The Washington times., 1912-06-01
GRADUATES IN LAW
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
TOMORROW EVENING
National University School
to Confer Degrees at
National Theater.

| The forty-third annual commencement
Of the National University Law School
will be held in the National Theater to-
morrow evening at s:15 o'clock. Forty
! eight students will receive the degree Of
| master of laws. thirty-two the degree
Of bachelor of laws, and twelve the de-
| gree Of master of patent law. The
| United States Marine Band will furnish
| the music. Congressman Arthur w.
| Kopp of Wisconsin will deliver the ad-
dress to the class, and the Rev. Samuel
H. Woodrow, pastor Of the First Con-
| gregational Church. will preach the
baccalaureate sermon.
Miss Felicia Waldo Howell won the
gold medal. the highest mark Of honor
In the life and antique classes, at the
| annual presentation Of medals and
| awards of merit at the Corcoran Art
School held last evening. The American
painter of the modern school was given
high praise by Principal z. c. Messer
| in his address. who declared that the
| American artist of today is throwing
| OF the feeling of dependence which has
hitherto bound him to classical tradi-
tions and is launching out into field
| OF original thought and treatment. The
MI.
Wilson and were awarded as follows:
| Life and antique classes-Gold medal,
Miss Felicia Waldo Howell: bronze
medal. Miss Alice L. Lowe; honorable
mention. Miss Bertha d. Gersdorff.
Portrait classes-Silver medal, Miss
| Louise Huntington: honorable mention,
tss praped % life % oiass-siiver SN@'nn medal. Miss
Maude Harris; honorable mention. Mrs.
Myron D. Smith.
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Miss Grace NJ. Harding.
Composition class-Silver medal. Miss
Ruth 0sgood; honorable mention. Miss
Water color class-Silver medal. Miss
Mary Patten Godding; honorable mem
ton. Mrs. Arthur T. Brice.
The class-day exercises of the normal
training classes of the Howard Uni
versity will be held this evening at 8
o'clock. The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered at o'clock tomorrow aft
ernoon by DR.. Oliver Huckel, of Balti-
more. Twenty-three students received
diplomas at the graduating exercises of
the Theological School of the institu-
tion. held last evening in Rankin Me-
mortal Chapel. Following an address
to the graduates by the Rev. w. A.
Credit. degrees were conferred on the
members Of the class by President w.
Class-day exercises of the School of
Liberal Arts of the university were ne id
yesterday afternoon.
With the entire corps of teachers and
student body, along with many friends
of the institution, present at the serv-
ices, baccalaureate Sunday will be OBJ
served at the Catholic University Of
America tomorrow.
Pontifcal mass will be celebrated by
the Right Rev. Dennis ]. O'Connell,
bishop of Richmond, at 1880 a. m, in
the chapel Of the school The bacca-
laureate sermon will be by the Rev.
William J. Fitz Gerald, of Millville, n.
j., president Of the Catholic University
Alumni Association.
The annual commencement exercises
: will be held on Wednesday at IL o'clock.
The procession will form at 1030 at
. Divinity Hail. and thence will march
: to the assembly room in Mcmahon Hail.
where the exercises are scheduled to be
held.
More than 100 degrees, including those
in law, theology, letters, philosophy.
and the sciences, will be granted this
: year. The rector Of the university, Mgr.
S ment exercises, and will confer the de-
J, grees in the name of Cardinal Gibbons,
e who is chancellor of the university.
. The annual meeting of the alumni as
s sociation will be held at Rauscher's 8
= Tuesday afternoon, at which time the
regular yearly bushes will be trans
acted. The banquet for the alumni as
e sociation will be held at $50.
Four young women received diplomas
!. at the annual graduation exercises at
the Holton Arms School, 2l26 8 street
4 northwest, yesterday afternoon. The
o Rev. u. G. B. Pierce, pastor Of Ali
!, Souls Church. delivered the address to
= the graduates, after which the presen-
= tation of the diplomas was made by
Mrs. Jesse N. Holton. principal Of the
! school.
/, Those receiving diplomas were Misses
= Rosalie S. Waters, Marie Fisher, Maude
l. Potter Martin, and Margaret Howard.
= They received their friends at a dance
/. in the assembly room Of the school last
night.
i Miss Mabel Boardman made the prin-
. cipal address to the graduates OF the
9 Cloverside School,, 1900 Scott circle
northwest, last night. at the annual
graduating exercises.
The exercises were opened with q
song by the glee club of the school
which later was followed by a musical
selection by Louis Stremple, of Wash
e ington, and were concluded by a Sc
: lection by Miss Laura Robertson, Of
= New York.
The diplomas were presented by Mist
s Elizabeth Timlow, principal of the
Z school, who urged the graduates to &c
u into life with the purpose of betterins
conditions.