Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-11
297 GET DEGREES
. At c. i. EXERCISES
Dr.. ]. D. M. Ford of Harvard
Makes Annual Address
to Graduates.

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A plea for greater appreciation and
fairer consideration Of the historic
period between the fifth and fifteenth
centuries, called both the dark" and
medieval" ages. was voiced by DR.. J.
-. M Ford, professor of Romantic
languages at Harvard University in his
address to the graduates of the Catho-
lie University In the fortieth annual
commencement this morning
The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-
Biondi, apostolic delegate to the United
States, presided over the exercises In
the university gymnasium, at which 297
degrees were conferred.
In his address, DR.. Ford declared that
those who continue to characterize the
medieval period as the dark GgsS'
are "actuated by ignorance or by un-
reasoning prejudice"
Named by Prejudiced.
"As a matter of fact" DR.. Ford con-
tinued, sit was the prejudiced who first
deliberately designated the middle ages,
They ignored the fact that the ten CEN
turtles between the fifth and fifteenth
had never lost classical Latin culture
and naively proceeded to style them
barbarous and uniformed IN truth,
the glory that was Greece had passed
in great measure from the direct CON
seriousness of western men of the middIe
ages but these latter had never lost
sight of the grandeur that was Rome.
For long time. DR.. Ford said. neo--
classiSists maintained The TRADITION OF
disesteem for the middle ages, ana an
unreflecting world accepted their attl-
tude." but during the last century theIe
ensued a movement of Romanuclsm III
which the rights of the middle ages
were chanpioned. A reaction was bound
TO occur, DR.. Ford declared, ana coLi-
tinued: !.
at comes now, and 10 and behold, II
takes men back into the medieval world
for the inspiration they need. FOR tne
content of their works the Romantics,
aS the innovators are termed, turn away
from pagan classic antiquity anu IN
their gaze upon the CHRISTIAN ana
chiyalrous Middle Ages. which, as they
eyisted I'm fact and as they are pictured
in medieval literature. are now louIlo W
be of rich and varied interest.
Modern Beginning.
Declaring that the Romantic move
rent i'm literature was unable 10 con-
troll literary ideals for proloneSo
period. and that even before the nlIu-
point of the nineteenth century IneIe
had begun the modern age OF material
lem Win its preference for the realism
~ actualitv and a realism which still
holds sway. DR. Ford SAID:
But. though Romanticism as dom-
inant factor in creative literary arr mas
had To Weld to other forces, certain ell
fects OF the romantic aVocauon OF
medievalism still abide with us, ana II
is my plea that they should be gwen
ever greater importance. Those OF US
who are medievalists by profession as
ut an undissolved continuity Of de-
yelopment during those thousand years.
They. far from being gap, FAR from
being even only a link, between the
ancient and modern world, present an
enRrossing panorama Of activity IN al
the arts of refinement. and OF tnese
literature is not the least"
The exercises were opened Win an
invocation by Right Rev. Mgr. EoWaro
Pace, vice rector OF the university alCeI
which Right Rev. Mgr. James HUGH
RYAN. rector, made the university an
nouncementS.
The candidates for degrees were pre-
aented by the deans Of their respective
schools, and the degrees were conferred
Iov Mgr. RYAN. Following the conferrlng
81 degrees John Francis Bergln, VINO
had lust received the degree OF bacheior
of science in chemical engineering oe-
uvered the valedictory.
Deprecs were awarded as follows:
THE School of Sciences, Hardee Cham-
Hiss. Ph, D., dean: Bachelor of arts
stephen George Gardella, Thomas
Francis Murphy, Edward Adelard Soucy,
Martyn Andrew Vickers, Alvin Jonn
walls. Bachelor of Science-Ttmotny
Crawford May, Thomas Ivan Moore,
Robert Joseph Linehan, George Miinoi-
land Wheatley. B. S. In chemical en-
Eineering-John Francis Bergin, Jonh
Russell Juten. Louis Singer, Joseph
Dominic Parent B. S. in civil engineer
ing-,Joseph Patrick Bonner, Samuel
lee Denty, Walter Francis Walton.
b. S. In architecture-Paul August
Ooettelmann. Theobold Holsopple, Ed
ward Allan Kiely, Sumner Coleman Rus
sell William Gerald Shea, Robert
Arthur Weppner, jr. B. S. in electrical
ngineering-Thomas Fleming Barry,
Bartholomew Diggins, Bernard Charles
Kiley, James Thomas Kline, LOUIS
August Kline, Robert Harding Rose,
Whitmore Andrew Wiltz. B. S. in me-
chanical engineering-Gabriel Thomas
Guijarro, James Joseph Mcguire, Rob-
ert Callahan Riordon, William Edward
Weidner. Master of arts-Brother
.Aurelius, c. F. X. Rev. George Jesse
Baldwin, c. S. c.; Rev. Henry Joseph
Bolger, c. S. c.; Sister Mary Callista
Coghlan, Thomas Francis Collins, jr;
Arthur Joseph Hartman, Rev. Raphael
Kelleher, o. P; Clarence John Link,
Sister Mary Gonzaga Miller, o. S. F.;
William Francis Radle, Irene Behllng
Rainier, Lawrence Ward Sheridan. Civil
engineer-Frank Aloysius Biberstein,
jr. Doctor of philosophy-Sister Marie
Cecilia Mangold, S. N. D.; Sister Mary
Joseph Therese Geiger, B. V. M; John
Regli Hill. Rev. Edward Richard Werm,
Rev. Louis Antoine Victor De Cleene,
Q. Praem; Rev. Frank Joseph O'Hara,
c. S. c.
The School Of Letters,
Patrick J. Lennox, Lift. D., dean:
Bachelor of arts-Francis Broome,
C. S. P: Joseph Harold Clark, William
James Clark, Joseph Gerard Fitzgerald,
Robert Emmett Gilbert, C. S. p.
Master OF arts-Rev. Henry Alex
ander Dirchx. A. F. M; Rev P. Adrian
Donauer, o. S. B.; Rev. William Francis
Dwyer, Rev. Edgar Paul Eberle, o. F. M.
Rev. Hugh Sheolin Gallagher c. S. c.;
Sister Angela Elizabeth Keenan,, S. N. d.
Rev. Thomas Armand Kelly, G. S. c.;
Rev Richard Andrew Kieman, o. F. M {;
Rev Raymond Ambrose Kinnavey, Rev.
Paul Bernard Kirchen, Henry Donald
McIsaac, Sister Mary ST. Michael
Redmond, o. P; Sister Mary Gertrude
Winter.
Doctor Of philosophy-August Joseph
APP, Brother Lawrence Boil, s. M.
Henry Edward Cain, Sister Lucilla Din
neen. Rev. Stephen John Radtke
o. S. B.; Rev Francis John Rock
M Joseph Aloysius Buck, ST., B. v. M.
The School of Philosophy,
Very Rev. Nicholas A. Weber, S. M.
S. T. D., dean
Bachelor of arts-Joseph Edward
Bell. James Joseph Blaney, James Ed.