The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-06
NaShburn Graduates Receive
Their Diplomas Today.
Rev. James e. Adams Delivers
the Address.
TWO LAW SENIORS ABSENT
Refused to Wear Caps and
Gowns and Got No Diplomas.
An Interesting Program at
MacVicar Chapel.

MacVicar Chapel.
TT is not what we have. but what
we are; the eternal purpose is to fol-
low hard and fast in the footsteps OF
the King" such were the words used
by Rev. James E. Adams, who gave
the address before h graduating
day. DR.. Adams spoke of the won
derful progress that has taken place
and which is continually going on in
the world, under the direction OF a
Supreme Power; the people of the
earth being agents to carry on the
march of progress.
The comforting of the degrees in
course. was performed by President
F. K. Sanders, and the graduates re-
ceiving degrees were accompanied by
the heads of their different depart
ments.
Comforting of the honorary degree
of doctor of divinity was performed
by President Sanders Those who re-
ceived this distinction were Rev.
James E. Adams, a Washburn alumni,
and Rev. Hiram B. Harrison, formerly
vice president of Washburn college.
No Degrees for Strikers.
Waldo Morris and o. e. Waggoner,
the two tudents who refused to APP
pear at the graduation in cap and
gown, the regulation attire. did not
receive their diplomas today with their
classmates. ana Inc II VI JUN
Morris and Waggoner We're absent
from the roll of those receiving de-
grees presented today at the college
chapel.
The Program.
The order of exercises was as fol-
lows: -
Professional.
Music-Sonata, op. Is. Adagio CBee-
thoven1 Dean Horace Whitehouse.
Invocation-Rev. Arthur S. Hender-
son, d. D.
Music-"RecessionaI" Ode Koven)
Elee club.
Address before the graduating class
es. 1.-The Eternal Purpose" Rev. James
Edward Adams, B. D.
Music-"Sunlight Waltz" (Ware) Mrs.
Albert T. Reid.
Confering of the Degrees in Course.
Comforting of the Honorary Degree
of Doctor of Divinity-Rev. James Ed
ward Adams. B. A, of Washburn, 1883,
and B. D. of Mccormick Theological
seminary, 1894. Missionary of the Pres
byterian church in Korea since 1894.
Rev. Hiram Blake Harrison, Carleton
college. go and Chicago Theological
seminary, '9S. Vice president of Wash
burn college, 1910-1912.
Benediction-Rev. DR.. Henderson.
Recessional. .ssrssAf-
The Graduating Class.
The following is a list of graduates
class o. 1912:
Diploma in dramatic art-Helen
Bachelor of music-Susan Rebecca
Taliaferro.
Bachelor of laws-william Alfred
Bowles, Herbert Vincent Clayton,
Frank Fernley Klinger, Vernon 1. Day,
John Henry Fairman, Paul Henry
Heinz. Frederick Charles Helm, Will
lam Ohm Hunter, Jacob Alfred Lott,
John Arthur Myers, Henry Herbert
MnN0y T n nIfz-nr .- AInXnx- C1rr1I
Moore Monroe, Jessie Jenette Nye,
Neil Edward Stanley.
Doctor of medicine-Char1es Jay
Bliss, James Robinett Burnett, Willard
Arthur DeWoIfe Gray. Frank Kinna-
mon, Dclos Meeker Stevens, Albert
Ernest Titus. Winifred Viers.
Bachelor of science-William Earl
Frantz. Edna Anna Hornaday, Maud
Josephine Reed.
Bachelor of Arts-GeraId Durkee
Benton, John Edmund -Borah, Helen
a in Brigham. Margaret Brown,
Campbell, Jetta Mabel Colbert, Clyde |
Cowgirl. Karl Verne David |
son, Dean Trevor Davis, Louise Read
Heath, Lowell Lee Henkel, Alice Mar
garet Higgins, Ruth Carver Kingman, |
Alice Larimer, Florence Jennie Lat |
ham, John Arthur Myers, MerI Gill
more Palmer, arguerit Parkinson,
Emma Dot Partridge, zella Elizabeth
= SIOAs Jessie EDNA Pn1lllDS, |
Frank Albert Redmond. Jean Robert
son, Clement kelso -Roose, Alexander
Seaton, jr.. Allison Baker Shaver, Vina
May Sherman, William A. Snyder,
Marie Granger, Stead, Margaret Ann
swan, Susan Rebecca Taliaferro, |
Emery Cyrus Trull, Leroy Tucker. |
Alice Van Laer, George |
Avery Washburn, Rebecca Meadows
Welty, Francs Augusta Wheeler,
Ruth Woodford.
Special Honors-John Edmund Bo-
ran, sociology and economies; Mar
garet Brown, English and German; /
Wfnifred league Burch. sociology and
English; William Earl Frantz. chem
istry and zoology; Louise Read Heath,
English and French; Marie Granger
Stead, mathematics and German;
Margaret Ann Swan, history and Eng
1ish; Emma Dot Partridge, French and
German; Frank Albert Redmond, So
GEOLOGY and economies; Jessie Eda
Phillips. zoology and botany; Rebecca
Meadows Welty, English and socioI-
logy; Ruth Woodford, mathematics
and history; Frances Augusta Wheel
er, German and Latin |
HonolE-Emma Dot Partridge, Maud
Josephine Reed. Frances Wheeler.
High Honors-Elizabeth Campbell,
Margaret Ann Swan, Jessie Eda Phil
lips.