West Point Cadets Return From Jamestown Exposition
West Point cadets 420 officers and men returned from the Jamestown exposition aboard the transport Sumner. One cadet, Lawrence Campbell Ricker of Maine, was hospitalized for appendicitis after seasickness and will enter academy hospital. Graduation exercises for the 111th class follow with diplomas to be awarded by Brig. Gen. Duvall and remarks by Col. Lawton. festivities include a reception and a dance tonight amid post triumph and returning families.
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West Point
United States Military Academy
Port Sumner
Sumner
Lawrence Campbell Ricker
Maine
Academy
Lelsef
Highland Falls
Hudson
Sweet Home
C. B. Rogers
Ray
Mess Hall
Commissariat
R. L. Howze
J. W. Scott
Transport Service
William P. Duvall
A. R. Lawton
War Department
Song for the Pope urged as universal Catholic anthem
The Ecclesiastical Review urges adoption of a new Catholic university anthem titled Song for the Pope. The piece, originating from Maynooth College and refined by American editors, is to be sung across Catholic colleges and likely adopted as the Knights of Columbus official song.
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Princeton
Harvard
Cornell
Farnham University
Manhattan College
Rome
Maynooth College
Ireland
Ecclesiastical Review
Maynooth
Richard the Lion Hearted
Louis XIV
Dr. Murray
T. J. Oreilly
W. O'Brien
Knights of Columbus
Baysaire
Ie Ponti
Cornell Medical School 72 Graduates Hear Gorgas Address
At Cornell Medical School ninth commencement President Schurman conferred 72 degrees, including ten women. Honor roll leaders include Cary Eggleston and Robert Gaby. Colonel William C. Gorgas spoke on malaria and yellow fever eradication in the Panama Canal zone, praising tropical sanitation advances and predicting wider global health benefits. Comparisons to Cuban work and measures like quinine, screens, and drainage were outlined as key to progress.
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Medical School of
Cornell
J. G. Schurman
Cornell University
Cary Eggleston
George Cary Eggleston
Robert Edward Gaby
Joshua Ronshim
David Wilson
William Crooks Thro
Edith Eugenia Johnson
George Whiting Wheeler
George Norman Pease
Lucy Carleton Reed
Idward Montgomery Wellebery
John Metcalfe Polk
Royale Hamilton Fowler
Dana
Canal Zone
United States Army
Cuba
Gorgas
Panama
Canal
Havana
Leonard Wood
Canal Strip
Colon
Sanitary Commission
Tropics
Exyr
Schurman
W. M. Polk
Manhattan
Tustant
Toronto
Lucas Joshi
Hombay
India
Ebbe Elizabeth Almgren
Stockholm
Sweden
Gifts for Dr Gammage Retiring Master Honored at St Pauls
Garden City June 12 After fourteen years as head master Dr Frederick Iu Gammage retires. Rumors of governance changes at St Pauls persist but no confirmation. He receives a loving cup from graduates a diamond ring from faculty and a purse of money from alumni. He plans to start a new school in Westchester County and may move many upperclassmen. Gammage buys the Dutcher House in Pawling N Y for 150000 and will add golf links and an athletic field after remodeling costing about 20000.
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Long Island
Frederick Iu Gammage
St. Paul’s School
Bishop Burgess
Dr. Gammage
Gagney
Westchester County
St. Paul's
Old Parish Celebrates 200th Anniversary in Connecticut
Stratford observes the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Church of England in Connecticut with services at Christ Church. Bishop Vinton presided, Dr Samuel Hart preached on early missionaries, and lectures honored Lamuel Johnson and contemporaries. Attendees included bishops from multiple states and dignitaries from Yale and Columbia, with letters from church leaders in London and New York.
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Church of England
Christ Church
Brewster
New England
Venerable Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
New Haven
Alexander Hamilton Vinton
Massachusetts
Samuel Hart
Berkeley Divinity School
Middletown
Colonel Heathcote
John Muirson
Timothy Cutler
Samuel Johnson
Henry Codman Potter
New York
N. E. Cornwell
Joseph Hooker
Durham
E. 8
Lines
Newark
Lamuel Johnson
Frederick I. Kingsbury
Waterbury
Arthur Foley
Winnington Ingram
London
Morgan Dix
Trinity Church
William Paret
Maryland
W. W. Niles
New Hampshire
W. F. Nichols
California
Williams
Aberdeen
Scotland
Seabury
Trinity College
Hadley
Yale University
W. A. Dunning
Columbia College
Vinton
Western
William N. McVickar
Rhode Island
Burton Mansfield
Degrees conferred at Union College commencement
Schenectady June 12 Joseph E Ransdell U S congressman from Louisiana gave the honorary chancellor s address at Union College hundred eleventh commencement. Degrees were conferred on 36 graduates and honorary degrees to several figures including George E Hoadley and Lewis S Chanler with President Raymond unable to attend due to his wife s death yesterday.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Joseph E. Ransdell
Congress
Louisiana
Union College
George A. Alexander
New York City
Raymond
Henry Re Leipziger
Department of Public Lectures
Ndrew H. Smith
Ghtsidas
Alexander EB
Orr
New Or City
George E. Hoadley
Swarthmore College
D. D
Robert College Holds 40th Commencement in Constantinople
The fortieth annual commencement exercises of Robert College were held today in Constantinople. A large number of guests attended, including Ambassador Leishman and the staff of the American Embassy.
