Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-10
N. Y. UNIVERSITY
HONORS mitchell
AND GARRISON
Decorations for Mayor and War
Secretary-Prize for A. P.
Levin, of Newark.

! NEW YORK, June 10.-New York
University conferred 642 degrees to-
day, the largest number ever given
in the history of this institution. 1t
was an impressive occasion to all
who witnessed the exercises attend
ing the eonferement of the degrees.
Mayor John Purroy Mitchell and Sec
rotary Of War Lindley Miller arrison
attended and received honorary de-
''grees.
The comforting of degrees upon
students of the College of Arts and
Pure Science, the School of Applied
Science, the Washington Square Col
lege and the raduate School took
place in the morning. The confer
ment of honorary degrees and de-
gress upon examination in the School
of Pedagogy, School of Law, the
University and Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, the New York State
Veterinary College and the School Of
Commerce, Accounts and Finance
took place in the afternoon.
The prizes in the University Col
lege We're awarded to the following
A. Ogden Butler classical fellow
ship-Francis M. Barranco, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
A. Ogden Butler philosophical fell
lowship-Israel z. Toub, Butler, N. j.
A. Ogden Butler eucleian prizes
First, Charles II. Noxon, jr., New
Rochelle, N. Y; second, Everett e.
Gardner, Jersey City, N. j.
Herman Ridder German prize-Is-
rael Lavenburg, Mount Vernon, N.
William II. Inman fellowship
Bruce Robinson Silver, Roxbury, N.
Y.
S. F. B. Morse medal in physics
Lawrence L. Bristol, jr., University
Heights, New York city
George Augustus Sandman grafton
prizes-First, Ubaldo J. Maria: sec
ond, Joseph Spath Ziadi.
Frederick Seward Gibson prize
Abraham Sinberg, New York city.
Sherborne Vernon Damerel-Will-
lam Aloysius Lynch, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Glass of 1907 debating medals
First. Arthur Parsons Levin, New
ark, n. J.; second, Daniel Stern
Schwartz, Brooklyn, N. Y; third,
Abraham Morris Fabian, Paterson,
N. J.
The prizes in the School of Applied
Science was awarded as follows:
William A. Hoe, junior sanitary en-
cheering prize, George Harold Bo-
CART; Samuel B. Duryea fellowship,
John Simmons Coldwell; William G.
Inman fellowship, Bruce Robinson
Silver.
Old Graduates Answer.
a feature of the mornings exer-
cises was the roll call of the gradu-
ates of fifty years back The call was
responded to as follows:
Lewis B. Reed, '43, Brooklyn, N. Y;
James R. Thompson AZ, Newburgh,
N. Y; Francis C. Cantine, 80, Hous-
ton, Va; John c. Orton, SO, Bling
hampton, n. Y; Lyman Abbott, SO,
New York city; Hanson c. Gibson,
"a, New York city; John C. Ryerson,
'56, Boonton, n. j.; William Green
ough, SO, Philadelphia, Pa; Rev.
Samuel r. Carter '5S, Plainfield,. N.
J.. Uriah F.. Rogers, $50, New York
city; Henry S. Drayton, SO, Jersey
City, n. J.; Rev. Henry j. Crane, so,
Uniondale, Pa; Henry B. Updyke, go.
New York city; Jacob Shrady, 80,
New York city; Winfield Bloodgood,
go Brooklyn, n. Y; John F. PhaYre,
81 New York city; Peter L. Schen-
eek, $50, Brooklyn. n. Y; James L.
Ameriman, so, New York city; Rev.
Cornelius Brett, 80, Jersey city, N.
j.; Skidmore Hendrickson, '6S, Brook
lyn. n. Y; Andrew J. Park, '63, Free
mort N. Y; Charles r. Barnes, So
Hoboken, n. J.; Lewis D. Mason, So
Brooklyn, n. Y; DR.. e. V. Kendig,
'64. Hayesville, o.; DIR. Alphons d.
Rockwell, "a, Flushing, n. Y; Dr.
Thomas r. Pooley, "a, Newton, n. j.;
Dr. Albert F. Crump, "a, New YORK
city; John c. Chambers, "a, Ann Ar
Dor, Mich; DR.. Joseph I'll. Robinson
'64. Worcester, Mass.
The candidates for honorary degree
were presented by Rev. DR.. George
Alexander president of the univer-
sity Council Those upon whom these
honors were to be bestowed are: Rev.
Percy Butler Wightman, pastor OF
the University Heights Presbyterian
Church for the last ten years doctor
of divinity.
Secretary of War Garrison, doctor
of laws.
Ex-Justice David Laventritt, of the
Supreme Court, who is now chairman
of the committee on character for ad-
mission to the bar in the First Judi
cial District, doctor of laws.
Mayor Mitchell, doctor of laws.
Professor Charles Schuchert, of Yale
University, an authority on palaeonto-
logy, doctor of laws.
DR.. Francis Hovey Stoddard. dean
of arts and science of New York Uni
Versity, doctor of laws.
Frank Weitenkampf, chief of the
arts and print department of the New
York Public Library, translator, au-
thor and editor, doctor of humane
letters.