Evening star., 1915-06-16

Contraband by Great Britain and Its
| Interference With Neutral Ships Car
rying Conditional Contraband Destined
to Neutral Countries, Where There Is
No Evidence of an Ultimate Hostile
Destination"
A prize donated by the American Law
Book Company of New York, consisting
of the first thirteen volumes of the ''Cy
clopedia of Law and Procedure" offered
to the student of the postgraduate class
who shall submit the best graduation
thesis is awarded by a committee con-
sisting of F. Snowden Hill and William
Henry Dennis of the District of Colum-
bia bar to Eulogio Benitez of the Phil
say is The Rationale of the Dying
Declaration and the Admissibility of
Such Declarations in Civil Cases"
Committees Report.
The committee reports as follows
upon the essays submitted:
"All show the results of good legal
training combined with natural ability
and great care in their preparation;
and the general level of excellence is
high evincing earnest effort by each
student to attain and deserve success.
For this reason we have had to COM
pare closely all the elements OF merit.
such, for example. as research reason
ing. accurate phraseolosy. correctness
in details. soundness of conclusions;
etc. lsome surprising in one way and
some in another). We find the largest
number of these elements combined IN
the thesis of Eulogio Benitez.. LII. b.
University of the Philippines. and we
therefore report that. in our Judgment'
he is entitled to receive the prize Win
honorable mention for the theses OF
Frank J. Keelty and Mabry c. Van
Fleet"
A prize donated by the T. & J. w.
| Johnson Company Of Philadelphia. OF a
H. Il
| author of the best essay upon legal
subject among the members OF the
| third and postgraduate classes is
awarded to John Ma Martin tn, or oK,he .!srhe
| Right of an Infant to Disa firm His
| Contract Made During Minority When
He Had Received and Used the Con-
| sideration Thereof.
Graduating Glass.
The full list of graduates in regular
course at the four schoos-arts, law.
medical and dental-to whom diplomas
| were given is as follows:
| Bachelor of Arts-Edmund E. Bar
| rett John j. Beatty. jr.: Francis A.
Connolly, John F. Conroy, jr.: William
]. Cullinan, Michael T. Donohue. j.
| Bernard Edmonds, Calvin B. .Garwood,
George A. Horkan, William K. Hutton,
| Peter A Karl. Linus A. Kelly, Frank
| F. Lamorelle. St: John E. Litschgi.
| McGrath. John C. Mcnamara. jr.: John
| J. Mattare, Frederick J. Murray. Hugh
| Murrin. Edmund J. OBoyle, John j.
O'Day. jr.: John G. Petritz, George I.
| Roe. Bernard E. Shlesinger. James r.
Shea. John ]. Shugrue, Arthur j,
Vlymen. Chester B. Won kamp. John
E. Wright.
Bachelor of philosophy-Hugh p.
Golden and Richard NJ. Hamilton.
Brison Norris. Arthur F. Roche and
| George w. Williams.
Doctor Of medicine-James Henry
Allen, John Chester Brady, James Au-
gustine Cahill, jr.: Joseph e. Camp
Paul Corgan. Edward John Godfrey.
jr.: William Francis Greaney, Daniel
| Leo Haggerty. Daniel Smith Harrop,
William Parker Herbst. jr.: William
Patrick kenealy, Alexander ;,5on.,s e. !: Lis
Christopher John Murphy. Frederick
Michael Nolan. Thomas Parran. jr.:
| John Preacher. Charles Joseph Reilly,
John Cornelius Roe, Horace Louis
Maurice Arthur selinger. Charles pan
iel Shannon. Andrew Francis Shea,
Harry A. Spigel, Carl Surran, Frank
Louis Swift and Albert G. Wenzell.
Bachelor of lawsIGeorge f. Adams
J. Arthur Adams. Ralph Henry Andrus.
Frank R. Applegate. George S: Barker.
William P. Bartel, Don Carlos Bar
| tholomew. Elmer L. Beach, Arthur Z.
Beaumont, Andrew W. Bennett, Chester
H. Chesterfield. Redmond s.. Brennan.
Rolfe H. Brett, Harry w. Brimer. Per-
ry A. Bronson, Gregory H. Brown. Car
roll W. Browning, William r. A. Buck
ley, Albert G. Buehler, William j.
Bushwaller, William J. Butler, J. Har-
nv Byrne, James w. Cannon, Joseph A
Carey, Michael S. Cerrezin. Myron G.
Clear, Charles Lorin Clark, Thomas A.
Clements, Richard J. Coffey, Joseph
Cohen, William J. Collins. Everett A
Colson, Charles F. Connell. McGill Con-
ner, John Connolly, jr.; Leon F. cooper,
Joseph H. Corcoran. Roy r. Cox, Roy
r. Coyne, John H. Crabtree. John A.
Crist, Michael F. Cronin. Neil Cunning
| ham, Peter ]. Daley, James r. DAILY,
Richard NJ. Daily, Claud De Baum, Harry
]. Demaree, Maxine H. Diaz. Charles
H. Dieck. William J. Donahue, James
]. Donesan. Hugh G. Doyle, John a.
Dorney. Francis B. Driscoll. Henry ".
Driscoll, Albert J. Drury. Julian
Philip D. Elkins. Bertrand Emerson. jr.:
Lee Roy Engle, Dave Estopinal. Fred
n. Estopinal, Harry J. Pagan, James W
Ferriter, Marion n. Fisher, Edmund A.
Fitzgerald, Edmund W. Flynn. John D.
Fowler, Charles W. Friede. William r
Frost, George B. Furman, F. Gwynne
Gardiner, Charles e. Gebhardt, Charles
| Geisenfeld, Charles H. Gibson, Joseph
r, Gibson, Fred D. Gitsler, John E.
CLANCY, Reu e. Glessner. James L. Cog
gins, viii r Gordon. Howard L. Grace