The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-09
At UNIVERSITY
OF THE PACIFIC
Forty - Seventh Annual
Commencement.
AND REUNION OF THE ALUMNI
GRADUATES AND THE DEGREES
THEY RECEIVE.
Many Noted Men Participate in the
Exercises Of the Day and Night
and Good Words Spoken
for Higher Education.
GRADUATES AND THE DEGREES
THEY RECEIVE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN JOSE, June S.-This was a gala
day at the University of the Pacific Be.
sides the forty-seventh annual com
mencement exercises being held, it was
the annual reunion of the Alumni Asso-
cation. The graduates and old students
fairly swarmed the grounds The great
est cheer prevailed, and the handshakes
and greetings showed the fellowship that
still exists among its alumni. Prominent
clergymen, professional and business mer
from all over the State were present, anG
when the evening closed these old class
mates had Toasted and enjoyed them.
selves to their hearts content.
The day opened with the commence
ment exercises. The chapel was crowd
ed, and the young ladies and gentlemen
graduates presented fine appearance
and showed the careful training they had
received at the institution. A fine must
cal programme was rendered. President
j. f. Stubs of the University of Nevada
delivered the graduating address. His
subject was The College of To-day" He
pointed out the benefits that accrued from
college education, and said that in this
country the college is the criterion of ed
vocational thought.
President Eli McClish in a few we'll
chosen words conferred degrees upon the
following graduates:
Bachelor of Arts-Ernest Grgg Dean Rich
mond Swift, John Henry Williams
Bachelor of Schenectady L. Glide, Clarke
Loring McClish.
Bachelor of Letters-Mary Elizabeth Crothers.
(piano). Grace Z. Freeman (violin) Jessie May
Kellogg (yocal music, Louis Herman Leibe
ITlolInl, clarke Loring McClish vocal music,
Henrietta Marie Miller (piano), Gussie Ter
wlliSer Qiano),s Minnie Alice Tuck (piano),
Edith Grace Van Anna (piano) Edwin Henry
Williams (violin) Mrs Ethel Hecker (violin).
Master of Arts-Alfred John Case of the class
Of 81 John Sherman Meracle of the class OF
The following honorary degrees were award
ed on recommendation of the trustees: Doctor
of Divinity-Rev. Frank s. Borton, Rev. John
Alexander o Meara, Rev w. S. Urrny.
The following instructors were made
professors by the faculty and trustees:
Wilbur McColl, piano department; Miss
Ella Booth, art department.; Miss Nella
Rogers, vocal department.; Miss Lulu
Mayne, literary department; Professor
Kroeck, department of biology
There were numerous and beautiful flo
raj pieces. A general reception by stu
dents and parents followed. At noon a
dinner was served by the ladies of the
College Park church in Maple grove. At
ter the repast the time was whiled away
under the trees on the grounds, where an
ecdotes and family reunions held sway.
The Alumni Association met in annual
meeting in the conservatory parlor at
$3.50.
The alumni elected the following officers
y. y
Hanson; vice president, L. l.. bennett
secretary, r. d. Hunt; treasurer, Caro-
line M Pitkin; executive committee-M s.
Hall, Professor H. NJ. Bland, Cecil Mark
j. A. Feirchild, G. d. Gilman
c. n Kirkbride Introduces a resolution
was unanimously passed by the asSocia-
ton. The plan is to raise a fund of $50 900
and have different subscriptions collected
to bear interest until the whole fund is
gathered in, and then turn the entire
amount over to the university A J. Han
son, W iee S 81 Clayton, J. R. zqck, c. A.
Shurtllft, W. d. kingSbury, L. L. bennett
and c. n. Kirkbride We're appointed trus-
tees to handle the fund
The trustees of the university at a meet
ing to-day adopted plan for the issuance
OF $4,000 bonds. All legal steps had beer
taken. so all that remained was to orde,
the issue through the trustees This Was
done and the paper will now be floated
Inc anniversary exercises of the AL
umnl Association filled the chapel to over.
flowing this evening. An especially fine
literary and musical programme was rem.
dered. The programme was as follows:
Overture, "Elopement." from Serial (Mozart,
ID Ablaing orchestra OF thirty pieces: voca
solo$ "Elizabeths Prayer from Tannhausar
Mrs Lena Hillman Smith, 81.
Attorney ]. r. Welch of the class of 'S7 pav.
an historical sketch of the alumni
A vocal solo, Rolling and Foaming Rllows'
!Haydn). was rendered by Richard r. Coyle
Miss Ella Brady IS. ''iies'
Congressman ]. Carson Needham of the clas
OF Sc delivered an address. College life anC
its attendant benefits to after life were gon
into fully.
Miss Laura LinviIle. "a. rendered the solo
Delight The exercises closed with Sousa'
march, The Stars and Stripes Forever" b,
! the D'Ablaing orchestra
The alumni banquet followed. About 10
members and friends were present fin,
menu was interspersed with happy speeche
and thoughts. President A. ]. Hanson of tn
Alumni Association was POSTMASTER. He wei
coined the members at the festal board. an,
! spoke of the class of SO. The broad educa
ton the college afforded was spoken of. an,
he predicted that the graduating class woult
| add luster to the name of the university Err
nest Grigg Of the class of SO responded Th
rest of the toasts were 'Our Alma Mater,
President McClish; Our Methodist Itinerants'
Rev. William Angwin; The Alumni Endow
ment Scheme" c. n. Kirkbride, 81; 'Th
Man With the Book" Professor L c. Hatch
Napa, 90; The Men Whom Once We FEARED
But Now Admire-the University Trustees
L C. MacChesney; Our Alumni Preachers,
Rev Hugh Baker, 'sS; The Greatest Popu
lar Educator-the Press" c. NJ Wooster q
] Tpun Ma 90.