Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-31
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
PLANS OF SCHOOLS OF GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.
Degrees Will Be Awarded to More
Than Two Hundred Graduates.
List of Names

With exercises beginning next Sunday and
terminating with the commencement proper
Wednesday, the faculty and trustees of
George Washington University have COM
pleted preparations for the formal closing
of the school year of 19o6-0T. Degrees will
be award ed to a total of go students. The
law school. usual, heads the list with a
total of IS candidates of whom 60 are to
receive bachelors degrees, o masters of law
and II masters of patent law. Medicine
comes second with 81 students entitled to
the d. Fifteen will receive degrees in
pharmacy and fifteen in dental surgery.
Five Will receive the Pho. and four de-
grees in civil engineering will be awarded
Seventeen students will be given BIAS and
four Will get VI. Las. In science there are
seven bachelors degrees to be given and
one master of science degree, which is to
go TO Harry Wilson Houghton of Maryland
The eghty-sixth annual commencement
exercises Will begin Sunday in Memorial
Continental Hail. when Rev. DIR. Richard d.
Harlan will deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon. The commencement proper will be
held in the same hail Wednesday morning
Prof. s c. Mitchell of Richmond College
will deliver the opening address, and Presi-
dent Needham will confer the degrees A
meeting of the trustees will be held in the
afternoon and in the evening President
Needham and the faculty of the university
VIII tender a reception to the graduating
Grass at RauSChers.
Other Events of Program
Other events on the program for the week
include the opening of the exhibit of the
division of architecture in the rooms at T29
18th street exhibit to continue until June
y: class exercises of the law class of 1907
in Memorial Continental Hall at O'Clock
Monday evening; prize debate of the debat-
ing societies of the department of law in
a I y a SIaN-
ing: debate between Syracuse University
and the George Washington University in
Memorial Continental Hall Wednesday aft
ernoon at i:3O O'Clock. and class exercises
or the SAniOr classes of Columbian College
and the Washington College of Engineering
The. candidates for degrees, members of
Faculties and trustees of the university and
colleges Will assemble at $50 o'clock am.
Wednesday at the university building in
academic dress, and the university process
sion VIII start for Memorial Continental
Hall at 10 o'clock am, and will there oc-
cupy places assigned to them on the plat
form and in the body of the house No
seats will be reserved excepting for the
members of the faculties and the gradual
ing classes.
As. an Indication of the growth of the
university In its highest work the con-
ferrlng of the doctorate degree upon five
candidates is regarded as most encourage
ing. The requirements for the degree are
most eXacting. The determination as to
whether the Candidates have measured I'D
" Nilt SlduudTu set by the university rests
with board of experts in the various sub
1ects of the theses, not connected with the
university.
Names of the Candidates.
The names of the candidates with the
states from which they have come are as
follows:
Columbia College: Bachelor of arts
Frances Gunby Bethune. Virginia. Mary
simpson Birch, Virginia; Annie Elizabeth
Bodmer. District of Columbia; John St.
Clair Brookes, jr., District of Columbia.
Robson De s. Brown, Iowa with distinc-
ton); Elizabeth Harding Burroughs. Dis
trict of Columbia; Isabel Rhoda Capeli New
YORK; Harry Seymour Cragin, District of
Columbia; John Jones Fosselman Pennsyl-
wanna; Edward Hayes, Maryland; Louise
Wlnifred Mccoy, District of Columbia; Ed
garda Marion MacMullen. Pennsylvania;
Syngman Rhee, Korea; Edith Heiskell Rid
out, District of Columbia with distinction:
Hans Frederick Arthur schoenIeld, District
of Columbia; Mabel Lavinia Scott West
Virginia; Emile Margaret White Vermont
with distinction.
Bachelor of science-Joseph Franklin
Bra ndenburg, District of Columbia; Mildred
Winans Cochran, Colorado; Frank Adelbert
Hornaday. Texas; Clara Elizab et'l Johnson
Indiana; Julia Theckla -4acMillan, District
Of Columbia; Ernest Frederick Mechlin,
District of Columbia: William Charles Re
petit, District of Columbia.
bachelor of science in chemistry-Charles
Edwin Parker, District of Columbia Clar-
ence Paret Wilson. Maryland
Washington College of Engineering:
Bachelor of science in civil engineering
Edgerton Chester Garvin, Ohio; Harry Car
ter Hartley, Illinois, Hugh Stewart Hill,
Wyoming; Edwin Hauptman King, District
OF Columbia.
Faculty of graduate studies Master of
arts-Angus Mcdonald Crawford, Virginia
A. B.. 1907, the George Washington Univer-
sity: Margaret Agnes Mcmahon, New York.
b. s., 1905, the George Washington Univer-
sity; Alice Dyar Russell, Minnesota. A. B..
1 lso8 wI Gniv srssys OF Minnesota; Will
b., 1906 the George Washington University
Master of science-Harry Wilson Hough-
ton, Maryland. b. s., in chemistry, 1906, the
George Washington University.
Doctor of philosophy-Rev George Brodt-
hage. Germany, Universities of Strassburg
Berlin and Gottingen; Frederick Warren
Grover. Massachusetts, b. s.. 1899, Massa-
ohusetts Institute of Technology NJ s.
1901, Wesleyan University; Edward Elliott
Richardson. District of Columbia, MD,
1926, b. s. 1904, Columbian University, NJ s.,
1905. the George Washington University
Abram Simon, District of Columbia 1894
Cincinnati Hebrew Union College, b. L.
1884, University of Cincinnati; Walter
Otheman Smelling Massachusetts b. s in
chemistry. 1904. Columbian University, B. s.,
1905, Harvard University; NJ s., 1906, Yale
University
Department of medicine: Doctor of medi-
cne-Walter Raleigh Earnestly Illinois;
Matthew John Beistel, Michigan: Joseph |
Rozier Biggs, District of Columbia; Joseph
Borrows Began. District of Columbia; |
Charles Franklin Bower, South Dakota; |
William Alexander Boyd, North Carolina; |
Herbert James Bryson. Pennsylvania. A. b.. |
1903. Columbian University; Glare William |
Burket. Pennsylvania; William Brown Carr
tr.. District of Columbia; Paul Irving Car
ter. California; John Madison Chapman,
Maryland; Cline n. Chapman, Kentucky:
Roy Manning Clark. Michigan; Coursen |
Baxter Conklin. District of Columbia; |
Charles Wesley Cuthbertson. District OF CO. |
lumbia. d. d. S., 1900 Columbian Univer-
sity; Moses Hubbard Darnall. Texas; Chris |
tian Henry Dewey, Illinois; James Armi-
tage Emery. Maryland; Alfred Clark Gar
ton, Indiana; Charles Vincent Grant, Penn
sylvania: Hubert Victor Hailman Virginia;
Nathaniel William Hankemayer, Massachu-
sets. \. B.. 1885, Iowa Wesleyan Univer-
sity, Il. D., 1890, Chicago Theological Semi
nary; John White Hart. Massachusetts,;
Clarence a. Hartley. Indiana; John Ker-
foot Haywood. New York. b. s.. 1895 Cor
nell University: Daniel Lee High Mary
land: Samuel Hoberman, New Jersey; Rob-
ert Ward Holmes New Hampshire; How
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