Evening star., 1927-06-03
HITS ANT|QUATED
SCHOOL METHODS
Representative Fletcher
Speaks at Commencement
Exercises of Y. NJ. c. A.

| Antiquated educational methods in
schools, colleges and universities are
responsible for the production of go
encyclopedia minded poll parrots to
every 10 minds capable of original re-
search" it was declared last night by
Representative Fletcher of Ohio at
commencement exercises of the Y. NJ.
C. A. College in Memorial Continental
Hall.
TOO long has education been an in
| adequate process of soaking the head,
| of using the brain as a sponge to soak
up erudition from old warped rain bar
rels Of impractical pedantry," Mr.
| Fletcher stated.
Needs More Lindbershs.
He declared the world is in desper-
| ate need of more intrepid Lind
| berghS, with the vision and the cour-
age to fly through the heavens, re-
minding the hate and war-torn peoples
| of the earth below that the time has
come to junk the politicians, so-called
diplomats and prOvincial-minded big
OTIS whose imaginations become par
alyzed at national boundary lines"
Degrees were conferred on 76
graduates of the college by DR.. James
A. Bell, director of education. Candi-
dates from the Washington School OF
Accountancy were presented by Dean
Joseph X. Meyer, those from the
School of Law by Dean Charles V.
INLAY and those from the School of
Liberal Arts by Dean Thomas j.
Frailey.
George w. Offutt. chairman of the
educational committee of the college,
presided. The ceremonies opened
with an overture by. trio composed
Of Miss Virginia Cureton. violinlst:
Mrs. Frances Hubbard, pianist, and
Roland Jones, cellist. Invocation and
benediction were pronounced by Rev.
DR.. Joseph Templeton Herson, pastor
of Hamline NJ. f. Church. Vocal
solos were rendered by Mrs. Martha
Fletcher, wife of the Representative
She was accompanied at the piano by
Lillian r. Latham.
Those Awarded Degrees.
The degrees were awarded as
follows:
Bachelor of commercial science
Byron Franklin Andrews, Julio Cesar
Banda, Ralph William Bartsch, Carl
Milton Bauman, Daniel w. Bell, En-
nest G.. Bender, John Valentine Ber-
John Sparrow Boyd, IL. b; Douglas
Farnes Budd. Thomas Barber Byrd,
Julian F. Cannon, Albert Barrow
Clark, Thomas S. Durham, Carl Simp-
son Engel, Donald Richard Ernst,
John Francis Feeney, Harry Melvin
Fones, Enola May Grover, William
Randolph Hammill, Byron Jennings
Harrill, Leon Clifford Higginbotham,
Walter Marion Hiley, Clinton NJ. Hisle,
jr.; Ted r. Hosick, winthrop August
Johns, August j. La Covey, Herman
Thomas La Crosse, Francis Thomas
Matchett, Henry A. Mitchler. Ray
liam Moore, Mabel Rebecca Mckinley,
Henry Slicer Owens, Emery Hampton
Pugh, James Harold Rees, Jack Irwin
Resnicoff, Jeanne Riedlinger, Orman
Vance Rowe, Juan Silva, Robert Fal-
ligant Smith, Charles Elmer Steidel,
Lorenzo Berrett Summerhays, Will
liam Koontz Teepe, William Allen
Wells, Roscoe Conklin Bauman, Sid
ney Vernon Henderson, Charles A.
Iovino, Darius Prather and William
Edgar Spicer.
Associate in commercial science
Sidney Francis Malone.
Master Of commercial science-Har-
vey Spencer Clem, Lula A. Ehringer.
DelDeTC justice I1dlIlA, WuiidllI
Thomas Heffelfinger, Leon Clifford
Higginbotham. Roy l.. James, John
M. Kearful, Louis Kyle Lynn and
Francis Mahlon Padgett.
Bachelor of laws-Charles Hull
Elliott, William Isaiah Keiter. Samuel
Simon Lasica, Randolph Osgood
Lewis, Willard Samuel Lines, Thomas
Calvin MacKay, Percy Leroy Patrick,
Francisco E. Rivera, Orin Ray
Severn, Roy V. Shope and Frank Ivan
Whitney.
Certificates of graduation in law
Louis Charles Grimmnitz, George
Gerald McLeish and Harrie Webber
Newman.
Bachelor of arts-Raymond o.
Eliason.
Bachelor Of science-Gerald Latour
Parker.