Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-30
DOCTORS AND DENTISTS
GRADUATES OF GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY RECEIVE DEGREES.
Interesting Exercises Held Last Night
at CASTOR Hall-Address by
Col. Charles Smart.

Twenty-one graduates, in mortar caps and
black garbs; members of the faculties of
the medical and dental schools, attired in
full evening dress; students, with their bois-
ferrous college shouts; priests, in all their
solemnity; profusion of cut flowers, palms
and ferns, and large audience, composed
OF admiring friends, together with the dis
play of beautiful paintings, and the in
signals of the Catholic Church, combined to
form striking feature of the exercises last
evening at CASTOR Hail, Georgetown Uni
versity, upon the occasion of the fifty third
commencement exercises of the schools of
medicine and dentistry, respectively, of
Georgetown University. If the future ca
reers of the twenty7one young men who
were handed degrees are as successful as
the exercises last evening augured. they
Will have no trouble in surrounding the
obstacles of life and gaining fame and for
tune
The Marine Band, under the leadership of
Lieut.. William H. Santelmann, opened the
exercises with selections of Schleppegrel
Zikoff and Sousa, after which Rev. Jerome
DauSherty 81, president of the university
conferred the degrees upon the graduates
with few appropriate remarks
The ValediCtOrian of the medical grad
VINO gave most interesting talk on medi-
cal science, its history and progress. Ere
quently during his talk Mr.. Regli expressed
for himself and the class appre citation of
the efforts of the members of the faculty
for the advancement and welfare of the
students
MIR. Allen E. Cowles of Wisconsin ac-
quilted himself most credftably as the val
edictorian of the dental department. His
ADDRESS was characterized by humorous
nits, and received hearty applause from
the large gathering.
1t was announced that Mr.. Regli and
DIR. t. F. Lowe of Maryland a graduate
won in the competitive examinations for
the position of physicians of the George
town University Hospital.
Col. Smart's Address.
After selection, Gounod's Faust" by
the Marine Band. Col. Charles Smart, as
sistant surgeon general of the United States
army, delivered Toner lecture, and later
gave some advice to the graduates. DR..
Toner was before his DEATH some years
ago, btnefactor of the Georgetown Uni
versity, and besides providing for the
award of medal as prize for scientific
research, he left fund to pay for lee
lures to the medical students upon special
topics. Col. Smart's address, which con-
sumed about hour and a quarter, was
based upon DR.. Toner and his work
Selections by the band closed the excr-
dining hall of the university followed.
Those Receiving Degrees.
The names of the graduates in medicine
are as follows: Charles Bell, District of CO.
lumbia; VIM. S. Cain. New York; Thomas
F. eastman, Pennsylvania; Joseph A.
Heintzelman, Pennsylvania; Augustin K.
Kingston, New York; Thomas F. Lowe.
Maryland; Andrew ]. Mcintyre, Pennsyl-
wanna; Frank H. McKeon, Rhode Island;
Joseph J. Noeker, Michigan; ]. A. S. Regli,
California; William NJ. Smart, District of
Columbia; Joseph A. Starr New York, and
William H. Walker, New York.
Those who received degrees of dental sur
geons were the following: Allen E. Cospes
Wisconsin; John A. Fergel Ohio; Bartlett
T. Harper, Georgia; Ernest F. Latimer,
South Carolina; George S. Waldo District
of Columbia; Alfred S. Weaver. Ohio; G.
Harris White. District of Columbia: Chisa-
to Ioshida, Japan; Timothy Lane Pennsyl-
Vanla, and William GOnphortZ District of
Columbia.
The class officers and the reception COM
mittee were compose of the following mem
bers: Medicine-President, William NJ
Smart; vice president. Thomas F. eastman:
secretary. Thomas f. Lowe; treasurer. ].
A ). Regi; sergeant-at-a A. J. Nc
lrtyre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Alfred S.
Weaver; vice president, G.. Harris White:
secretary. Jewell NJ. Gompertz; treasurer,
John a. Fergel; sergeant-at-arms Bartlett
h. Harper Reception committee Chair
men, |. S. X. Reeves. jr., medicine, 'O3 and
y. J. leberg. dentistry, 'O3.