The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-25
EXERCISES AT
 YALE LAW SCHOOL John Carroll Slade, Yale 1905, Takes Townsend
 Prize In Speaking.
ANNOUNCEMENTS BY
 PRESIDENT HADLEY
U. s. Senator Brandegee One of the Judges in
 Contest.

Besides the address of Senator Phi lander c. Knox, which is given in full on another page. the exercises at the Yale Law school. in observance of the eighty-third anniversary of It's found- ing, attracted a great deal of attention because of the close contest for the Townsend prize. There were five con testants, who delivered orations, and the judges, Senator Frank B. Brande- gee. of New London; President North rup, of the University of Minnesota and Henry F. English, of this city, awarded the prize to John Carroll Slade, of Kelloggsville, N. r., who graduated from the academic depart Inent in 1905 and who graduates from the Law school this year. MT. Shades subject was "The Increasing Import ance Of the Fourteenth Amendment"
 The other contestants, with their subjects. were: George Price Whitman, B. L., on Character as a Factor in Politics and in Business;" William Kerwan Camblos, M. A.. on James Wilson," Arthur Packer McKinstry, B. A, on "The Relations of the United States to Latin America" and Albert Clayton Moss, on "Carl Schurz."
 President Hadley announced the prize awards for the year in behalf of the university. With him on the plat form was Secretary of War William Howard Taft and these other members of the corporation: Henry B. Sargent, New Haven; Eli Whitney, New Haven; Rev Charles Ray Palmer, New Haven; Rev. James Wesley Cooper, New York; Rev. Joseph Anderson, Woodmont, and Rev. Newell Meeker Calhoun, M. A., of Winsted
 The honors in the special studies for the senior year, academic, were also announced yesterday. The names, with the subjects, are:
 Prizes-The Phelps Montgomery prize, Arthur Packer McKinstry; the Jewell prize, Nathaniel Paul Sterne; the Betts prize. Edward Colpitts, Wey- man, B. A.; the Wayland prizes, first prize. George Price Whitman; second prize, Clifton Junius O'Hara; third prize, Terrence Byrne Cosgrove; the Munson prizes, first prize, Harold Bur- ton Jamison; second prize, Walter Preston Armstrong; third prize, Thomas Joseph Molloy.
 Kent club prizes for the best exam inatlon in parliamentary law-First prize, Joseph George Shapiro; second prize, Newell Jennings.
 Honors-Degree of. M. l.. Magma Cum Isaude, Jose Escaler, Siceo dc Manila, 1902, IL. B. 1905; degree of M. L., Cum Laude, Terrence Bryne Cosgrove, M. "A, St. viateurs college; Mariana Hon. rade deJoya, LL B., Indiana univer- sity; degree of IL. B., Magma Cum Laude, Arthur Packer McKinstry, B. A., Yale university; George Sharpe Munson, B. A., Yale university; George Elton Parks, B. A., Yale university; George slingerland Van schaick; de- gree of LL B., Cum Laude; Robert Harold Butterfeld, William Brewster Ely, Yale university, B. A.. Newell Jennings, B A., Yale university; Joseph George Shapiro, John Carroll Slade, B. A., Yale university; Charles Herbert Woods, B. A., Blackburn col- lege.
 Honors in second year class Walter Preston Armstrong, B. A., Yale univer- sity; William Edward Eagan, Richard Carley Hunt, Harold Burton Jamison, E. A., Yale university; Clifton Junius O'Hara, B. A., Carthage college; Ma thaniel Paul Sterne, Charles Lyman Stewart.
 Honors in first year class-Howard Daniel Atkins, William Emil Green baum, Edward Robert McGlynn, Den his Thomas O Brien Lewis Jack Son- CTS, Edward Colpitts Weyman, Freder- dck Holme Wiggin, jr, B. A, Yale uni versity