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DR. {. T. T RRlA!R!NWELL THE NEW PROFESSOR Of Languages and Literature at
 the University LIBERAL ATHLETIC RULES Faculty Can Permit Two Foot Ball Games and Two Series Base Ball
 Games Each Session Ofof
 the College Campus.
LIBERAL ATHLETIC RULES

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 Tuscaloosa, June 21.-(special)- )-The Uni versity trustees elected today to fill the chair of English language and literature, Doctor Charles Haywood Barnweh, who accepted the position by wire. The new professor is a native of South Carolina, and graduate of the South Car olina university at Columbia. He taught three years at Auburn, Ala, from 1889 to 1892. He is also a graduate of Howard uni- versity, Cambridge, in English and modern languages, and the degree of Ph. D. was | conferred upon him. He has since been in- structor in the Western Reserve university of Cleveland, O. He married a daughter of Captain Gachet, of Auburn Ala. He is a man of distinguished ability and the uni yersity is to be congratulated on the strong acquisition to it's faculty.
 The trustees empowered the faculty by two-thirds vote to suspend the rule re- strainlng athletic sports and permit two football games per season off of the univer- sity campus, and two series of baseball per l season.
 The trustees prize was won by Edward Campbell Street, of Huntsville, Ala Judges, Hons G. W. Taylor, Malcum Burke and F. | G. Stickney.
 The board Is in session tonight. Before adjournment tomorrow it is believed that important work will be done to enlarge the usefulness of the institution so earnestly desired by its friends. The 6Sth annual commencement of the University of Alabama occurred this morn ing in Clark hail. The hall was filled with an audience composed of citizens of Tus- caloosa and visitors from distance.
 The student body marched into the hall to the music of the Alabama University march, The exercises were opened with an oration by William Augustus Denson, of Birmingham.
 Of the candidates for titled academic de- grees not more than eleven are selected to deliver oratons, and they are chosen ac- cordtng to their standing. This must have equaled or exceeded 90 per cent. during the junior and senior years. The orators with the titles of their ora ton were as follows
 "Progress and Poverty"-By Malcolm Clayton Burke, Jr., Montgomery.
 ''Imperialism"-By William Robert liar rison, Killen.
 "The Future of the United States"-By William Augustus Denson, Birmingham.
  BoylSin Haynes, Union Springs. Territorial Expansion of the United States"-By Charles Shelley Lawson, Mont gomery.
 "The Outlook for Alabama'-By Reynolds James Powers University.
 "The Nicaragua Canal; Its Bearings on Southern Industry"-By Edwin Campbell Street, Guntersyille.
 "Politics and Political Duties"-By George Oliver Dickey, Luverne. Headers of Men"-By James Ward Stickney, Demopolis.
 "The Cultivation of the Memory'-By Elliott Lambert Wallace, Tuscaloosa. "John Marshall and the Constitution'- By Francis Marion Purifoy, Tuscaloosa. The other graduates were: Thomas Gar retson Burke, Meridianvile; Samuel Alfred Cowan, Coffeeville; Edgar w. Hollings- worth, Clayton; Paul Everett Jones, Cam den; William Erastus Matthews, Jackson; Frank Caleb Owen, Tuscaloosa; Henry Pearson, Tuscaloosa; Ben Phill Powell, Union Springs: Joel Heron Rainier, Union Springs; Thomas Lunsford Stevens, Bir- mingham; John Samuel Turberyile, Finch burg; William Henry Werner, Tuscaloosa and William Hubbard White, Epes.
 The young gentlemen entitled to final Montgomery; William Robert Harrison, of Killen and Charles Shelley Samson, Mont gomery. Those entitled to second year honors were John Osborne Ely, Montgom- cry IfNlHS TUSCALOOSA ana InOmdS Scale Plowman, Jr., Talladega.
 The Prize Winners
 The graduates in schools were Miss Lollie Eddis, Tuscaloosa; Robert Shattuck Hodges, Florence; Miss Abby Hazard Ho- gan, Tuscaloosa; Thomas Cary Marriott, Denmark Miss Laura Scott McGehee, Northport; Miss Mary Washington Moody.
 The Ready Writer' prize, the theme of which this year was, 'Faith as a Force in
  Samuel Alfred Cowan, Coffeeyille.
 The J. c. White prize, awarded to the most distinguished student in mnerology, was won by Victor Morean Murphy, of Ma con, Miss.
 The law prize, consisting of full set of the American and English Encyclopedia of Law, for the best thesis upon some legal subject. was awarded to William Franklin Porter, of St. Stepens. The subject this year was, 1.-The Constitutional and Political Aspects of the Proposed Restrictions upon the Rights of Suffrage by Constitutional Convention of Alabama" The Bryan prize, established by Hon. William Jennings Bry- an, for the best essay on some subject re- lating to the science of government, was awarded to Cecil Acmond Beasly, of Ken nedy, Ala. The subject was, Some Rea- sons Against American Possession of the Philippines"
 President Powers conferred the degrees upon the different candidates and after Home, Sweet Home," played by the Tus- caloosa orchestra and the benedicton, the exercises of the sixty-eighth commence ment were closed.
 Addressed Literary Societies
 Tonight Dr. Archibald Battle, of Annis- ton, addressed the literary societies-Eroso- phic Philomathic and Kent Club. Dr. Bat tie is one of the oldest of the alumni, and his "reminiscences were particularly inter- esting. His address was a finished scholar ly talk on the origin of man. After the ad- dress a comDetitive drill was held on the rostrum by a picked squad of nine men. Hon. William w. Brandon and Captain Chas. Allen, of the governors staff, were the judges To Sergeant Wellborn. of An niston, was awarded the Mary Fern medal as the best drilled cadet. Miss Anna Moody, the sponsor gracefully pinned the medal on