The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-08
DIVINITY COMMENCEMENT
GEORGE H. DRYER WINS
 HOOKER FELLOWSHIP.


 Dean Sanders Delivers Parting Ad-
 dress-Names of the Graduates With
 Their Theses-Other Honors Am
 nounced.
 At the commencement exercises of the Yale divinity school, which were held in Battell chapel yesterday, an- nouncement of the awarding of the Hooker fellowship for proficiency in theological studies was awarded to- George Hilbert Driver of Wakefield, Mass. Twenty-eight students were given their degrees as bachelors of di- vinity.
 Prof. Harry B. Jepson opened the ex- ercises with an organ prelude after which Prof. George Park Fisher, at one time dean of the school. offered prayer. .....
 Papers selected from the graduating theses were read by four members of the class.
 The first paper was by John w. Car penter of Indianapolis. His topic was 'The Church as an Evangelistic Agen- cy." MT. Carpenter reviewed the ten dency to abandon aggressive evangelis- tic work and declared that the church cannot exist without return to a poli- cy of evangelistic conquest.
 "The Social Message of John Wes- ley,'s by Albert Edward Rorabaek, in- cluded sketch of the condition of Eng land at the time of Wesley's work, review of his influence in the world Of religion and education, and compari- son of Wesley's work with that which faces the church in the submerged classes to-day.
 Horace F. Holton of Springfield, Mass, spoke on 'The Evangelistie Note in the Message for To-Day" His address was another plea for the res toration of evangelistic preaching in the modern pulpit.
 The last address of the morning, by a member of the class of 1905, was by George H. Driver, whose subject was ''The Paradox of Christian PersonaH- ty.' { The address by MT. Driver was large ly doctrinal. It was followed by a parting address to the graduating class by Prof. Frank K. Sanders, dean of the school. who retires at the close of the present school year. Prof. Sanders voiced his sentiments at the class work and gave it counsel for it's career in the pulpit. The benediction was pro- nounced by Rev. Dr. Charles Ray Palmer of the Yale corporation.
 The honors announced in addition to the Hooker fellowship follow:
 Degree of B. D. summa cum 1aude- George Hilbert Driver. s4 Degree of B. D. magma cum laude- Henry Hoadley Guernsey.
 Degree of B. D. cum laude-Hermon Fiske Belle, James Walter Carpenter, William Rodman Hamlin, William Hamilton Wood. ...,
 The names of the members of the graduating class and the title of their graduating theses follow: .
 Horace Bushnell, Preacher and The- ologian," William Herbert Alexander, Chestnut College, Derby
 "A Study of the Theology of Schleier- macher," Herman Fiske Belle, B. A., Amherst college, Bristol, R. I.
 Religious Education Considered from the Evolutionary Point of View os- mond Jesse Billings, B. A., Amherst college, Sharon, Mass. 4 s.Browning's Conception of Life and Immortality Edward Alfred Bloom field, B. A., olivet college, Muskegon, Mich.
 "Channing's Conception of the Per son and Work of Christ" Albert Raf- fles Brown, B. A., Oberlin college, Ober- lin, o.
 Natural Evidences Relating to the Immortality of the Soul" Otto Whit more Burtner, B. A., Otterbein univer- sity, Washington, D. C..
 tEvangelism in the Christian Church" James Walter Carpenter, B. IA, Butler college, Indianapolis, Ind.
 Henry Ward Beecher as an Anti Slavery Reforner and Preacher" stephen Davis, B. A., Drake university, Burnside, III.
 "The Case of the Free Church of Scotland" George Hilbert Driver, B. IA, Amherst college, Wakefield, Mass.
 "The Plan of Union of 1891 Between the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in America" Noble Strong Elderkin, B. A., Amherst college, Chi
 
 cago. i ."-.,-.. ..-
 "A Comparison of Professor Harnack and Abbe Loisy,' Dempster Dudley Gordon, B. A., olivet college, Bridgewa- ter.
 "Habakkuk; His Times and Mes sage,' Maurice Nathaniel Greene, B. A., Howard university, Washington, D. c.
 'The Twenty-second Psalm in Its Relation to Jesus,' Henry Hoadley Guernsey of this city.
 'tBrowning's Doctrine of Struggle" !" will Taliaferro Hale, B. A., Wander bilt university, Mobile, Ala.
 "Conditions and Remedies in Rural New England" William Rodman Ham, lin, B. A., Yale university, Easthamp- ton, Mass.
 "Educational Missions-Their Value and Limitations" Ira Tapper Hawk, Iowa City, Ia.
 "Some Aspects of New England Re- yival Movements" Horace Flavel Hol- ton, B. A., Amherst college, Springfield, Mass.
 "John Tauler--The Christian Mystic" Roy MacHoughton, B. A., Olivet col lege, Laingsburg, Mich.
 "The Archaeological Discourse of Jesus,' Philip Johnson, B. A., Bethany collage Rethany w Va