The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-06-10
SHEEPSkINS AWARDED
AT THE UNIVERSITY
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES THIS MORNING
WERE MOST IMPRESSIVE AND INSPIRING
DIR. SISSON'5 FINE ADDRESS,
Delivered Most Able Address On The State and Ed
ucaton-Bg Auditorium Crowded to Capacity
Special Awards Made-HeId Alumni Banquet

A perfect June morning, a host {
interested friends, an excellent pre-
gram of music, a superb address b
Commissioner of Education Sisson,
touching and intimate farewell to tn
graduating class by President Bran
non, and the comforting of degrees o.
68 persons combined to make tn
graduating exercises in honor tn
18th class that has gone out from tn
university most entertaining ant
profitable.
An Academic Procession.
The long academic procession af
ed its way across the campus and in
to the beautiful auditorium where
the members of the faculty and the
speaker of the day took their places
on the platform and the large grad
uating class was seated in the body
Of the house directly in front of the
speakers. The addresses and an
nouncements were interspersed with
several selections by the string
quartet and the university orchestra
Siss0n's Address Masterpiece.
After the invocation by the Rev.
erend Mr.. C. M. Grimsrud, President
Brannon introduced DR.. E. o. Sisson,
commissioner of education for Ida
ho, who delivered stirring and mast
erly address on the State and Educa-
ton. Dr. Sisson has never been
heard to better advantage in Moscow
and his audience was delighted with
his thoughtful, honest, and searching
analysis Of the relation of the state
and state expenditures towards edu-
cation and of the obligations of uni
versity graduates to the state that
has made their education possible.
Extracts from the principal parts of
his speech will be printed in The
Star-Mirror tomorrow.
Class Received Degrees.
The members of the class of 1914, |
whose names have already been print |
ed, were recommended for degrees
by the deans of the several faculties |
and the candidates marched upon the |
platform to receive their diplomas, |
the audience applauding its congrat- |
ulations as each member of the class
the president.
President Brannon also announced
the special scholarship awards this
morning. To Charles Rollyn Buffing-
ton of the junior class was awarded
the engineering scholarship Of $75.
The playground scholarship offered
for the first time through the home
economics club of the university and
awarded by the director of physical
education for women to a Moscow girl
specializing in physical education was
given to Miss Marjorie zumhof. Frank
B. Dotson, a third-year law student,
was awarded volume of Bishop on
Contracts" given by S. H. Hays of !
Boise, and to Russell G. Adams of
Boise, of the third-year law class was ,
awarded the two volumes of "Ad
Indicated Forms of Pleadings and
Practice" given by S. H. Hays of q
Boise c
Farewell Remarks Touching.
The farewell remarks of the presi n
lent delivered in a conversational tone n
o the graduates were both touching |;
md inspiring.
Upon the conclusion of the program L
heir congratulations and those who
either to the faculty or the N
lumni went Immediately to Riden le
augh hall to attend the 1 o'clock H
lumni luncheon. In
The Alumni Luncheon. M
The alumni luncheon at Ridenbaugh B
all this afternoon was one of the best M
pointed affairs of the week and was a v
tting climax to the commencement b
xercises at the university. The menu F.
1as dainty and the decorations were M
lost elaborate W. H. Mason, presi- M
ent of the association, presided as G;
,astmaster. President Brannon re- G;
bonded to the toast, "A Better and Ct
igger University" "The Education X
Outlook" was the subject of the M
,ast by Commissioner of Education
sson, while L. G. Peterson respond w
to the toast "Welcome to Glass of LII
IA" The toast "How Can the M
ass of 1914 Best Serve the Universi-
+" was responded to by G. E. Favre.