Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-27
TO PRACTICE THE LAW
SCORE OF GRADUATES FROM
HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
Former Senator Thurstop Makes Prin-
cipal Address at 2sth Annual
Commencement.

The twenty-eighth annual commencement
of the law department of Howard UNIVERSE
ty was held at the Congregational Church.
10th and G streets northwest, last evening.
Twenty young colored men received di-
plomas The church was comfortably
filled, the audience being made up of repre-
sentative colored people. Flags Of the vari-
Gus nations were in evidence, and potted
palms were arranged in profusion.
On the platform besides the graduates
were former Senator John NJ. Thurston, the
orator of the evening: the Rev. jeremiah
Eames Rankin, D. D., president of the uni
versity; B. F. Leighton. LII. D., dean of the
law department; Arthur L. Birney, LII B.;
William H. Richards, Ii. M; William II.
H. Hart A. M. Ii. M; George Francis
Williams, LII. M; Mason M. Elchardson,
A. M, LII. B.; ]. P. Earnest, LII NJ, and
James F. Bundy, A. M, LII. M.
After invocation had been offered by the
Rev. Walter Brooks. Mr.. Harry A. Clarke
of the graduating class spoke on equal
ty" The speaker declared that the whites
and blacks were entitled to the same treat
ment under all conditions. Mr.. Lewis G.
Gregory A. B., another member Of. the
graduating class, delivered an Grafton on
1.-THE Growth of Peace Laws" The present
Car of Russia, Mr.. Gregory said, deserved
to rank as one of the worlds benefactors
for the part taken by him in bringing about
the recent peace conference at The Hague.
Mr.. Thurston's Address.
'It is a pleasure former Senator Thur
ston said, ito welcome the members of this
class to the honorable profession to which
1 have given a greater part of my time;
and 1 would say that character is one OF
the principal things needed by a person
joining our ranks. A lawyer lives in the
light of publicity and every act done by
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means constant study and close application
and to also know the history of every coun-
try in the world; to know human hearts In
all classes of society, as we'll as to be
lover of your own country and its Constitu-
ton
Honesty, the speaker declared, Is also one
of the things necessary for a lawyer to
have Mr.. Thurston urged the members of
the class that racial conditions and condt-
ton of the blood do not stand in the way
of advancement.
President Rankin conferred the degrees,
after which benediction was offered by Rev.
Walter Brooks.
The Graduating Glass.
The graduating class was composed Of
Rutherford B. H Bailey, GAINESVILLE, Tenn. !;
Walter H. Darlington, British Guiana, s..
A; Harry A. Clarke New York city, N. Y;
John E Collins A. B., Leominster, Mass. !;
VIM. H. Crawford, New York city, N. Y;
John E. Diggs, Norfolk, Va; VIM. H. Full
Ter, A.B., Franklintown, NC; Louis G. Greg
DRY, A B., Charleston, s. c.; T Bliss Green,
Cleveland, Ohio; j. Arthur Harley, Anti
qua, British w. l.; Lawrence O. Harrison,
Norfolk, Va; Powell X. Martin, A. B.,
Newark, N. j.; Clifton NJ. Mason. Norwich,
Conn; w. Window Merkle New York city,
n. Y; John c. Moore, Concord, N n {;
Robert H. Scott, B. A., Philadelphia. Pa. ::
Dorsey c. Whitaker. Brookland, D. c.;
Webster Wilson, Galveston, Tex; VIM
H. Wright, Louisville. KY; John F. Young,
A. B., Tuskegee, Ala.