Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-08
LAW SCHOOL GIVES
DEGREES TO 142
Vice President Addresses
National University Com
mencement Exercises.

Law is not a profession now. but a
frsde. Vice President Marshall told
members OF the graduating class of
the National University Law School
at the fifty-first annual commence
ment exercises last night in the audi
torium of Central High School.
The reason why lawyers are not
on higher plane now" said the Vice
PRESIDENT. lis because they tell their
clients how the law can be made to
suit their personal needs. because
they always have both ears to the
ground, because they do not have the
courage to do right according TO the
law. whether the public likes it or
not. Vice President Marshall also
described the legal profession of his
boyhood.
Degrees We're conferred on 142
graduates. The medals and prizes
were distributed by Conrad III. Syme,
former corporation counsel of the
District. The invocation was given
by Rev Frank W. Collier. PHI. D., and
the benediction by Bishop John W.
Hamilton.
Degrees were awarded as follows: =.
Bachelors of Laws.
Degree of bachelor OF lawS-Robert
F. Adams, Illinois: Bertha N Bader.
New Jersey; John Peter Baker. Flor
ida: Frank A. Barber. Connecticut;
Francis Robert Bell. New York: John
Wilson Bohlayer, Virginia: Anibal Z.
Boneta, Porto Rico: Nestor A. Boneta.
Porto Rico: Earl Brennan. New
Hampshire: Thomas $. Browne. Vir
sinia. Benjamin Edwin Buente. In
diana: John Edwin Burch, New York;
Jones Green Burleson. Texas: Aubrey
Bedell Carter. Virginia; Charles NJ.
De Nelbiss. District of Columbia: oscar
H Dickie. Ohio; Martin Dies, jr..
Texas; Charles John Duler. District
of Columbia; Ambrose A. Durkin,
District of Columbia; William p.
Egan. New York; Paul B. Elcan, Vir-
ginia; Abraham Engel. New York;
Justin Lincoln Fearing Massachu-
sets; Elias S. Ferreyra. District of
Columbia; Adrian Posey Fisher. Mary
land: John Ford. District Of Colum-.
bia: Harold Lee George, Massachu-
sets; Sol S. Gluck, Wisconsin: Abra-
ham Goldstein. Massachusetts,; Wor-
ley Estus Hall, Georgia: Wilbur l..
Harrison. Georgia: John owen Hendry,
Florida, Robert Coffin Hilldale. Penn
sylvania; Elmer Reed Hudson. Dis
trict of, Columbia; Charles b. Hollo-
way. Missouri: John Hendren Holmes,
District of Columbia; William Arson
Hooker, Massachusetts,; Lynn J. Irwin,
Indiana; Julia Somervilie Jennings,
Virginia: Robert Sidney johnson, Dis
trict of Columbia: George w. Ken
needy. District of Columbia; John Ko-
cinski. Ohio: Joseph H. Lipschutz.
New York; Henry l.. Lyman. Idaho;
Frederick G.. Macdonald. District of
Columbia; Donald l.. Maxson. District
of Columbia; William Charles Minton,
Tennessee: Claude Howard Mott, Dis
trict of Columbia; John Ferris Myers,
District of Columbia: Preston NJ.
Nash, District of Columbia; Edwin
Mark Mess, Pennsylvania; Francis P.
O'Brien. Maryland: Warwick C. O'Neal,
ri ct of 10
Phillips. District of Columbia; Tow
son Price. New Jersey; Lowell Will
liam Raymond. Washington; J. Ed
uardo Ortis Reyes. Porto Rico: Allen
blum, Connecticut; William Francis
Ryan. Massachusetts; Constantine
Stamatiou Sarantos. District of Co
lumbia: j. Lloyd Shaffer. West Vir-
ginia: Samuel Shapiro, District of Co
lumbia; Clarence F. Sewers. District
of Columbia; Richard K. Stevens, Dis
trict of Columbia: Wilmer Franklin
Sickle. New Jersey; Lester Raymond
Strasburger. District of Columbia;
Humphrey Sydenham. District of Co
lumbia; Theotokes Theos, Greece; Ed
ward l.. Valentine, Arkansas: Samuel
Alex. Warren. Oregon; Clyde Wendell
ken. Ohio: Robert L. Wilkinson. Ok
lahoma: Jeanette Willensky, District
of Columbia: Herbert A. Williams,
New York; Fred Albert Woods. Mas
sachusetts.
Masters of Laws.
Degrees of master of laws-Robert
E. Adams. Illinois; Charles II. Baker,
District of Columbia; Lester Earl Bar
rett, North Carolina; Arthur William
Beer. District of Columbia; Wilfred
II. BlanZ. Ohio; Nestor A. Boneta,
Porto Rico; Harry Raymond Bresna-
han, District of Columbia; james
Green Burleson. Texas; Joshua Qun-
ton BuZbee, Alabama; Robert Scott
Cairns, Connecticut: Aubrey Bedell
Carter, Virginia; Ethel Clawans, New
Jersey; William p. Egan. New York
Frasqueri Narciso Estrella, Porto
Rico; Sol S. Gluck, Wisconsin: Lyman
Maurice Goldstein. District of Column
bia; Daniel Millison Goodacre, jr, Dis
trict of Columbia; William o. Han
cock, District of Columbia; Robert
Coffin Hilldale, Pennsylvania; John
Hendren Holmes. District of Column
bia; Earl Graham Jonscher District
of Columbia; Caddis Jackson keb-
linger. District of Columbia; Fred b
Kitterman. Iowa; Anthony La Mamma
District of Columbia; Lester Albright
Lawrence, District of Columbia; Ben
jamin F. Lindas. District of Columbia
Frederick G.. Macdonald District OF