Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-29
BATES COLLEGE,


No better day could be desired than
this on which the graduating class of
Bates College made it's last appearance
before the public. 1t was comfortable
in church. delightful at City hall. where
the big Commencement dinner was
served. and especially fine upon the
campus after the work was over.
Crowds of alumni have been in Lew
iston and about the college. The din
ner was an unusual success. Everyone
had something to say and seemed to be
pleased with everything in general.
The Main Street Free Baptist church
in Lewiston was crowded for the Bates
College Commencement exercises on
Thursday. when the degree of A. B.
was conferred upon the SO members of
the class of 'OG and President George
c. Chase announced the following ad-
dtional degrees and prizes:
The degree of Lift. d. was conferred
on Philander Priestly Claxton. profess
sor of education in University Of Ten
nessee; A. NJ. Pro Causa, on two
alumni, Rev. J. Stanley Durkee. p. H.
D., Bates. 81 and Miss Murel A.
Chase, Bates '99.
The COe scholarship, awarded annu-
ally to the man in the Senior class
whose conduct and scholarship during
the previous three years have been
rnGSt merit oriOlIS cyivpn IN Harlow
| Morrill, Davis, Lewiston.
The following general scholarship for
excellence in college work, indicating
| the best scholars among the young
| men and women in each class, were
| awarded:
Junior class-John Scott Pendleton,
Northport, Me-, and Miss Marion Edna
| Files. Lewiston.
Sophomore class-Harold Bearce Pin
gree, Auburn. and Miss Maud Minerva
Bradford. South Livermore.
Freshman class-John Murray Car
| roll RaZorVlle. and Miss Jessie Hogue
Nettleton. Manchester. n. II.
Junior exhibition prize of $15 to John
Scott Pendleton, Northport; so prize
to Miss Anna Fleming Walsh, Lewis
| Fred Robert Noble, Amherst. Mass.
Prize for Sophomore English compost
ton. $40, to Harold Bearce Pingree. Au-
burn. Senior prize for essay on "Arbi-
| tra ton as a Substitute for War" $50,
to Warren William James, jefferson,
n. H.
The Commencement day program
w9s as follows:
Albert Garfield johnson. South Turner
CHistory and Economics.)
| The Gospel of Work,
| "Florence Pearle Pulsifer, Auburn
General Scholarship
The Two Rivers.
winfield Scott Austin, Newton, n. II.
| Chemistry
.Edna Beatrice Butler. Springvale
| Chemistry
sHarold Aubrey Allan. Colorado Springs,
Col.
| (Ancient Languages)
| Holland and America
*FIorence Estelle Rich. Boston, Mass.
| tGcrman.)
The Present Status of Socialism,
| sHarOld Ner Cummings, Auburn
General Scholarship
Greek Education,
Annie Gilmore Richards. North Var
| mouth.
U.atin.)
The Control of the Trusts.
WAYNE Clark Jordan, Lewiston
| General Scholarship
The Storm and Stress Period In German
.Leo Woodbury. Farrar. South Paris
A Plea for G shs1aek scn0',''s'''lN'
-C;oldic Kabatchnick. New Auburn
| Modern Languages)
Harry Durwood Harradon. East Auburn
(Modern Languages)
Silence, ~Mabel Vivian Shaw. Bethel
War and c,v4I iphtlllosophy'
, sWarren William Jones' Jefferson. N. H.
| (Rhetoric and, English Literature)
The Need Of Luther. ., = 1r
IRhetoric and English Latcrature.)
Browning as n Spiritual Force.
sClara NAV Davis, I-onghill Pond
(Mathematics)
ne iuther isaac Bonney Turner Center
General Scholarship
l'aicA'''t Helen Viette Channel. Lewiston
I'll (French.)
, The Unrest in Labor Circles.
sAshmun Clark Salley. Lewiston
tBiology)
- .t;race Whitman Pratt. Lewiston
II General Scholarship
I'ifo .Harold Wentworth Stevens. Sacc
(Physics.)
Robert Louis stevenson; =, ,,.,,
r History and Economics)
The Church and the Masses.
William Rufus Reddan. Hyde PARK MASS
(Biology0
!" ETHEL MAY Park. Lyndonville. VT
(Ancient Languages.)
. The American Constitution. :,
4 sJarles Garfield Perry. upper fent' ~
philosophy
= Alice Pray Rand. Lewiston
= General Scholarship
Comforting of Diplomas.
| Bencdiction.
I Excused.
The exercises opened at 1920. whel
the graduates were marshaled into tn
church by Messrs. Whittum and AID
: rich of the Junior class, and the mem
u bers of the Bates Corporation too
y their places upon the platform. Ate
lprayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Thoma