The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-03
UNION SEMINARY
F|NALSNEXT WEEK
Largest Class in History Of. In
stitution to Receive Diplomas
on Wednesday.
MARKS END OF BANNER YEAR
Forty-One New Ministers for
Lords Work, Fifteen Of
Whom Go Abroad.
MARKS END OF BANNER YEAR

Union Theological Seminary grad
yates next week the largest class of
ministerial students ever sent FROM any
Institution In the Southern Presbyte-
rian Church in Il single year OF the
forty ono members of the class of 1913.
fifteen expect to begin their labors I'm
the foreign field. In the session about
to closc--the one hundred and first year
of tho COMMUNICATIVE record for enroll
ment was broken by the matricuiatlon
of Io7 students. The. registration Of
students for the next session indlca ties
n large attendance.
Rev. John NJ. Wells d. D., of Will
uiington, ". c.. will preach the bacca-
laureate sermon tomorrow morning at
IL o'clock in the chapel Of the semi
nary. The annual address to the So
ciety OF Missionary Inquiry will be de-
llsered tomorrow night at O'clock
by w. L. Ellis. of Swarthmore Pa. The
address TO the graduating class will
be given Wednesday morning at IL
o'clock by the Rev. w. r. Laird, D. y +,
of Danville.
Two Famous Lecturers.
The lectures on the James Sprunt
Foundation for next year will attract
two famous scholars to Richmond-Sir
William NJ Ramsay, D. D.. LII. D.. D. c.
L.. of Edinburgh. Scotland, explorer and
scholar. and the Rev. James Stalker,
fessor and author of Aberdeen. Scot
land. Sir William Ramsay, who will
speak in October, will have for his
subject The Bearing of Recent Dis
covery on the Trustw'orthiness of the
New Testament" while DR.. Stalker will
speak In April, 1914, on Religious Psy-
chology."
Features in the session just closed
We're not lacking. Notable among
these was the celebration Jointly with
the Synods of Virginia and North Caro-
lima of the Tooth anniversary Of the
founding of the seminary. The gift
of $4,000 to the endowment fund by
Mrs. Cyrus II. Mccormick, of Chicago.
and the completion Of the gift of
$4,000 by George W. Watts for the
establishment of the Walter w. Moore
Foundation were OF unusual interest
The first lecture on the Sprunt Foun-
dalton was delivered by DR.. David
James Burrell. of New York. the series
of addresses being printed in book
form afterward under the imprimatur
OF the seminary
List OF Graduates.
The list of graduates who will re-
ceive diplomas from George w. Watts
president OF the board OF trustees. on
next Wednesday morning Is as follows:
Graham Anderson. Wesley Baker, Will
liam McIlwain Baker. Charles Claude
Beam. Hermann Bischof. Thcophilus
W aitoii NihDp, JOun AuTtlS crane. Paul
SacEett Crane, Erie Davenport Curtis
Thomas Caldwell Delaney. David With
erspocn Dodge. Richard Daniel Dodge,
Wade Hampton Eubank. Ernest Lee
land Flanagan. WILEY Parker Gibbs.
! Walter Hall Goodman. James Earl
| Guthrie. James Woodrow HasseIl, John
William Hickman. Benjamin Rice Lacy,
Jr.. Richard Nenable Lancaster. Abram
Troy Lassitcr. Robert Ormond Lucke
Charles Gwyn Lynch. John Marshall
Willard. Henry Flournoy, Morton Will
liam Wilson Morton. Joseph James
Murray Charles Claude Myers. Walter
Wellington Pharr, John Langdon
| Rogers, John w. Rowe. Thomas Bald
win Sheldon. Robert Morton Stimson,
Ezequiel Torres. John Walton Wealth
crs, Richard Cummings Wilson. -Jr.,
Thomas Edwin Wilson, Wilfred Camp
bell McI.anchln. Juan Orts Gonzales.
| Andrew Howell.
I'll with Pneumonia
The condition OF Burnett Lewis