The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-31
REPORT Is MADE
BY ABERCROMBIE

BY ABERCR0MBIE
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editor of the Birmingham News; DR. j.
II. Phillips, superintendent of the Bir-
mingham schools, and E. H. Cabaniss,
prominent lawyer OF Birmingham. In de-
llvering the committees award Mr..
Rhodes made an eloquent speech, extoll-
ing the University of Alabama, convey
ing his impressions of the great COM
mencement IN progress and exhorting
alumni to demand justice from the state
for their alma mater.
Commencement Orator.
After music by Claimants orchestra
President Abercromble introduced the
commencement orator, Francis P Ven
able, Phi D., president of the University
of North Carolina. Dr. Venable delivered
carefully prepared address, dwelling
on the obstacles surmounted in the past
by the south, her present prosperity and
future greatness as related to university
life. DR.. Venable dwelt on the great
heritage received by humanity the value
of truth in all things and the necessity
of unfolding our higher ideals in the face
of great commercial activity. He pointed
out the work that must be done by tho
university graduate in carrying out this
crusade for truth and right living
The speaker said that God alone knows
the solution of the race question, but he
felt that true men would see that the
black man gets Justice. This should be
the future work of college men-to aid
in breaking the bonds of Ignorance.
Daaraas a ra NoaF~r..1
At the conclusion of DIR. Venable's adj
dress a musical selection was given and
President Abercrombie proceeded to con-
fer degrees They were as follows:
Masters of Arts-Pearl Boyies. A. B.,
1905, Crichton: Eleanor Packer McCorvey,
A. b., 1901 University; Mary Camilla Par
ker, A. B., 1905, Tuscaloosa; Mary Cow
per Pittman, A. B., 1905. Union Springs
Masters of Seience-Rucy Swami Law
hon. B. s., 1905. Livingston; James Rice,
B. s., 1905, Northport.
Civil Engineers-Hurieosco Austll, Jr.
Mobile; Preston Alfred Craighead. Jr..
Uniontown; Truman Aldrich Smith, Uni
versity; George Woolsey Van Hoose, Jr..
Tuscaloosa
Mining Engineer-Thomas Baird Catch
ngs, Birmingham.
Bachelors of Arts-Ira Bradfield, Tusca-
loosa; William Cicero Braswell, Elba
Jelks Henry Cabaniss, Birmingham; Mary
Hale Cockrell, Livingston: William Roger
Cunningham. Union Springs; Archie Hen
bricks Darden, Rockford: William Creagh
Dozier, Thomasville; Milton Victor
Hanaw, Mobile; Charles Otis Hayslette,
Tuscaloosa: Sam Lee Jones, Camden
James Mallory Kidd, Harpersville: Lii
liam Matheson Lotspeich, Mobile; Oscar
Paleman McGraw, Vincent; John William
Mcleod, Mobile; Albert Edward Mayer,
Demepolis; Myrtle Merrill, Admission
Washington Moody, Tuscaloosa: James
Edward Morrisette. Newbern; Leila Kate
Poynor, Mt. Hebron; Alex Bismarck Ray,
Jasper; Alvin Erdreich Seigel, Selma;
Robert Eugene Steiner, Jr. Montgomery ;
Bertha Young. Montgomery
Bachelors of Scienee-Mary Camilla
Armistead, Scotia: Edward Kirby Cham
bers, Eutaw; Jesse Pugh Chapman, Jack
son; LELAND Woodland Chapman, jackson
Helen Holmes Hopkins, Anniston: Georgia
Eta Howard, Albertville; Jesse Lee
Jones, Barachias; Minnie Knox Kenan,
Geneva; Roy Harrison Ledbetter, Annis-
ton; Samuel Labon Ledbetter. Birming-
ham: Anna Jane Moody, Tuscaloosa
William S. Mudd, Birmingham: I.aure-
belle Martha Pickett, Hector: Wade Allen
Rogers, Letohatchie; lone Snedecor, Tus-
caloosa Evelyn Somerville, Aliceville;
Harry Atchison Wyatt, New Decatur
Bachelors of science in engineering
Thomas Baird Catchings, Birmingham
Herbert Ivey Collins, Gallon; Herbert
Otis Gosa. Knoxville; Walter Baker Har-
ris, Tuscaloosa
Certificates of graduation: In French
and German, Margaret Carolyn Little.
Tuscaloosa.
Bachelors of laws: Hezzie Hayes Black,
Birmingham; Hugo Lafayette Black,
Ashland; Bartlett Beardslee Chambep-
lain. MOBILIZE John Dant ,er Chappelle,
Marion; Edgar LaRoche Clarckson, Tusca-
loosa; Am Wilson Cooper Dothan;
George Jordan Costen, Jr.. Sunbury. n
c.; Allen Crenshaw. Hope Hull; Marvin
Alexander Dinsmore Falkville; James
Browder CARRIER, Demopolis; James
Daniel Giles. Perryville: Walton Harris
Hill, Montgomery; Joseph Hopkins
James, Jr., Wetumpka; William Murray
Jones, Bear; William Rnett Kimbrough,
Linden; Thomas Arthur Mcdaniel. Gads-
den: Wallace Powell Pruftt. Fort Deposit :
Roscoe Gilmore Scott, Ensley; Victor Her
ri g Smith, Pell City; Henry Addison
Te, Hanover. Pascal Bryce Traweek,
Hum, rev. Joseph Mitchell Tucker, Mont
gomery; Thomas Benjamin Ward Green's
boro.
$3.50 Honors Are Conferred.
At the close of each collegiate year spe-
cial honors designated as highest honors
are conferred IN accordance with the fol-
lowing regulations:
All students in regular courses In the
academic department of the university
who shall have obtained the highest
grade (grade A in each study pursued
during the year. shall be entitled to the
highest honors of the university.
All students in the law department of
the university who shall have obtained an
average grade of So per cent or more in
all the studies embraced In the two years
law course. shall be entitled to the high
est honors of the university.
In the academic department these hon
ors were conferred as follows:
Seniors: Mary Camilla Armstead,
Jelks Henry Caba Miss, Herbert Otis Gosa
Lillian Matheson Lotspeich. James Ed
ward Morrisette, Laurebelle Martha Pick
EFT.
Juniors: Zula Lee, Bessie Hall Merrill,
Thomas Herbert Patton.
Sophomores: Jerome Meyer, Bapht
I1onnie Noojin. Helen Judith Vickers
In the law department: Hugo Lafayette
Black, James Browder CARRIER Jr., Joseph
Hopkins James, Jr., Roscoe Gilmore Scott,
Victor Herring Smith, Henry Addison
Teel, Thomas Benjamin Ward
Prizes Are Ava rded.
In 1898 the Hon. William Jennings Bryan
gave to the university the sum of $50 for
the purpose of providing an annual prize,
open to all students of the university,
for the best essay on some subject re-
lating to the science of government. This
prize was awarded to Charles Edgar Rice.
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