The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-31
IT BEGINS TONIGHT
FOrty-SecOndAnnualC Commence
ment of Washburn.
Graduates in All Classes Number
Fifty Eight.
ONLY FIVE ARE LAWS.
TWenty-Six Will Be Made
Bachelors of Arts.
Annual Banquet of the Law
School Tonight.
ONLY FIVE ARE LAWS.



The exercises of the forty-second
annual commencement of Washburr
college commence tonight. The gradu-
ates of this years classes in the vari-
| Gus departments of the college num-
j Der fifty-eight. OF these fourteen
1 have already received their diplomas
| and degrees of NJ. D. from the medical
college and have now left Topeka. The
! others will receive their diplomas at
| the commencement next "Wednesday
morning in MacVicar chapel. OF these
| a former graduate, Miss Gertrude
| Boughton, who has been teaching IN
| Washburn for several years, will re-
| ceive a degree of master of arts. Twen-
| ty-six will receive the degree OF
| bachelor of fine arts. Five others Will
receive a degree of bachelor of sci
ence. The five graduates of the WASH
burn law school will receive the de-
gree of bachelor of laws and six gradu-
ates from the fine arts school will be
conferred the degree of bachelor OF
! music. Those who will receive de-
grees are as follows:
| Master of arts-Gertrude Boughton'
Topeka.
Degree of Bachelor of Arts-George
William Bale, Osborne; Jennie Belle
BeIden. Horton; Walter Emerson
Carkuff, Abilene; Verna Ethel Cooke,
Topeka; Ella Lee Cowgirl, Topeka;
Nettie May Davis, Valley Fails; J.
Merle Evans Topeka; David Fink,
Gertrude Taylor Grazier, Topeka;
Christian Theodore Jacob, Geneva;
Raymond Roscoe Jamison, Topeka;
Maude Mary Markham, Douglas;
Irene Helena Mehl, Burlingame; Daisy
Viola Neil, Topeka; Helen Hoffman
Poor, Chapman; Mabel Patton Ken
wick, Topeka; Horace Walter Sny-
der, Albion, Mich; Harold Houser
Soule, Osborne; Babetta Stadler To-
peka; Mary Alice Sutherland, Great
Bend; Jennie Evans Tharp, Clarida,
Ia; Earl S. Voorhis, Topeka; Hila
Beth Wood, Elmdale; Jesse Jerome
Litter, Topeka.
Degree of Bachelor of Science+Ed-
George NJ. Campbell, Topeka; Howard
E. Carruth, Topeka; Irwin Wycliffe
Cook, Oberlin; Charles William B.
Jennings, Topeka.
Flood, Waukegon, Ill; William Lee
Harvey, Wamego; Arthur Lewis
QUAINT Wanamaker; Walter w. Stahl,
Sterling; William Aldolph Kulp, Win
field.
Bachelor of Music-Grace Beard,
Topeka; Nellie Marie Pond, Topeka;
Celia May Smith, Topeka; Anna Nc
Kirahan, Sterling; Paul Pierre Nc
",
Topeka.
The commencement exercises prop
er will commence tonight. This even
ing at the rooms of the Washburn law
school the annual banquet of the en-
DryO lawyers will be given. Several
toasts by members of the law school
have been provided and John Waters
will act as master of ceremonies. The
annual spring OratOrical contest of the
colleges will also take place this even
will 10
Washburn chapel. Prizes of twenty
and ten dollars are offered for the first
and second places in this contest.
The senior play will be given in the
college chapel Saturday night. This
show will be a combination of bur-
Iesque on the faculty and students and
will close with a series of strong
vaudeville acts which will be put on
class. Some Of these will be very
clever.
Sunday morning at II in the college
chapel DIR. Norman PlaSs, president of
the college, will deliver the annual
baccalaureate sermon to the gradu-
ates DR.. Plass has selected for his
subject 1.-The Struggle for the Mas
terry" which will contain sound advice
for the graduates as they step from
the college into places in the world.
In the afternoon DR.. Henry E. Thayer,
secretary of the Kansas Home Mission
airy society, will address@a joint meet
ing of the College Y. NJ. c.. A. and the
Y w. c. A. on the college campus, the
weather permitting. Otherwise the
meeting will be held in the chapel
The annual commencement exercises
of Washburn Academy will be held at
80 a. m. in the college chapel. There
are eight graduates of the academy.
John Macdonald will deliver the grad
uating address. In the evening the
graduates of the music department will
give a public recital in the chapel.
At ten o'clock Tuesday morning the
senior class will deliver their class day
program which is always an interesting
event to those who are acquainted with
the various phases of Washburn affairs.
At p m. the annual meeting of the
board of trustees of the college will take
place in the Boswell Memorial. At this
meeting the annual business of the trus-
tees will be taken up and plans made
for the school during the coming year.
At $50 the alumni of the college will
have the annual alumni dinner in the
chapel and in the evening the annual
address before the alumni association
will be delivered.
Wednesday will mark the closing of
the commencement exercises. The con-
ferring of degrees will take place in
the chapel in the commencement exer-
cises at 1920. DR.. PlasS will confer the
degrees. The commencement address
will be delivered by Rev. Jean Frederic
Loba D. D. of Evanston, Ill. His sub
ejct will be THE Awakened Spirit; The
Enrichment of Life" The exercises will
close with a reception for the graduates
Wednesday evening by President and
Mrs. Plass at the presidents residence
on the campus.