New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-14
COMMENCEMENT AT VASSAR.
GIRL GRADUATES RECEIVE THEIR DIPLO-
MAS NUMEROUS GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE

GIRL GRADUATES RECEIVE THEIR DIPLO-
MAS NUMEROUS GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE.
Poughkeepsie. N. Y. June 13-The thirty-dtth an
nual commencement OF Vassar College was held
this afternoon with exercises IN the College Chapel
presided by President James NJ. Taylor. The
exercises of the usual character consisting
the reading of six essays by members of the gradu-
atng class, organ voluntary, by Professor Cav;
a soprano solo. Israel" sung by Grace Bertha
Raymond. and the comforting Of degrees by DR.
Taylor. The second degree in arts was conferred
upon Eda c. Bowman A B. '9s. Augusta Choate
A B. 80. Blanche Martin A B. go and Ruth Bart
lett Mears A B. go
The chapel was crowded with students and guests
and the platform with DR.. Taylor were the mem
Of the Board OF Trustees the faculty and visit
ing alumnae The essayists and their subjects
follows Isabel Bliss Trowbrfdge, The
Klepptic Ballads" Mabel Pearson Schmidt THE
Evolution of Peace Martha Grovenor Harmon
The Educational Value of Nature Study" Marie
Thompson Perry, The Development OF Darwin's
Idea of Natural Selection" Gertrude Vale ''Ths
Ethics OF Retail Buying and Frances Dorrance,
The Impressionism of Shelley's Nature Descrip-
TONS
President Taylor announced number of gifts to
the college. The OF $4,000 has been raised for
the biological laboratory through the efforts of the
New-England Alumnae. The sum of $4,000 was
given a year ago by some whose name has been
kept secret. condition that 1t should be raised
$50 CO., and with the request that this should be
done IT possible In NeW-England under the efforts
of the New England Alumnae This has been &C
complished. and this greatly needed building will
be at added TO the institutions equipment.
Mrs. Caroline Swift Atwater. of Poughkeepsie, has
doubled her former gift for the Swift Memorial
Urinary. in course OF erection, to the
larged plans and increased cost of material, thus
bringing her gift up SO, 600. A scholarship of
5000 has been founded under the will of Mrs.
Luther Citing Tate, OF Poughkeepsie. In memory
OF her father Hezekiah Watkins.
s. d. Coykendall OF Kingston, has contributed
maintaining Vassars relations with the American
illogical station at Naples the marine laboratory
at Woods Hole Mass, and for the publication of a
catalogue of the the North Pole. Mrs
Lille r. Babbott, of Brooklyn has paid into the
treasury $4,000 to make permanent the fellowship
founded in the name OF her daughter four years
ago
The second Shakespeare prize awarded to
Via Savage and the prize in mineralogy TO
Julia A Davis, who also received the prize in
geology The graduate scholarships founded by
the Board of Trustees are awarded follows
Laura Angela Moriarity, history; Jennie Mackay
Payne English and history Ruth Wells Greek
Frances Dorrance, biology. The Richardson
Babbott fellowship IS awarded to Alice w. W.
Wilcox, a. who viii study in biology at the Uni
versty OF Chicago.
After the commencement the Alumnes
Association had a dinner and listened to address
by st Clair McKeway, of THE Brooklyn Eagle
Covers were laid for three hundred.