Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-17
DEGREES CONFERRED
CLOSING EXERCISES OF GoNzAaA
COLLEGE HELD.
Many Distinguished Graduates Pres.
ent-William Bruce King Delivers
Address-Medals Awarded.

The fifty-fifth annual commencement ex.
ercises Of Gonzaga College were held last
night when the degree of master Of arts
was conferred upon two candidates ard az.
plomas were given Thirteen graduates of
the nigh school department The occasion
was made notable by the presence of many
distinguished graduates of the college and
py the character of the exercises. The pro-
gram though n type of the kind that is
presented each year at Gonzaga was en-
tfrely different from the accepted idea OF
such exercises. William Bruce King.
LIZ D., made an eloquent address to the
graduates, in which he traced something of
the history of education and religion in
TINS country; three students Of the college
contributed to a discussion OF American
literature, and an excellent musical pro-
gram was presented by the Gonzaga Or
chestra. under the direction of Prof. A.
Samuels.
The exercises were opened with n mu-
steal program, after which came the dis
cussion OF American prose literature. Will
liam Carroll Gilbert discussed the novel;
lists this country has produced He smoke
OF the progress in American fiction and of
the great writer's who have become famous
through their novels. The historian was
the topic discussed by Benjamin F. Heron,
and the essayist was discussed at length
by j Rockford Dwyer .
Rev. Edward X. Fink. president of the
plomas One of the customs at Gonzaga is
| to reserve the distribution of medals and
rewards, not only for the standing in
studies, but for contests Of various kinds
until the day of the graduation exercises.
Father Fink made n brief speech explain
ing why the medals were awarded and
then proceeded with the distribution,
follows:
Prize debate medal of the Phocion Soci-
| ETY., William Carroll Gilbert; medal for
| Christian doctrine. William Edgar Browne,
medal for elocution Francis X Lansdale;
| competitive drill medal, Richard G. Law
Tor; medals for class standing tfreshman),
J. Rockford Dwyer; first academic. Thos.
a. Cantwell; second academic, Francis T.
Marsden.
List of Graduates.
| The graduates were:
Master of arts, Frederick l.. Devereux;
A b. Gonzaga College, and William c. Re-
petit A. B., Gonzaga College; high school
department, Edgar w Brown, Martin $.
Conley, J. Rockford Dwyer. Edmund A.
Fitzgerald. John f. Fitzgerald. William
Carroll Gilbert, Edward r. Hammer Benz
iamin +. Heron. Kenneth Heron. Patrick S.
Madigan. Robert +. Madigan. Francis A
Ostman and Harry j. Senay.
The address of DIR. King was last on the
program. At the beginning of his remarks
he declared that among no people in any
| corner of the country is the doctrine OF
| democracy more firmly planted than in the
hearts of the people of the Catholic Church
|
man Catholic who first brought to these
| shores the primal doctrine of religious lib
erty which has grown to he a very rock OF
ages upon which our hope Of future ma
tional greatness may rest secure. | predict
| that America will produce from its variety
of citizenship composite ideal which VIII
stand the greatest and most sublime
| type in all history We have gathered be-
meath our banner men and women from ev-
cry nation of the earth. and the result has
been. and will continue to be, cleaning OF
the best that can come from admiNture
| of many bloods.
THE records 90 civilization establish that
| it is from just SUCH conditions that progress
! is achieved in the development of the arts
and sciences. Egypt, before she had climb
ed the heights of her ancient glory, was the
meeting place Of the world, and the proud
| ascent of Greece to her Incompatible sta
ton in the affairs of bygone days may he
attributed to the same commingling OF con-
ditions and ideas. The dominant English
people, that Anglo-SaXon race of which We
are all so justly proud. can trace the be-
| ginning of her giant strides t. the traders
of every cline who assen,ied on her shores
| and lent to each other the customs and
thoughts of many lands.
american Catholicism and American
patriotism" DR.. King asserted, ARE ore.
Those sacred patriotic principles that open
the gates of American liberty To the ou-
pressed of other countries were instilied
| into us by the Jesuits when / was a student
| of old Gonzaga thirty years ago"
The musical program included: Overture.
! "A Bird of Paradise" Matthews: divertisse-
ment, "Cupid's Garden" Eugene: weIiz.
Our Wedding Day Tobani: march. Good
Fellows" Bennet; selection, Fortune Tell
er, Herbert; march, The Littlc Duchess
| De koven: caprice Lincoln Club" Per-
| kins; march, Uncle Sammy Holtznar.
Those seated on the stage during the ex-
erciSes were Rev. james +. NJ 4cliin Row
Charles Warren Currier Rev Patrick
Quill 5. J.; Rev. James F. " Mulvaney.
S. j.; Rev. Charles y. Raley. 5 J.: Rev
David IL Buell., S. J., Rev. James Becker
) j., Rev NJ re
Stlckuney. both Of the papal delegation; I7r.
Elliott johnson, Rev. Jerome Daughertv
S. j.. DR.. Frank T. Howe and Very Rev
Father Meaney, c. S. p.