The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-07


Charles Grandson Rose, "The Develop
ment of Hebrew Law"
Samuel Eakin Shull, THE Origin and
Growth of Negotiable Instruments.
Joseph Jennings Asbury, 1.-The Process
of Notification in Soils.
Allen johnson Barwick THE Function
Of Government in the Evolution of a
People.
Alfred Rives Berkeley, Thought Move
ment in Isaiah"
William Stanley Bernard, "Traditional
Imperialism"
Lester VanNoy Branch, Moral Bear
ings of the New Science"
William Frank Bryan, Secondary Ed
ucation in Germany and in the United
States: A Comparison of the Public High
School Systems of the United States
Thornps jefferson Byerly, Economic
Obligations of the United States towards
it's Colonies
George Chadbourn, THE Geology of the
Yellowstone National Park. "
Thaddeus Ainsley Cheatham. 1.-The Spir-
itual Development of st. Paul"
George Nelson Coffey, "Anglo-Saxon
versus Latin
Henry Clay Cowles, Jr., 1.-THE Value of
the Microscope to the World of Medi-
cine"
Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, 1.-The Rela-
ton of Mathematics to Music and Poe
try
Robert Greens Singleton Davis Some
Geographical Evidences of Glaciation.''
Peter Harden Eley, 1.-The Symmetry of
Life
Joseph Erwin Cant, Eighteenth Cen
4.s.. Ca.o.oo &, E;obfoonth CpnturV Poe
try
Ernest Graves, "The Development OF
the United States Navy.
John Wesley Greening, IAN Educa-
tional Ideal for North Carolina.
Isaac Foust Harris, "The Development
of the Leblanc Soda Process
Williamson Edward Hearn. 1.-THE Mis-
sion of War in the Evolution of a Ma
ton
Bessie Staley, A.. b.. Elon College, 1898,
Enid
Charles Everett Thompson, Political
Aggressiveness.'
Needham Erastus Ward, "The State
and the Railroad"
Fonso Butler Watkins, '"The Real Crom-
we'll
of Genesis b.
William Gilmer Wharton, "Comenius
and Modern Education
Graham Woodland 1.-THE Iron Ores OF
North Carolina
Theses by candidates for the Degree OF
Master of Arts.
Charles Conner Brown, A. b., 1899, 1.-The
Wiclife Version and its Influence upon
English Bible Diction.'
Claude Baker benson, Jr., A. B., 1899,
''The Use of Diminutives in Catullus.'
Thomas Hume, Jr.. A. B., 1900 Treat
ment of Roman Subjects by Shakespeare
and Pierre Corneille."
Francis Moore Osborne, A. B.. 1899
1.-THE Nature of Moral Authority"
Salle Walker Stockard A. B., 1898
''The History of Alamance."
When graduate has completed all the
required work together with the elective
work in any department he is given spe-
cial certificate from that department. The
following received special certificates:
Creek David Preston Parker.
Latin: Alice Edwards Jones.
German: Henry Evan Davis Wilson.
French: David Preston Parker.
English: Henry Evan Davis Wilson
Alfred RiVeS Berkeley.
History: James Alexander Lockhart
Jr. Jasper Sidney Atkinson, Augustus
Henry Jarratt.
Mathematics: Marcia Louise Latham
Kemp PIummer Lewis
| The following graduated with distinc-
ton:
Summa Cum laude: William Franb
| Bryan, leading his class.
Magma Cum laude: Peter Harding Eley
| Kemp Plummer Lewis, David Preston
Parker, Fonso Butler Watkins, Lestol
| VanNoy Branch.
Cum laude: Halcott Anderson, Ernest
| Graves, John Wesley Greening, William
| Giln,er Wharton. George Nelson COT
| fee, Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, Johr
Wetmore Hinsdale, Jr., Claude Lee Mil
| ter. Needham Erastus Ward, Henry EvaI
| Davis Wilson.
There are two graduates in law James
! Cameron MacRae, Jr., Samuel Eaki1
| Shull
Five took the Masters degree: Charles
| Conner Brown, Claude Baker benson
| Thomas Hume. Jr.. Francis Moore Os-
| borne, Sallie Walker Stockard.
Medals and prizes were awarded as fol
! lows: The Holt medal in Mathematics
| Miss Marcia Louis Latham: The Hume
| Medal in English. Miss Marcia Louis La
| than; The Hill Prize in History, Jasper
| Sidney Atkinson; The Harris Prize in
| Anatomy (won by three) julius Legrande
Caldwell, Alonzo Enoch Gates and William
DeBerine McNider; The Greek Prize
William McLelland Stevenson; The Worth
Prize in Philosophy Charles Grandson
Rose; The Early English Text Society
Prize, Henry e. d. Wilson; The James
b. Lloyd Prize in Political Economy
Needham Erastus Ward; President S
Prize. George Vernon Cowper and Dor
man Steele Thompson; Mangum Medal,
David Preston Parker.
Tonight in Gerard Hall the alumni held
a most enthusiastic meeting. There were
present large number, representing
all business and professional occupations
IN our State, and some of the most prom
lnent men in the land. The University
has been glad to again open her doors to
her worthy sons. The alumni meeting
formally closed this long to- be- remem-
bered commencement and tomorrow the
crowds will move homeward, but the
German club will give it's annual series
OF balls, beginning tonight with the an
nual commencement ball
Among the prominent trustees on the