The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-09

Charles Abiatha Dean. Lee; Nimrod
Davis benson. Jr. Chambers; Nell AL
Gould. Mobile; William Francis Jor@
dan. Madison; Cincinnatus Decatur XII
Hebrew, Dale; William James Mcbride.
Morgan; Claude Stewart McNeely. Tai
lapoosa; Henry CASTOR Mitchell, Ten
nessee; Frederick Henry Mohns, JEFF
ferson; James Marion Poyner, Dale
Noah Parker Renfro, Jr., Lee.
els Beasley, Lee; James Robertson
Black, Lee: Bertram Ezekiel, Butler.
Special Studenta.
Distinction--Gilder Lemuel Payne,
Highest Distinction-Heien Tracy
Parsons, Kansas.
Junior Glass.
Distinction-Willlam BrasherClayton,
shall; Kess Lawson Forester. Hous-
ton; Alice Brown Frazer. Mobile; May
Persis Harvey, Lee; John Howard Nc
Entry. Jefferson; Enoch Lester Miller,
win; George wallace Postell, Jefferson;
Walter Robert Sanford Lee: Henry
Howard Thornton. Talladega.
Highest Observation-Disclosures Plat
son. Chambers; Ralph Dudley, Georgia;
Samuel Luther Gipson. DeKalb; Earle
Eugene jerks, Mobile.
Degrees were conferred as follows:
Bachelor of Science graduates with
highest honor )-George DungIinson,
Talladega: Samuel Thomas Jones'
Sumter; John William Mcconnell, Jr,
Jefferson; William Hugh McEniry. JEFF
ferson; William Martin Shepard, Mo.
bile; Berner Leigh shi. Georgia.
Graduates with Honor-Heyman
Hagedorn, Georgia; Walter Leonldas
Harwell. Lee; Allen Green Jones, Dali
Frederick shealy Middleton, Chambers;
James Leonidas Murphy, Conecuh ;
Alma Cole Tompkins. Lee.
Graduates-William Leroy Aston,
South Carolina: Frank Gordon Bell,
Lee: William Arthur Branan, Georgia;
Andrew Duke Cameron, Macon; Julian
Sidney Chambers, Russell; James Hen
derson Childs, Georgia: Felix Franz
Otto Doering, Calhoun; Louis Warren
Duffee, Mobile; Verlie Roy Emrick JEFF
ferson; Edwin Washington Ewing, Jr..
Lowndes; George Bridges Foss. Missis-
sippi; Walter Somerville Going, JEFF
ferson; Leonard Park, Hall. Jefferson;
Guy David Hawkins, Jefferson Bell
diver Herndon. Henry; Cassius Rex
Hudson, Lee; James Dougherty Hud-
son. Georgia; Walter Wier Johnston,
Calhoun; Isham Kimbell, Clarke; Will
lam Richard Lee, Jackson; Henry
McAdory. Jefferson; Henry Mcdonnell,
Jr., Monroe; John McDunie, Jr., Monroe;
Thomas Pettus McElderry. Talladega;
Thomas Hatcher Matson, Talladega:
Frank Elmer Miller. Calhoun; Fulton
Georgia; Charles Mcpherson Aduston
Rogers; Sumter; Cicero Rudd, Lee;
Zachary Pope Smith, Jr., Jefferson;
Edmund Rhett Taber. Jr. Montgomery;
Albert Lee Thomas, Lee; William Micou
TURNKEY, Montgomery; William Francis
Ward. Lee; John Mayer Wilson, Jr.,
Clarke; William Mason Wilson,
30 Szs,. 49, 49,.
Science-James Victor Blackwell, CAL
houn; Rush Pearson Burke, Montgom-
cry; Charles Sanders Culver, Lee;
William Watson Davis. Mobile; John
Harris Mitchell. Georgia; Thomas VIII
liam Morgan. Jefferson; John Rice
Searcy. Conecuh.
Professional Degree. Civil Engineer
Jacob Thompson Bullen. Alabama.
From 1--WE to half past six yesterday
afternoon the competitive company
and individual drills took place. These
| are always among the most interest
| ing features of commencement Lieu
tenant Daniel E. shean. of the 18th
United States Infantry, acted as Judge
| of the drill. The sponsors for the
different companies were on the field in
| carriages decorated in the colors of
their respective companies. The spon-
T Luz was Miss Craig. p Of Ashevilie,
N. c.; for Company D, Captain Nc
| Dune. Miss Taylor. of Demopolis; for
/ A. 0dpldlu CnlloS, MISS God
| dard, of Griffin. Ga; for Company B.
! Captain Wilson, Miss Echols, of Ope-
lika. handsome sword will be
awarded tonight to the captain of the
| best drilled company. The medal for
the best drilled cadet was won by r
| p. Boyd.
| The exercises in Langdon Hall Tues
day evening consisted of the Senior
| Glass orations and the annual address
| before the Websterian Literary Socie-
ties by DR.. c. w. Kent. of the Univer-
| sity of Virginia The following Is a
list of the speakers, with their sub
| jects:
Berner Leigh shi. Georgia-Civiliza-
| ton and Decay.
James Henderson ChiIds, Georgia
| Commerce and Diplomacy.
| John McDuffle, Jr., Monroe County
| Supremacy OF the Law.
Dr. Kents address was a literary
gem. The subject he had chosen was
| "Idealism in Material Progress" and
| he treated 1t in mastery manner
| The speaker said in part.
! NO Virginian should feel himself a
| stranger in Alabama. The romantic
| history of this States formation is
linked to Virginia by famous names.
In the very year in which the Univer-
| sity of Virgiuia---the institution have
| the honor to representatives, FOUNDED.
| the first Constitutional Convention OF
| Alabama met In this convention OF
| 1919 tho constitution then adopted was
| in large part drafted by Judge Gay
| of Virginia birth. William wyatt
Bib, at first Congressman and sena-
tar from Georgia. ana RoUr hrSt sJaIs