The Democratic advocate., 1915-06-18
ing well composed and spIendidly

ing well composed and splendidIy
rendered.
The judges were Prof. Charles J.
Koch, OF the Department OF Educa-
ton, Baltimore; Hon. Herbert R.
Wooden, Hampstead, and Cyrus u.
Flock, Esq, President OF the Board OF
School Commissioners of Frederick
county The successful contestants
We're announced on Commencement
Day.
VI Commencement Day.
On Wednesday morning, Commence
\ ment Day, at $50 o'clock, as is GUS
tom9ry, the graduates and faculty, all
In academic costume, with the mem
bers Of the board of trustees marched
i'm TO the professional, - Mighty For
tress." After all had taken their
seats prayer was offered by Rev. ]. S.
Bowers, Id. ID, President OF the Mary
land Annual Conference. The follow
ing essays and orations were deliver
\ ed by members of the graduating
class: "On the Threshold" Mary Alma
Burnworth; The Great War" Grace
Rebecca Gerber; The Quality or
Mercy" Lettie Marshall Dent; IN the
Service of Humanity" Julian Clark
Numbers; The New Patriotism" !"
Ernest Franklin Mickey; THE Power
Of Vision" Walter Louis Graefe.
4 The awarding of undergraduates
honors and comforting Of degrees fol
| lowed.
The honorary degree of Master Of
Arts was conferred on Rev. X. T.
/ To N ndi%nr af ha
Protestant, Baltimore. The degree of
Doctor OF Divinity was conferred on
Rev. Cliston L. Whitker, Greensboro,
N. al, and Rev. George w. Miller,
Steubensville, Ohio
dwelling of Name Tablet.
| The large name tablet for the new
recitation hall was unveiled Wednes-
| day morning and the name given was
Thomas Hamilton Lewis Recitation
Hail. The unveiling address was
made by DR.. Thomas o. Grouse,
a member of the first graduating
class or 1871, and was unveiled by
the granddaughter of Prof. Lewis,
president of the college.
Bachelors OF Art.
\ The thirty-seven young men and
women on whom was conferred the
degree Of bachelors of art were:
Joseph Owen Arthur, Charles Herbert
Collision, John Elwood Dukes, Walter
Louis Graefe, James Ernest Haifleigh,
| William Lee Judefind, Ernest Frank
lin Mickey, Robert Theodore Norment,
Julian Clarke Numbers, James Har-
| ford Pyle, Harris FREQ Surratt, Joseph
Reuben Young, Sara Moore Bennett,
Mary Esther Brown, Mary Alma
Burnworth, Ethel Wells George, Mar
garet Madeline George, Ida Virginia
Housekeeper, Kate Lay Howard,
Rachel Jester, Ruth Cecilia Keller,
Edna Linton Mayberry, Oda May Par
sons. Mary Barnes Porter, Carlos
Lillian Smith, Margaret Tull, Annie
Lavinia Wenner, Georgia Rebecca
Williams, Mary Wilson, Lettie Mar
shall Dent, Anna Maria Jester, Paul
Roscoe Holtz, Russell Kephart Pfeffer,
Grace Rebecca Gerber, Mary Rebecca
Whitmore, Alberta Virginia Haden,
Margaret Agnes Galley.
The Honor Roll.
The following students of the grad
uating class are entitled to honors
as follows:
Valedictory, Paul Roscoe Holtz and
Grace Rebecca Gerber; Salutatory,
Russell Kephart Pfeffer and Mary
Rebecca Whitmore; Graduates Cum
Laude, Lettie Marshall Dent and Anna
Maria Jester Graduates Summa Cum
Laude, Paul Roscoe Holtz, Russell
Kephart Pfeffer, Grace Rebecca Ger
Der, Mary Rebecca Whitmore, Alberta
Virginia Haden and Margaret Agnes
Galley; Commencement Parts, rirst,
Lettie Marshall Dent; second, Grace
Rebecca Gerber; third, Mary Alma
! Burnworth; first, Walter Louis Graefe,
second, Ernest Franklin Mickey, third,
Julian Clark Numbers.
\ In the Junior Class@Gold Medals:
John Leas Green and Clara Crossley
Swartz; honorable mention, Lewis
Gambler Radford, Hilda Turner and
Sophie Louise Kirwan.
In the Sophomore Class-Gold Med
els, Franklin Murray Benson and
Hilda Rachel Ostrom; honorable men
ton, James Irwin Billmyer and Marion
Gall Smith.
In the Freshmen Class-Gold Med
ais, Paul Farwell Warner and Mary
Margaret Karn; honorable mention,
Thomas Shomwell Shaw, William
Wilson Wingate, Dorothy Sodgwick
Mcdaniel and Sara Elizabeth Smith.
Gold medal in piano, Mary Esther
Brown; gold medal In voice, Edna
Linton Mayberry; gold medal in elo-
cution, Lettie Marshall Dent.
Norment elocution, Gold Medals,
Sophomore Class-Hirl Adelbert Kes-
ter and Emily Kathryn Dryden;
Freshmen Class, Paul Warner and
Dora Elizabeth Smith.
Society Oratorical Contest-Merrill
Trophy-Irving Society: Orators,
John Leas Green and Lester Alvin
Twigg; Newell Trophy-Browning
Society: Essayists, Elizabeth Jane
Bennett and Eloise Somerlatt. Bates
Prize, for best all-round college man.
gold medal, Walter Louis Graefe.
State intercollegiate Oratorical
Contest. Gold medal for first place.
Lester Alvin Twigg.
Graduates in Pedagogy.
Walter Louis Graefe, Owings Mills. |
Nd; James Ernest HaifeiEh, Liberty.
Nd; Ernest Franklin Mickey, Pin Y
nacle, N. G.; Paul Roscoe Heltz, |
Frederick, Nd; Robert Theodore Nor
ment. Baltimore, Md; Julian Clarke \
Numbers, Millington, Nd; Kephart
Russell Pfeffer, Reisterstown, Md:
James Howard Pyle, Forest Hill, Md.
Joseph Reuben Young, Aquasco, Nd;
Sara Moore Bennett Milford naI