Evening journal., 1911-05-26
COMMENCEMENT
AT DELAWARE
40 Students viii Receive
Diplomas at Exercises on
Wednesday June 2l
CLASSES UP FOR N.
FINAL EXAMINATIONS


for his final examinations and the
summer vacation. The faculty has
completed its program for commence
ment week and even the stately trees
on the campus have taken on an as
pect of an anticipation. of gala three
days.
The members Of the graduating
class have but today of routine col
lege work. next week being their ex-
animation week and the two follow
ing the annual senior vacation.
Thursday afternoon marked the close
of their athletic career save the an
nual interclass meet.
The remaining three undergraduate
classes have their examination week
from June - to 16, inclusive. Com
mencement week begins on Sunday,
June IS with the annual sermon, be-
fore the Young Mems Christian As
sociation of Delaware College I'm the
oratory. This year the Rev. H. L.
Bursten will deliver the sermon at
II o'clock.
AT 8 o'clock Bishop w F. Anderson
Of Chattanooga, Tenn, will deliver the
Baccalaureate sermon in the audi
torium of the main building.
Monday, June 10, will be Farmers
Day at the College Farm and the ag-
ricultural program has not as yet
been completed.
The class day exercises will be held
on the same day at o'clock. Fred l..
Maier. 10. Of Wilmington, will be the
''auctioneer" on this occasion He
will introduce all the seniors to the
audience and present each with a
suitable gift At o'clock the
Athenean Literary Society will hold
its anniversary and annual reunion.
The Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fra
ternity will also hold its reunion on
Monday and the Rev. A. r. Craig Of
Grace NJ. f. Church, Wilmington,
will be the speaker.
The Board of Trustees will hold its
final meeting of this collegiate year
on Tuesday morning, June 90, at IL
O'Clock
Inter Glass Field Meet.
The inter class track and field
meet will be held in the afternoon Of
the same day on the new college
track Should the Glass of 1912 carry
off the honors this year, the loving
cup goes to them for good. At s
o'clock Tuesday night the Delta Phi
Literary Society will hold its ami
versary.
At o'clock on Monday and Tues
day the cadet corps will fall in and
nav It's respects to "Old Glory" while
the flag is lowered Evening parade
was a great feature of last years
commencement program.
On Wednesday, June 21. the COM
nencement exercises will be held in
the college oratory at 1890 o'clock,
Seniors McChesney, Shakespeare,
Postles and Garrison will be the stu
dent speakers on this occasion. The
main speakers name has not as yet
been announced.
The Alumni Association will hold its
annual reunion and banquet at 1S0
O'Clock that day. Professor c. A.
Short, Professor E. L. Smith, DR.. W.
o. Sypherd. James H. Hossinger and
Lewis P. Bush Of Wilmington, form
a committee to arrange a suitable
program for the reunion.
At $50 O'Clock the battalion will
give an exhibition drill and the CON-
panies will compete for the Roberts
adal. Then the cadets will bid
farewell to the retiring officers and
receive the newly commissioned men
At 430 o'clock the Alumni base
ball team will try conclusions with
the varsity nine. Coach McAvoy and
William Edgar, 10, are making spec
ial efforts to make this game a bis
one and it is hoped that the old Del
aware men will get together a fast
bunch.
The farewell hop given to the
Seniors by the Juniors in the new
gymnasium at $50 o'clock, will con
clude the year 1901 at Delaware
College.
The Graduates.
The following men compose the
graduating class:
James Rankin Davis. Arthur Bart
lett Eastman. Lawrence Altemu'
Hidgson. Crawford C. Kidd. William
Joseph Leonard, Robert Hodgsor
Morrow. Robert Francis Raughley
Willard Perkins Shakespeare ant
Charles Irwin Van Arsdalen, of vii
mington.
Davis Hankns Bell, Levin Irvinl
Handy, Jr.. William Livingstone Kir
by, John VanKasken Postles. Horace
Evans Spruance and Foster Irvine
Walls. of Smyrna.
John Waugh Ennis and John Hougl
Fisher, of Dover; Charles Jame
Schaefer. Jr. and PERTH Quainer, q
leldWdle AlINs hoDtII Gtul &c Ouhh
of Camden; Joseph Horace Eaton, o
Port Penn; Harry Slaughter Garri
son. Of Cheswold; Frank Gilbert, o
Seaford. Liston Alexander Houston
Of Clayton; Herbert Stanley Leden
ham. Of Bridgevile; Joseph Lafetr'
Marshall, of Lewes; William Har
Scott, Of Townsend; Clarence Edwar,
Taylor. of Harrington: Roland Wal
isce Taylor, OF Kenton, and Bayar
Alrichs Vandegrift, of Macdonough.
Ralph Gray Davis. Dudley Gass
away Frazer. Ralph Edward Garret
and Charles Thomas McChesney, o
Elkton Md; Winfield Washington
Hubbard. of fredericksburg, Nd; Pey
ton Boman Patterson, of Blythedale
Nd. and John Stump. Jr., of Perry
Vile
Charles Harrington Heisler an
Carl Richard Lind. Of Philadelphia
and John Savers Hagner, Of Atlanti
City, n J.
During the commencement exer
cises the following prizes will b
awarded
Bishop Coleman Memorial prize
for member of graduating class hay
ing the best standing: Alumni prizes
for two best debaters and the bes
orator in contests; Bush literar
prizes, for first and second best III
erary essays by undergraduates