemon Rohrback, Charles Dorsey
Smith, Edgar A. Smith Frank Hiram Smell,
John Cecil Spaulding, James Alfred Stall
cup, Hillebert Ward Thomas, George AL