The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-14
GLASS DAY EXERCISES
ATRICHMONDCOLLEGE
President Boatwright Announces List Of Grad
yates From Law SchooI-Trustees Will Con-
slider Plans for Buildings at w esthampton.

Half In lest, half in seriousness. the
Eowned seniors OF kic ~ ns,d,, College s, e
chapel, making their class night ex-
ercises altogether pleasant. some
might have taken 1t almost for
votes for women meeting, for two
Miss Coffee. class vlce-president, and
Miss Virginia Ware, whose history OF
tho academic class spoken with spirit,
was the hit Of the occasion. And many
of the women students in the audience
We're rejoicing that two of the hand
ful of prizes offered for scholarship
had been won by young women. Miss
Mary Wortley Montague having been
Richmond having carried off the
Crump prize in mathematics.
q, BY oass and M hfaeI Frances
Folsome Coffee. ice-presdent, the
seniors. stately in cap and gown. filed
into the chapel. warmly greeted by
the audience They sat IN semi
circle on the rostrum.
After Joseph r. Gulich had offered
a most appropriate prayer. Class Pres
ident Ackiss delivered the welcoming
address He spoke OF the -four arduous,
though pleasant years spent at the col
! leEe, and pointed out the many oppor-
| tunities for the graduating class espe-
| cially those awaiting them in the South.
Academic Grafton.
Then came the academic GRAFTON.
| John Glenn Barbe. OF Washington
| county. quoted Plato. and proved that
mind is superior to matter. taking as
| his theme THE Power of the Mind.
lie pleaded for independent thought
| and for academic liberty. Speaking
! world, he declared that the graduate
| must find that he owes the world
something. knocks. hard knocks, viii
do him good II he Is the right Kind
! of metal" he declared
Those who had been waiting to hear
| a real old-time college Grafton were
| fully satisfied when George Frederick
Cook of Smyth county. unquestion-
ably reached the North Pole OF oratory
in the law grafton. In his oratorical
| sheaf were all the stars, scng-birds,
flags. flowers, fair maidens and great
| men.
Virginia aristocracy" who opposed JEFF
ferson, Mr. Cook delivered Il COM
mendable address on the career OF
Jefferson as a lawyer and as a tribune G
/ of the common people. JEFFERSON is
! immortal" he said, and he is as
/ living monument, glttering in the
!! heavens" He paid tribute TO MIR. JET
fersons legal services to the liner
/ lean people IN causing the abolition OF
/ the right of primogenlture In vi q MD,
! and IN discovering that Chrisuanity
| was not part of the common law
Il of England Follow In Jefferson
footsteps. MY fellow virginians." he
added, land you Will honor your STATE
History of Class.
Il Miss Virginia Irving Ware, OF Rlch-
4 mond, read the history of the asa
i demic class taking up each menaper'
and descanting upon his or her virtues.
| foibles and follies Her humor was
4 kindly. and it ran like a threao
4 through all her narrative. I nat t sne
rang true was shown by the lnsis Yen
applause of the audience, most 81 u
of the college community MISS ware
4 acquitted herself well. and many re-
Il membered her success as salutatoriai
at the High school TWO years fnrI,, a nre ~ .
4 The law history was brief, owing
to the fact that a number OF T., the near Al
, lawyers fell by the wayside" recently
did it we'll He followed the plan q
characterizing each member, used by
Miss Ware. and was happy, as Wei az
witty, in what he had TO say ~ s.t,,
After the class president had SAID
few words of dismissal, the audience
and the seniors mingled. and the mu,
+ steal program was EXTENDED Tor SOM
time.
President Boatwrieht last night an
nounced the law graduates. who ar.
5 T.. NJ N: Basile, Hanover J.. p, BOND {,
T &C. f hipyadom5 T. ReehHm s5aed't 2h'S
8 Long. Rappahannock; J. Is. McCotter
" Chesterfleld: w. w. fierce. Nor.n Sar
j DINA: G. G. Schweickert, philippine
: Islands: r. B. Wilson. Richmond.
The prizes in the law department
consisting Of sets of law books. Offered
by well-known firm of law pub.
) fishers. were won by l.. M. N. Basile
of Hanover, in the senior class. ard by
: Allen Carter Jones. OF Newport News
! in the junior class.
!. The Tanner medal for proficiency il
Greek was won by p p. Hubbell OF
Charlotte county.
: trustees of the college will meet, ane
. a full attendance is expected. Amont
those who have already come for TIN
= meeting are: George B. Taylor. o
i tIollins, who is the guest of Presiden
8 Boatwright: Hunt Hargrave. OF Chat
ham; Henry l.. Schmelz, of Hampton