The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-10
Rain lnterfered With Plan
to Hold Commencement
on Campus - Exercises
Transferable CASTOR Hall.
Notable Feature Was Con-
ferring of Degrees Upon
Secretary CorteIyou and
Chief Justice CIabaugh

The eighty-sixth annual commencement
OF Georgetown College was held at 10
o'clock this morning in CASTOR Hall. TO-
gether with the commencement exer-
cises of the medical and dental depart
ments of Georgetown University
Preparations were made TO hold the
exercises on the campus great plat
form was erected over the main steps
in front OF the college building and
seats were provided on the lawn. but
rain made it necessary to have the COM
mencement in the college hall.
One of the notable features of the day
was the comforting of the honorary de-
gree of doctor of laws upon George B.
Cortelyou. Secretary of the Department
OF Commerce and Labor. and Harry NJ
Clabaugh, Chief Justice of the District
Supreme Court There was great ap-
plause when President Daugherty hon
ored the two distinguished candidates
with the purple hood of the decorate
of laws.
The Rev. Jerome Daugherty, president
of the university, was master of cere-
monies. and conferred the degrees upon
the candidates from the three schools.
DR.. Ernest Laplace. of Philadelphia, de-
livered the address of the day His SUBJ
ject was The Physicians Life"
Addresses by Candidates.
At 10 O'Clock the faculties of the three
schools and the candidates for degrees
marched TO the platform in CASTOR Hall
while the Marine Band played. George
Moore Brady of Maryland. who received
the degree of doctor of philosophy. de-
livered the Doctors Grafton on The
Modern University
Joseph Arthur Lennon, of Massachu-
sets delivered the masters Grafton on
1.-THE Medieval University William
Henry Byrnes, jr.. of Louisiana, valedic-
torian Of the college class, spoke of
Our University"
In his address 10 the. class Dr. La
place spoke of the ideal professional
man, especially the ideal physician, as
contrasted with men who are engaged
in other lines OF work He emphasized
the fact that the practice of medicine
is far more than a trade. Il not only
affords employment. but offers a life
work in which man may be of great
service TO his fellowmen. Its rewards
are not in the financial returns, but in
the feeling that the world has been
better for the efforts exerted in the re-
lief of suffering
Inc selections played at the exercises
by the Marine Band. under the direction
OF Mr. Santelmaan, were: Overture
from William Tell" Rossini; march.
Thomas Jefferson Santelmann; inter-
mezzo "Hiawatha.'' Moret: fantasia,
"a Southern Sketch" Middleton; pa
triotic fantasia, The Voice of Our Ma
ton" santelmann. Frank Todhunter,
cornetist, played Levy's 'whirlwind
Polka
Awarding of Degrees.
The degrees awarded were as follows:
Honorary degree of doctor of laws
George Bruce Cortelyou and Harry NJ
Clabaugh.
Doctor of medicine-Horatio Ely
Arrahams, Texas; Joseph Breckenridge
payne District OF Columbia: Caryl Bur
bank. District of Columbia; John d. j.
Culran. Maryland: John Henry Digges,
district OF Columbia; Caryl Bernard
Flynn, Massachusetts; Robert Stanislaus
Garnett, A. B., Florida; James Aloysius
CT ady, Connecticut; John Francis GilIu-
". Rhode Island; William Joseph Hol-
land, Massachusetts; Stanton Wren
How ard, District OF Columbia: Theodore
Gilman Howe, New York; Edwin Clar-
ence Hunter, District OF Columbia; John
Patrick Hussey, Rhode Island; Francis
Joseph Kerns, Massachusetts; William
James Lamb Pennsylvania; Francis Nc
Cuillan, Rhode Island; Bruce Mclean
Maokall District OF Columbia, John
Joseph Munden, District of Columbia;
Samuel Logan Owens. Louisiana; Isaac
Stockton Keith Reeves. Maryland, and
Ccer Rochester Sudler. Phar D, Dis
tr.ct of Columbia
Doctor of Dental surgery-Mihran NJ
Dolmage Walter Patrick Desmond,
Aram l. Carabedian Richard B. Leon
ard John Linus Mccarthy. Joseph Ernest
Smith and Josep hDavid Sullivan. all OF
District Of Columbia.
Doctor Of Philosophy-George Moore
Brady, Maryland; Bernard Joseph Ford,
Colorado. and Roman Jose Lacson,
Negros. p. /
Master OF arts-Vincent Aloysius
Bremner, A. B., Illinois; William Fran
els Condor, A. b. Iowa; John Baptist
Fay. A. B., District of Columbia; Ed
ward John Fegan, A. B.. Massachusetts;
stephen Sylvester Grogan, a. B., Wis
consin; Joseph Arthur Lennon, 4. B.
| Massachusetts. and Ignacio de Ycaza
A b.. Manila. P. L
Bachelor of arts-Wiliam Henry
Byrnes. jr., Louisiana; Edward Bernard
DreapeT, Alabama Sylvester BFoezel
Eagan, New York; Cyril Francis Gin
Their. New York; Frank Anthony Kane.
Pennsylvania; Nicholas Edward Herman.
New York; William Patrick McEuiry,
New York; Bernard Charles Mckenna,
New Jersey; George lie Guere Mullaliv
Louisiana; Harold Aloysius Kelley,
Neg York: Francis Leo Pogers, Massa-
chGsetts; Murray Alfred Russell, Vir-
zinia. and Joseph william Seitz. New
York
Ara5ng the prominent men who sat on
TIE platform with the graduates were
President Jerome Daugherty. Dr.. S. s
Alarms, Or. Joseph Taber Johnson, NJ.
J. Thompson. General Coppingcr, the
Riv John Conway. vice rector OF the
University; the Rev. John Aheil Morgan.
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