The Washington times., 1903-06-03
One Candidate Only Fails to
Take D. c. L. Degree.
BALANCE OF CLASS PRESENT
Mrs. Bailey First of Her Sex to Take
Honor-No Degree
for Rebel

Mrs. Bailey First of Her Sex to Take
Honor-No Degree
for Rebel.
Columbian University last night grad
uated the largest law class in it's his
tory-110 in number. The degrees were
conferred in the New National Theater,
which was crowded with the friends and
students of the university.
Mrs. Emma Reba Bailey received the
degree of doctor OF civil law, marking an
epoch in the study OF law by women.
Mrs. Bailey is the first of her sex who
has ever taken this degree.
Fight Over Mrs. Bailey.
Mrs. Bailey's qualification has for
some time been the bone of contention
between the faculty and the other can
didates for the degree of doctor of civil
law. Seven of the eight men in the
class made protest and 1t was asserted
that they had decided not to appear
upon the stage for their degrees If Mrs.
Bailey also received degree. Last
night seven of the eight men were pres
ent, the only absentee being II. B. Tai
ley. the president of the class.
Mr.. Talley's name was on the program
but was not read by Justice Harlan. "
presented the candidates for degrees.
After the exercises. President Needham
made the significant statement that by
the rules of the university candidates
for degrees of such a high character
must appear upon the stage to receive
them.
ExMinister Taylors Address.
The address TO the graduating class
was delivered by the Hon. Hannis Tay-
lor. formerly minister to Spain. His sub
1ect was international Law" Interna-
ttonal law. he said, was not possible
until the idea OF a Fundamentally,
held for SO many centuries, was entirely
given up.
He spoke of the Monroe Doctrine. and
its place in international law. and de-
scribed its character when originated.
Its present dimensions, he said, were
the outcome of seventy-fve years OF
thought by Presidents and Secretaries
of State
President Needham's announcement
that candidates would be presented for
graduation by Justice Harlan. was greet
ed with great applause
Names of the Graduates.
Those who received the degree of
bachelor of law were:
Benjamin Franklin Adams. New
hampshire; William Frazier Adams.
Wisconsin; Edward Renick Alexander.
Ohio; Edward Cunning Anderson. Dis
trict of Columbia; Lewis ]. Bailey. Ten
nessee; Joseph H. Barnhart, Illinois:
David Wilkinson Bell, North Carolina;
John Randall Boreing, Kentucky: Mar
tin r. Bourne, Minnesota; Charles Eu-
gene Brady. Wisconsin,; John Brewer,
Maryland; Herbert Irving Britton. North
Carolina; Stephen Allen Brooks, District
OF Columbia; Arthur Harrison Brown
Massachusetts; Robert Crandau Buckley
Wisconsin,; Charles Amoss Butler. In
diana; Arthur Moore Churchill, Wiscon-
sin; Christopher r. Clark, District OF
Columbia: Edgar ]. w. Clarkson, Dis
trict of Columbia; Thomas Reed Cliff.
District of Columbia; Charles Elmer
Conner, Iowa; Byron Mcpherson Coon,
Maryland; Claude Hixson Coryeu, Michi-
gan; o. Glenn Cowhick, Wyoming:
George Bliss Culver California: George
Henry Davis, Massachusetts; Frederic
L. Dawson, New Jersey; Sylvester Till
man De Forest, Indiana; Frederick B.
Eichelberger. Ohio: Richard Drum En-
gel, Massachusetts,; Walter Charles Eng
lish, District of Columbia; John Fran
els, jr., Kansas Hamden Mickey Fulg-
ham, Mississippi; Hubert Bruce Fuller,
Connecticut; William John Grant, Penn
sylvania; Foster Reg1ier Greene, Mas
sachusetts; Charles V Grunwel, Vir-
mi ThfAnD IcCic
sippi; William Perry Hahn, District OF
Columbia; James w. Harbaugh, Ohio;
Jess Bradford Hawlsy, Idaho; Jose Hertz
y Fernandez, Cuba; Guy HolsoppIe
Pennsylvania; David n. Houston. Dis
trict of Columbia: Paul Barton Hulfish,
Virginia; AxeI Josephsson. Sweden:
James Power Keleher, New York; AL
mon C. Kellogg, District of Columbia:
Paul Victor Keyser. Iowa; Leslie Still
well Kinnard. Indiana; Charles Albert
Kreps. West Virginia; Julius Arson
Kuck, jr., New York; William Leonard
Larsh. Pennsylvania; James II. Leonard,
Virginia; Benjamin Adams Lewis. New
York; William H. Linkins. District OF
Columbia Thomas Price Littlepage. In
Charles Wellington Main, Maryland:
Lester C. Manson, Wisconsin; Dan
Matthews, West Virginia; Hartwell Cra-
gin Mccartney District of Columbia:
Commodore Perry Melton. Indiana: Earl
Cory Kitchener, Michigan; Calvin Tark-
ington MIllans, District Of Columbia;
Noble Mitchell. Oklahoma Territory;
Harlan Moore, Kentucky; Carl Muskat,
Wisconsin; Albert Perley Myers. Kan
sas; Paca Oberlin. Virginia; George Ell
mer O'Byron. New YORK; Roy Clifton
Osgood Massachusetts; George Edgar
Page, Wisconsin, Charley Roy Pendar-
Wis, Illinois; Walter Scott Penfield. In
diana; Franklin Pfrman. Ohio; Edison
Phillips, New York; John ]. Plowhead.
Idaho; Walter Scott Pratt, jr., District
of Columbia; William Gallup Randall,
California; Clyde Reed, Pennsylvania
George William Reinmuller Minnesota
BENJAMIN Leroy Rich. Idaho; Richard
Banner Rittenour, Virginia: Clarence
Meredith Roberts, Maryland: Edwin
MiIburn Sabin Wisconsin; Fred Ansley
Service. Pennsylvania; Francis Marion
Store Ohio; Ralph Lawson Smith. Penn
gylvania; Charles Alexander Spirk,
Iowa; David Edgar STEPHAN, District of
c. lumbia; Charles tombstone Sumner
Wisconsin; Fred West Sylvester, Wis
onsin; Henry Green Thomas, Virginia:
Albert Lorenzo Thompson, Iowa: Horny
Rice Thompson. Minnesota; Milton Tib-
let's. Maine; Thomas II. Tongue, jr.,
T., eoo,- Charles Francis Worthless Ms