The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08

the Duke family have given to Trinity
College.
The Alumni Association of Trinity Col
lege elected the following officers: Pres
ident, Hon. w. ID. Turner, of Statesville;
first vice president, S. J. Durham, of
Bessemer City; second vice president
d. r. Davis, of Wilmington; annual ora
tor, Dr. o. G. b. McMullen, of Elizabeth
City; alternate, DR.. Dred Peacock, of
Greensboro; secretary, e. C. Hackney,
Durham; treasurer, p. V. Anderson, Dur
ham,
The graduating class at Trinity this
year is composed of first-cass young
men, "the best class" said professor.
Trinity has graduated under the new
regime
Mr.. j. NJ. Culbreth spoke on the Need
Of Dependence Upon Christ; Mr. j. NJ
Flowers. Political Ideals in North Car
olina;' Mr.. J. H. Highsmith, THE Schol-
ar in Politics." Mr. J. f. Lilies, THE
Graduate and His Mission" Mr.. S. A.
Stewart, "The Powerful Life" Mr.. Rich
ard Webb was to have spoken on 1.-THE
Need Of Saner Criticism in the South,
but was excused on account of sickness.
Those presenting theses but not speak
ing were as folloWs:
Wilbur Wade Card Raleigh, Cooper
alton" Mark Bynum Clegg, Pittsboro,
Growth, the Result of Struggle" Jo-
seph Edward Holden Evans, "The Mys-
tic" Benjamin Gill Allen, Henderson.
water Supply in Towns and Cities;'
Talbot Murray Allen. Raleigh, Samuel
Jolipston, of Chowan;" Louis Humbert
Asbury, Charlotte, "The Meckenburg
Declaration of Independence; Bessie
Wilson Bassett, Goldsboro, Henry Tim
rod" James Arthur Best, Fremont, 1.-The
Adoption of the Federal Constitution in
North Carolina" William Gannaway
Coletrane, Roxboro, "Lingurn Skidmore
Burkhead;" John Raymond Cowan, Cleve-
land Tenn, "a Study of 'Troius and
Criseyde,' as an Example of Chaucer's
Method of Narrative Constructions" Lin
vile Laurentne Hendren, New Bern,
Some of the Problems Connected with
the Transmission of Electrical Energy"
Ernest Frederick Hines, Florence, S. c.,
"Landlordism in America" Jonathan
Peele, Gibson "The Family Life of the
Negro" John Edward Pegram, Durham,
1.-The Intellectual Development of the
South" Robert Percval Reade, Mt. Tir-
zah, 1.-The Constitutional Convention of
North Carolina in 1885," Dennis Wise
Simmons, Fairfield, Colonial Settlements
in Albemarle;" John Jesse Tyer, Durham.
"The Century's Advance in Electrical
Science" Charles Augustus Woodard.
Wilson, "The Works of James Lane AL
LEM" Norman Clyde Yearly, Kelvin
Grove THE influence of Hellenism upon
Christianity"
The following diplomas and certificates
were awarded:
Bachelors of Art: Benjamin Gill Al
len, Talbot Murray Allen, Louis HON.
bert Asbury, Frederick Wilson Ayers.
Bessie Wilson Basset, James Arthur
Best, Wilbur Wade Card, Mark Bynum
Clegg, William Gannaway Coletrane,
John Raymond Cowan. James Marvin
Culbreth, John McTyere Flowers, Lin
vile Laurentine Hendren, John Henry
Highsmith, Ernest Frederick Hines.
Joseph Edgar Holden, Joseph Franklin
Lilies, Jonathan Peele. John Edward Pc
gram, Robert Percival Reade, Dennis
Wise Simmons, stephen Alexander Stew
art, John Jesse Tyer, Richard Webb,
Charles Augustus Woodard, Norman
Clyde Yearly, John c. Montgomery.
Masters of Art; Wade Hill Adams, Eng
lish, German and Philosophy, Denver:
man, Jefferson; James Thomas Henry,
philosophy and history, Durham; Lloyd
Carlton Nicholson, mathematics and
physics, Richards Samuel Wulfenbager
Sparger, political economy, French and
English, Durham; Jerome Dowd, Dur
ham.
Receiving a certificate; Pleasant HUI
ber Hanes.
Freshman honors: j. A. Caldwell. Nor
canton; e. w. Crawford, Ophir; b. f.
Dixon, Jr., Shelby; r. NJ. Odell Concord;
z. c. Perrow, Noeton, Tenn. M. II.
Richardson Durham; T.. w. Spencer, Ok
ford; r. r. Taylor, Elizabeth City.
Sophomore honors: Miss Lila Mark
ham, Durham f. w. Webb, Morehead
City.
Trinity College and the high school
both open Wednesday, September 18th.
hoe MN