Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-31

cut Ph. b., Yale; John Il. Gorney, ONO,
Thomas Reeder Cough, Maryland, B. s.,
Maryland Agricultural College; Joseph w.
Halford, North Carolina; Louis H. Han
son. Wisconsin, A. B.. Harvard University;
Richard Cooke Harley, Maryland; Francis
Edward Harrington, Virginia; Montgomery
Earle Higgins, Maryland; John Alvin
Holmes, District of Columbia; Montafix
Wilson Houghton, District Of Columbia:
Chas. w. Hyde, Ohio; Laurence Maxwell
Hynson, District of Columbia; Samuel A.
Jones, Ohio; Carlisle P. knight. District of
Columbia; Thomas Linville, North Carolina;
Patrick Hamilton Lloyd, Maryland; William
Earl Manville, Tennessee; Herbert Ever
hard Martyr. District of Columbia; Car
roll Hackney May, Virginia; Adolph Mon
roe, Maryland; Frederick Erskine Mont
gomery, District of Columbia; Arthur Lap
ham Murray, New York; Luther Clarence
Neill Tennessee; Egil Thorb1orn Olsen,
Francis Patten, North Dakota; George
Peterson, Maryland, A. B., Maryland Agrf-
cultural College; Llewellyn Powell. Vir-
ginia; Milton Hickox Prospect. District OF
Columbia; John Chester Pyles, Maryland;
Harry Sebastian Roger. Ohio; Robert Con-
rad Ruedy, Virginia; William Schultze,
Louisiana; Roy Ernest Seitz, Illinois; Harry
r. Smith, Pennsylvania; Richard Light Light,
Syme, Virginia; Joseph Lawn Thompson,
District of Columbia; Frederick Yates, Dis
trict of Columbia, NJ. D., Howard Univer-
sity, LIB, Ii. NJ. National University;
The degree of doctor of dental surgery
was conferred on the following:
Charles Turk Bassett, New York; Alpert
James TAFT Beatty, Delaware; Edward Ell
we'll Belford Ohio; Vivian Pratt Berry,
Virginia. Charles Lucien Bovee, District OF
Columbia; Louis Marshall Cuvillier. Dis
trict of Columbia William James Elzey,
Maryland; James Arthur Fluckey, Illinois;
Louis Samuel Glenn, New York; Corbin
Harriss, Maryland; John Wesley McMfch-
ael, Massachusetts,; Benjamin Jacob Madert,
District of Columbia; John Madert, District
of Columbia, DDS, Howard University;
William Armstrong Marschalk, jr., Florida;
Archibald Louis Miller, District OF Column
bia; Herbert Ashton Moore, West Virginia;
Julian Pack, Pennsylvania; Clement Dowd
Rozzelle North Carolina; Arthur Millard
Trivett North Carolina, and Barrett FRET
lyman Wilson, Maryland
The Prize Winners.
The prize winners were then announced.
For the medical department Prof. Ruffin
read the list:
General examins ton prize, $50 In gold
Dr. Egil Thorbjorn Olsen of Chicago, ILL.,,
Phi. d. University of Illinois, general aver
age 90; first honorable mention, DIR. Mont
gomery Earle Higgins of Boyd's, Md, gen.
eral average 50 per cent; second honorable
n ention, DR.. Charles Wilbur Hyde OF Sulii-
van, Ohio general average IS per cent;
third honorable mention, DR.. Hugh Arbuth-
not Brown of Manasquan, N. J., A. B.,
Princeton University, general average 81
per cent.
examination in dermatology, Junior-year
subject, Mr.. George w. Stiles. jr.. of Still
water Okla, mark 100 per cent.
DR.. Charles w. Richardson prize, for the
best examination in GEOLOGY and laryngoi-
ogy Dr. Richard Lightburn Sutton OF
Rockport, Mo-, graduate of the Naval Med
teal School, lately a resident physician al
the Emergency Hospital Honorable men
ton in GEOLOGY and laryngology, Dr. Louis
II. Hanson of Eau Claire, Wis, A. B., Har-
ward University.
Dr. G. N. Acker prize, for the best exam
nation In paediatrics awarded to two stu
derts, each having attained the hlghest
mark DR. Grant S. Barnhart of Lock Ha-
ven. Pa. and Dr. Louis II. Hanson of Eau
Claire. Wis, A. B.. Harvard University.
DIR. w. X. Butler prize, for the best ex-
animal ton in ophthaimology, Or. Montgom-
ery Earle Higgins of Boyds Md.
The winners of prizes in the department
OF dentistry were announced by Prof.
Thompson. as folloWs'
General average prize. 40 In GOLD, Charies
Turk Bassett of New York. :,
prof III. c. Thompson, prize for gold
work. a dental instrument, Charles Turk
Bassett of New York
Prof. H. C. Thompson prize for general
average dental instrument, Arthur Mil
lard Trivett of North Carolina.
Graduates Congratulated.
After the presentation of diplomas Presi-
dent Needham made brief speeches of con-
graduation to the graduates. and charged
them to uphold throughout their lives the
reputation of their alma mater. He then
smoke of the growth of the two depart
ments of the university. Besides the cleo
ton of Dr. Phillips as dean of the medical
faculty he announced that the following
local physicians had been chosen members:
DIR. James Carroll, professor of bacte-
riology and pathology; DIR. J. Wesley
Bovee, professor of gynaecology, and DR..
Charles e. Monroe, professor of chemistry.
He said other minor additions to the fac
ulty would also be made.
Dean Phillips.
The new dean of the medical department,
William F. R. Phillips. was born in Bed
ford county, Va the son of Dinwiddie b.
and Mamie Warden Phillips, the grandson
of w. F. Phillips, one time auditor for the
Post Office Department, and the grandson
| of Col. William Phillips of the revolutions
| airy army. He received high school edu-
cation at Chatham, Va. In 1888 he entered
| the United States signal service. and In
| 1856 came in tina service to Washington.
Awaiting himself of the unique position OF
Columbian University while still In the
governments employ he entered the Cor
| coran Scientific School, taking a special
course in mathematics under Prof. Hodg-
| kins. In 1888 he matriculated in the medi-
| cal school, and graduated at the head OF
! his class In 1890. He was appointed pro-
! sector OF anatomy. and lectured on hygiene
| in 1892. both of which positions he was
| obliged to reiinquish very shortly on ac-
count of serious il-health, the result OF
overwork. In 1895 he was selected upon
competitive examination to take charge OF
| a new line of Genealogical work just then
| inaugurated In the weather bureau and he
| has remained in charge to the present He
has also had charge for number of years
of the library of the weather bureau. and
has published In the Monthly Weather Re-