The times., 1901-05-29

tin Chalfee 1856, second, Joseph Winston
Cox. IS 66: third Robert f. Smith 96.5S;
fourth. Roy Warner Tallman, gS,g@.
The prize Of an American and Engilsh
Encyclopedia Of Law contributed by
the Edward Thompson Company, was
awarded to Arthur NJ. Churchill Inc
subject HeSigned was The Llabllity OF
Quasi-PubliC Corporations to Loglsl"uNe
Control The first essay prize oi $+o was
won by Jcnu Boyle, il. The second prize;
$50 was awarded to Ralph L. Peck, ana
the third prize, $50, to Edward \. Pagei-
sen.
The degree Of Master of Laws was con
ferred upon the following: Jose {. Abreu'
Philippine Islands; Fritz Won Buesen
New York; Timothy J. Butler ara EESreI
NJ HawIey Kansas Adolph +. l. John-
son, Minnesota; Ollie !. Johnson, Wl5coN-
sin; Aubrey J. Kline, Virginia; Wlii!am
+. Mcclure, oregon; Masatoshl Nlshlz2-
wa. Japan; Knighton T. Meade, Pcnnsyi-
vania: 1eliiro Nakatsuka, Japan; Charles
NJ. Polk Arkansas; Hadley w .Qualntance'
Illinois; George Dick Rodgers, kansas ,
Charming Rudd Missouri; Charles
stephens Kansas; William H. Stewart.
jr Georgia; Albert Rhett Stuart, South
| Carolina: John +. Taylor, District of Co
| lumbia: Frank Y. Tharin. South Caroilna' >
| George Vickery Weimer Michigan.
There were but two candidates for the
| degree of Master of Diplomacy, W !l!lan
/ Lorraine Schoeverling and Joseph Gorhah
| Tyssowski.
The degree of Doctor Of Civil Law was
conferred upon the following:
Leroy Stafford Boyd, louisiana; Joseph
Waddel Butts New York. warren Il.
! Choate, Maryland; Charles c. Clark.
/ Pennsylvania: Thomas Fletcher Dennis,
Illinois; John T. Harris, Missouri; Alfred
I Tennyson Hawkesworth, New Hampshire
/ Glenn Edward Hustled, Michigan; Living
stone S. Johnson Virginia; kenkichl 10
4 dera. Japan. John w. Langley, Kentucky;
| Franklin y. Mather California; Ormsby
= McHarg. North Dakota; Charles Gregory
/ McRoberts, District of Columbia; AlVah
I ANyrr.G Patterson Oregon David Il Ppf-
/ fers, Illinois; Julius l.. Peyser, District of
| Columbia; Henry Noldmar Ruoff, Massa-
chusetts; Richard NJ Towson, Virginia
Henry A. Vieth, Wisconsin; Charles
! Drake WestcOtt, Pennsylvania; Goldsmith
! Bernard West District of Columbia, and
Bayard Wyman, Michigan.
The committee to whom was referred
the essays for the Edward Thompson
! Company prize of an Encyclopedia of
American and English Law" and which
! consisted of Judge Martin A. Knapp, of
! the Interstate Commerce Commission, and
| Hon. William r. Harris, Commissioner of
! Education, reported that five essays had
| been submitted and carefully considered.
| OF this number two were manifestly su-
perior to the rest but when the matter
| of deciding as to which was the better
| the committee found a most difficult task
| confronting them, and the only solution
| was for the committee to provide an
! other prize, a valuable set of interstate
| commerce reports. The encyclopedia was
awarded to Charles d. Westcott, while
| to John w Langley was awarded the
! other prize The subject of the thesis
was Constitutional Power of the United
/. States to Acquire New Territory and the
I Manner of Holding and Disposing of the
/ Same
1t was announced that the work for the
/ year of the following entitled them to
honorary mention: Fritz Won Brlesen'
! $3.50: Albert Rhett Stewart, 81; Channing
| Rudd. % so; Glenn Edward Hustled. 95.33
! Charles Drake Wescott, $3.50; Joseph Cor
ham Tyssowski. $3.50; Joseph Waddell
/ Butts. $3.50
/ The graduating exercises of the Colum-
/ bian College. the Corcoran Scientific
! School and the School of the Graduate
! Studies will be held tonight at the Ma
/ tional Theatre.