Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-09
GRADUATE FROM TRINITY
DIPLOMAS DISTRIBUTED By
CARDINAL GIBBONS.
Judge Bowling of New York Speaks
Eloquently on the Mission
of Women.

The lecture hall of Trinity College was
filled this morning with the students and
their friends at the fifth annual exercises
of the college for the comforting of de-
grees. The platform was decorated with
tall. graceful palms. while in the back
ground the class year ''19nS'' in red shone
from a setting of blue. On the platform
sat his eminence the cardinal. surrounded
by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Garrigan. former
rector of the Catholic University; the Ri.
Rev. Bishop d. ]. O'COnnell. the present
rector: Very Rev DR.. f. n. Pace. Very
Rev. T. A. Shahan, Very Rev. Charles A.
Grammar. the Rev. Fathers Dougherty.
Kerby. Aiken. Turner. McGarry. Judge
Victor j. Bowling. the orator of the day;
Gen. Vincent of the advisory board, Mrs.
Thomas II. Carter and others.
The ushers were a dozen students of
the Catholic University. clad in black
gowns. with hoods trimmed with the pa
pal coOrS. The graduates were rObed in
black gowns and wore mortar-board caps
The proceedings were opened with the
recitation of the ''Pater NOster'' by Car
dinal Gibbons and responses by the au-
dience.
Very Rev. Edward A. Pace. Ph.D. re-
viewed the history of the college and its
| graduates. referred to the requests and
donations which had been made to it, and
announced the early erection of the Mort n
Hall. In referring to the young ladies
| who had graduated he mentioned the
| considerable number that had married
| after graduation and the girls greeted the
| remark with storm of applause.
Very Rev. Thomas j. Shahan, DID,,
presented the candidates for the several
| degrees and explained the requirements
of the college in that respect. after which
each graduate. as her name was called,
approached, knelt before the cardinal.
kissed his ring. received her diploma and
Immediately transferred the tassel Of her
| cap from the left to the right side in
| token of her added dignity.
Woman's Mission.
| The address Of the day was delivered by
Judge Victor J. Bowling of New York
city. 1t aimed to show the glory of true
| womanhood and womans mission in the
| world, which, he declared. was to do any
thing we'll that did not lower her Chris.
| tian womanhood. While he Landed hel
| virtues in the home. he contended for a
broader mission in her influence upon her
! environment, her day and her genera.
ton.
Degrees Conferred.
When he had closed the cardinal arose,
| walked over to the orator and taking him
by the hand heartily congratulated him
whereupon the large gathering broke out
in long-continued applause.
The exercises closed with a blessing by
the cardinal. Degrees were conferred as
follows:
Master OF arts-Helen Catharine McNa
mara. Binghampton, n. Y. CA. e. Cornell
University. 1900. Subjects Sociology and
history. Thesis: The Labor Press.
Bachelor of arts-Anna Patricia Butler
Cambridge. Mass: Margaret Mary Gala
CHAN, Haverhill, Mass; Lillian Callahan
Albany n. Y: Mary Mildred Connolly
Bradford. Pa: Ora Maria Dansby. For
Smith, Ark. Beatrice Antoinette Gava
gan, Los Angeles. CAL. Louise Catharine
Holohan, Waterbury, Conn; Agatha Ros:
Kelly Penn Yam, n. Y; Janet Louise Nc
Quad Holyoke. Mass: Marie Regina
Madden. Brooklyn. n. Y; Elizabeth We
mis- Merkle. Chillicothe Ohio: Marie Lou
Use simon. Philadelphia, Pa; Helen Teres;
Vlymen. Hampstead. n. Y.
Bachelor Of letters-Mary KATHERINE
Murray. Troy, n. Y.