Evening star., 1922-06-08
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED TO 400
Z. GEOR GE WASHINGTON STUDENTS
Graduates Urged to Follow Teachings of
Sermon on Mount and Put Aside
Materialism.

Amid the continuous applause of
proud parents. relatives and friends.
400 successful candidates received
their much-coveted diplomas and
were awarded their hard-earned de-
grees at the graduating exercises of
the George Washington University.
held a the Memorial Continental Hall
last night.
Cast down materialism and over
come the machine-m made world, the
iron man. restore the sermon on the
mount. take up the sick and despised
and help them on their way. and
rea.;ze that we are our brothers
keepers" declared Huston Thompson.
Federal Trade Commissioner. in an
address before theg raduating classes.
open the flood gates of sentiment
into your soul and create the feelings
that made France reach down to
honor the poor girl. with no father.
and insane mother and six children to
care for. above all her statesmen and
warriors. by awarding the annual
prize given to the person who helped
me country most. that made the
British government reach down to the
lowest clerk in her civil service sys-
tenn and raise him to knighthood: !:
that made the United States return
the twenty-four million dollars to
to America after the Boxer rebellion"
said MIR. Thompson, who stressed the
hollowness of materialistic and ma
chine-made world.
President HOdgkins Speaks.
President Hodgkins of George
Washington University. in address
ing the members of the graduating
spiratlon from those whose memory
was perpetuated by the building in
which they received their honors.
Civilization is made by uplift and not
upheaval and you must~play your
part in the moral. intellectual and
well as yourselves" said President
Hodgkins. who urged those gradual
/ Ing from the university to make
themselves worthy of the ten thou
sand who had gone out from the in
stitution since it's foundation in 1921
. Five honorary degrees were award
1 ed by the university. They were:
Helen Nicolay. master of arts: Wal
lace Radcliffe. doctor of divinity:
Harold L. Amoss doctor of science
Joannes Gennadius. minister from
. Greece for his work in sciepce). doc
. tor of humane letters, and Huston
Thompson, doctor of laws. Preside mt
Hodgkins awarded the honorary de-
| grees and paid tribute to the re-
! cipients.
! sad incident occurred in the pro-
gram of the evening when it was
4 announced that Lois Pitcher of the
District, one of the successful Cand-
dates for the degree of bachelor of
arts, had died suddenly on the 2Sth
of last month and that the university
had decided to present the diploma
to her parents and inscribe her name
on the roll of the graduating class to
y which she belonged. In referring to this
student Dean Wilbur said ''her memory
will live forever with the class and her
professors.
The benediction and Invocation were
pronounced by Rev. DR.. Wallace
Radcliffe.
Deans Present Diplomas.
The diplomas were conferred by
the deans of the various colleges.
Dean Wilbur presented the degree
of bachelor of arts to the following:
Mary Eta Abel. Illinois (with dis
tinction): Carolyn Bacome Aiken,
Tennessee: Sam Bacome Aiken Ten
nessee with distinction): Make NJ.
Alexander, North Carolina; Alice May
Ashford. District of Columbia: kath-
ryn Ayres Nichols. Kansas: Margaret
Eleanor Ayres. Kansas: Ross Sonne-
field Baumunk, Illinois: Jessie Glen
don Beach, Texas: Isaac Newton
Reall. District of Columbia; Joseph
Carroll Behne. Oklahoma; Thomas
Darl Behne. oklahoma: Gertrude
Rleiker. Missouri: George Loveridge
Bowen. Kansas; Mary Margaret Box.
Texas: Erma Brown. Missouri: Linus
Dwight Brown District of Columbia:
Herbert McComas Carle. Ohio: Ellen
Lee Carroll, Mississippi: I'm Hing