Evening times-Republican., 1911-06-14
BIG DAY OF CEMENT
WEEK BRINGS MANY PLEAS.
ANT INCIDENTS.
MATHEMATIcS PRIZE WON
BY YOUNGEST STUDENT
Honorary Degrees Conferred Upon oc-
tave Thanet and Randall Parrish -
Eight Colleges Hold Exercises and
Judge Grosscup, Of Chicago, Delivers
Commencement Address.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Iowa City, June 1.-THE annual
commencement exercises at Iowa Uni
versity were held today, and diplomas
and degrees were granted to almost 400
candidates. The eight colleges held
annual; the law, forty-sixth; medicine,
forty-second; homeopathic medicine,
thirty-fifth: dentistry. twenty-ninth;
pharmacy, twenty fifth: graduate,
twelfth: and applied science, sixth.
The advanced degrees We're confer
red by D. D. Murphy, Of Elsader, repre-
senting the Iowa state board of educa-
ton. Justice Emln McClain, Of the
Iowa supreme court. administered the
oaths to the law graduates.
The alumni presented the university
an oil painting of the late DR.. George
Thatcher, a pioneer president of the
university. Prof. l.. F. Parker. D. D., Of
Grinnell. formerly Of Iowa University.
made the address. DR.. G. E. MacLean,
president Of Iowa, responded.
The annual Phi Beta Kappa address
at Iowa University was delivered Tues
Phi. D., Lit. D., formerly of the s. U. I.
faculty. now director Of the Boston
museum Of fine arts. His theme was
Education for Efficiency"
The Honorary Degrees.
The days exercises opened at 3
o'clock with the procession OF seniors,
alumni. faculty, board Of education,
and guests. following which Judge
Peter Grosscup, OF the United States
circuit court at Chicago, delivered the
annual commencement address. 1.-THE
text of Judge Grosscups address ap-
pears on page two.]
Honorary degrees granted this morn
ing were as follows:
Doctor Of literature-Miss Alice
French, OCTAVE Thanet). Of Daven-
port: Randall Parrish. Kewanee. ILL.,.
novelist and former president Of the
Iowa Alumni Association.
Doctor Of laws-William H. Norton,
professor OF geology Cornell College,
Mt. Vernon.
Student Prize Awards.
Prizes were awarded university stu
dents today as follows:
Max Mayer, cup, combined scholar
ship and athletic remacy-Floyd
Thomas, Iowa City.
Mathematics, $50 - Charles irish
Preston, Davenport, and Lydia Osier,
Graettinger, tied.
Colonel Frank o. Lowden prizes,
totaling SITS, divided as follows-Bot-
any, Beulah Aiken, Carroll. first: Tilla
Tieden, Elkader, second. Geology,
Francis NJ. Van Tuyl, Denmark. Greek.
Irene Farrell, Charlton, and Jasper r.
Boyd, Lacey, tied.
Egan prize debate. $5o--Fred r.
Brittle, Williamsburg.
Colonial Danes prizes, s125-Thomas
Teakle, Storm Lake, first; Ruth Eli
son, Iowa City, second.
D. A. r. prize-Wilma Nichols, West
Liberty.
Wade prize, debate. $50 = Paul
Abrams, Iowa City; William Q. Riley.
McGregor; Edward A. Feeney. Iowa
City, tied.
Lefevre memorial prize in oratory-
Henry c. Mundt, Humboldt.
Old English prize-Henning Larson.
Decorah.
Cox prize in engineering, s10o-Phil-
lip K. Devoe, Creston.
Interneship - w. e. Cody, Sioux
City; Merle Call, Iowa City; i. L.
Secoy, Buffalo.
The Lowden mathematics prize was
won by the youngest student in the
university-Charles l. Preston aged 16,
Of Davenport.