Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-06
END COLLEGE WORK
Hundred and Forty-Five Grad
uate at Howard University.
EXERCISES ON THE CAMPUS
President Thirkield Appeals to Glass
to Go South and Work
Among Negro Race.

Characterized as the greatest event in
the forty-five years of the history of
Howard University, the commencement
exercises of that institution were held
yesterday afternoon on the campus Clear
skies and the green trees and grass made
a pretty setting. There was a large at
tendance of the alumni. President Thir
kield. the members fthe board Of trus-
tees, the deans and other members of
the faculties, and the alumni. with the
graduates formed in academic process
sion. There were seats for more than
oOCO people. and many had to stand.
Assistant United States Attorney Cen
eral W. H. Lewis, gave an appropriate
address. with physical education as it's
keynote. This was in harmony with the
spirit of the meeting of the alumni, which
had been held during the day. with the
special object of increasing the funds for
the much-needed new gymnasium.
President Thirkield conferred total OF
AS degrees, the classes being divided as
follows: Bachelor of arts from the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences. 81; bachelor of
arts and bachelors diploma in education
and teaching from the Teachers College.
TO- doctor of medicine. 81; doctor of dem
tai surgery. 81: doctor of pharmacy, 10:
bachelor of divinity, 4; bachelor of laws.
%; master Of arts from the Teachers Col
lege, 3. The honorary degree of doctor
of laws was conferred on Rev. Carl G.
Doney of Buchannon, West Virginia, and
the honorary degree of doctor of divinity
on Rev. w. Scott Wood of Pittsburgh.
Pa. and Rev. George Frazier Miller of
Brooklyn. N. Y. In addition to these
degrees seyenty-four diplomas had al
ready been granted to graduates from
the School of Theology. the normal train
ing classes of the Teachers College, do
nestle arts and domestic science courses,
the Commercial College, and the acad-
envy.
Bishop Thirkield Makes Address.
President, now Bishop Thirkield closed
the exercises with a brief address, full of
feeling and power. The climax was
reached when he said: Il have been call
ing upon the young women and women
of Howard to go to the masses of their
brothers and sisters in the south who
upon my seventeen years of personal
service there. Now ! do not appeal to
you to go, but l call you to come. l go
to my new field of labor in the far south.
with its center at New Orleans. with
profound sense of conservation to a great
work for the neediest'
DIR. Isaac Clark dean OF the school of
theology, read the resolutions adopted by
Tic uIltNcISlly COuUCll, WHICH gave dp-
propriate expression to the appreciation
which the various faculties of the uni
versity have for the work which Presi-
dent Thirkield has done for the institu-
ton in the past six years
The Graduates.
Following are the graduates:
College of Arts and Sciences, A B.
Waldo E. Alexander, James c. Allen,
Howard A. Brooks. Moses Clayborne,
Christopher c. Cooke. David A. Davis,
Sarah Agnes Davis. Dennis A. Forbes,
William Gilbert, Geraldine P Green, Clar-
ence A. Hays. Marion T. Higgs. Juanita
p. Howard. John Russell Hunt. Benja-
min H. Locke. Warren H. Logan. Joseph
III. Martin, Thomas B. Nicely, w. c. +.
Peace. William Henry Peasants, Nellie
NJ. Quander, Beatrice Richardson, Louis
II. Russell. Charles S. sedgewick. Eliza
P. Chippen. Minnie B. Smith. Florence L.
Swami, q. CLAYTON Terry, Charles b.
Washington. Edgar P. Westmoreland,
Clarence G. Wilson.
Teachers College. A. Nm W. Connor.
Hamilton B. S.. University of Pittsburgh;
w. J. Mundy. A. B., Virginia Union Uni
versity.
A. B. and diploma in teaching-Fred K
D. Anderson. Edna H. Cook. Percy H.
Henry. Vivian E. Johnson. Luther C.
Mitchell. George H. Mowbray, Paul f.
Mowbray. Ernest f. E. Peace Anna l.
Robinson, Lillian ]. Taylor.
Medical College. NJ D.-Herbert Augustus
Allen, Burl Bassette. Hartford Ransom
Burwell. A. b.; Leonard Carroll Butler,
4. B.; Arthur Davis Carr. Arthur Leo
Curtis. Samuel Blake Daniel, Robert
Armstead Deane. LylbLrn Clinton Down
ing. A. B.; Thomas Augustus Fletcher.
Harold Stuart Gloster. Denham Darfield
Hall. Curtis Thomas Hayden, Herman
Houghton James, Thomas Edward Jones,
George Bernard Key. William Frank
Montgomery. A. B., George Norman Over
ton. Bert Andrew Rose. Julian Godfrey
Stuart, Joseph Henry Thomas, Frank
French Thompson, Phi. B.: Wendell
Holmes Tyler. Thomas Rudolf Vickers,
John James Williams, Reginald Osterly
Williams.
Normal training class. two-year course
Misses Irva Leila French, Ida Mollie
Jackson. Jimanna Jewel Quiflain. Lillian
Orrie Winston
kindergarten training class, two-year
course-Miss Agnes Amelia Adams.
Domestic science and domestic art. two
year coLrse-Miss Alberta Letitia Beverly
Eva Sarah Davis, Marie Isabel Forrest
Blanche Henrietta Furniss. Mabel Madi-
son Jackson, Josephine Bristow Lawrence.
Emily Taylor and Emma Jean Washing
ton.
Honorary degree of doctor of laws were
conferred on Charles Edward Munroe and
James Brown Scott. Prof. Munroe's
award is in recognition Of more than
forty years of teaching and research in
chemistry. The degree was conferred on
Prof Scott in recognition of his dis