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Constantinople
Robert College
Leishman
Italians Depart With Meager Wages for Homes in Italy
Nine Italian laborers traveling from Pittsburg to Italy claim their aggregate wealth of $2000, earned over five years in local mills, will sustain them for life. Seven men support large families, and the largest single possession they owned five years ago was worth about $1.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Italy
Old Country
Reachtieburg
Princeton Year End Commencement Honors Exceed Two Centuries
Princeton University marked its 160th commencement in Alexander Hall with music prayer and speeches. Harry McClure Johnson of Peoria MI gave the Latin salutatory, James Arthur Muller of Philadelphia delivered the valedictory, and President Wilson announced year end gifts including a major laboratory fund. Honorary degrees were conferred on several notable figures, with numerous post graduate and bachelor degree recipients listed among the graduates and honor men.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Alexander Hall
Harry McClure Johnson
Peoria
Presi Gent Wilson
Hughes Receives Honor Amid Commencement Debate
Governor Hughes is lauded for vetoing a railroad bill seen as preventing mob justice, while a day of ceremony at Columbia College honors faculty, graduates, and myriad fellowships. The address decries lynching in public discourse and extols reasoned judgment in governance and education.
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Hughes
New York
Painter Falls as Scaffold Breaks in Long Island City
A painter was killed and his fellow injured when a swinging scaffold collapsed on a five story Mott avenue building project in Long Island City. The men, Jacob Pullan and Samuel Axflugel, were painting the top story when the scaffold broke near its center, sending them into an uncovered basement. Pullan's neck was broken, Axflugel survived with bruises and declined hospital care.
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Mott Avenue
van Alst
East Avenues
Jacob Pullan
East 10Th Street
Hanley
St. John's Hospital
Samuel Axflugel
Eldridge Street
Dr Draper Speaks at Syracuse Commencement
Dr A S Draper State Commissioner of Education delivered the main oration at Syracuse University commencement. He spoke on The American Type of University as 362 graduates received degrees. Honorary degrees were awarded to De Witt B Thompson Edmund Alden Burnham Charles Mead Charles Kelley Jenness William Henry Sterling John Heston Willey Alexander Ross Merriam Hosmer Eaton Francis Newton Thorpe Daniel Pratt Baldwin and other honorees.
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Pennsylvania
South East Club University
Henry Roscoe Trumabower
New Jersey
Daniel R. Campbell
George Samuel Spehn
Clarence Ward
Connecticut
Robert Wallis Kelloge
Charles Christopher Mierow
Whilander Norton
New York
Fay Cluft Brown
Indiana
Boudinet
Harvey S. Haney
Houduet
Fonteine Carrington Weems
Texas
Alexander Guthrie McCosh
Horace Zwelzig Goas
David Robert Jones
Lynée Webate
Bridelttham
Breckenridge
J. A. Muller
Thomas Jackson Durell
Hubertis Maurice Cummings
Baird
James Arthur Muller
Alexander Jackle
Walter Abraham Hendricks
Frederick Morgan Harris
Canada
David Hubert Jones
George Potts
Robert Simpson Ridebotham
Michigan
Howard Conklin Baskerville
South Dakota
Frederick Barnard White
Louis Curtiss Cummins
Theodore Cuyler
Raleigh Hamnmond Hansl
Clyde Fuller Smith
Massachusetts
Robert Wallis Kellogg
C. O. Joline
New York Herald
William Parmly Dunn
Thomas Street Clark
Howard Rufus Stiles
Henry Jackson van Dyke
Lemuel Sheilabarger
Dis
Columbia
Edwin Silas Wells Kerr
Charlies Franklin Hosford
Archie Huston Ormond
Charles Christian Wolforth
Richard Harrison Hill
Kentucky
Fran Biddie
Isaac Thomas
James Craig Peacock
Francis Hinton Maule
Calvin Brewster Coulter
Pennsyvania
John Gey
Grant G. Exe
Ohio
Harvard
Walter Daniel Bonner
Nebraska
Porter Ogden Jacobus
Charles, William Kennedy
Horace Zweizig Goas
Frank Exieston Robbins
Bartholomew John Spence
Walter Loring Barrows
Charlie Fletch
Quillen
Henry Fairfield
Osborne da Costa
Elmer E. Brown
United States Commissioner of Education
Richard Watson Gilder
Hugh McCulloc Birkhead
St. George's Church
John Aaron Browning
Wilson Farrand
Newark Academy
Charles Gordon Curtis
Syracuse
A. S. Draper
State Commissioner of Education
Syracuse University
de Witt B. Thompson
Edmund Alden Burnham
Charles Mead
Newark
N. J
Charles Kelley Jenness
Parckersburg
W. Va
Wiliam Henry Sterling
Losangeles
John Heston Willey
Harttorget
Alexander Ross Merriam
LL. D
Hosmer Eaton
Francis Newton Thorpe
Daniel Pratt Baldwin
Logange Port
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