The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-16
MORRISTOWN SCHOOL AWARDS

Certificates of Graduation and stand-
ing Prizes to the Honor Pupils.
DR.. William a. Hallock, Dean Of the
Department of Pure Science in Column
bia University, delivered the address
at the Prize Day exercises of the Nor
ristown School, comparing with telling
effect the prizes to be bestowed with
those of real life to come later on. He
drew particularly interesting parallels
from the field of science, instancing
the discovery of Becquerel rays through
lucky combination of hard work and
fortunate chance in the form of bad
weather which necesSitated the post
ponement for a few days of the intend
ed experiment, that of placing certain
minerals in the sun and then leaving
them upon Photographic plate to as
certain if there were any radiations
from them. AS there was no sun that
day, Becquerel put the minerals aside
in a drawer, and when they were again
taken up after having been shut up for
a few days, he took the precaution to
develop the plate before trying anew
the experiment., and to his surprise
found that without having been ex-
posed to the sun the minerals had been
radiating, and the discovery of Radio
Activity had been made-the greatest
discovery of modern times, DIR. Hal
lock thinks, as it has done more to in
dictate the true nature of matter than
any previous discovery. Discoveries
are often made through accident, but
the accidents only happen to the pains
taking hard worker; or if they do hap
pen to others, their significance is over
looked. DR.. Hallock said it had been
commonly thought the nineteenth CEN
fury was the century par excellence of
scientific discoveries, but that the first
eight years of the twentieth century
had actually unearthed facts of more
fdr-reaching significance than the
whole OF the previous century.
After the address, the various prizes
were given out, as follows:
i. Wild-Flower Prize, presented by
the Principals George Hale Pull
sifer.
2. Prize for the best article for the
year in the " Morristonian, pre-
sented by Frank Damrosch, Jr.,
and John s. Reed-Henry McHarg
Davenport.
3. French Prize, presented by Mrs.
George W. Allen-Senior, Gustav
Henry Kaemmerling Junior, Jay
Pierrepont Moffat.
4. Scribner Prize in History, present.
ed by Charles Scribner, ESQ. Al
fred Jaretzki, Jr.
5. Scribner Prize for English Themes,
presented by Charles Scribner-
Gustav Henry Kaemmerling.
6. Catlin Prize for Original Poetry,
presented by Mrs. julius Catlin-
William Roger Burlingame.
I. Walter r. Tuderman Prize for the
hest work in Greek Edward Sails
bury Bentley.
Arson Hard Boultou Prizes, from
the proceeds of the Arson Hard
Boulton Trust Fund
s. For the best work in Latin-Jay
~ Pierrepont Moffat.
9. For Highest Rank in Scholarship
Gordon Kaemmerling. Honors-
BILE mention, Wallace Dewitt.
TO- For the best all-round Third-Form-
er-Perry Ervien Moore.
IL. For the best all-round Sixth-Form-
er-Don Morrison Kelley.
Certificates Of graduation were
awarded to Edward Salisbury Bentley,
Gustav Henry Kaemmerling, Gordon
Kaemmerling, Don Morrison Kelley,
Wallace Dewitt.
Perhaps the two most interesting
prizes are the Latin prize, bronze
bowl ornamented in relief and cast
from mold of the one in the Boston
Art Museum, which is considered one.
of the best examples OF this particular
kind of classic art, and the Greek prize,
a chalice, made in the same way. from
a Greek original.
After the exercises those present adj
journed to The Common Room for
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