The Democratic advocate., 1915-06-18
45th COMMENCEMENT
OF W. NJ. c.
PRESIDENT LEWIS DELIVERS BACCAAUREAE SERMON-PROF MCDANIEL
PRESENTS DPLOMAS-NAME TABLET FOR RECITATION HALL UNVEILED
81 RECEIVE DEGREE OF BACHELORS or ART-PAS FOR SEMI CENT?
MlM in 1917 DSCUSSED-TW TRUSTEES ELECTED

down, o my soul?' by Max Spicker
The morning service was concluded
with prayer by Rev. Frank Haven
ner, OF the Methodist Episcopal
church and the benediction.
In the evening the sermon to the
Christian Associations OF the college
was delivered by Rev. Theodore f.
Herman, D. D., professor of the Re-
formed Seminary, Lancaster, Pa- This
was preceded by choral recital in
which the college choir accompanied
by an orchestra rendered the follow
ing anthems: And the Glory OF the
Lord" HandeIs Messiah; How long
wilt Thou forget me-" Carl Pfueger
"Infammatus," Stabat Mater, Rossini
Prepare ye the Way of the Lord, ;
Garrett; Great and Marvellous A
From The Holy City, Gaul. Mr.
Wennert's evening solo was THE
Lord j. Ny Light" by Alley Speaks
The responsive reading closing with
the Gloria was conducted by Rev
VIM IT, Hetrick, pastor of Grace
Lutheran church, this city.
Music and ElOcutiOn.
Monday morning and evening was
taken up by the graduates recital in
music and elocution, part of the pro-
gram being given in the morning and
part in the evening. The graduates
showed careful training and rendered
the following programs:
AT 1870 a. m.-Feuer-Zauber, Wag-
ner-Brassin, Virgie Lynn Harris, Hen
derson, an. C.; The Child, Frances Hodg-
son Burnett, Mary, Alma Burnworth
Piedmont, W. Va; Jewel Song, from
Faust, Gounod, Marjorie Yingling, this
city; The Messengers, Richard Hard
ing Davis, Margaret Madeline George
Sudlersville, Md; Deutsche Tame
Beethoven, Rachel Jester, Jesterville
Md; "Oh, Robert, Robert" from Rob-
ert le Diable, Meyerbeer, Alberta Vir-
ginia Haden, Washington, Id. C.; The
Miracle, Thomas Crawford Galbreathi,
Mary Esther Brown, Church Hill,
Md; Scherzo-Valse, Moszkowsk, Kate
Lay Howard, Hebron, Nd; Romeo
and Juliet, Act il Sc 8, Shakespeare
Anna Marie Jester, Jesterville, Md.
Herodiade, Air de Salome, Massenet,
Grace Rebecca Gerber, Hagerstown
Md.
At 8 D. m.-Rhapsodie-Hon
No. s, List, Mary Esther Brown
Church Hill, Md; David Copperfield's
First Love, Dickens, Sarah Moore
Bennett, Milford, Del; The Little
Gray Dove, Victor Saar, The Years
at the Spring, Mrs. III. I'll Beach, and
The Danza, Chadwick, Helen Ethel
Zepp, this city; The Melting Pot
Zangwill, Grace Rebecca Gerber, Hag-
erstown, Md; Polonaise, in A Major,
Chopin, Louise Slingluff Beacham,
Avondale, Md; Phyllis ID my Only
Joy, Whelpley, Magical June, Hilton
Turvey, and The Lark now Leaves
His Watery Nest, Horatio Parker, Ida
Virginia Houskeeper, Baltimore, Nd. /;
As You Like 1t, Act III Sc. 2, Shakes
peare, Lettie Marshall Dent, Oakley,
Md; Rondo Capriccioso No. IA, Men
delssohn, Margaret Agnes Galley,
Shakespeare, Walter Louis Graefe,
Owings Mills, Md; MY Heart is
Weary" Recitative and Air for
Nadeschda, Goring Thomas, Edna
Linton Mayberry, Rising Sun, Md.
The evening program was followed
by the awarding OF the certificates of
graduation.
On Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
society reunions were held In the
Society Halls, and as usual proved to
be one Of the most formal and en-
joyable features OF the whole week.
A literary program was rendered and
Ices and cake were served.
Meeting OF Board of Trustees ana
Alumni Association.
Tuesday morning at no o'clock the
annual meeting or the board OF trus-
tees took place in the Library Build
ing and i'm the late afternoon the
Alumni Association held its business
meeting followed by a banquet.
The following trustees we're elected,
the vacancy caused by the death of r.
B. Myers, Union Bridge, was filled by
Charles C. Gorsuch, this city, and the
vacancy caused by the death on Rev
Maloy was filed by ]. H. Straughn, Of
Laurel, Del
Plans with reference TO the cele-
bration Of the Semi-CentenniaI in 1917
were discussed
The alumni association elected VII
lis Smith, president. graduate OF
1896.
Literary Society Contest.
A great deal OF friendly rivalry ex-
lists between the literary societies cf
the college which hold weekly meet
ings every Friday afternoon in their
respective Halls and this rivalry
makes the contest held Tuesday ev-
ening unusually interesting to students
and the alumni The contest OF the
literary societies, Browning W.. Phil
omathean and Irving VS.. Webster for
the Merrill and Newell trophies Is
perhaps the most exciting event of
the week. The young ladies read es-
says and the young men delivered or
ations- The contestants and their
subjects follow:
Philomathean, The Keepers of To-
by Barbara Thekla Willis,
Worton, Md; The Heroine Or the
War" by Alice Eloise Dyson. Du
Bois, Md
Browning, "a Blot Oh our Escut-
eheon," by Elizabeth Jane Bennett,
Sykesville, Md; The Master CALL
by Eloise Somerlatt, Cumberland, Md.
Irving, National Ballast" BY John
Leas Green. Crisfield, Md; Liberty
in the Rough" by Lester Alvin TwIgg,
Twiggtown, Nd
Webster, The Modern Iscariot.s by
Lewis Gambler Radford, Monroe, GA.;
Americas Hour or Destiny by Sam
uel Shriner utz, New Market. Md.