Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-02
Fealty to High Ideal.

The President told the graduates that the
first and most important field in which to
show their fealty to high ideal is in the
field Of the family. He concluded as fol-
lows:
Each of you has an additional response
bility to bear beyond the responsibility that
every college graduate in this land must
bear. You are those of your race to whom
most has been given, and in addition to the
burden of honorable obligation resting upon
you as educated American citizens to do
your duty by the commonwealth rests the
burden Of honorable obligation SO to carry
yourselves that your lives may be a guide
and an inspiration to all Of the people Of
your race, that your lives may justify your
race In the eyes of the American people.
The rights of each man are important. but
his duties are more important still. II the
duties are we'll done sooner or later. In
time to be measured only by the inscrutable
working of Providence. the rights will take
care of themselves. And, oh. my fellow
citizens, ask of each of you the fullest and
most generous performance of duty in ac-
cordance with the highest sense of obliga
ton toward your Creator and toward your
brethren, not only for the sake of your ma
ton a whole. but for the sake of that
portion of our nation which belongs to your
own race In particular.
Representative Burton to Graduates.
The address to the graduating class was
ton of Ohio. who set out the evils of super
ficiality and applauded the achievements Of
honest, faithful and thorough work. Sue
cess. lie said. does not come through sudden
inspiration; it Is not the result of chance.
Deploring the present-day tendency to SEN
sationalism, he maintained that too much Is
being circulated that has the stamp of un-
reality.
Mr. Burton urged the prospective law
yers to avoid criminal law and to act as
peacemakers in whatever cases. particu-
larly divorce cases. which they may be call
the keynote of the worker who, he said.
is entitled to all eulogy. no matter what
may be his seeming failure In life.
The platform was filled with the mem
bers of the faculties OF the university and
of the graduating classes. In the regula-
ton caps and gowns. In addition to the
speakers. Commissioner mcfarland also
occupied a chair on the platform Rev.
the university. conferred degrees upon sew
enty-nine graduates.
Honorary Degree Conferred.
The honorary degree of doctt- of divin-
ity was conferred upon Rev Sterling
Brown. pastor OF Lincoln Temple Memorial
Church. and Rev. ]. E. Moorland. secre-
tary of the international committee Of the
Y. NJ C. A. Dr. Marcus r. Wheatland OF
Newport r. l., received the honorary de-
gree of master OF arts. It was announced
that Rev. Wilbur p. Thirkield of Cincinnati,
secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and South
ern Education Society of the Methodist
Church, has accepted his recent election to
the presidency of the university. to take Of
feet September !.
Those who received the degrees are as
follows:
Bachelor of divinity-Wiliiam II. Best and
William e. Sprat1ey.
Doctor of medicine-Gkorge Leander Bay
ton, William Thomas Beebe, George VIII
liam Bowies. Harry Francis Brown. VIII
liam Roska Brown, Dowdal Henry Davis,
Frank F. Davis. Thomas Amos Jones, Alice
Littiejohn. George William Miller John
Jackson Mitchell. William Edward Nichols
James A. Page, Thomas st. Clair Palmer
Isaac ]. B. Dennis, Michael NJ Dickson
Robert James Ford. Milton A. Francis.
Charles Oliver Gamble Gerald Mortimer
Citizens. James Albert Potter, John ecker
Robinson. Henry Reginald Smith, James
Brftton Smith. Leigh Stanley Tappin, will
liam Alonzo Tolson. James Augustus john
son. Gaulbourne Williams and Ciar-
ence Alexander Wright.
Other Degrees.
Doctor OF dental surgery-Roscoe C.
Brown. George w. Coffee. David D. Foote.
Charles H. Gray. Simeon o. @. Johnson.
Sydney c. r. Muirhead. BENJAMIN NJ. Grant.
Charles Payne and John Pinheiro.
Doctor OF pharnaacy--Joseph L. Johnson.
Bachelor of laws-Andrew w. e. Bassett,
jr.. Thornton H, Gray, Charles s. Ill., O.
Benjamin Jefferson. Jaaoh ;. Joness Walter