The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-07
THE SCHOOL YEAR CLOSING
Students Busily Preparing for the
Final Examinations.
The commencement Exercises OF
Local institutions to Be tnusuniis
EInborate-PIans for the h'eh
school Graduation Ceremonies

Local institutions to BE Unusually
rI,borate-PIans for the High
school Graduation Ceremonies
Tho present is the busiest time OF the
wear in local educational institutions
Preparations for the commencement eN-
ercises are well under way, ana from
now until the date set for the conferrlns
of diplomas examinations Will occupy
the greater part of undergraduates
time and attention. In scarcely any OF
the colleges and schools have the fun
details of the graduation exercises been
completed.
The commencement exercises of the col
legiate department of Georgetown Uni
versity are to be held June 20, in CASTOR
Hall, which is now undergoing consider
able alteration. About thirty members OF
the senior class will take the degree or
A. b., eight that of A. NJ, and four that
of LII. D. At the commencement exer-
cises the only addresses SO far arranged
for are the bachelor Grafton by Edward
j. Smith. of Nashville, Tenn, whose sub
Ject win be THE Debt of the Nation to
Archbishop Carroll" and the valedic-
tory by Louis z. Lauve, whose SUD
ject will be Moral Training in Col
will be delivered by a prominent alumnus
of the college. The commencement eXer-
oIses will be rendered of additional inter-
est on account of the fact that three
coveted medals which nave been al
ready contested for Will be awarded
that day They are the Merrick medal
given 10 the student making the best
showing in public debate: the Horace
medal for the best metrical translation
Of certain selected odes of Horace and
the Morris historical medal, this year
awarded to the author Of the best paper
on The Rise and Growth of the Nation
The law department Of Georgetown
University will hold its graduation eXer-
cises in the National Theatre on the even
ing of May Is, when about sixty embryo |
attorneys will receive their parchments.
The programme for the medical school |
commencement has not yet been an |
nounced For the first time in eight years |
the senior class of the preparatory de- |
partment will have commencement exer- |
cises and they will be held in the large |
dining-room at the college
The graduation exercises of Columbian |
University will be held on May p, y, and |
q at the National Theatre. In all the |
departments there viii be about 200 grad
yates and the ceremonies will be elab |
crate.
The departure of Cardinal Gibbons for
Rome on Thursday will cause his first |
absence in many years from the annual |
commencement of the Catholic University |
of America, of which he is the chancel- |
lor. The graduating classes Will receive
their diplomas on the morning OF June o.
Under the faculties of theology. phtloso- |
ply, law, and the school of technology /
there viii be between forty and fifty grad
gHfuaa nd
brief and are held in the morning, so that !
the students can leave the city the same |
day. In the absence of the Cardinal, the |
rector of the university, Monsisnor Coma
ty. Will probably preside.
Probably no graduates of any institu- |
ton of learning in the city are the re- |
cipients of more hearty congratulations |
when they receive their diplomas than the |
students of the various Washington high |
schools. The commencement exercises are |
always of an elaborate nature, the classes |
large, and the school spirit intense. Con- |
vention Hall will be the scene, on the |
evening OF June IS. of the graduation OF !
the combined senior classes of Central, :
Eastern, and Western high schools. The |
total number of graduates will be over |
go Commissioner Mcfarland will pre-
side and will deliver an address. Mem |
bers of the Board of Education and other /
school officers viii be the guests OF honor. |
The arrangements for the graduation eX- |
ercises OF all the high and normal schools !
are under the direction of DR. +. X. Lane |
and the principals OF the various high /
schools
one hundred and fifty young business I
men and women will be turned out on |
the world with the credit OF a course sue
cessfully pursued when the graduation !
ceremonies of the Business High School /
take place at the National Theatre on I
the evening of June Il. Commissioner
mcfarland VIII deliver an address. in |
Schools growing popularity has been at
tested by its large graduating classes
Even these are scarcely fair criterion,
inasmuch as many leave the school before
graduation to accept lucrative business
positions, so great is the demand for |
young men and women with a correct
technical knowledge of affairs of the
world.
The graduates of the Colored High |
School will close their school careers
probably at the Metropolitan Baptist /
Church. The commencement is generally
held at the Academy OF Music, nut TINS
year a departure from that custom is
made. There are about ninety In the class
and Of this number twenty-five are In the
In the grammar schools there win be
no set graduation exercises for those pu-
pills who have completed the work OF the
eight grades. large number OF teach
ers will have special ceremonies, but
they will, as rule. be simple, and in
some of the schools there Will be no OBJ
servance at all.
Announcement has been made of the /
graduation exercises of the medical. dent
al. and pharmaceutical colleges of How
ard University which will be held tonight
at s O'Clock at the First Congregational
Church, corner of Tenth and G Streets
northwest There are to be nineteen grad /
yates in the school of medicine alone, |
while the dental college viii turn out ten
and the pharmaceutical college six grad
yates.
Tonight at o'clock the graduating ex-
ercises OF the Freedmen's Hospital Train
ing School for Nurses will be held at the
Andraur Eankfn Memorial Chanel. There |
are sixteen graduates of the school this
year.
large class Of young ladies Will grad
nate from Miss Somers' school on the |
evening of May ..
THE HEARINGS POSTPONED.