Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-30
DIPLO M AS CIV E N
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVER-
sITY EXERCISES.
Presentation Address at Continental
Memorial Hall Last
Night.

lists were ushered into professional being
last evening at the Memorial Hall of the
d. A. r., the occasion being the COM
mencement of the classes of medicine and
dentistry of the George Washington Uni
versity. The scene was q brilliant one.
the floor and galleries being packed with
daintily gowned ladies and many men.
while the futter of fans intensified the
beautiful picture set in frame of fiut
tering flags. flowers and waving palms.
The entire hall was covered with the
flag of our country and the banners of
the university and orchestral music pune
tuated the pauses in the program.
President Charles Willis Needham pre-
sided and conferred the degrees upon the
candidates, Dean Phillips of the depart
ment of medicine presenting the mem
bers of that class and Dean Lewis of the
department of dentistry presenting the
members of that division. Prof. J. Ford
Thompson announced the winners or
prizes in the medical class. Prof. Henry
G. Thompson those in the dentistry class
and Prof. j. Roland Walton the winner
of the faculty prize. The address of the
evening was delivered by Prof. Charles
L. Munroe Phi. D., his subject being the
motto of the lord protector: Qui cessat
esse melior, essat esse bonus
Prof. Munroes address was filled with
the wisdom of science and the knowledge
that has come from generations of the
pursuit of knowledge. He convinced the
audience that there is no such thing as
rest in the cycle of time. and that all
bodies are in perpetual motion This
means success in their various spheres,
for nothing can succeed in the occupa-
ton outlined for 1T by nature without
constant motion and energy. 1t is. he
said a purely intellectual conception
when we say that a body. scientifically
speaking, is at rest. for nowhere In the
universe is absolute rest to be found mo-
ton being everywhere as a part of all
natural laws.
Traced Sciences.
He traced back the sciences to their
origins sketchng the lives of the men
who had made them famous, and con-
Guided by saying that research Is not
confined to walls nor restricted to the
limits of a university. but is spirit that
should be implanted in the breast of
every graduate of university. he toio
the graduates that, in receiving the oil
plomas given them at the hands of their
president, they should ever bear in mind
that their progress in their professions
was not to be gagged by the extent of
their incomes nor by the circle of their
clientele neither by their personal popu-
larity nor any other feature save what
they contributed to the general knowl-
edge of the world and what they con-
tinued to do for the advancement of their
science in memory of their alma mater
and what it had done for them.
List of the Graduates
The full list of the graduates in medicine
follows: Frank a. Allen. Minnesota; Sam
uel Duffie Austin Mississippi; Herschel Ed
ward Baldwin, Illinois: Rhodric Winfield
Browne Massachusetts; Zadoc Maurice
Brady, Maryland; Henry Bohlen Bryan.
Virginia; Edward Warren Burch Mary
land; Daniel P. Bush. Nebraska; George
Hildreth Camp, Pennsylvania; William
Whitney Christmas, w,s North p paro1ina;
Adams Fisher District of Columbia: Thorn
as Madden Foley. District of Columbia:
Edmund r. NJ. Franklin. Virginia; William
Joseph French, Minnesota; Earl Bruce
Graham, New York; Edward James Gun
ming Pennsylvania: Tharos Harlan, Mary
land: Frederick Mason Hart, New, York:
Frank Crawford Hayes. Illinois: Samuel
Hillegass, Pennsylvania: Josiah Hutton
Holland, District of Columbia; Armen G.
Hovsepian. District of Columbia; William
Burrows Hudson, Connecticut; Arthur Lee
roy Hunt Maine; Frank Hubert Jet, In
diana; Flavius Thomas Johnson Michigan:
Glenn Irvine Jones, District of Columbia;
Adam Kemble Pennsylvania; Emil Krulish,
Iowa; Frederick w. Kuehn, Indiana; Ar
chibald Cary Lewis. Virginia; William H
Littlepage Arkansas; James Mortimer
Lynch, Texas; Frank Leslie MARITIME. New
Jersey; Arthur Nourse Meloy, Maryland;
Joseph Alexander Murphy. District of Co
lumbia; Elmer Slayton Newton, Massachu-
sets; Alfred c. Norcross, Pennsylvania;
Edward Lee Osborne, Georgia; Charles A.
Pfender. Texas; James Thomas Prevatt.
Georgia: Thomas w. Raison, Kentucky;
Ausey Hamilton Robnett. Texas: Willis
Parrish Rogers. Nebraska; Edward Whit
more Sawyer. Massa chusetts: George
James Sells, Tennessee; William Edward
Shea, Idaho; Lucien Conway Smith. Vir-
GINA: Edgar Speiden. jr.. District of Co.
lumbia; Gordon Stanton. South Carolina;
George W. Stiles, jr.. Oklahoma; John AL
Ian Talbot. jr.. Maryland; Walter Gordon
Trow, District of Columbia; Charles Lewis
Waters, Maryland: Marcus Henry Waters,
Vermont: Richard Thomas West Maryland;
John James Wharton Maryland: Lawrence
Luther Whitney. New York; Walter w.
Wilkinson, Virginia.
Prizes Awarded.
The following prizes were awarded In the
cla ~