Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23

| uteSS 10 the graduating class. ihe
| academic procession entered the hal
at O'Clock. and Rev. James T. Mar
shall. minister of Georgetown Presby
terrain Church. opened the exercises
! with prayer.
| TWO degrees of doctor of philosophy
We're awarded one to Edwin John
Cameron of the District of Columbia
| a graduate of the Massachusetts Insti-
| tute of Technology, and the other to
| George Henry Hansen of Utah. who
| has received degrees from Utah Agri-
cultural College and George Wash
ington University.
Speaks on John Adams.
The deans of the various depart
ments OF the schools and colleges of
the university presented their candi-
dates for degrees. The audience stood
as the academic procession entered
and left the hall
Mr.. Warren spoke on John Adams
and the American Constitution, and
said, in part:
1t is especially appropriate today
to recall to you, first, the fact, often
forgotten-that it was John Adams
who gave George Washington to the
Nation. His one idea and interchangeable
effort was to promote that union which
must lead to independence. He was
the first Nationalist among all early
American patriots.
Three things he saw, were neces-
sary--that the Colonists should throw
away their royal charters and estab-
lish separate governments, that they
should confederate as States, and that
they should agree to fight for their
independence in common. To ma
tlonalize the local rebellion in Massa-
chusetts at Boston was Adams chief
thought. 1t was Adams who grasped
the opportunity to cement the union
by sacrificing the interests of the men
of his own colony
Was First Constitutionalist.
Adams was also the first constitu.
tlonaliSt. And it should never be for
gotten that to him the country owes
the form of its State constitutions
and of its Federal Constitution. Adams
outlined for the first time in history
the precise course which American
States later followed in the formation
of their constitutions. He was the
first to explain clearly why the people
must keep three branches of govern
ment, the executive, judicial and
legislative.
above all liberties. the liberty to
know, to utter and to argue freely ac-
cordlng to conScience-eternal hostility
against every form of tyranny over
the mind of man, certainly that is
the spirit which must inspire the edu-
cation which Adams and jefferson said
the Government must forster. Does
American education mean that in all
the States of this country today? And
II not how will it be made to mean
that? Those are problems which YOU
young men and women must work
out, II You would be worthy of the
great Americans who founded your
country"
Dean William A. Wilbur presented
the following candidates for the de-
gree of bachelor of arts from Column
bian College:
Ella April. District of Columbia;
Nina NJ. Booth, New York; Lily Brun.
schwig. Switzerland with distinction):
Slmpllclo Gementiza, Philippine Is
lands; Loren Burritt, Maryland: Jesse
Sharpless Cheyney, Virginia; George
". Clarvoe, District of Columbia:
Mary Josephine Carter Cole, Pennsyl-
vania; Murray Marion Flack, Texas:
bernardo Barnachea Gapuz, Philip
pine Islands; Edith Mary Hayden, Vir-
ginia; John George Ingold, District OF
Columbia: Marcus Urban Lyons, In
diana; Mabel NOEL, Virginia; Lottie
Mildred PIERCE, Ohio; Robert Skliar.
District of Columbia with Distinction:
Thomas Dale Stewart, Pennsylvania:
Carr Robert Swinson, Wisconsin,; Ma
degda Tchomoneva, Bulgaria: Mary
Virginia Watkins, South Carolina;
Charles Willard Webb, Maryland, and
Martin Lester Weitz. New York.
Two Finish i'm Engineering.
The degree of bachelor of science
In civil engineering was awarded to
Joseph Blackstone Goldsmith of Vir-
glnla and Irl ri. Polk of MiSsissippi.
presented by Dean John r. Lapham
of the College of Engineering.
Dean William G. Ruediger presented
the following candidates for degrees
in the Teachers College, who re-
ceived the degree of bachelor of arts
and bachelors diploma in education:
Anna Margaret Crook, District of
Columbia with distinction).
Ella Margaret Crook, District of
Columbia with distinction).
Cecilia Pinkney Dulin, District of
Columbia.
Helen Gertrude Gantley, District of
Columbia.
Agnes Frederick A. Garrels, District
of Columbia with distinction).
Elizabeth Stanton Lewis, District
of Columbia.
Eva Anita Lewis, District of CO.
lumbia.
Alma Grace Lind, District of CO..
lumbia with distinction)
Ella Miller, District Of Columbia.
Martha Hamilton Neal Florida.
Clyde Roberts, Mississippi with
distinction).
Mary Rosetta Rouse. Virginia.
Julia Crawford Taliaferro, Virginia.
The degree Of doctor Of medicine
was conferred upon Henry Lynn Col
win of the District Of Columbia and
Abram Ellison Sommer of New
York, who We're presented by Dean
William G. Borden.
Dean William c. Van Week present.
ed the following candidates from the
Law School who received the degree
Of bachelor of laws: Richard Harold
Akers, Maryland; Forest Florian
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