The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-06
FINISH THEIR COURSE
Nearly 500 Graduates at X. U.-Con-
CALCULATIONS for Strong.

Lawrence, Kan, June "a decades
service to Kansas university received
signal recognition at the m
ment dinner when Chancellor Frank
Strong received a congratulatory me-
mortal signed by a thousand alumni.
The gift was a booklet containing sc
feet of names. 1t conveyed the con-
fdence, approval and support of repre-
sentative alumni.
Charles F. Scott, retiring president OF
the alumni association, made the pre-
sentation. He also gave Chancellor
| Strong a silver coffee and tea set, the
gift of alumni.
Nearly LOO attended the university
| dinner in Robinson gymnasium. Five
hundred and so alumni. the largest
number which has ever returned for
| commencement week, were at the din
ner.
Hamilton Wright Mabie, associate
editor of the Outlook, CAV the COM
mencement address to 478 seniors. In
made a plea for the cultivation OF
greater aesthetic appreciation.
Scholarships Are Awarded.
At the commencement exercises
Chancellor Strong announced these fell
1oWships mad been awarded:
Stella Wolcott Aten. fellowship in
Latin, University Of Chicago.
AI1ICu u. SOPG, III SAAlP Ia S00So-
ton, University of Chicago.
James Thomas Faulkner, fellowship
in sociology, University of Chicago.
Wyman Reed Green, fellowship IL
zoology, University of Chicago.
Samuel w. Moore, fellowship in edE-
cation, University of Chicago.
Edward Holman, fellowship in chem
istry. Yale university.
Charles R. Nesbitt, fellowship in eco
nomics, Yale university.
Ben Harry Nicolet. fellowship in
chemistry, Yale university.
Edmund Dresser Gresham, fellowship
in classics, Yale university.
Howard Vanton FouIk, fellowship in
psychology, University of Michigan.
George Wellrnan Hess, fellowship in
mathematics, University of Michigan.
Ruth Spray. University of Kansas, a
fellowship in psychology, Bryn Mawr
college.
Iris Calderhead, a fellowship in Eng
lish, r. Mawr college.
F. D. ~Schnacke, the Kansa City Col
UNI ia University Alumni club scholar
ship.
Frank E.. Melvin, the Harrison fellow
ship in history, University of Pennsyl-
van:a
A. F. Beal, fellowship in Dearborn
observatory, Northwestern university.
E.. L. Bray, scholarship in the depart
ment of electrical engineering at the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology.
Jean Mackinnon, graduate scholar
ship in domestic science, University of
Chicago.
Charles Merle Gruber, a fellowship in
physiology, Harvest university.
Chester Henry Heuser, r~eappointed
teaching fellow in comparative anatomy
and embryology in the medical school
of Harvard university.
David Wenrich, the Virginia Barret
Gibbs scholarship in zoology at Harvard
university.
High School Prizes Given.
Chancellor Strong, at the commence
ment exercises, announced the Uniyer-
sityS Daily Kansan prizes TO itss high
school correspondents. Arthur Capper
and Clyde Knox acted as judges.
John Gleisner of Abilene received the
first prize of SIS; J. B. Mckay of
Olathe. the second prize of SIS, and
Paul Wilson of Winfield, the third prize
of SO. The following ten ach received
a prize of So: Irving Brown. Burling-
ton; Art Frost, Hutchinson; Irene Rug
giles, Mankato; Harold Rohrer, Junction
City; Walter Hill, Leavenworth; Will
J.. Weber, Ellinwood; Bert Simons,
Garnett; Herbert Schall, Dodge City;
James Mason, Seneca, and Thomas
Blackburn, Anthony. .