The San Francisco call., 1899-05-18
DIPLOMAS ARE
GIVEN TO j, {,
GRADUATES
Commencement Day
at Berkeley.
ORATI0NS FROM STUDENTS
Co-EDs ATTIRED IN CAPS AND
GOWNS.
The Senior Glasses of the University
Get Sheepskins and Become
Alumni of Their Alma
Mater.
ORATI0NS FROM STUDENTS
Co-EDs ATTIRED IN CAPS AND
GOWNS.

BERKELEY. May 17-Exactly $50
students graduated from the University
of California to-day. They received their
diplomas a the public commencement ex-
ercises held in a big tent this morning
upon the university campus.
Although 10:30 o clock had been set as
the time for beginning the graduating
ceremony the friends of the candidates
for degrees taxed the big tent to its ut
most capacity long before the hour ar
rived. Hundreds Of people from San
francisco and Oakland had to be con-
tent with standing outside large plat
form had been erected at one end for the
president and members of the faculty.
On both sides stood chairs and seats for
the students. An elaborate display of
palms and potted plants from the univer-
Slty conservatory served to cover up the
baroness Of the whole.
Shortly after 10 o'clock with President
Martin kellogg in the lead. the pro-
cession Of graduates. members of the
faculty and regents started from Stiles
Hall. They walked across the campus in
double file, the women dressed in white.
wearing the black cap and gown. the men
for the most part in black. The scene
was full OF academic impressiveness as
the venerable president. clad in a doc
tors gown. took his seat upon the plat
form, followed by the members of the
Board of Regents in a body, and a ma
jOrity of the university professors. while
the 800 graduates arranged themselves on
either side, AS soon as all were seated.
the Rev. George b. Hatch of Berkeley
offered prayer.
Following was the order of exercises:
Festival overture Leutner; prayer, Rev.
George 3. Hatch; statement by the president:
serenade Tiu; oration. Exituri Salutamus."
George Elliott Ebright. of the medical depart
ton Roy Victor Nye; Album Leaf" Wag
ner; oration. The Duties OF the Legal Pro-
llession in the Present Crisis" Adolph Leopold
Well Ph.B.. Of the Hastings College of the
Law; Grafton. The Debt the Graduate of the
University Of California Owes to the State
Miss Lily Hohfeld; waltz. Artists Life
Strauss; conferring Of degrees. by the presi-
dent; delivery OF military commissions, by Pro-
lessor Frank Soule; benediction Rev. Horatio
Stebbins. ID.
In his opening address President Kel-
logg announced the official statistics of
the number of students in the university
There were, he said 1850 in the colleges at
Berkeley and 2200 altogether including
the Affiliated Colleges in San Francisco.
This meant an increase of 46 per cent in
ten years. The president deplored the
TACT that with this unprecedented increase
in numbers the funds available for the
expenses of the institution had in the last
ten years increased but SO per cent The
next year, he explained, even allowing
Tor every economy, would show deficit
OF $4I 900. He urged the alumni and all
the friends of the university to use their
efforts in helping TO tighten the financial
burden resting upon their Alma Mater
Under the title, "EXituri Salutamus"
George Elliott Ebright of the medical
tended to set forth the right attitude of
the physician just graduated toward the
profession of his choice Mr. Ebright
found no.cause for alarm in the fact that
the practice of medicine was already
overcrOwded. LAS long as sickness and
any form Of organic evil exists" he said,
''the physician will be needed; and not
until every problem of disease is over
come may his labor cease. To this end
the physician must regard his calling as
a sacred duty. Putting pecuniary recon-
CT ha.e CHI cfr1 ,Jar-
white banner of charity, seeking no other
reward save the reward of the work it
Mr.. Ebrght was followed by Roy Victor
Nye. president of the senior class. Mr..
Nye's Oration was entitled "Self-sacrifice
and Self-assertion." He outlined briefly
the principles involved in each of these
two motives Of conduct. and concluded
that both were necessary, that the one
must counterbalanCe the other in q true
realization of the ends of life.
Adolph Leopold Well Phi B., spoke upon
The Duties Of the Legal Profession in
the Present Crisis" Mr.. We'll is about to
enter the legal profession. after getting
through the Hastings College OF Law
His opinions about expansion and i'm
perialism are decidedly in opposition to
these policies, and he accordingly CON
think that way too. Chief Justice Mar
shall was all wrong, he declared, in many
Of his decisions. and particularly IN all
those which have been construed in favor
Miss Lily Hohfed, the university
medalist for the present year, delivered
the last grafton. The title was THE Debt
the Graduate of the University Of Cali ALI
on the part of the State" she said, was
an implied promise to, give something
a two-fold duty: he must help in the
shaping of rational and intelligent pub
lie opinion. and he must embody in his
personal life the ideals of his own ma
ture."
At the conclusion Of Miss Hohfeld's ad-
dress President Kellogg proceeded with
the awarding of diplomas. The candi-
dates for degrees from the different col
leges were asked to stand while their
names were read off and the diplomas
were handed to them. In the absence of
Governor Gage, Professor Frank Soule,
commandant of the University Corps of
Cadets, delivered the military commits
sions TO the cadet officers. After the Rev;
Horatio Stebbins of San Francisco had
pronounced benediction the ceremonies
concluded.
A fun list of all the graduates, together
with the military commissions and the
names of those to whom scholarships
have been granted for the ensuing year,
was published in The Call of to-day.
Following the exercises came the annual
alumni reunion and luncheon in the Har-
mon Gymnasium. After luncheon had
been. served the following programme,
carried out:
Welcome Professor William z. Ritter, 'ss
president of the Associated Alumni; The
Faculty Point of View" President Martin Kel-
logg; music, selections. Carmen" (Bizet) {;
Recent Developments in Higher Education"
Professor John Dewey; Thirty Years in the
Vineyard" Professor Frank Soule; music
overture. National" United States (Gilmore) !;
''Co-education Then and Now Mrs. Alex
ander F. Morrison, IS; music cornet solo,
The Song That Reached Ny Heart (Jordan) !;
THE Medical Alumnus." James F. McCone
Levels" Alice Edwards Pratt. 81 THE Latest
Out" H A: Overstreet, 80; music, waltz
''Violets' (WaldteufeD; "The Student and the
Flag" F. A. Selfridge Jr. 's4; music march,
Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa).
In the evening President and Mrs. Kel-
logg entertained all the members of the
graduating class at their residence on
Bushnell place.
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