New-York tribune., 1905-06-09
COLLEGE OR INSURANCE.
M4CCRACKEN At N. Y. q.
Tells Graduates of Educations Tn
nm nh ODer Business.

drsa dagraes ON examination were awarded at the
seyenty-third commencement Of New-York UNI
versity yesterday. The exercises were held In the
auditorium at University Heights.
Although seating accommodations had been pre-
pared for more than two thousand, there were sew
eral thousand who were unable to gain ADMISSION.
Tho overflow entertained by the 7th Regiment
Band, which played in front Of the grandstand on
Ohio Field.
Promptly at o'clock the procession formed
headed by tho faculty and officers Of the university
with the candidates for degrees from the nine
schools following In this order: College or Arts ana
Pure Science Washington Square Collegiate Divi-
sion, School OF Applied Science. School of Com"
meroe, Accounts and Finance, School Of Pedagogy
Graduate School, New-York American Veterinary
College, University and Bellevue Hospital Medlcai
College and School Of Law. The line OF march
was around the campus. through the Hall OF + anne
and down into the auditorium. Many well known
persons In the parade as the guests of the
university. The only woman. excepting those VINO
were candidates, who in the procession was
Mrs. Russell Sage.
The candidates for honorary degrees were pre-
sented by the Rev. DR.. George Alexander Joseph
Hardcastle of New-York City, was the recipient
of the degree of master of letters. Three degrees
of Doctor Of Divinity were conferred as follows:
The Rev. James Stuart Dickson, secretary OF the
college board of the Presbyterian Church; the Rev.
Hugh B. MacCauley, pastor of the Fourth Pres
byterian Church, Trenton. N j.. the Rev. Leighton
Williams. pastor of the Amty Baptist Church
New-York City. The degree Of Doctor of Divinity
was received by Ernest Hall, former justcs of
the Supreme Court, and the Rev. DR.. Henry SPELL
meyer Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Cincinnati.
Following the comforting of the honorary degrees
was the awarding Of prizes. scholarships. fellow
ships and appointments. The recipients of prizes IN
the University College and School OF Applied Science
folows The A Ogden Butler Eucleion prizes, s. H.
Miller and Henry W. Miller: the William H. Innan
fellowship George P. Meade; the George Augustus
Sandman oraton prizes, F. G. Lewis and Alex
andeS McClinchie; the Frederick Seward Gibson
prize, Charles " Searingi the s. f. b. Morse medal.
C. Raymond Husart the William A. Hoe. jr., prize,
Archibald e Stevenson; the Samuel b. Duryea rel
lowship. R. L. Sim.
OF the other degrees a specially interesting one
the Juris doctorate, grar ted to Miss Jeanette
Harnill, of this city, who had already been sradr-
ated Bachelor Of Arts from the New-York city
Normal School in 1899 and from New-York Univer-
sity Bachelor Of Laws in 1903. She is the nrse
woman to attain the Doctorats Of Law at New
York University. The law school is now open to
women. and many following its COURSE
After prayer, Chancellor MacCracken delivered
the address to the graduates. He said in part:
Universities, as business enterprises. make but
a slight showing when compared with purely fnan-
fourteen e unveraties in the United States that
stand rs IN d the or Ge % be fourteen
corporations in this city that are now Issuing
foes foaTesn for m Is less ne thsn cons
sisting of onethird part of educational plant and
State universities, capitalize their annual State
The gross assets Of the fourteen life insurance
companies of New-York are more than Sl3VoUVGo9se'
being ten times the property of the fourteen uni
The fourteen universities have in over hundred 'e
years issued less than two hundred thousand apio5
mas the average being less than nfteen thousand a
insurance companies have on their books more
than two and a half million policies.
fourteen great universities all put together amount
end @ beTauses ess 81 Of Sns % President
life insurance corporation.
our only hope Of proving able to bear comparison
with business corporations must come in the final
% b Mfa4 an @
in the fourteen life insurance companies receive
m ment ntets Of 5000 to their families after their death
or it may be- to to themselves If they live to
has s given to each one to whom 1t had issued a
diploma 7ean an cd mans 5hif & have St o
meet any man among, the eghteen, thousand that
York University that wants to surrender it.
The award of prizes was then read.
AWARDS OF PRIZES IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,.
ogden gseE saslsa es Second dnsy %s
The James Gordon Bennett prze-Frederick Conn.,
The William H inan felowship-GeOrgs Peterkin
Rider G9Enop ov BFssPyds sna aysis1 9stwsn eswssn
John wythe Lewis Fulton. Mo; second Alexander Nc
The F B. Morse physios-charIss Raymond
Hulsart Dover, N. ].
AWARD OF EXAMINATION PRIZES AND SCHOLAR
SHIPS IN THE SCHOOL OF LAW,
The Elliot Shepard stg prize s'h0arshhaFiss Gold
faculty Drsze sehosrshlpstrs James Wnsasa1a
Lowther b. Mon MoatoaiE n u third Hooker InseF-
soil The fsouy esamnatoa
Sas a Fl Frs fy d 5a Sarah P6 H'Hs New
York city; second solomon Left New-Yqrk City City
city; second John Patrick s walsh MewYSrs Gy
second. Berthold Landau New-York City.
TN UNIVERSITY AND BELLEVUE HOSPITAL
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
The Valentine Mott Medais-God, George Blankburne:
silver, Otto Wedel tr; bronze Fred Maxwell
The William T. Memorial Science Prize-Not
awarded
AWARD OF PRIZES IN THE SCHOOL OF APPLIED
SCIENCE.
The William A Hoe. jr. Prize-Archbald Ewing
The Samuel b. Duryea Fellowship-Robert L. slm New
York City.
school. OF COMMERCE. ACCOUNTS AND FINANCE.
American Association of Public Accountants Prize
Samuel Bryant Woodside Long Island !.
The following appointments were announced 10
Bellevue Hospital
Eugene Canaway. 4. B.. N, D.. Edwin % Raisbeck Crowc
Charles aoseT Abraham aeEiIsh Thomas hsoRdas
tis"a5a lS Relnpf E Ralph KnowIes Louie
Kasson Lohnmiller George Canie9 Lyons Jay hanq
bsTn George Reley Stuart McWaIter sutton
irving Vanderhon, Joseph Clark Winans Haphaei
John Wren. Bernard LAnsdon Wyatt
WEBB ACADEMY GRADUATES.
Ex-Park Commissioner Eustis Presents Di-