Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1916, Page 7

~o- el i (Nine Cornhuskers and Twenty- WESTERN LADS AT SCHOOL IN EAST Eight Iowans Get Diplomas - at Illinois. e ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT Nine Nebraskans and twenty-eight lowans were among the 1,064 students who received degrees from the Uni- versity of Illinois this year. The de-| grees were conferred last Wednesday before an audience numbering 5,000. These Nebraskans received degrees: Carleton—Lester Clyde Lichty, B. S., M. S. in mechanical engineering. Grand Island — Kenneth Dwight Ross, A. B. in business administra- tion. Harvard—James Wilbur Whisen- anhd, B. S,, M. S. in animal husbandry. Lincoln—Robert Lesley Davis, A.| B., A. M. in botany. Louis Francis| \Ie!er, doctor of dental surgery Wal- ter John Wohlenberg, B. S, M. S. in mechanical engineerin Linwood—Earle E. of dental surgery. North Platte—Herbert Ralph Al- den, doctor of dental surgery. | Omaha—l\]aunce Carl Johnson, B. S. in mechanical engineering. In the professional schools, 32 he-‘ came doctors of dentistry, 109 doc-| tors of medicine, 20 bachelors of law, ! 5 doctors of law and 41 took degrees in pharmacy. In the undergraduate colleges, 209 receive the bachelor’s degree in lib- eral arts and sciences, 69 in commerce | and business administration, 222 in en- | gineering, 180 in agriculture and 6 in music. fif the graduates 856 are men and 3 womes, | .rc..lumt__C!:u Addreas, President Edmund J. James, Ph. D., LL. D,, delivered the annual com-| mencement address at the University | of Illinois on Wednesday, June 14, by special request of the university com- mittee on arrangements. Only a few of the classes graduated from the yni- versity in the last twelve years have had this privilege. The custom has been to invite noted diplomats or publicists to perform this function, On Tuesday, Juné 13, the annual convocation of the forty-fifth com-| mencement was given over to a me- | morial address on Thomas Jonathan ‘ohnson, doctor | reports of committees Burrill by Professor Stephen A. Forbes. The conferring of degrees took place in the mammoth armory of the university on Wednesday. One hundred and forty-one new doctors of medicine and dentlstry came from Chxcago to receive their degrees. Other events of the week were the baccalaureate address on Sunday aft- ernoon by: Rev. Charles F. Wishart, D. D., pastor of the Second Presby- terian church of Chicago; the class day exercises, class reunions, Phi Bctal Kappa meeting, tercentenary produc- tion of Shakespeare’s “As You' Like It” and the senior ball on Monday, the alumni dinner, the college recep- tions and the president’s reception, all on Thursday. BUSINESS ECHOOL NOTES. Personal Mention nf Those Attending School of Business. Miss Martha Thompson of the Nebraska School of Business has accepted a position in a bank at Liberty Miss Gladys Slocum, who for the last sev eral months has been a student in the nor- mal training department of the college, left Wednesday to begin her dutles as junior superintendent and playgrounds supervisor with a chautauqua company. Miss Slocum expects to be absent about ten weeks. Milss Joyce Ballard returned Wednesday from Chicago, where she completed her course In the National Kindergarten college. Among the former normal training stu- dents who have called at the school t wnak are Miss Lottle Savage of Wichl : Miss Ethel Rough of Falls City, Nel Mlu Mabel Kiser of Sapulpa, Okl.; M Mildred Yaung of Topeka, Kan.: Mrs. Cora Taylor of Aurora, Neb., and Otfo W. Hack- man of Richmond, Ind.. all of whom have been teaching commercial branches in the high schools of their respective cities. Miss Leuvicy Hill, a mal_training department, has been elected instructor of commercial branches in the | | Lincoln junior high school The European war is taking on an added interest for the college folks just now, be- cause of the fact that Dr. Phil Dale, a brother of Lloyd and Sadle Dale, is a sur- geon in the British army hospital near Bologne, France. The annual picnie of the normal training | department was held at the state farm W ednesday evening. “N. §. B." commercial teachers were present from Wyoming, | Colorado, New York, Kansas, Missouri, In- | diana, Minnesota and Nebraska. After the plenic-dinner the teachers effected an or- ganization intended to promote fellowship and mutual interests. Tvan Mitchell of Rawlins, Wyo., was elected temporary chalr- man and Miss Trilla Gardner of the college faculty, temporary secretary. The associa- | tion will meet again in two weeks to hear and complete the permannt organization. Among other students of the college who have accepted stenographic and clerical positions within the last few days are: Floyd Oldt, with the J. I. Case Threshing com- pany: Cyril Leaden, with the Bankers Life Insurance company; Raymond Smith, with the Burlington Raflroad company; Neva Lofton, with the Spirella compa Pearl | Trump, with tho Missouri Valley Film com- pany. Miss Lillian Stoll, who has been teaching commercial branches in the high school at Texarkana, Tex. Wwas renewing acquaint- ances among the faculty and former class- mates at the college Monday. Roland Frost and family are spending the summer vacation in Lincoln, Mr. Frost an instructor in commercial branches Jamestown university, Jamestown, N. D. Albert Hackman, who has been at the head of the commercial work in the Har- | vard High school, has just declined a posi- tion in the commercial department of the Lincoln_City offer ot $I, teacher in Oak at schools in order to accept an per year as LIBERAL ENDOWMENT Washington University Medical School Re- celves Nearly a Million, St. Louis, Mo.