Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-29
COLLEGE YEAR CLOSES
SIXTEEN YOUNG LADIES TO
GRADUATE FROM TRINITY.
Commencement Exercises Inaugurated
Yesterday With Baccalaureate Ser
mon and High Mass.

The commencement exercises OF Trinity
College. near the Catholic University of
America, were begun yesterday morning at
that institution with a solemn high pontif-
cal mass. Monsignor Diomede Falcono, the
apostolic delegate, being the celebrant. The
baccalaureate sermon was delivered by
Rev. John T. Creagh. DID, of the Catholic
University and each day throughout
the week will be notable for special exer-
cises eliminating Friday in the comforting
of degrees by Cardinal Gibbons and an ad-
dress by Charles j. Bonaparte of Balti-
more.
Trinity College Is one of the latest of the
Catholic institutions for the higher
education of women, and is in its fifth
year, having been opened by the Sisters of
Metre Dame of Namur in 1900. The college
course is of four years, and during the
week there will pass from its portals SIX
teen young women who have had the bene-
fit of the college curriculum and graduated
with high honors.
a distinguished company of prelates and
friends gathered in the chapel of the col
lege yesterday morning at 1870 am. to
participate in the mass The altar was re-
splendent with a pretty grouping of light
ed tapers cut flowers and plants. and seat
ed in the sanctuary were representatives OF
the various Catholic universities and col
leges of Washington. Assisting Mgr. Fal-
COMO in the celebration of the mass were
Rev. John D. Mcguire. DID,, assistant
priest: Very Rev. Charles T. Grammar.
ID, and Very Rev Louis F. M. Dumont
SIS. DID, deaconS of honor, Rev. John w.
Melody, DID,, and Rev. Thomas E. Shields
Ph.D., deacons of the mass; Rev. George A.
Dougherty and Rev. VIM. j. Kirby, PhD-,
master of ceremonies Mgr. O'Connell, rec
tor of the Catholic University; Rev. j. L.
Stickney, Rev. Henry Capius and Rev. Dr.
E.rglert of the Franciscan monastery were
an ong those in the sanctuary.
Baccalaureate Discourse.
The music for the mass was rendered by
the students of the college. In consonance
with the late "motu propio' bull of Pope
Plus Y. the Gregorian chant was used, Du-
n,ont's Sixth Tone Mass (Gregorian har-
monzed) being the program. Rev. John l.
Creagh a member of the faculty of the
Catholic University of America delivered
the baccalaureate sermon in connection
with the services, taking for his theme,
Wisdom in Education. He spoke, IN
part. as follows:
Each day during the week at Trinity viii
be crowded with events of moment to the
students and their friends. At o CLOCK
this afternoon the dramatic society will APP
pear in Tennyson's The Princess To-
morrow afternoon at the same hour there
will be concert by the Cecilian Society.
The class day exercises will be held We'd
nesday at pm. Thursday morning at 10
o'clock the annual meeting of the Alumnae
Association of the college takes place, and
in the afternoon at o'clock there will be
a meeting of the advisory board.
The browning and to the students espe-
cally. the most important of the COM
mencement exercises, is the conferring or
degrees Friday morning at II o'clock.
The complete program is as follows:
Opening anthem, prayer by Cardinal
Gibbons, Introductory remarks by Rev
Edward A. Pace, Phi. D.; presenta-
ton of candidates for the degree of bach
elor of arts, Rev Thomas ]. Shahan, D. D.,
in the groups of Greek and German, Greek
and French, Latin and German, Latin ana
French, Latin and Mathematics German
and French, English and German, English
and French.
Cardinal Gibbons, president of the board
of trustees of the college, will make the pre-
sensations. and MIR. Charles j. Bonaparte
of Baltimore is to deliver an address on
Woman as a College Graduate
Candidates for Degrees.
Master of arts-Katharine Mary McEnelly.
Hopkinton, Mass; A. B. Trinity College,
1904. Subjects Greek and German. Thesis
1.-The Name and Epithets of Odysseus."
Florence Marie Rudge Youngstown, Ohio.
A. B. Trinity College, 1904. Eubjects: Latin
and English. Thesis: "VirGils limitations
and Imitators as Studied in His Eclogues.
Bachelor of Standardization Alice Gray,
ST. Louis, Mo. A. b. Trinity College, 1904.
Subjects Chemistry and mathematics.
Bachelor of arts-Ella Josephine Casey,
Lee Mass. b. L. Smith College, 1901. Sub
jects: English and French. Marguerite
Marie Brosseau, Chicago, ILL.,; Anna Ellen
Burke, Dorchester, Mass; Julia Mary
Doyle Chicago, H.: Mary Agnes Feenan,
Salem, Mass; Miriam Barbara Hayes, New
York, n. Y; Mary Regis Meehan, Jamaica
Plain Mass; Jane Louise Macdonald. Bos-
ton, Mass; Anna O'Brien, Somers, Mont;
Edna Madeleine OCrowl-y. Newark, n. j.;
katherine o Donahue. Omaha, Nebr.; Helen
Brendan Seaman, Pawtucket r. l.; Blanche
Laura Sullivan, Cincinnati, Ohio.