Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-07
DOCTORS AND DENTISTS
CLASSES GRADUATES FROM THE
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
Exercises Held in the
National Theater - Annual Adj
dress by Prof. Caldwell.

The National Theater presented an I'M
usually attractive appearance last evening
In its decorations in celebration Of the six
teenth annual commencement exercises OF
the medical and dental departments of the
National University. 1t was filled with
large audience. The stage was the center
of the decorations and was most pictur-
esquely set with palms and ferns, forming
an effective background for the floral trib-
utes which were massed along the front OF
the stage. These last were subsequently
distributed to the graduates as expressions
Of regard from their friends and relatives.
Above the stage was suspended a huge
pendant bearing the initials NJ D. d. N. U.
and the figures 1900. When the graduates
and the members of the faculty filed onto
the stage and took their seats it was the
signal for the opening. the former being
grouped on the left side and the latter on
the right. In the midst Of the chairs occu-
pied by the graduates was vacant one.
Upon 1t was a broken floral column. an af-
fect1onate and touching remembrance OF
ginia, who died Of consumption just after
having received the notice from the faculty
that he passed the final examination and
was entitled to degree. Reference was
made several times during the evening to
the untimely fate of the young student.
The president of the faculty, DR.. John L.
Winter, presided, and after selections from
the orchestra prayer was offered by DE-
L. B. Wilson. pastor of Foundry NJ. E.
Church. The annual address to the grad
yates was delivered by Prof. c. T. Cald-
well. a member of the faculty. One OF the
features of the address was a defense OF
vivisection. He said it was a necessary
part Of medical science, and that 1t was
through this source that advancement and
progress could be hoped for. He attributed
the hostility to vivisection to ignorance.
and advised the graduates their ell
forts to spread information in regard to Its
advantages. its aim being to reduce the
sum total Of suffering and not to increase
1t
Presentation of Diplomas.
The diplomas were presented to the
graduates by Mr.. Charles Lyman. and af-
ter the one intended for the deceased mem
Der of the class had been presented to one
of his associates, to be given to the form
er's mother, the orchestra played in minor
key 1.-The Vacant Chair" The valedictory
was delivered by Leroy Clear.
DR.. Winter announced that the prize for
the highest standing in the medical class
had been awarded to Raymond C. Denson,
and in the class in dentistry to Mark Orsa-
mus Davis.
Those receiving diplomas were as follows:
Glass in medicine-CharIes Harvey Bow
ker. NJ. D.. New Hampshire; John Clark
Brown. Phar. D., Virginia; Harry Clark
Caldwell. District of Columbia; Raymond
c. DeniSon, District of Columbia; Mary
Holmes, Ohio, and Ella Roy House, Ala
bama.
Glass in neutrality-suspicious. Davis Boak,
West Virginia; Thomas Leroy Clear, Illi-
nois; Mark Orsamus Davis. Maine: George
Lindsay Edmons. Virginia; William Gabriel
Randolph Lea. Virginia: Frederick Nelson
Libbey, Wisconsin: William ]. Manning,
Massachusetts; James Lemuel Manire, Ten
bia: William Amaker Murray, District of
Columbia; Edward ]. Scanlon. New York;
George Franklin Simpson. Virginia, and
Bruce Linville Taylor, Kansas.