—June 17, 1916—A million dollars will be avallable for use by the Washington University Medical school with | the opening of the new term In September | - through the donation to the school of $166,- 000 each by Edward Mallinckrodt and John T. Milliken, St. Louls philanthropists. The aannouncement of the two gifts was made at the fifty-fith annual commencement of the university by Robert 8. Brookings president of the corporation, One fund of $500,000, which will be known as the Edward Mallinckrodt fund will be devoted to teaching and research work in pediatrics. The other fund of $500,000, which will be known as the John T. Milll- ken funds will enable the Medical school to employ physiclans in these departments for their full time. The amount in addition to the Mallinkrodt and Milliken donations to bring it to $1,000,000 has been donated by the General Education board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. Another $333,000 is avallable for usse in the department of surgery just as soon as the Medical school can ralse another $166.- 000. President Brookings declared that the last amouont would likely be donated with- in a year. — — College and Academy SACRED HEART 36th and Burt Sts., Park Place, Omaha, Neb. tudent In the nor- | THY BEE WILSON SPEAKS AT THE UNL ! President Honors Second Convocation of Washington University. President Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Danlels spoke at the second convo- cation of the American university, Wash- ington, D. C. Bishop John W. Hamilton, who was { elected chancellor of the university to suc- { ceed his brother, when the latter rexigned to take up his new work as a bishop of the Methodist church, was honored with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, as | was also Bishop Cranston. Bishop Cranston was also presented with an automobile. | Bishop Willlam A. Quayle made a re- | markable convocation address on “The Scholar and His Times." A great company filled the new open-air amphitheater In the romantic tullp grove on the university campus to mark this sec- ond convocation of the American university. Many notable citizens of the national capi- tal were present. Seven bishops were on | the platform and took part in the exer-| clses. The weather was perfect, The sylvan shade, the green slopes reaching upward to form a natural amphitheter, the bright academlc costumes of those participating in the convocation, the historic signiticance of the hour which was witnessing the first | | assignment of degrees in the life of a new the noble spaclousness of the university campus itself—all helped to make the occaslon memorable and to give o sense of exaltation to those who were so for- tunate as to be present. It was a record day in the life of the American university. | Ten fellowships were granted on_ the recommendation of the University Board | of Awards. 1In addition to the two hon-| orary degrees given, three degrees were | conferred upon candidates in course. One of these two men discovered three laws of agriculture which will serve to enrich milllons of acres of farming land in this country. The second has made clear the | methods of nitrogenous enrichment of the soil. The third has created a more econ- omical way of producing “baby beef.” Doce torates in philosohy were awarded to El- bert Clyde Lathrop and Junius Sidney Cates. ! Morton Oacar Cooper was made Master of Arts. | university, NEBRASEA WESLEYAN, A Great Institution, Under Direction of the Methodist Church. Beautifully and healthfully located in University Place, a suburb of Lincoln, is the Nebraska Weslevan university. 1t _has fine bulldings and a faculty of the highest type. Its college of lberal arts, teachers' coliege, academy, conservatory of music, school of expression and oratory and school of arts offer advantages in many fields of orudition. | It has had an uninterrupted career | through many years of success and growth, "“'Hmll.q‘ 57 | Research. | 1916 at Johns Hopkin university, Baltimore, | OMAHA, MO MI | L;}l{lfllfll\”"j@j w) ‘\fli‘ DEGREES CONFERRED Washington Universl edical School Hon- ors 212 Candidates. One honorary degree of Dactor of Laws was conferred at the commencement of Washington University medieal school, St. Louls. The reciplent’ wasx Dr. Theobald 8mith of Princeton, N. J., who Is connceted with the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Dr, Smith was formerly professor ot Comparative Pathology at Harvard Uni- versity and exchange professor to Berlin. Dr. Fraderic A, Hall, acting chancellor, conferred degrees on 212 candidates. A crowd of 3000 persons witnessed the exer- clses. Gov. Elliott W. Major sat on the platform | The commencement address was delivered | by Bishop Duniel 8. Tuttle. Hlis subject was “Antiseptics.” Degrees were conferred on four marrled women. There were three sets of brothers | and sisters in the graduating class. A Master of Arts degree was conferred on Sel- den P. Spencer, jr., who is a misxionary at Fatl, Canton, China. 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Ruth Salom, also | s class, wrote the incidental he dances were led Helen exercises were held in the Co- raity gymnasium. resident, gave the salutatory president of the Undergradu. aledictory. “Knocks" ullet Steinthal and the class by Emma Seipp. Elect! Appa were announced R. Alexander, Dalsy M. Appley, Blondel, Tda M. B. Cheatham, Sleanore Jeann ¥ Mary Pow- Emma Selpp, Wallace, Mabel announced that glven cach vear to the | t, BEleanor N. Glldersleeve | prize, the college, had been awarded Loren. | Barnard took part in the | eniors | B." degres and seven the | ¥ ree. After the exer the a luncheon at Brooks hall for and graduates of Barnard JACKSON, NEBRASKA. School of Law. students to enter upon the ceptional advantages in Music. Regis tember Gth, 1016, For partjculars, add equipped. ding lawyers and judges. opens September 26, . Conducted by the Sisters of the Order of St. Dominic. girls. Accredited to the State University, Normal training course for teachers. lon September 4th. 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