Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-10
TAFT WILL ADDRESS
TEMPLE GRADUATESAT
ACADEMY TONIGHT
Ex-President to Be Orator at
30th Commencement of Col
lege and Professional
Departments
TIA ARE TO GET DEGREES

Bx-Presldent Taft will deliver the grad
uation address at the 30th annual com
menoement OF the Temple University, col
lege department and professional schools
to be held tonight in the Academy of Music
Two honorary degrees will be conferred
John Grlbbel president of the Union
League, will receive the degree of doctor
of laws, which will be presented by Con
gresham J. Hampton Moore. The Rev
Harlan Creelman, Phi. D., a member of the
faculty Of Auburn Seminary, New York
will receive the degree of doctor of divinity,
to be presented by the Rev. DIR. Moseley II.
Williams.
The degrees in course, numbering 174.
will he conferred by the Rev. DIR. Russell
II. Conwell, president of Temple Uniyer-
sty. Twelve certificates, in courses where
no degrees are given, will be presented.
Nineteen of the graduates are women
several Of whom have attained very high
honors. The best record of any of the
women was made by Miss Alma NJ. Hin
man, of EOS Rochelle avenue, Roxborough
student in the medical department. She
has the second highest average in the
class, won five prizes out of total of 10
and received honorable mention in COM
petition for four other prizes. She will
he rewarded by post as inferno in the
Samaritan Hospital.
Miss Jane r. Boudard, of Chester, an
other student in the medical department,
will serve as inferno in the Allentown
Hospital.
a remarkable record was made by Miss
Mary M. Peizer enrolled in the pharmacy
department She will be graduated with
high honors. There were three other
women in this course.
One of the graduates in dentistry Is Miss
Gertrude Lowenstein, a native of Stutt-
gart, Germany, who came to this country
especially to study her chosen profession
She will return to Germany to practice. An
other woman in the dental class is Eva
Kornblith, of 2619 North 30th street,
One of the dental graduates is a clergy
man. who worked his way through by
preaching in New Jersey several times a
week. He is Herman ]. Keyser.
The college has aided several of the
students to complete their education by
the loan of money and by assisting them
in getting work which did not conflict with
their studies.
The ia degrees are divided as follows
Bachelor of arts, 81; bachelor of science,
IL bachelor and science and civil engineer
ing, ! bachelor Of science in chemistry, I:
bachelor of science in education, 8 doctor
of sacred theology, s (; bachelor of divinity,
9 bachelor of laws, 20 doctor of medicine,
13; graduate in pharmacy, 80; pharma-
ceutic chemist, 3; doctor of pharmacy, 6;
doctor of dental surgery, so. The last
named are enrolled in the Philadelphia
Dental School, as this branch of the Uni
versity is known.
Every quarter of the grope is represented
in the personnel of the graduating class.
There are students from most of the coun-
tries of Europe, from Canada South Amer
lea, the West Indies and Egypt. In the |
dental department are four students who |
came from Denmark fh order that they |
might obtain Doctors degree. In the |
pharmacy department are four students |
from Italy, two from Russia, two from
Porto Rico and one from Egypt Rumania |
and Austria, respectively.
Following Is list of the graduates: