The San Francisco call., 1910-05-19
AFTER 32 YEARS
IS GIVEN Degree
Student of rs Is Graduated in
1910 From University of
California
Charles Dana Burrage Forgiven
for Franks He and Class
mates Played

After a delay of 80 years, Charles
Dana Burrage, a wealthy attorney OF
Boston, was graduated yesterday from
the University of California with the
degree of bachelor of arts The case
is one of the most celebrated in the
annals of the college and from year to
year at each commencement the story
has been told how Charlie Burrage was
denied a diploma because of the prac-
teal jokes he was wont to play upon
the professor of French.
But his fellows of the class of '7S,
with which he was affiliated, have Ia
bored necessarily in his behalf And
rage, the father of boys at Harvard,
was given his degree yesterday with
lads and lassies less than half his age.
The sheepskin awarded Burrage was
dated 1878, when he would have re-
celved it had not a snake, an owl and a
pair of lizards upset the serenity of
Professor Pioda|s class in French
Unable to fasten the guilt. the pro-
fessor resolved to make an example.
He chose Burrage. He refused to pass
the student
HONOR STUDENTS
The honor students as announced at
the university yesterday are as follows:
Agricuture-Alfred August BIowski Frank Lee
Rogers Ralph Hawley Taylor
Anatomy-Oswald Hope Robertson.
ACCOMMODATIONS James Eddy
Chemistry-Albert Scott Crossfieid
civil Engineerng-Paul Bailey. Charles Mich
olas Bley. Adolphus James Eddy Frank Mason
Roscoe boI
Whtton.
Economics = Roy whiteford Blair. Walter
Atheling English, Jyotish Chandra Das William
Frederick Jacobs. Allan Langdon Leonard.
EnSlsh-Sara Canterbury Ashby.
Freneh-Belle Clarke. Grace Cooper Weymouth.
Geology-Elmer Fred Davis
Geography Marie. Sabelman.
German-Eber Glenn Browne Elsa Bertha
Dietrich Lits Lauxen. Minnie Marie Rippe
Greek--Clinto c. Conrad, Dorothy Hart, Mary
Ada Pence.
History = Helen Msgdslene venable, Grace
kretsinger. Bessie Mcdowell
Irrigation-Esrl Howard Markwart. Charles
Alley Reed, Austin Willard Spcrry.
Jurisprudence James Arthur Douglas Brook
man, John Frederick Dorgeioh, Frederick WI
liam Mcconnell, Stuart O'Melveny, Alan Crocker
Van Fleet
Latin-Belle Clarke Irene Augusta Coffin,
Clinton c. Conrad. Mabel Louise Frisbie Min
ME Elizabeth Metz. Mary Ada Pence
Msthematics-Bertha Maud Fitzell, William
Leslie. Harriet Ann Welch.
Mechanics-James Milne Barry, William Con
stantine Bell Clinton c. Conrad.
Charlton
bod. Walter Irwin Garmes..
Political Science-AIildred Purnell Martin
Spanish-Ethel May Grandley, Golde Capitola
Zoology Oswald Hope Robertson Harry
Caesar Solomon.
MILITARY PROMOTIONS
The military commissions were
awarded as follows:
Csolonel-Stuart o'MeIveny
Lieutenant co1onel-James Will Stewart.
Naturalization Mcneil Staples, William Les
lie and Adolphus James Eddy.
Captains-Arnold Randolph Weber. Frank Ma
son Harris. Alfred Chandler North, Donald
Johnson. Frank Isaac Dosne. Vernon Russell
Churchill William David Mainland Carl An
Eliason Grant. Samuel Hamilton Day. Walter
Ivan Heehtman, Oliver Woodbridge Pausch
First lieutenants- Harold Alonzo Savage, Ralph
Sion Twogood. George Henry Middlemiss. George
Armsted Goatley, George Robert Livingston,
George Casey White. Herbert Stanley Shuey
Ernest Samuel Alderman Lindley Dodge Gil
bert, Chester Wayne Brown, William Frederick
Jacobs
Second lieutenant Chester Stanley.
SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
Graduate scholarship and fellowship
awards for the ensuing year include
The LeConte memorial fellowships, founded
by the alumnia association in memory of Profs.
John and Joseph LeConte-Reginald Ban.
croft Cooke, A B., 1909, graduate student in
philosophy.
University fellowships established BY the
regents Of the university-Annia Dale Biddle,
Hanford; Lawrence Palmer Briggs, Chicago;
Eber Glenn Browne. Mazomanis, Wisconsin;
Harold Child Bryant, Pasadena; Laurence
Clark, Pomona; John Alden Mason: Philadel-
pba; Louis W. Rapeer. Minneapolis; George
Francis Richardson, Nugent. Ia: Wilfred
Charles Twain, Hollywood; Charles Abel whit
ton, Oakland.
The Flood fellowships in economics, founded
by Miss Jennie L. Flood-William Charles Fank-
hauser. Berkeley; Arthur Robinson Williams.
New Haven.
The Bonnheim research fellowship in English
founded by Albert Bonnhem-William Wetting-
ham Lyman Jr.. st. Helena.
The James NJ. Goewey scholarship. founded
by the family of the late James NJ. Goewey-
Oscar Leo Brauer. MillYille.
The Frank NJ. Pixley scholarship. founded by
Mrs; Amelia v, r. Pixley-James Arthur Doug
las Brookman. Los Angeles.
The Sheffield 7Sanborn scholarships in the
college OF medicine-Samuel Ellsworth Bailey.
Redding; Frederick Folger Thomas Jr., Berkeley
Eric Goodwin Scudder, Oakland.
The gifts announced were $1,50C
from an unnamed source for the library
and 1925 for scholarship from a for
mer beneficiary of one of the state
scholarships.