Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-14
PRESIDENT At SCHOOL
Attends Closing Exercises Of
Georgetown College.
NAMES OF PRIZE WINNERS
Distinguished Body Of Guests on the
/. Platform.
SUBSTANCE OF vALEDICT0RY
Degrees Of Licentiate Of Philosophy
and Master and Bachelor Of
Arts Conferred.
SUBSTANCE OF vALED1cToRY

1 Don't finch, don't foul, and hit the line
hard" was the final injunction delivered
| as he said, in athletic language, by Presi-
| de,.t Roosevelt to the graduating class Of
| Georgetown College this morning In CASTOR
Hall. as basic principle for the conduct
| of life.
| The eighty-ninth commencement exercises
of Georgetown College, now in its 11Sth
| year, was the occasion of filing CASTOR
! Hall with distinguished body of guests.
Seated with President Roosevelt and the
president of the university. Rev. David H.
Buel, were Justice Edward d. White Of the
Supreme Court Of the United States and
Secretary Of the Navy Charles ]. Bona
parte. Among the other guests and the
faculty was Commissioner Charles ]. Neill.
| The order of exercises included the mas
ter's Grafton. THE Suffrage" by Francis
| The Decline of the Suffrage" by Joseph
! Henry Lawler, and the valedictory, THE
Assurance of the Suffrage" by Aston Cock
| rell. In addition was music by Schroeder s
| orchestra the comforting of degrees and the
awarding Of prizes by President Roosevelt.
| Mr.. Cockrell in his valedictory said in
part:
| Our government is essentially a govern
| ment by suffrage. Where our suffrage de-
clnes there our government weakens; where
our suffrage is corrupted there our govern
| ment is failure.
| Since the security of our government is
| 80 securely linked with the security of our
| Suffrage. 1t is altogether fitting that we
| should understand exactly what means we
| have to preserve the integrity of our suf-
| frdge. what means to secure its right use
We shall consider what forces are at hand
| to bring the coming voter to realization of
1 the principle of popular government and
the ambition of a free people. and to make
| him understand his moral responsibility,
safeguard these principles and to further
these ambitions.
THE honest recording of every ballot cast
and the abolition of civic venality are the
| two Indispensable requirements for the in
| tegrity of the ballot system. And in order
| that the honest ballot shall be cast with
T prudence and conservatism as well, the in
| dividual voter most have firm grasp of
| the aims of popular government and of the
means essential for their realization The
| duty of preserving an uncorrupted record
| of the vote falls upon the shoulders of the
law. This problem presents comparatively
| few difficulties. The all-important need
| is to get honest election officers and this
the government can and must do. But the
| question Of fraudulent election returns be-
comes of trifiing moment when compared to
| the question of the buying and selling of
votes, and buying and selling In its proper
I sense is so broad as to include the whole
gamut of election ways and means, from
the vote that is gained at the price of a
| dram of liquor to the most digniffed con-
siderat of political preferment. To prevent
| this legislation is hardly sufficient. Laws
| cannot reach this. In a free country the
| law can have the right to question the mo-
| tive of the voter, and yet unless the voter
| has upright motives-motives that make
| for the common good-unless 1t is made to
| realize that a moral responsibility rests
! upon him to use his ballot for the preserva-
ton of the nation, he will not and cannot
realize that it is a wrong against God and
| his fellow-men from his ballot against the
best interests of the state.
| The degrees conferred were the following
| Honorary Doctors of laws-The Very Rev.
| Denis J. Flynn president of Mt. st. Mary's
| College. Emmitsburg, Md; George M. Ko,
| Der, MD, dean of the Georgetown Univer-
| sity Medical School.
| In course: Lcentiate Of philosophy-Joseph
| Maria Cuenco, M, Philippine Islands; Ste
! phen Sylvester Grogan. AM, Wisconsin;
| Francis Stanton Montgomery, AM, Me-
braska; Charles Vincent Mullen, AM, Colo
RADIO.
| Master of arts-Erwin Robert Effler ABB,
Ohio: Francis Martin Foy, ABB, Pennsyl-
vania; Vincent Dunn Hennessy. Abb, Wis
| consin; John Camil Landry, AB New
| Brunswick; Edward Sheehan Monohan, r.,
| ABB. Kentucky; John PARROT, jr., ABB,
| California; Alphonse Jacob Pater. Abb.
Ohio; Joseph Aloysius Pilon, ABB. Wiscon-
| sin.
| Bachelor Of arts-Leslie Warwick
Brennan, New York; Aston Cockrell
Florida; James Edward Collif1ower. Dis
| trict Of Columbia; Gerald Maurice Egan
| District of Columbia; George Rex Frye,
District of Columbia; Harry Athanasius
Hanigan. New York; Thomas Frank
Hayes, Connecticut: Joseph Henry Law
| Ter, Connecticut; Matthew Patrick Ma
honey. Massachusetts; James Edward
Morgan, Iowa; Sydney Emmanuel Lludd
| jr.. Maryland; Harlow Francis Pease, Wis
| consin; Thomas Kennedy Scheller, jr,
| Pennsylvania; Joseph Nicholas Shriver
Maryland; Gerhard John Simon, New
York; Henry Thorn vlymen, New York;
William Joseph Vlymen, New York.
The reception committee made up Of
| members of the junior class, was as fol-
| lows: Conor w. B. Coppinger, ]. G. Blaine
Coppinger, ]. Herbert Doyle, Leonard r.
Geneste, De Leon F. Green. w. Brawner
| Hetfield, Thopas A. McCann, Joseph ].
Mccarthy, Albert r. Ridgway, Francis de
Sales Roach and John McHugh Stuart.
Pinned Medals on Coat Lapels.
President Roosevelt made the awards,
pinning the medals the coat lapels of
| the happy students, and in the case Of the
premiums of books with characteristic In
| terest reading the titles and making re-
| marks on the contents.
The medal and premium. the Rev Faith
er Macksey s. J.. project of studies, who
made the announcements, stated in every
| class were awarded to the two students
| obtaining respectively the highest and the
second highest average in the marks for
all the months of the year and for the mid
| year and final examinations, provided the
average be above IS per cent Of all at
l.
| A cash prize Of SIS for the highest aver
| age in the courses of the graduate school
| was awarded to Edwin Robert Effier, A. b.
A cash prize of s25 for the second high
est average in the graduate school courses
was awarded to Vincent Dunn Hennes-
sey, A. b.
Senior-Gold medal for rational philos-
ophy, awarded to William Joseph Vfymen;
prize. to Aston Cockrell.
Junior--Gold medal FOUNDED by Mrs. Law
renee O'Brien of New York in memory of
Francis x. O'Brien of the class of 1900.
awarded to Thomas A. Mccain: English
composition. prize. Joseph Justin Mccarthy;
gold medal for physics (given by william
v. McGrath, B. s., OF Philadelphia. Pa,
awarded to Thomas Aloysius Mccain;
prize to John Herbert Doyle.
Sophomore-Siiyer medal, John Herman
Paul Hood; prize. j. Addison K. Lusk; Eng
lish composition. prize, J. Addison K. Lusk.
Among the Freshmen.
Freshman-Silyer medal, Christian De
Guigne. jr.; prize. Thomas Fitzmaurice
Boyle English composition. prize. George
Ambrose Hebron.
Mechanics The Kidwell gold medal, Rob-
ert Hamilton Kelley; prize. Hughes Spald-
ing.
General cheruistrv-EIfyer nadaI 1abn