The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-14
NEW BUILDINGS FOR rAssAR.
The College to Free t a 5000 o Residence
Han-Commrncement Exercises.

Hall -Commencfment Exercises.
uaHKEEPs June l3.-The need at
yassar College for a new residence hall has
become 40 great that the trustees have de-
cided 10 borrow 5000 900 and erect a build
ing at the north end of the quadrangle large
enough to accommodate 200 students. This
will permit the raising Of the embargo on
new students which has been in vogue for
several wears, the freshman class being kept
within limits that has restricted the total
student population to 900. The announce
ment of the decision TO erect a new building,
made by President Taylor at the commence
ment exercises this morning, was greeted
with applause. DR.. Taylor also made the
folio wing announcement:
"Dr. Henry M. Saunders Of New York.
a trustee Of the college, gives to the college
in m Of his wife, who was eminent IN
public service, interested in the. broader
education of women. and herself jealous
as student and in all good works, SIS 900 for
the erection OF a building yet u~ndesignated.'
The further cheering message was given
out by President Taylor that the trustees
had appropriated 1926 900 from the funds for
the enlargement of the gymnasium.
Graduate scholarships offered by the trus-
tees have been awarded as follows: to Mary
"a. Wilson, Greek; Elizabeth Severance,
philosophy and English; ~Jeannette w.
Lawrence, mathematics; lnez A. hldgeway,
mathematics and physics Agnes Sterlbert.
Latin and Greek; Hazel D. Mckee, Greek
and Latin; Grace E. Marrett, mathematics.
Fellowships we're awarded to Sarah E..
Dudley, '07; Florence M. Bennett, '9S; Clara
Mildred Thompson, 'o3, and Louise Hoyt
Gregory, 'o3.
awarded to Elizabeth Brownell Collier and
Ruth Little Mason, both Of 1905; Erminie
A. Saith prize fund in mineralogy to Emily
jackson, 'o7, and Helen Campbell, 'o6; Woods
Holl tables for the summer OF 1905 to Bar
bara Hunt, Edith M. Dixon and Marie wal
4 fellowship in chemistry has been be-
slowed by the University, Of Chicago for
the coming year upon Katherine Blunt
from an early hour this morning with
friends and relatives Of the 100 fair
maids who received their degrees from
the hands of the faculty. The hand
some new memorial chapel was crowded
to the doors long before the exercises
Oe FF6e commencement exercises consisted
simply OF an organ voluntary. prayer,
oonferring Of degrees and reading o. the
following essays by honor students Susan
Little Griggs, uShakespeare and MEsicII
Morris, aThe Songs Of Wales; Alice Thurs
ton McGirr. Wordsworth and JeIeries as
Lovers of Nature: Reba Creed Hendricks
son, New, Adirondack Trails'; Emily Van
Duzer Ford, Poetry for Children.
The Istudents receiving honors on the
basis of standing throughout the course
wore: Eleanor Foster Adams, Eliza Bufing;,
ton, Dorothy Burr, Elizabeth Brownell
Collier, Grace Eads Dalton, Mary Jordan
Dimock. Susan Little Griggsa Reba Creed
Hendrickson, Edith Howe. Edna jeffrey,
AKo Thurston McGirr, Hazel Dunlap. Mo-
Kee, Sarah Morris, Maude Morrison, Mar
Raret Tilden Numsen, Jane Wood Perkins,
Elizabeth Allan Robson, Carrie Agnes
Streibert, Alice Leelie Walker, Mary Huston
Wilson, Primrose Woolverton and Julia
Henrietta Wright.
Honorable mention for standing with the
exception Of the freshman year was awarded
to Mabel Chilberg, Lnra Esther Cooley,
Emily Van Duzer Ford. Mabel Hyde Kings
bury, Cynthia May MoKellar, 1nez Anna
Campau sihley, Theodosia Hart Wales
and Annette Florence Wallach.
Honorary Degrees at Syracuse University.
SYRACUSE, June l3.-Syracuse University
to-day granted these honorary degrees;
l.. H. D., Chancellor D.. W. c, Huntington
OF Nebraska Wesleyan University; LII. D.,
A. s. Downing Of Albany and Prof, Lucien
NJ. Under wood Of New York; D. D.. the
Revs. Leonard G. Murdoch. OF kingston,
Pa, Henry H. Murdoch of Gloversville,
W. CORTLAND Robinson Of Syracuse, James
W. A. Dodge of Tucakhoe and Frank s.
Rowland of Rochester.
NJ. ". Law School CONNIE ncement This
Evening.
The commencement exercises OF the
New York Law School will he held at Car
negie Music Hall this evening. The address
IN the graduating class will be delivered by