Saturday, January 21, 2012

1898 Commencement, Dartmouth College at Hanover, New Hampshire


Order of Exercises at the One Hundred and Thirty-first Commencement, June 29, 1898 at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hamsphire.  

Stitched booklet, approximately 8" x 6", two interior leaves.



Prayer
Music
1.  Salutatory Address, with Oration: The Part of the Great Man in Social Progress.  By Frederic Pomeroy Lord of Hanover, New Hampshire
2.  Oration: The Future of New England's Cotton Industry.  By Ernest Paris Seelman of Brooklyn, New York
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3.  Oration: The Superiority of the Anglo Saxons.  By Everard Walker Snow of Mount Pleasant, D. C.
4.  Oration: The Rapid Utilization of Scientific Discovery.  By George Francis Smith of Raleigh, North Carolina
5.  Oration: Work and Workers in Fiction.  By Fletcher Harper Swift of Brooklyn, New York
6.  Oration, with Valedictory Address: Four Athenian Critics of Democracy.  By Walter Sidney Adams of Derry, New Hampshire
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Degrees Conferred


The following members of the class, in addition to the foregoing, received a Commencement appointment, ranking above 85 per cent for the course:

George Louis Farley of Lynn, Massachusetts
John Alfred Gilman of West Fairlee, Vermont
George Abbott Green of Brooklyn, New York
Myron George Littlefield of Ogunquit, Maine
George Lockwood of Bradford, Massachusetts
Chester Frederick Williams of Milford, Massachusetts

Special Honors
Walter Sidney Adams, Greek and Mathematics
Ernest Paris Seelman, German

Final Honors
Walter Sidney Adams, Greek and Mathematics


Graduating Class

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts
**Walter Sidney Adams of Derry, New Hampshire
Joseph Warren Bartlett of Boston, Massachusetts
Edward Carpenter Batchelder of Pittsfield, New Hampshire
Frederick Vucassovich Bennis of Brooklyn, New York
Herbert Willard Blake of Bradford, Vermont
Robert Davis Brown of Washington, D.C.
Chester Warren Bulfinch of Athol, Massachusetts
Joseph Patrick Carney of West Gardner, Massachusetts
*Charles Everett Carr of Orford, New Hampshire
Charles Reuel Carter of Woburn, Massachusetts
James Russell Chandler of Worcester, Massachusetts
Charles Ernest Clark of West Brattleboro, Vermont
John Marcus Connelly of Clinton, Massachusetts
Ephraim Hitchcock Crane of Ludlow, Vermont
Henry Denis Crowley of Miller's Falls, Massachusetts
Ernest Eugene French of West Lebanon, New Hampshire
Ernest Morgan Gleason of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire
Harry Winfred Goodall of Exeter, New Hampshire
George Abbott Green of Brooklyn, New York
Frederic Hamilton Leggett of Brooklyn, New York
‡Frederic Pomeroy Lord of Hanover, New Hampshire
Robert Fiske Marden of Lowell, Massachusetts
William Howard Middleton of Webster, New York
*William Hugh Mitchell of Acworth, New Hampshire
Charles Dempster Montgomery of Somersworth, New Hampshire
Sherman Roberts Moulton of Randolph, Vermont
Hedley Philip Patey of Waltham, Massachusetts
Robert Earle Peck of Winsted, Connecticut
Bradley Carleton Rodgers of Newtown, Connecticut
Fred Dana Sawin of East Watertown, Massachusetts
George Francis Smith of Raleigh, North Carolina
Melvin Wilbur Smith of Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts
Everard Walker Snow of Mount Pleasant, D. C.
John Roland Spring of Lebanon, New Hampshire
Fletcher Harper Swift of Brooklyn, New York
*Warren Delmer Turner of Weston, Vermont
*Clarence Clayton Walker of Cornish, New Hampshire
Chester Frederick Williams of Milford, Massachusetts

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters
Charles Duncan of Chelsea, Massachusetts
John Bernard Christian Eckstrom of Chicago, Illinois
Guy Clement Griffin of Litchfield, New Hampshire
Albert Dodge Jones of Rochester, New Hampshire
George Lockwood of Bradford, Massachusetts
David Carr Macandrew of Braintree, Massachusetts
*Elliott Lufkin Perkins of Danvers, Massachusetts
*Frederick Winthrop Perkins of Salem, Massachusetts
Frederick Seth Pope, Jr., of Sandwich, Massachusetts
Frederick William Robbert of Brooklyn, New York
Cortes Mayland Russell of Wilder, Vermont
†Ernest Paris Seelman of Brooklyn, New York
Clarence Everett Sibley of Orange, Massachusetts

Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science
John Albert Anderson of Independence, Kansas
Israel Aubey of Manchester, New Hampshire
*James Lyman Belknap of Andover, Massachusetts
Harry Wallace Clark of Derry, New Hampshire
George Louis Farley of Lynn, Massachusetts
Guy Lewis Gary of Chelsea, Massachusetts
†John Alfred Gilman of West Fairlee, Vermont
Frederick Azro Gibbs of Dover, New Hampshire
Lawrence Ilsley Hewes of Braintree, Massachusetts
William Albert Kimball of Plymouth, New Hampshire
Myron George Littlefield of Ogunquit, Maine
Richard Marcy of Belmont, Massachusetts
Seth Enoch Moody of Agency, Iowa
Harrison Lincoln Nichols of Baldwinville, Massachusetts
George Henry Nolan of Middleboro, Massachusetts
*Allan Bouton Patterson of Washington, D. C.
*Albert Smith of Newark, Ohio
Walter Taylor Sumner of Manchester, New Hampshire
Edward Orlando Tabor of Hanover, New Hampshire
Oscar Persons Tabor, Jr. of Orange, Massachusetts


Candidates for the Degree of Civil Engineer
James Leland Averill of Northfield, Vermont
William Hoyt Balch of Nashua, New Hampshire
Maurice Fritchley Brown of Somerville, Massachusetts
William Hale Ham of East Barrington, New Hampshire
James Laroy Mann of Randolph, Vermont

Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine
Owen Abner Buck Ames of Fairfield, Maine
Benjamin Ward Baker of New Boston, New Hampshire
Alexander Angus Beaton of Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Mortimer Roland Beaudoin-Bennett of New York, New York
Clarence Harvey Burr of Thetford, Vermont
John Philip Carroll of Peabody, Massachusetts
Harry Oscar Chesley of Barnstead, New Hampshire
Samuel Wright Crittenden, Ph. G. of Oswayo, Pennsylvania
William Pierce Crosby of Warren, Pennsylvania
Frank Webster Evans of Coos, New Hampshire
Howard Nelson Kingsford of Hanover, New Hampshire
Richard Henry Lawlor of East Douglass, Massachusetts
Daniel Henry McLaury of New York, New York
Harry Charles Martin of Sutton, Massachusetts
Walter Emery Merrill of Portland, Maine
Clarence Clark Northrop of Clinton, Massachusetts
Harry Stearns Platts of Rindge, New Hampshire
Azarie Moise Joseph Prevost, A. B. of Lewiston, Maine
Watson Smith Purinton of Kenduskeag, Maine
Charles Henry Quinn of Concord, New Hampshire
John Wheeler, A. B. of Plymouth, New Hampshire
George Gordon Byron Wilson of Lowell, Massachusetts
Dennis Patrick Wims of Olneyville, Rhode Island

Candidate for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Charles Henry Richardson of Hanover, New Hampshire

* In the service of the United States
Cum laude
Magna cum laude
**Summa cum laude


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