The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-02
COMMENCEMENT At
UNIVERSITY CLOSES
DR.. Elmer E. Brown Delivers
Commencement Grafton
DEGREES CONFERRED
Exerc;se. Are Brought TO Fitting
Close With the Presentation of
Honors and Prizes TO Over
Hundred Students

University June Especial THE
seventy ninth annual commencement OF
the University of Alabama was brought
To a close today at noon with the pre-
scntation of degrees. honors and prizes
A large class of over 100 members
from various portions of the state
were graduated and sent into the
world to meet the battles of life with
four or more years of excellent train
ing in the ways of usefulness.
The year closed has been highly
ties, while the large class can be
counted among the best the institu-
ton has ever produced.
A large audience was present to
hear the commencement ration de-
livered by Hon. Elmer Ellsworth
Brown, Phi. D., United States commits
sioner of education, and to witness the
comforting Of degree by DR.. Aber-
crombie.
A programme of beautiful music was
rendered and interest in the proceed
ings never ceased until the benedic-
ton was pronounced and the last
strains of Aud Lang Syne" died away
sending the class of 1910 into history.
What Shall We Do With Our Adj
vantages?" was the subject upon
which DIR. Elmer Brown delivered the
commencement address at the uni
versity this morning. His speech was
in a personal vein and dealt with the
problems of individual life and the re-
lation between the university and The
he said, makes the man stronger in
his fight against the handieaps of life.
DIR. Brown put aside academic ira
aition and plunged at once into the dis
nussion of matters relatives TO the core
Of the problem of Individual success in
life. 1T is the normal course of human
existence, he said that every life
should be hemmed in by disabilities and
that every one should be peculiar as re-
garding these weaknesses defects, disad-
foes without and foes within.
Such indeed is the common lot of man."
DR.. Brown went at length into the man.
Ter in which man could overcome disad-
and reach ultimate success. In
speaking of mans relation to the govern
INITIAL AitiN ii0 sdiu mat Liz Stdle DeeQS
for the health of its life the service of
men who are faithful to their homes and
to all their more private affairs and to all
those manifold claims which religion
and social intercourse lay upon
every citizen.
Degrees Conferred
The board of trustees today conferred
the degree of LII. D. on DR.. L. L. Hill
of Montgomery DR.. W. c. GorSas of the
United States army and Peter j. Hamil-
ton of Mobile.
The new academic building now being
erected was named Morgan hall, in honor
of the late senator.
Following is a list of degrees, honors
and prizes awarded
Masters of Arts--Annie Evelyn Ashley
A. B.. 1905, Tuscaloosa; Samuel Francis
Clabaugh, A. B., 1909, Birmingham; Fred
erick Malcolm Fleming, A. B., 1909
Brundidge.
Masters of Science-Clement c. Coun-
tess, B. s., 1909. Duncanville; Fernando
D. Graves. B. s.. 1909. Tuscaloosa
Civil Engineering-Paul Parmelee Brink
man. B. S. in engineering. 1909, Mobile:
Frank Wharton Gaines. Jr.. B. s. in
engineering, 1909 Selma Edgar Daniel
Greene, B. S. In engineering, 1869, Wa
verify; Brice Sidney Jones, B. S. in engi-
neering. 1909, Tuscaloosa.
Bachelors of Arts-Marshall Lindsay
Arant. Notasulga, Arthur Hammond
Bowers, Valhermosa Springs; Robert
Lawson Burlxes, Stroud; Annie Harding
Castleman, Birmingham; Mary Katherine
Chiles. Ensley; Walter William Gay.
Lineville: Inez Elizabeth Looney Athens
Hattie Earle Montgomery. Birmingham
Claude ellis O'Neal, Andalusa: Thomas
Waverly Palmer Jr., Montevallo; Edgar
Harden 'Phlfer, Tuscaloosa; William
Whatley Pierson, River Falls; Clara Belle
Sem, Birmingham; Guy Marion Thomp-
son, Birmingham; Edwin Lamar Williams
son, Lower Peach Tree.
Bachelors of Science-Harriet Mary Al.
Ian. Tuscaloosa; Herschel Whitfield
Arant, Notasulga; Wilkes Coleman
Banks, Eutaw; Augustus Lawrence Bar
ker, Gadsden; Ralph Sheldon Barrow,
Birmingham; Robert Park Dawson, Troy;
Bryant Benjamin Edwards Union Springs
Brook Cleveland Garrett. Grove Hill;
Britton Bizzelle Gay, Lineville; Clarence
Johnston Going, Birmingham; Owen Gar
side Gresham, Prattville; William Sims
Griffin, Duke; Albert Charles Jackson,
Notasulga; James Love Land, Cottonton
Carsner Jefferson Lewis, Blocton; Necy
Lewis, Jr., James; Thomas Alexander
Murphree, Cleveland; Joseph Echols Moo
jim, Gadsden: Milton Lee Orr, Union
Springs; William Blaine Parsons, Adger;
wellington Cleveland Parsons, Adger:
Merrill Edward Pratt, Prattville; Wright
Belt Slaughter, Tensaw; William Mica
jah Spencer, Gallon: Henry Addison
TeeI, Goodwater; Marie Helen Tuttle
Birmingham: Miles Wesley Oscar Vance,
Vinemont; Edward White Wadsworth
Wadsworth; Daniel webster Waite, Ea-
sonville. William Everett Wilkinson
Prattville.
Bachelors of Science in Engineering
Braxton Bragg Conner, Jr., Birmingham;
William Cory Hale, Palmer Golden Sned-
ecor, Tuscaloosa.
Bachelors of Laws-Leon Gilmore
Brooks, Brewton Edward Clarke Burke,
Montgomery: James G. Davis. Birming-
ham; Paine benson, Helison Frank Nc
Gov Dominick, Greensboro: Lewis Her.
bert Etheridge, Bessemer; Charles Har-
ris Eyster. New Decatur; Colby Otis
Glass. Ashland; James Monroe Hoffman
Fayette: Paul Bartholdi Jones, Selma;
Nicholas Constantine Lallas. Monastir
Greece: William Hugh McEniry, BESSIE
mer; Ed Leigh Mcmillan, Brewton
Charles Robert Mathis. Forest City, Ark.
Ernest Welton Norton, Louisville; Cliff
ton Hewitt Penick. Tuscaloosa John Ce-
Gil Persons. Birmingham; Jackson Nc.
Pherson Pratt. Jr, Reform; Carroll
Thomas Prince. Mobile; Sanford Willie
Pruet. Ashland; /Ferne Wood Rainier
Union Springs; /Obie Riddle, Goodwater
william Hammond Robertson, Birming
ham: Benjamin Franklin Smith. Alex
ander CITY; Morgan Estes Snedecor. Tus
caloosa William Polk Spratt. Livingston
Grovers Cleveland Stacy, Birmingham
James Archie Stagner, Ha,eysville
Charles Shirlihg Williams. Birmingham.
Doctors of Medicine-Sidney Davidson
ArmisteaG. Clanton Ray Athey, William
James B1ount. Irby Andrew Black, VIII
liam Martin Blair. James Davidson Boze.
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