Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-07-14
OUR GRADUATES
(The Crisis)

teen colored Bachelors of Arts, and five
Masters of Arts From the state universe
ties, which rang for the most part equally
as high, there have come thirty-seven
Bachelors Of Arts, one Master and one Doc
tor of Philosophy. Other Northern institu-
lions have sent out twenty-one Bachelors
of Arts, making seventy-seven Bachelors in
all from Northern institutions There have
come from leading colored colleges two hun
dred twenty-five Bachelors and from other
colored colleges one hundred fifty-six, or
three hundred seventy-eight in ALL This
makes a grand total. Of four hundred fifty
five Bachelors of Arts, as compared with
1913 in 1916, 281 in 1915 and $50 in 1914.
Omissions would probably bring the actual
number Of graduates up to at least ATS.
The record in detail is as follows:
The Great Universities
Harvard sends forth ten colored Bache-
lors of Arts: E. L. G. Davidson, U. w.
Holly, H. w. Porter, H. w. Brown, B. R.
Wilson, Jr., w. T. Gibbs G. E. Arnold, B.
w. H. Davis all four-year men; L V. Alexis
and H. P Payne, three-year men. In adj
dition to these L. D. Turner and j. S. For
roster, Jr., receive the degree of Master of
Arts. Mr.. Davidson has been a member of
the wrestling team, 125 pound class, for
three years in which time only one man de-
feated him. During the past season he
won every bout and the Harvard and New
England Intercollegiate championship. He
is the only son Of Shelby Davidson of
Washington, D. c.. Mr.. Alexis was men,
Der Of the 1916 track team.
There is one graduate from Yale, j. F.
Williams, who takes his Bachelor of Sci
ence from the Sheffield Scientific School,
Columbia sends out on Master Of Arts, E.
E. Tyler. From the University of Chicago
come two Masters Of Arts, g. R. Wilson
and L. L. MCGEE, and two Bachelors of Phi
losophy, j. c. Carroll and G. S. johnson.
Mr.. Carroll held a scholarship from the
white Baptist convention of the State of
New Jersey. The University of Pennsyl-
vania graduates two Bachelors of Arts P.
G. johnson and H. S. Blackiston; the latter
won the Scheicher prize in German From
Clark, Kelly Miller Jr., receives the degree
of Master Of Arts.
Three girls graduate from Radcliffe:
Miss b. B. Dykes receives her degree
''Magna Cum Laude"; Miss F. O. Grant
was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa in her
junior year and took second year and final
honors in classics; Miss N F. Wright fin
ishes the course in three and one-half years
and has already been appointed to work for
the Health Survey Of Cape Cod MISS A.
gree from Wellesley. She has been active
in sports and received three scholarships.
From Smith, Miss G. 3. S. Lee receives the
Bachelor Of Arts degree
The State Universities
The University Of Michigan sends out five
Bachelors Of Arts: j. R. Grassland j. S.
Price, W. S. Wickliffe, and the Misses P.
W. Waters and H. p. Wilson. Mr.. Wick
life has been a member of the track team
Mr. G. A. Ferguson receives his Bachelor
CT Science degree in agriculture from the
University Of Illinois and M. A. Chandler
takes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
chemistry. Mr.. Chandler is member off
the Phi Lambda Epsilon and Of the Sigma
Chi. He has held fellowship in chemistry
for two years. The University Of Wiscon-
sin graduates V. G. Turner from the two
year course in agriculture. Indiana Uni
versity graduates the following Bachelors
of Arts G. H. Brown, b. F. Cox, T. G.
johnson, A. b. Meyzeek and Robert Skel-
ton. Mr.. johnson is married and has sup