The Washington herald., 1911-05-11

After ffty-four years of service al
president of Gallaudet College and
Kendall School of the Columbia Insti.
tuition for the Deaf, DR.. Edward Miner
Gallaudet yesterday afternoon retired
from the Office, being succeeded by Dr.
Percival Hail.
The occasion was the annual presenta.
ton day of the institution. Two testi-
monials of esteem from the board OF
directors and the alumni were pre-
sented 10 DR.. Gallaudet. The sorrow OF
the school and the officers were ex-
pressed in the presentation speeches.
John W. Foster, who is the Oldest mem.
Der of the board of director s in point OF
service, presented a silver loving cup ''as
poor remembrance of his services while
president Of the college
Gift of the Alumni.
A hand-illumined book, given in re.
membrance of his great work as the
founder and president of the Columbia In
stitution for the Deaf, Dumb. and Blind,
was the Gift of the Alumni Association
The book contains the signatures of near.
ly all of the alumni, which were obtained
from the living graduates, some. of whom
have removed their homes to the rcmotes,
parts of the country.
DR.. Robert Patterson, principal OF the
Ohio School for the Deaf, and a gradu.
ate of Gallaudet, presented the book. and
spoke of the gratitude Of the alumni
for the invaluable instruction given them
by DR.. Gallaudet
Gallaudet Chapel was the scene Of the
graduation exercises. Invocation by Rev
Herbert Draper GaIlaudet associate pas
tor of Central Congregational Church
of Boston, and a son of DR.. Gala udet
preceded The presentation of the candi-
dates for degrees.
DR.. Edward A. Fay, vice president Of
the school. introduced the members OF
the 1911 class, as follows:
Graduates of 1911.
For degree of master of arts-Mary
Bess Michaels B. A. Vassar College,
and Madison jefferson Lee. B. A. NJ. A,
Central University of Kentucky.
For degree of bachelor of arts
George Hubbard Bailey, Ethel Fannie
Eaton, Leslie Andrew Elmer, Homer
Earl Grace. John Tom Hover, Henry
Stevens Morris, jr.. Goldie Annie New
man. Edwin Winfred Mes, Emma Lo-
vina Pike. and Elmer Dovico Talbert.
For degree of bachelor of science
William Baxter Mosey.
For degree of bachelor of philosophy
Bird Lee Craven and Iva Merritt Rob-
inson
For degree of bachelor of letters
Mary Matilda Fossan.
Normal students-Maude H. Peet,
Yonkers High School, n. Y; Elwood
a. Stevenson. Brooklyn High School, n.
Y, and Carl P. Bowles, Colgate Univer-
sity.
Miss Michaels, Miss Peet, Mr. Lee,
Mr.. Stevenson and Mr.. Bowles are pre-
pairing to become teachers.
Reads Class Oratory.
DR.. Charles R. Ely. a member Of the
faculty. read the class Grafton of Leslie
Andrew Elmer. of California. entitled
The commercial utilization of waste
products" and Prof. Herbert E. Day.
Of the faculty. read a paper written by
George Hubbard Bailey. of North Car
olina, on Scientific farming in the
South Edwin Winfred Mes, of New
York, read his own paper on Me
chanical dentistry"
DR. Percival Hall was formally installed
as president of the college, after the pre-
sentation exercises. In his speech of ac-
ceptance, DR.. Hall spoke of the work
done by DR.. Gallaudet in organizing the
college, and of the great responsibility
of trying to fill the place left vacant by
his resignation.
DR.. Robert Patterson spoke on behalf
of the alumni, eulogizing the work of
DR.. Gallaudet, and thanking him for max
ing il possible for hundreds of stuGeIts
to graduate and go forth from these
walls prepared, where otherwise they
might be held down by the bonds of in
feriority and limitation"
DR. Gallaudet, in his parting address
to the students, dwelt on the success of
the university in selecting a capable
president to fill his place.
Going to Connecticut.
DR.. Gallaudet will retain his place as
member of the board of directors and
will have the title of president emeritus.
but within the next two months, he says.
he will move to his boyhood home, in
Conn.
DR.. Hall was born in Washington in
1872, and is a son of the late Prof. Asaph
Hall, for years a professor in mathe-
mates in the navy. Or. Hall attended
the normal school at Gallaudet in 1923.
He taught for two years in the New York
Institution for the Deaf, but returned TO
Gallaudet, and has since been a member of
the faculty. where he has been professor
Of applied mathematics and pedagogy.
He also has been In charge of the nor
NAL school. Last September he was
elected president of the faculties OF Gal
laudet College and Kendall School. after
Dr.. Gallaudet had announced his intend