Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-01
CLASS IS PRESENTED||GNORE COURT ORDER
GaNaude Seniors Appear at White Star Officers Dsobey
Annual Ceremony. Summons in Damage Case.
FOUR GIVE ORATIONS IALL LEAVE FOR NEW YORK
Speeches Testimony Desired for Future Use
of the by Widow Of Titanic Victim.
COLLEGE YEARS OLD ATTACHMENT MAY BE ISSUED
served-Work of Students Penalty for Under
Exhibited sion o. Law.
GaIIaudet Seniors Appear at
Annual Ceremony.
|UR GIVE ORATIONS
Speeches in Sign Language One Fea-
ture of the Exercises.
COLLEGE IS 48 YEARS OLD
Anniversary Of Institution Also OBJ
served-Work of Students
Is Exhibited.

Presentation day was celebrated by the
this afternoon in the presence Of large
audience of relatives and friends, the
faculty. officials and students of the inst-
tuition. The occa sion also marked the
forty-eighth anniversary of the college
Rev. DR. Ulysses G. r. Pierce Of All
Souls Church made the principal address.
President Percival Hall. Vice President
Edward 4. Fay and DR.. Charles r. Ely
conducted the presentation of candidates
Cor degrees. The esentation ceremonies
AT this time of the year are the only for
NAL exercises of the class. the graduation
exercises in June being only for the stu
dents OF the college and the faculty.
Devotional rites We're conducted by Rev.
Frank Sewan. pastor of the Church Of the
New Jerusalem. and Rev. Arthur D. Bry-
ant. Baptist missionary to the deaf.
Four Orations Given.
One of the features of the exercises was
the delivery of orations by four members
Of the class. Tom Lewis Anderson of
Texas was the only one of the four who
spoke 1t was interpreted in the sign
language by one of the professors of the
college The subject was They Also
Serve.
The other three orations all delivered
in the sign language by their authors.
were: Books by Archibald Wright. jr..
of Canada: The Woman of Today and
the Law" by Anna Vaughan Johnson Of
Nebraska. and the Invisible Empire"
b. Shelby Wynne Harris of Mississippi.
As the orations We're delivered professors
OF the college read them aloud for the
benefit of those who did not understand
the sign language.
The candidates for the degree of master
of arts are all graduates of other col
leges who are studying to become pro-
fessors in institutions for the deaf and
dumb. These students are Victor O. Sky
berg. graduate of st. Olaf College. Min
nesota; Edmiston W. lies, graduate of
graduate of Baker University. Kansas
and Beatrice Edwna Minhinnette, grad
nate of Shorter College. Georgia. One
other normal student. Edith Una
Long, Council Bluffs high school, will re-
ceive certificate but not a degree, not
being a graduate OF another college The
foregoing pupils were presented by Pres
ident Hall.
Candidates for A. B. Degree.
Candidates for the degree Of bachelor
of arts were presented by Vice President
Fay. They are Olga Marie Anderson,
Tom Lewis Anderson. William Henry
ATTdS, vernon STEERING Blrck, Ora H0rri-
son Blanchard, Luverne Stephen Byrne.
Annie Louise Dwight. Petra Theodore
Fandrem. Harry Gardner. Shelby wynne
Harris. Virginia Anne Haywood. Anna
Vaughan Johnson. Leon Putnam Jones.
Adolph Nicholas Struck and Archibald
Wright, jr.
DR.. Ely presented Alice Stewar. HAM
mond for the degree of bachelor Of phil
osophy: and for the degree of bachelor
of letters. Helena Froelich. Mabel Jennie
Jensen, William Ferdinand Schaefer and
Hubert Beck West.
The chapel. where the exercises were
held. was beautifully decorated in palms.
green's and cut flowers An exhibit of
the work OF the students was put up
and the college building and the Kendall
School was kept open for a time after the
exercises. so that the visitors might in
spect them.
The committee on reception consisted of
Grover Cleveland Farquhar. marshal;
Hume LIE Prince Battiste. John Clarence
Clesson. Jesse Wilbur Gedhill, Eugene
Hogle. Frederick Henry Hughes Michael
Lapides and Clarence Otto Harold Linde.
The motto OF the class IL "Spectemur
Agendo. broad translation of which is
Let Us Be Judged by Our Acts