The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-03
UNION EXERCISES I
BEGIN TOMORROW
BAcCALAUREATE SERMON WILL BE
PREACHED BY REV. JOHN M.
WELLS. OF WILMINGTON.
SUCCESSFUL SESSION
UNION THEOLOGICAL SUPPLIES
MORE MINISTER'S TO CHURCH
THAN ALL OTHER SOUTH
ERIN sES1INARIEs.

The commencement exercises OF
Union Theological seminary In Ginter
Park will open with the baccalaureate
sermon in the chapel on Sunday
morning. May 4th, at II o'clock, by
Rev. John M. Wells, D. D., Of Will
mjnston. N. G.
The annual address to the Mission
ary society will be given at o'clock
Sunday night by q celebrated traveller
and correspondent Of secular news
papers. william z. Ellis, Of Swarth-
more, Pa
Tho address TO- tho graduating class
will be made Wednesday morning at
II o'clock by Rev. William r. Laird.
d. D, Of Danvilie. Va. and the ses-
sion Will end with tho preservation OF
S9,a diplomas to the graduates by the
president OF tho board OF trustees,
0eorRe W. Watts, OF Durham. N. c.
Most Prosperous In History.
Tho session now closing has been
the most prosperous In all the MS
tory OF the seminary. which II now
ono hundred and one years old. There
have been one hundred and seven
students in attendance. the largest
number ever enrolled in any theo-
logical institution OF the Southern
Presbyterian Church. Forty-one OF
these now go out to their permanent
work a. ministers, fifteen Of the num-
her to foreign lands as missionaries.
The fact that Union seminary is the
main source OF the supply OF minis
ters and missionaries in the Southern
PRESBYTERIAN Church Is now we'll
known fact. but perhaps few even OF
the people OF Richmond know how
large a proportion Of these ministers
are furnished by this one institution.
The number OF graduates in all four
OF the other seminaries of this de-
nomination is this year only twenty
six. whereas the number at Union
seminary Is fsrty-one.
List OF Graduates.
Their names are as follows:
Graham Anderson. Wesley Baker.
william McIlwain Baker. Charles
Claude Beam. Hermann Bischof,
Theophilus Walton Clapp. John Curtis
Crane. Paul Sackett Crane. Erie
Davenport Curtis. Thomas Caldwell
Delaney. David Witherspoon Dodge,
Richard Daniel Dodge. Wade Hamp-
ton Eubank. Ernest Leland Flanagan,
wyiey Parker Gibbs. Walter Hall
lSOGdMRMp, James FsaTf 1ulUFie, aafIfes
Woodrow Hasseli. John William Rick
man, Benjamin Rice Lacy. Jr.. Rich
ard venable Lancaster, Abram Troy
Iassiter, Robert Ormond Lucke,
Charles Gwyn Lynch. John Marshall
Willard. Henry Fiournoy Morton.
William Morton. Joseph James Muir
ray. Charles Claude Myers, Walter
Wellington Pharr. John Langdon
Rogers. John W. Rowe. Thomas Bald
win Sheldon. Robert Morton Slim
son, EzeQuieI Torres. John Walton
weathers. Richard Cummings Wilson
Jr.. Thomas Edwin Wilson. Wilfred
Campbell Mclaughlin. Juan Orts Con-
tales, Andrew Howell.
Honors to DIR. Lacy.
Benjamin Rice Lacy. Jr,, A. B.
II. D.. and formerly Rhodes scholar
at Oxford, university, England. has
been appointed Moses D. Hoge fellow
for ta1a-14. This In the highest dis
tfnction within the gift OF the semi
nary. This fellowship was founded
by the women and other members OF
the Second Presbyterian church as q
perpetual memorial OF their late be-
loved and distinguished pastor, DIR
Hose
Tho seminary has enjoyed this ses.
sion the benefit OF the work of q
really great teacher Of the art of pub
lie speaking-Professor George NJ
/. Gieeth. OF Pittshurg--and he has beer
secured for next year also. To find
a an unartinciai. natural and effective
teacher in this department is one OF
the most difficult tasks that falls tc
the officers OF such institutions. but
Union SEMINARY feels that at last II
has solved the problem.
DIR. Ramsey NEXT Year.
Tho first series OF lectures on the
James Sprunt foundation. created by
Mr.. 6prunt's gift OF $4,000. was giver
this session by Rev, David James Bur
rell. d. D.. IL. D.. of New York, and
the lectures have been published in a
portly volume under the imprimatui
OF tho seminary. The second series
will be given by Sir William NJ Ram
say, D. D., LII D.. d. c. L.. Of Edin-
hurgh. in October on The Bearing
OF Recent Discovery on the Trust
worthiness OF the New Testament
The students now scatter oil over
this country and the world. some OF
them for their life work. others FOL
vacation work. There is already q
sufficient registration of new men &c
indicate large attendance next year
The 6nv-tA~ x,,til harfn ~ CAntay, he,