The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
CADET CORPS DRILL is
MAGNIFICENT AFFAIR
Is Reviewed BY Governor Conner and
Entire Staff-Cornerstone of Car
negie Library Is Laid.
Mallory Presides.
BY CHARLES EEL.

Auburn, June Especial 1.-The thirty
sixth annual commencement of the Ala
bama Polytechnic institute, inaugurated
Sunday morning with the commencement
sermon by the Rev. DR.. Henry A. Porter
of the Walnut Street Baptist church of
Louisville, KY, turned into the full swing
of action this morning.
Auburn is filed with prominent people
from all over the state and the ideal
weather which favors the occasion has
brought to the college town decidedly the
largest congregation of people that has
ever attended commencement in the his
tory of the institute Quite number of
the visitors arrived in Auburn Saturday
evening to attend the commencement SER
vices held yesterday in Langdon hall. The
assembly room was crowded to its full ca
pacity, and great number of the visi-
tors had to be turned away. The morning
trains today brought more people, and the
commencement this year promises to be
by far the most brilliant on the college
records
Gov. B. B. Conner arrived this morning
al $3.50 o'clock on the Washington train
out of Montgomery. He was met at the
II ain by the A. p l. band and was given
military escort to the college buildings.
Among others prominent in affairs who
are in town are the following members
OF the board of trustees of the institute:
H c. Gunnels, state superintendent of ed
uoation of Montgomery; R. F. Ligon of
Montgomery, Tancred Belts of Huntsville,
H. L. Martin of Ozark, w. X. Terry of
Birmingham, R. B. Barnet of Opelika, A.
w. Bell of Admission, N. D. benson of La
F'ayette, and w. F. Feagin of Montgom-
cry.
The year just closing at Auburn has
been decidedly the most successful in the
history of the school, The enrolment was
61S of which number 76 students We're
from Jefferson county. The senior class
is composed of 81 members, all of whom
will receive their diplomas Wednesday
morning except r.
Twelve of the students who will gradu-
ate are from jefferson county.
In his report DR.. Thach comments on
the success of the term of 1907-190S with
enthusiasm. He states that the attend
ance has been regular that Withdrawals
Lave been few, and that the majority Of
The total enrolment for this year was
617, Jefferson county leading all others
with an attendance of rs.
Two foreign countries and ten other
states besides Alabama were represented
upon the rolls. There were seven young
women students. and 200 students took
mining engineering.
Included in the list of new equipment
installed during the college year was
equipment for electric lighting plant,
machinery for the mining department,
and new dining hall and detailed plans
with regard to the new Carnegie library.
1t is stated that on August 1 next bids
upon the proposed new three-story agri-
cultural hall will be advertised for
Figures from the treasurer's report
show that the total receipts for the year
were sS6,511. An increase in the salaries of
professors is urged.
The post graduate students who will re-
ceive degrees of master of science for the
work done during the past year are:
Graduate Students.
Elva Leland Cooper, Lee; John Cameron
Dow, Barbour; Ward Giltner, Lee;
tlarleS ftODeru f1lXOn BULLOCK, IeOTSS
Griffin Hughes, Marion; William Madison
Lewallen, Lee; Guy Fleming Lipscomb.
Marengo Roland Eugene Stone. Lee; Adie
Goggans Walker, Coosa; Thomas McCot-
try Williams, Lowndes; Evans Beauchamp
Wood, Pike, and E. M. Duncan, Jefferson.
The members of the senior class who
have satisfactorily completed their
. courses and who will receive diplomas
Wednesday morning are:
Senior Class.
Robert Gayle Adams, Clarke; Henry
Winfield Allen, Marengo; Nicholas Law
renee Baker, Lee; Carl Edward Barker,
Dallas Byron Breckenridge Barnes,
Greene; Stephen Radford Baston, JEFF
ferson; Clarence Medley Bland, Dallas;
Ralph Upshaw Blasingame, Lee; Leon
Gilmore Brooks, Escambia; Nathan
Booker Buchanan, Madison; David King
Caldwell, Jackson; Eugene Vernon Camp,
Georgia.; Charles Leonard Chambers
Jefferson; Charles Clifford Chatley def
ferson; Augustus Kirby Clements. Lee;
Littleberry Calhoun Collins Hale; Geo.
McCown Cook, Lee; Clarence Winston
Cooper, Calhoun Julian Jarnigan Culver,
Lee; j. d. Curtis, Jr, Escambia; Ed
ward Semitic DeShazo, Shelby; Samuel
Celner Dreyfus. Montgomery; Thomas
Bailey Dryer, Jefferson; George Luther
Dunn, Henry; Karl Savary Elebash, Dali
las Macon Carmichael Ellis, Dallas;
Samuel Arlington Elsberry, Mont
gomery; William Edward Elsberry Jr.
Elmore; Jacie Lee Esslinger, Madison;
Ralph Brunson Everett Georgia; Chas
Edward Fort Jr., Dallas; Carl Gilbert
Gaum, jefferson; Carleton Bartlett Glib
son, Jr., Georgia; Dewitt Gibson, Jeffer-
son; Stuart Leland Greene, Mobile; Roe
Preston Greer, Perry; Finley McCorvey
Crissett Escambia; Newton McCraw
fBhralson Dallas; Andrew Johnston Haw-
ms jefferson; Robert Edward Hod-
tte Macon; Allen Glover Holder,
Clarke; Howard Holleman,
| brgia William Robert Holley,
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