The times., 1901-05-09
GRADUATE FROM HOWARD.
A Large Glass From the Medical
school Given Diplomas.

! Nineteen physicians, ten dentists. and
six pharmacists were launched upon the
| professional world at the commencement
| exercises of the medical department OF
/. Howard University, held last night in the
| First Congregational Church The organ
and galleries were tastefuliy draped with
| the American colors and the church was
| filled with friends and well wishers of the
| graduates. On the platform were grouped
| on either side the men and women grad
yates, clad in the black robes and the
mortarboard hats of students Behind
them, on the rear of the platform. were
seated the members of the faculty Of
Howard University and their guests. in
Guiding Commissioner Maefarland, the
Rev Gilbert F. Pierce, d. D.. John F.
Cook. and Prof. Reynolds Wilcox, NJ D.,
of New York. Robert Reyburn, NJ d.
dean of the faculty. presided.
The programme of the evening was in
| augurated with several numbers of or
chestral music rendered by the Hoffman
Orchestra. Rev. DR.. Pierce pronounced
the invocation. The President of Howard
University, J. E. Rankin, D. D., LII. D.,
was introduced by DR.. Reyburn and made
a brief congratulatory address to the
graduates. which was roundIy applauded
and degrees and diplomas were then con-
ferred upon the following:
Graduates in medicine-Fannin Stafford
Belcher, A. B. Lincoln, Augusta. Ca :;
Poneau Bogaley, Bassein, Burmah; Os-
wald harrington Herndon Bowser. Rich
mond, Va; Tomlin Augustus Campbell.
ID. ID. s., Howard, Jamaica, British West
Indies; Mildred Eulalia Gibbs, Washing
ton, d. G. Herman Garzell Crosby, New
y York City; James Lee Honeywell, Jack
sonville, Fla; Miles Berkley Jones, Rich
mond, Va; Alexander Atkinson Kellogg,
A. E. Lincoln, Phar. G. New York, New
York City; Martin Sylvester Murphy.
Washington, D. c.; Joseph Benjamin
Norman RaDhaelTom, Trinidad, British
West Indies; Harriet Elizabeth Riggs,
Calais, Ne; Benjamin Franklin Rivers,
James Island, S. C; Philip Alexander
Scott, Norfolk, Va: Jabez Nehemiah
Soanes. Antigua, British West Indies;
Charles Henry Stokes, Rockford III;
Charles Andrew Tiguor, Phar. d. How
ard. Washington, d. c.; Thomas Taylor
Womack, A b. Lincoln, Philadelphia,
Pa; Henry Grant Wood ClarksvIle. Va.
Graduates in denistry-Oliver Howard
Arnold, Washington, d. c.: Oliver Charles
Arthur. Grenada, b. w. T.; Lewis Henry
Henderson, Swansboro. y. c.; Charles
Munger, Wheaton, Mimi; William Lin
coin Munger. Wheaton, Mimi; Everard
Emanuel PensO. Jamaica, B. w. l.: James
BENJAMIN Riley, Tallahassee. Fla: VIII
liam Myers SlOwe. A. +. Lincoln. Phiia-
deiphia, Pa; Arthur Ernest Smyth, Trini-
dad. 3. w. /.
Graduates in pharmacy-William T.
BlaclIshear, NJ d. Howard. Fort Worth,
Tex; ROzier Carney Bowman, Washing
ton, ID. C; Charles Daniel Ross, Washing
ton, d. G.; Carl Wiberforce Shaner. To-
peka, Kan; Rufus Montrose Stokes, St.
Louis. Mo-; George Mcdowell Wright,
Portsmouth, Va.
Alumni prizes were awarded in medicine
To- woman graduate, Harriet Elizabeth
Penso, and in pharmacy to Rufus Mont
rose Stokes. The presentation of the
prizes was made by DR. Reyburn.
Commissioner Macfarland addressed the
graduates at some length. He spoke of
the qualification Of District Commissioners
to give advice to graduates, by reason of
the amount of advice absorbed in the
course of each year through the COM
plants and recommendations Of the 300-
GO citizens of Washington. Much of this
advice, Mr.. Macfarland stated was wise
and much otherwise. noting some strange
requests that had been presented to his
official attention. He congratulated the
graduates upon their connection with
Howard University made famous by two
men In modern times, and never made in
famous.
DR. Wilcox of New York. then ad-
dressed the graduates briefly. referring TO
the probability that a text book bearing
his name author had contributed to
the discomfort of the students in medf-
cine The appearance of the graduates.
he stated, was an exemPlificatiOn of the |
fact that science was limited by neither |
sex, creed, nor race. In the pOtentiaIity |
Of the graduates, men and women he |
argued the regeneration of the race, with /
their influence eXerted in every part of /
the nation The exercises closed with the |
benediction delivered by the Rev j. T. |
Rankin, d. D.. President of Howard.