The Washington herald., 1911-06-08
UNIVERSITY GIVES
PRIESTS DIPLOMAS
BrOOkland Institution Has
Its Commencement.
ADDRESS BY MGR. FALCoN1o
Tells Graduates They Will Never
Regret Their First Step In Chosen
Path-Mgr. shahan Delivers Ad-
dress in which History of Uni
versIty Is OutIIned-Graduates

At 10 o'clock yesterday morning friends
and relatives OF the graduating class OF
the Catholic University of America from
nearly every State in the Union crowded
the auditorium of Mcmahon Hall, at
Brookland, to witness the dignifed cele-
bration OF the twenty-second annual COM
mencement exercises of that institution.
With the Most Rev. Diomede Falconio.
the apostolic delegate of his holiness the
Pope, presiding, and half the Catholic
clergy of the District in attendance, the
commencement was the most imposing
one held in years.
Ranking as the largest Catholic educa-
tional institution in this country, the
Brookland school annually sends forth
into the ecclesiastical world an army OF
young priests. Mgr. Falconlo, who
speaks at only important Catholic gath
erings, addressed the graduates at length.
congratulating them on the realization
of the first step in the path Of their en-
deavOr. Telling them they would never
regret the assumption Of priestly robes
rather than the garments Of n layman,
his excellency predicted for them lives Of
high achievement and great contentment
Talks TO the Graduates.
The address to the graduates was i'm
pressively delivered by Mgr. Thomas J.
Shahan, rector of the university. during
whose administration the institution has
known It's most rapid progress.
Mgr. Shahan reviewed the history of
the school. calling attention to the rapid
strides it has made since it's foundation.
and how it has come to take its place
among the few great international Cath
Olic schools Of the world
During the last year" said Mgr.
Shahan, I'VE have increased our faculty
by sixteen instructors. these being the
best Obtainable. Our library. which now
contains 5000 volumes. has been in
creased in the last twelve months by
more than 1900 books, about 800 of these
being gifts of rare volumes of inestimable
value made by supporters of the uni
versity.
Next October one wing of the Gibbons
memorial, now in the course of construc-
ton, will be dedicated. and in another
year the entire building will be COM
pleted, valuable and imposing addition
to what is already one of the finest and
costliest groups Of college buildings,
which any university in the country
boasts"
Mgr. Shahan announced that in the first
week in July a new course would be in
stituted. The summer school will be for
women and twenty special teachers have
been provided as instructors.
The presentation of the candidates for
degrees from each school was made by
the deans of the several schools, who are
the Very Rev. Charles +. Aiken S. r D.,
school of theology; William c. Robinson,
school of law; the Very Rev. Edward A.
Pace, S. T. D., school of philosophy; the
Very Rev. John d. Mcguire. school of
letters, and the Very Rev. John ]. Grif-
fin. school of Science.
As each candidate was announced he
came forward and knelt before Arch
gree he had acquired by his long course
Of study.
Degrees Are Conferred.
The degree OF S. T. B. was conferred
upon Rev. William Anthony Hemmick,
Rev. Francis Henry Kehlenbrink, Rev.
Peter McNally. Rev. Joseph |
Aloysius Nelson, Brother James
Rev. James Francis Palmow- |
ski, Rev. Joseph Michael Sullivan, Rev. |
John Paul Ritchie, Rev. Andrew Alloy !
sius Walls, Brother Celestine Smith, |
Rev. Dominic Joseph Cannon. Rev |
Wendell Phillips Corcoran. Rev. Pat |
rick Francis Cawley. Rev. Edward Pat |
rick Dalton, Rev. Aloysius Charles |
Dineen, Rev. Sigourney Webster Fay. |
Rev. John Joseph Finn, and Rev. Mich |
lel Ambrose GiIlOegly.
The names of those on whom the degree |
IF S. T. L. and the subjects of their COM
nencement dissertations are as follows: |
Rev. Walter Thomas Bazaar, The power |
IF the human reason to know God; crit
cal defense;" Rev. Eugene Paul Burke, |
Some notes on the christology of st.
Paul" Bev. Robert Emmett B. Gardiner,
Pope Leo XIII and ANGLICAN orders;"
Rev. John Francis GeorgeIin, THE au-
hority of the Vulgate according to the |
council of Trent" Rev. Michael Joseph |
&eyes, The doctrine of the church on
requent communion" Rev. Francis
Michael O'Reilly, THE Catholic doctrine
" the atonement: A reply to a Sabatier;;"
Rev. John Michael Ryan, THE social and
teaching of Clement of Alex
Indria;" Rev. John Carter Smyth, Sub
ittution and the doctrine of atonement."
The degree OF ]. G. b. was conferred /
ipon Rev. Michael Calvin, Rev. William l
Rev. Felix Mccarthy, Rev Il
Thomas Ligouri McEntee, Rev. Leo
Agouri McVay, Rev. Thomas Aloysius Il
Seedham, Rev. Thomas Joseph Toolen,
Rev. John Ignatius Barrett, Rev Wal
er Thomas Bazaar, Rev. Andrew Joseph II
Carroll, Rev. Edward Patrick Dalton, Il
Rev. Aloysius Charles Dineen, and Rev Il
Joseph Thomas Finnegan. |!
The degree of ]. d. was conferred upon
'ose Legaspi Vflafor, whose disserta-
ion was The authority and sanctum of
International law" Those on whom the
egree of Phi. d. was conferred, and the
ubjects of their commencement theses,
we're Rev Virgil DAGGER, THE origin,
rimttive meaning, and history of the
)agesh forte;" Rev. Patrick Joseph Nc
,ormick. THE education of the Iaity in
he Middle Ages;'' Rev. Cornelius Ha-
erty, The problem OF evil.''
The degree of Phi. B. was conferred
pom Louis Joseph Bour
Their Dissertations.
The recipients of the degree of A. M.
nd the titles of their commencement
follow:
Rev. Daniel Joseph Macdonald, ''Radi-
alism and some English poetry of the
ineteenth century" William Augustus
iaguire; Fate passages in the first
hree books of the 'Enied' of Virgil" ID
The degree of A. B. in letters was con-
erred upon Timothy Vincent O'Donnell.
he degree of A. B. in science was con-
erred upon John Joseph DAILY. The de-
rec of B. s. on James BoiIlin and John
ames Cantwell; B. IS. in c. z. on
eter Leo McGeady; B. S. in z. E. on
homas Hackman Carter. Joseph Roland