The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-03
-four GRADUATED BY
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Commencement Exercises Held in Eg-
sett Hall of Alexandra
Institution.

graduation were conferred upon q class
Of four at the seventy-sixth annual COM
mencement exercises OF the Episcopal
High School of Virginia. held at 1o:so
o'clock this morning in Liggett Hall At
that institution.
Those receiving certificates of gradua-
ton were: Frank Aud Clarvoe, Alex
andria County; Edward Holland. jr.,
Northampton County: Philip Barney
Shield. Richmond; Littleton MacLurg
wickham, Henrico County.
Medals were presented as follows: Jo-
seph Bryan memorial prize medal for
excellence in English, to Thomas Lew
prize medal for excellence in Latin and
Greek, to John Ambler, Japan: Ran
dolph Fairfax memorial prize medal for
excellence in general scholarship, to Phil
ip Barney Shield. Richmond; Robert Tay
lor Wilson prize medal for excellence In
English composition. to Edward Holland.
jr, Northampton County; Llewellyn
Hoxton memorial prize medal for ex-
celence in mathematics. to John Kelley
Strubing. jr., Pennsylvania: William
Garrett Bibb prize medal for excellence
In Shakespeare c'Hamlet,'' Macbeth"
and LAS You Like tn. to Philip Barney
ial Junior prize medal for excellence in
general scholarship, Virginus Dabney.
University Of Virginia.
The program given in the reading and
defamation contest follows: Arthur L.
Einsolving read "Mary's Ride; Charles
N. Davidson acclaimed Mrs. McWill
Jams and the Lightning: L. Carter Cast
lett. jr.. read extracts from Uncle Re
mus; Harry w. Gamble detained THE
Black Horse and Its Rider"
Prizes were presented as follows: For
reading at sight. second prize. Landon
Carter Catlett 5r.. Gloucester: First
sylvania; for reading; second prize.
Landon Carter Catlett. jr., Gloucester;
first prize. Arthur Lee Kinsolving,
Maryland; for defamation: second prize.
Charles Mowbray Davidson. Idaho; first
prize, Harry Whitehead Gamble, Ala
bama.
For scholarship. whittle prize. Staige
Davis Blackford. Fairfax county: John
Stage Davis. jr.. University of Virginia:
George Budd billiard. Charlottesville;
Charles Anderson Ferguson. Newport
News: Edward Marshall Frost. Lynch
burg: Cyrus Gambrill. Colorado; Philip
Maury Harding. jr.. Mississippi: Arthur
Lee Kinsolving. Maryland: Francis Sor-
rel Mackall. Georgia; Charles Cazenove
Plummer. Maryland; John Ray Pugh.
Fairfax county: John L. Dawson Speer,
Maryland; John Kelley strubins, jr..
Johns prize; John Beauregard Cowan,
jrI Mississippi; Virsinus Dabney. Uni
versity of Virginia: Homer Lenoir Fer
8uson. jr.. Newport News: Eastwood
Davidson Herbert. Norfolk: Edmund My
ers Preston. Richmond; Hollis Rinehart.
jr.. Charlottesville: Cary Stewart Shield,
Littleton MaclurE wickham.
Heprico.
Meade prize; John Amber, Japan;
Landon Carter Catlett. jr. Gloucester.
Laird prize; Philip Barney Shield,
Richmond.
Rt. Rev. Charles NJ. Beckwith delivered
an address tonight before the Students
Missionary Society Of the Episcopal
Seminary of Virginia which
marked the opening of the annual COM
mencement exercises Of that institution
Thursday will be graduation and alumni
day and a class Of nineteen will gradu-
ate. Ceremonies will end Friday with or
dination.
total of 1893 children Of school age
reside in the city of Alexandria accord
Ing to the census just completed for the
city school board by Thomas Chauncey
and Thomas L. Nall. This number is
divided as follows: 1.6es, white males;
1.53e, white females: SO. colored males:
go. colored females.
On this census is based the amount of
funds tho city will receive for school
purposes for the ensuing five years. For
each person Of school age the State
allows about 8 per annum. which would
mean that Alexandria will receive ap-
$4,000 from the State for
school purposes for the next 1--WE years.
The public schools Of this city will be-
gin closing exercises June H. The stu
dents of the high school are preparing a
program.
The funeral Of Mrs. Sallie Jane Ha9-
art. who died in Lynchburg, Va, took
place this afternoon from wheatley's
undertaking chapel Services were con-
Quoted by Rev. DR.. ]. w. Duffey, pastor
Of the NJ. e. Church South.
In the Police Court today James Lucas,
vas charged with larceny of a pail of
candy from the Southern Railway Com
pany.
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