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Description: Gallaudet is 50 Years Old -
Anniversary Celebrated and Graduating Exercises Held
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Gallaudet is 50 Years Old
Anniversary Celebrated and Graduating Exercises Held
Addresses Appropriate to the Double Occasion Delivered by President Hall and Others
Exercises commencing the 50th anniversary of the founding of the college and the graduation ceremonies for the class of 1914 were held in Chapel Hall, Gallaudet College, yesterday afternoon.
The meeting was presided over by President Percival Hall. The Rev. Stephen M. Newman, D. D., president of Howard University, delivered the invocation. Addresses were made by President Emeritus Edward Miner, President Hall, and Prof. Charles Alphonso Smith, of the University of Virginia.
The orations of the graduating class were as follows: "The Feast of Judah," Rebecca Helen Rosenstein; "One of California's Gems," Edith Mabel Nelson, and "Specialization," Lawrence
Earle Johnson.
The degrees conferred were:
Walter G. Durlan, A. B.
Walter O. Hunter, A. B.
Lawrence E. Johnson, A. B.
Edith M. Nelson, A. B.
Helen Rebecca Rosenstein, A. B.
Alpha W. Patterson, Bachelor of Philosophy
Dora Campbell, Bachelor of Letters
Helen B. Fulkerson, M. A.
Lucy Lee, M. A.
Clarence J. Fettles, M.A.
Hattie L. Deen, normal degree
Peter N. Paterson, degree in course conferred
Margaret N. Leveck, degree in course conferred
Leslie A. Elmer, degree in course conferred
The honorary degrees were:
James H. Logan, Doctor of Science
Olaf Hanson, Doctor of Science
The Rev. Philip J. Hasenstab, D. D.
The Rev. James H. Clowd, D.D.
Samuel G. Davison, Doctor of Letters
J. Schuyler Long, Doctor of Letters
Laura Sheridan, M. A.
Sylvia C. Balls, M.A.