New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-23
C. c. N. Y. GIVES DEGREES
Class of Numbers 109 Grad.
yates. with Seven Honor Men.
PRESIDENT FINLEY CRIPPLED
On Clutches as Result of a Slide
to Second Base in Base
ball Game.

oro hundred and nine young mon were
1 uoa,,.,od from the College Of the City Of
~ work Yesterday at its sixty-6rst an
40, commencement. The exercises took
,,,oo In tbc great hnll Of the college.
President John II. Finley was unable to
march at ,he head of the procession yes
terdav Earlier in the week he had in
inred his foot IN game Of baseball.
therefore he Iimped on pair Of crutches.
- NAG hit I'm the leg by the ball while
sliding "a second" said Dr. Finley This
abscose NAV have followed that. At any
rate. | made second.
r,vcn before 10 o'clock. the hall was filled
, with students and their friends. As the
clock recorded TO- the march began. with
five hundred IN line. The members OF the
faculty presented brilliant appearance
in their muticolored hoods. From the
roof OF the hall were suspended the flags
If the foreign universities by which the
faculty hoods were bestowed The faculty
took their position beneath Blashiield :
rainting commencement. while the
graduates occupied the front of the hall.
The Rev. John Campbell spoke the invo-
cation
Ira Remsen. president Of Johns Hopkins
University. who was a student At city
College hfty-fve years ago. delivered the
address to the graduates. He was mem
Der of the class Of 'e5.
President Remsen recalled the old stu
dent DAYS and compared them with those
Of modern times He advised the students
not to be pessi.nistic, but to look upon the
world cheerfully. To he reformers Wheh
necessary and 10 expect their future work
t. furnish them with more happiness OF
life THAI even the days of their youth.
President Eomsen said he only recog-
rized three members Of the faculty wh"
were teachers in his student days. lie re-
ferred 10 Fitzgerald Tisdall. professor Of
Greek: Adolph Werner. professor OF Ger
man. and Charles c. Heberman, professor
Of Latin.
.'rhcv may not he 20 glad 10 see me
inter tno,, years as am To see them,
nv old friends and teachers" said Or.
Rcmsen He then said that the changes
in college NE since he was student were
very great.
The commencement addresses are get
ting shorter" no continued and so. too
IS the sermon Of to-day: that is funda
mental and important fact. and when the
sermon ccts shorter tho people will listen
more and who knows but il may then
carry better lesson? So YOU will he
consoed to-day with the statement that
my address will probably he the last oil
the long variety: yes, II may be the last
If that kind YOU may ever hear.
After the last of the speeches had been
delivered The degrees for 1871 were con-
fcrred Sixty-two sheepskins were given
10 new bachelors OF arts. and forty-four
were claimed nv the bachelors Of science
Among the bachelors Of arts were four
honor men. while the bachelors Of science
boasted two honor men and one highest
ionor student
Prize awards were made AS follows
Pell medals. Morris Hirsch and Monroe
\. Never. for highest honors in studies
| for the wear: Cromwell medals, Monroe
Never. for proficiency in history WARD
medals Israel Katz. chemistry Israel )
! E<ligler. natural history: Julius Drachsler
moral philosophy; Thomas @. Schwartz
rcIiticaI science: Nahum r. Shoobs. Eng
Msh: Benjamin Elwyn. Greek Joseph Or
liansky. Latin; Louis }. Muterperl
! French. julius Drachsler. German; Julius
Perkman. Spanish. Cecil b. Dyer. compo
sition: Morton Gottschall, Harry Schieiier
astronomy. Jacob Schapiro, history
George y Edwards, history equal merH'
Solomon Buxbaum. descriptive geometry
BENJAMIN Schwartz botany; Charles u
Lehman. algebra and geometry; Thoma
r. Cledein. honorable mention ana Jess
Perlman. public speaking.