The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-02
DEGREES CONFERRED
sEvENTY.THIRD COMMENCEMENT
 OF UNIVERSITY or ALABAMA.
James Horton Chapman Wins the Trus- tees Prize for oratory-Congress- man Bowfe's Address Arouses
 Interest in Education.

Interest kc0ucUtfoUs
 Tuscaloosa, June 1.--(Special. 1.-The seventy-third annual commencement exercises of the University of Alabama were held this morning at 10 o'clock In
 Clark Hall The trustees, the academic graduates. and the graduates in law, occupied the seats on the platform. The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rev. V. O. Hawkins. A musical iooss orchestra, after which orations were made by the following young men of the senior class, who contested
 for the trustees prize: John Horton Locklin Moore, Liberty and Justice, the Essential Qualities of Good Gov
 ernment;;" Edgar Laroche Clarkson,
 '.Bacon's Rebellion. the Germ of Amer ican Independence" Jesse Varnel
 Boyles, 'The Supreme Age and Coun- | try"
 R. M. Cunningham. Superintendent I. | w. Hill and Hon. T. M. Stephens, after | thoughtful consideration, awarded ,.the
 medal to James Horton Chapman. The
 nounced by Governor Cunningham. with an appropriate speech.
 After conferring of the degrees.
 President John w. Abercrombie made | a pleasing address to the graduating classes MT. Abercrombie said: "Ths call for college-bred men is clear and unmistakable: this. is especially true
 in the South. section just entering upon development that promises t0 | out-rival all other sections in the coun- l try. The call for specially trained men of broad culture and high charac- | ter comes from every part of human endeayor. In governmental, religious, educational, professional, commercial and industrial affairss the call is loud ana persistent and imperative.
 That which is true of the college trained lege- trained woman. Young ladies and gentlemen, you are college-trained.
 You and such as you are the hope of the future; it Is yours to guard and di- rect and preserve the republic; yours to apply correct thinking and patriotic
 acting to the solution or pending prob
 lens. You are to be the defenders of
 principle and practiononers of liberty, in the years to come. Your opportuni-
 ties have been great; equally great will
 be your responsibilities. Much is ex-
 relations, by friends, by church, by country. Let me admonish you to meet
 every expectation, meet it by being
 true. to home, to self, to country. to
 God" .-
 At the conclusion of President Aber-
 crombie'9 speech, Governor Cunning
 ham made a forceful. short address. which was filled with splendid thoughts and which will prove most beneficial
 to those present. He announced that
 the power had been given him by tho
 trustees of the University of Alabama
 to confer the degrees of Doctors of Law on Hon. Thomas McAdory Owen
 of Montgomery, Director of the De-
 partment of Archives and History of Alabama, and President John w. Aber-
 crombie of the University of Alabama. Degrees were conferred on the'follow- ing: s.
 Masters of Arts-WilIiam Garrett Byron's Dramas. James Holtzciaw
 Kirkpatrick, A B., 1903, Montgomery.
 Thesis; Caesars Conquest of Gaul.
 Winston McMahon, A. B., 1903. Liv-
 acter of MascarIlle in the Comedies of
 Moliere. Leon Edgar Tallichet. A. B.,
 1903, Demopolis. Thesis: Racines Con ception of Woman.
 Masters of Science-Louis Charles
 Henkel. B. S., 1902, New Decatur. The
 sis: The Development of Bone. Anna
 Trott Hunter, B. S., 1903. Livingston.
 Thesis: A Mathematical and Experl-
 mental Study of Compound Harmonic Motion. William Swift SherrilI, B. &, 1903, Athens. Thesis: The Develop | ment of the Iron Industry in Alabama.
 Civil Engineers1Victor Gluck, B. E,
 1903, Tuscaloosa; Richard Leslie Lodge. i B. iE, 1903. Tuscaloosa Robert James
 Raney B; s. 1903, Whistler.
 Bingham, Tailadega; Jesse @ Varnei ei
 Boyies. 1ThomasvilIe; James Horton Chapman, Jackson; Edgar LaRoche
 Clarkson. Tuscaloosa; Allen Crenshaw. 1 Edwards, Union Springs; James Ches- | Icy Bird Gwin. Ezra; FIoy Hall, James;
 Edward Henry Hobbs. Jr., Selma;
 Mary Aileen Moor, Birmingham: Vii
 liam Locklin Moore, Perduc Hill;;
 James Oscar Prude. Jr.. Tuscaloosa;
 Emma Louise Reid. Birmingham; Ross
 Clair Speir, Furman.
 Bachelors of Science-Louise Mill
 burn Crawford, Tuscaloosa; John Car
 rol Fortune. Georgiana; Henry Law
 Lambert. Mobile; Benjamin Franklin Lovelace, Tuscaloosa John Roberts Peavy, Jr., Thomasville; Harold Benja-
 min Robinson, East Lake; William
 Montgomery; Robert sprott, Living
 ston; Maria Alice Van DeVoort, Sunny
 South; Walter Simrall Wyatt, New De- catur.
 Bachelors of Engineering-Edward Courtlandt Snow, Tuscaloosa; Fred
 erick Frank sturdivant. Dadeville; i;
 Waiton Dowdell Thomas; Prattville.
 Leach, Tuscaloosa. French. English. e-
 Bachelors of Laws-Sidney Howard
 Bailey. Birmingham Clarence Bingham Ballard, BirmiHgham; Joseph Randolph Bell, Fort Deposit; William Alexander
 Blognt, Jr; Pensacola; Fla; Aubrey mum, Royal; Jefferson Albert Carnley, | Elba; Rosco George Collins, Kennedy {; Rufus Andrew Cooner, Jasper; Charles Sylvester Cornelius, Birmingham mi .
 Charles Edward Crenshaw, Monegom- cry, R. F. D.; John Denson, Birming- ham: William Watson Burden, Thom- asville; Joseph Chesterfield Granade,
 Frankville; William Hosey Grace, Oak man; William Hawkins. Fort Deposit; Harden Reynolds Jacobs, Goodwater; Walter Altee Jordan, Tallassee; Moses Kohn. New Decatur; John Douglass Mcqueen, Eutaw William Henry
 Mitchell, Florence; John Hill Peach. Perote; John Otto Sanderson, Morgan vile; Rittenhouse Moore Smith. Mobile; Edward Seabrook Watts. Montgomery; Charles Frederick Winkler, Greenville; Cecil Hugh Young, Anniston.
 Doctors of Medicine-James Maxwell Austin Alabama; Wyatt Barnes, Ala bama; B. R. Bradford. Alabama; liar old Ivan A. Cook, Alabama; William Wilburn Deal, Alabama; LaFaun New ton Hippo, Alabama; Edward Cleve- land Hagler. Alabama: Samuel Kirk Jennings, Florida; Thomas Calvin Kelly, Alabama; Luman Wilburn Kirkland Alabama; Harry John Krudop. Ala bama; Lucien Tennent Lee, Alabama; Thomas Mellen Littlepage, Alabama;