The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-02
POLYTECHNIC HAS
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Henry: Clyde Mcneil Howard. Au-
tauga; I. A Johnston, Mobile;
Frances Marion Knapp, Lee; Roy Hen
derson Liddell, Wilcox; George Henry
Marsh. Pike; Daniel John Meador, Jr.,
Marengo; Goldie Emily Miller Blount;
John Thomas Moore, Jr Georgia; James
Augustus Morgan, Cleburne; William
Lee Newberry, jefferson; Carl Dozier
Pace, Calhoun; Marion Curtis Farmer,
I-owndes; Edwin Steele Partridge, Mo
bile; aWllace Bruce Paterson, Mont
gomery; Charles Terrell Porter, ITALIA
dega; Orman Nimmons Powell. Georgia;
Walker Reynolds, Calhoun; Obie Riddle,
Coosa: Albert Price Rogers, Marengo;
Herman Herbert Schomburg, Georgia;
Francis Minor Shepard, Mobile; James
Lister Skinner, Lee; Olin Conway Skin
rer, Lee; Thomas Washington Smith,
Fayette; James Gardner Somervilla,
Pickens Paul Clinton Sorsby, Jefferson;
Foster Webb Stanley, Butler; Clarence
Britain Stillman, Jefferson; Penrose Vass
Stout, Montgomery; Grover Cleveland
Walker, Coosa; Jacob Allen Walker,
Tallapoosa; bessie Chlorine Ward, Lee;
Henry Jones Weiss Jr., Jefferson Groom
Datus Whitaker Lee; William Edgar
White, Lee; Daniel Elmer Wilkinson,
Covingston; Ira Edwin Wilks, Crenshaw;
Carlton Adams Wilmore, Indiana: Will
liam BEDDING Winship, Georgia; Sidney
Harvey WinsloS. Morgan; Samuel Wolff,
Montgomery. Charles Williamson Wood
ruff, Jefferson.
Twelve of the graduates will receive
masters degrees and the remainder
bachelors degrees.
Junior Class orators.
The exercises for the day began this
morning at II o'clock with the junior
rrh intend
ed as a test of the speakers ability to
write on a chosen subject and secondly,
to present the students oratorieal abll-
itv. The contest was held in the his
toric old Langdon hall, which was crowd
ed to overlooking. Governor Conner ana
the board of trustees of the school were
present There were seven speakers, as
follows:
Harry Jamison Chatterton. Limestone
county. Agricultural Education in Ala
bama."
Andrew Jackson Roddy, Jefferson
county. 1.-The Man of the Future is the
Engineer
Granville Allen Young, Montgomery
county, 1.-THE Relation of Education to
Universal Peace"
Walter Stanley Childs, Georgia, Our
DUTY as a World Power"
Music.
William Walton Garrett, Jefferson coun-
ty. rs Our Nation Destined to Decline?'
SCHUYLER Harris Richardson, Limestone
county, America the Leader of the Ma
tons"
William Ivy Pittman. Houston county,
powers that Threaten"
All of the speeches were concise and
we're all delivered with much oratori-
cal finish. The winner of the junior
medal will not be declared until tomor-
row night
The services of presentation of an oil
painting of Joel Hamiter of Barbour
county, donor of the Julia A Hamiter
memorial gift, and of the marble tablet
to Julia A. Hamiter, daughter of Joel
Hamiter of Barbour county, Alabama,
who munifcently endowned the chair OF
natural science of the East Alabama
Male college, now the r. P. l., as
monument to her memory" were impress
sive Both the tablet and portrait We're
presented by Col. E. H. Graves of Eu-
faula. grandson of Joel Hamiter. Colonel
Graves made a short speech of presenta-
ton, which was responded to by Presi-
dent Thach in a speech of acceptance.
The portrait, a work of art, was paint
ed by Miss Edna Smith of Birmingham.
It will be hung in the library The tab
let is of pure white marble and will be
placed in the front wall of the main
building of the college.
The programme of the evening was
very attractive one. At o'clock the
A. P. I. band assembled on the campus
and gave an open air concert, the mu-
steal programme continuing until 5
O'Clock when the review of the battalion
by Governor Conner was held. The state
chief executives entire staff was present
at the review.
N,daf Norpe drill