Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-06-20
CLOSING DAYS AT
RUTGERS COLLEGE
Largest Class in History of In
stitution Receives Degrees.
Honors Bestowed.

NEW BRUNSWICK, June 20.-Tht
one hundred and forty-siXth annua
commencement of Rutgers College
was held In the Ballantine Gymnasi'
um at S o'clock last night. Degrees
were conferred upon the largest grad
uating class in the history of the col
lege, numbering sixty-five, of whom
eleven received the degree of bachelor
of arts, eleven the degree of bachelor
of letters, and forty three the degree
of bachelor of science.
The honorary degree of master OF
arts was conferred upon Charles
Deshler. of New Brunswick; doctor OF
divinity upon the Rev. William Riv-
ers Taylor of Rochester, N. Y, and
the Rev. William I. Chamberlain, OF
New Brunswick and New York.
The degree of doctor of science was
conferred upon John Bogart, c. e.,
class of 1853, OF New York.
The degree of doctor of letters was
conferred upon Thomas Tileston
Wells, of New York city, and Calvin
Noyes Kendall, commissioner of edu-
cation for the State of New Jersey.
conferred upon President Hibben, of
Princeton University, and Mahlon
Pitney, Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
At the annual meeting of the
Alumni Association in Kirkpatrick
Chapel a portrait of Peter d. Vroom,
sometime Governor of New Jersey
and trustee of the college, was pre-
sented by his son, Judge Garret D.
w. Vroom, of the New Jersey Court
of Errors and Appeals, of the class
Of 1862 Of Trenton.
Another Portrait Presented.
Another portrait OF Frederick T.
Frelinghuysen, United States Senator
from New Jersey 1S67-69 and 1871-77,
secretary of state during the admin
jstration of President Arthur. trus-
tee of the college and a graduate of
the Gloss of 1886. was presented by
his son, Frederick Frelinghuysen.
GLASS of 1883, of Newark.
Melville T. Cook. Ohio State Uni
versity. was appointed professor of
plant pathology; Earl Cook Stillwell,
B. Sc, Rutgers 1911. instructor in
horticulture, and John Vail Bissett,
Rutgers. 1912, assistant in chemistry.
Announcement was made that the
balance of the Lansing bequest, $751;
600, has been received, making the
total amount under this bequest $780,
1000,
The valuable chronological collec-
tion of the late Professor John B.
Smith will be presented to the college
by his widow.
An oxyacetylene equipment valued
at $1,000 has been presented to the
college by the Linde Air Products
Company, of New York, through the
late DR.. Samuel o. Wander Poel. '73.
of New York city.
The speakers at the alumni COLA
ton this afternoon were President
Demarest. Mahlon Pitney, justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States; Calvin N. Kendall. commits
,sioner of education of the State of
New Jersey, and representatives of
the alumni.
Bachelor of Arts.
The degree of bachelor of arts was
conferred upon:
Harold Curtice Amos, Rochester; N.
v; Walter Sax Bloom, Catskill, N.
Y; Alan Ditchfield Campbell, New
Brunswick; Seymour Parker Gilbert,
IT., Bloomfield; Valentine Britton
Havens, New Brunswick; William
Gettier Hermann. Plainfleld; Henry
Kilmer Hotaling. Glenmont, N. Y;
Jacob Press, Harrison; Vivian Clin-
ton Ross, New Brunswick; Ernest
Weld Scudder, Atoka, OKLA; William
Rudolph Fuerchegott Steir, Sayre-
vile.
The degree of bachelor of letters
Twas conferred upon: James K. Alver-
son, East Orange; Perry Hardwick
Bascom, Middlebush Fred Arthur
BRIGGS, Perth Amboy: Fred Mont
gomery Fountain. Hackensack; Jacot
Walter Groendyke, Monmouth juno
ton; George willard Martin, Me-
tuchen; John Dittgen Morrison
Ridgefield Park: Milo Claude Nose
man, Tannersville. N. Y; Richard
Alexander Smith, New Brunswick;
Dexter White. New York; Leroy Col.
yer .Wilsey. Newark.
Bachelor Of Science.
The degree of bachelor of science
was conferred upon John Arthur
Newark; George David Auchter. Jer
sey City; John Vail Bissett, New
Brunswick; Edward Francis Blatz
Elizabeth; Walter Cox Bowen, Shi.
loh; Leonard Scott Briggs, Firth,
cliffe, N Y. Harold Jasper Cadmus
Ridgewood; Robert stephen Cleaver
Schuylerville, n. Y; Henry Cliftor
Cooper. Collingswood; Elbron Fisher
New Brunswick: Francis Clyde Fit
ting, Philadelphia, Pa; Samuel Fur
man Foster, Bayhead; Russell Wood
worth Gies, Newark; Augustus Lem
uel Gladding, Lincoln, Cal; Frederick
Glander, Bloomfield; Aaron Martii
Hageman, Bound Brook George Ed
ward Hagemann, Newark; Alber
Lewis Hagen, Crawford; Edwin Howe
Halsted, New Brunswick; Herber
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