Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-05
MANY GRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
Commencement of George
Washington University.
PROCESSION TO THE HALL
President Needham Makes Announce
ment as to Site.
THE SELECTION IS POSTPONED
PROCESSION TO THE HALL
THE SELECTION IS POSTPONED
Will Wait Until Large Additional
Funds Have Been Secured
Names of Candidates.

Funds Have Been Secured
Names of Candidates.
The feature of the eighty-sixth annual
commencement day exerc SeS of George
Washington University. in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall. this morning. was the an
nouncement by President Needham that
rather than saddle a great debt upon the
university and perhaps jeopardize its edu-
cationdl standard, it had been decided to
postpone the selection of a site for the in
stitution until large additional funds have
been secured. The general applause that
followed the announcement gave conclusive
evidence of the popularity of the decision.
The elements Were more n Lind to the
young men and women who stepped today
from sheltered college existence to the gates
of the great world arena, where the strife
OF business and professional life in these
hurried modern days is waged.
For although the clouds were lowering
and few drops of rain fell just as the
head Of the long line of black gowned and
mortar-board young men and women start
ed-the goods decidedly fetching in their
seVere-loOking garmentS-the sun came out
quite blithely before the PROCESSION was
well under way, and the weather was
everything it should have been until the
graduates and faculty and the several
hundred interested guests were safely
housed in Memorial Hall.
Order of March.
The procession itself was decidedly inter-
esting. When, at 10 O'clock the start from
the main university building was made
the candidates for degrees were in the van.
followed by the deans and members of the
university and college faculties the trus-
tees of the university and colleges and
their guests. President Needham walking
alone, brought up the rear. The process
sion was nearly three blocks long.
When opposite Memorial Hall the long
line OF black -gowned candidates halted and
nan raced about, forming a lane through
which President Needham j the members
OF the faculty. the speaker of the day and
the honored guests. When all the students
We're seated in the hall there was mighty
little room for anybody else, and many of
the hundreds Of relatives and friends of the
candidates who were in attendance stood,
nncomplainingly. throughout the exercises
The hall itself was most appropriately
decorated. On the green burlaped walls the
II. u was everywhere, and the bright
colors of the college flags that hung here
and there alongside the national banner
and the myriad colors of the abundant floral
decorations cOntrasted wildly with the solid
dates. Before and during the exercises the
Marine Band, under the direction of Lieut.
Santelmann was heard in a variety of pop-
ular airs.
Opened With Prayer.
The exercises were opened with prayer by
Rey- DIR. Frederick D. Power, and then
Prof. S. c. Mitchell of Richmond College
delivered the commencement address. DR..
Mitchell pointed out the path of duty to the
graduates and dwelt upon the importance of
the university to normal national life. He
apptauded the movement under way to es-
ablish the George Washington University
at the capital of the nation as great ma
tonal clearing house for knowledge. Prof
Mitchell reviewed the great educational
achievements of the past century, and
spoke of the national and Independent inn
petuS as having been the result of distribu-
tive education and advanced thought in all
sections of the world. He spoke of the
great advance in sentiment in the southern
colleges OF more recent years. He suggest
ed that from 1920 to 1860 the colleges of the
south were hindrance rather than a help
to the diffusion of that class of practical
education which results in the greatest
good for the greater number
Since then. however, there has been a
marked impetus in the right direction and
the colleges of the southland are now doing
magnificent work In the lines of indus
trialism and national Indignation and racial
adjustment the most marked advance is
being made.
Presentation of Candidates.
Following the address of the day, was
the presentation of the candidates for de-
grces in Columbian College by Dean Will
bur and the comforting of degrees by Pres
i6ent Needham. Seventeen received the de-
gree of bachelor of arts. seven. the ba che
lor of science degree; two. the bachelor of
science and chemistry degree; four, sim
liar degree in civil engineering; sixty-one
the degree of doctor of medicine; fifteen,
the doctor of dental surgery degree; 1if-
teen, the degree of doctor of pharmacy
sixty-three. the degree of bachelor of laws;
nine the degree of master of laws; seven
teen the master of patent law degree;
four the degree of master of arts; one the
master of science degree, and five, the dis
tinguished degree of doctor of philosophy.
The appearance of each candidate upon
the platform was the signal for marked ap-
plause and some of the most popular mem
bers of the various classes were rendered
oVationS.
Award of Prizes.
Following the comforting of the degrees.
the presentation of prizes made by
Dean Wilbur Dean Hodgkins, Prof Ash.
Dean Phillips Dean Lewis. Dean Kalu-
sowski, Dean Vance and Dean Vedtz.
The prizes in the Columbia College were
awarded as follows:
Stoughton prize. to II. F Arthur Schoen-
field. and honorable mention to Edgarda
Marion MacMullen.