«be 81ti"et5it� of ftfJitagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTHETWENTIETH CONVOCATIONUbe ButumnOCTOBER FIRSTA. D. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVENTHE UNIVERSITY CON GREGA TIONAL CHURCHCHICAGO, ILLINOISORDER OF EXERCISESI. FANTASIE Saint SaensMR. WILHELM MIDDELSCHULTE.II. THE CONVOCATION PROCESSIONThe Counselors of the Junior Colleges and the Candidates for the JuniorCollege Certificate.The Counselors of the Senior Colleges and the Candidates for theBachelor's Degree.The Counselors of the Graduate and Divinity Schools and the Candidatesfor Higher Degrees.The Alumni.The Faculties.The Members of the University Senate and the University Council.The Official Guests of the University.The Trustees of the University.The University Chaplain and the Convocation Chaplain.The President of the University and the Convocation Orator.III. THE PRAYERThe Convocation Chaplain,REV. DONALD D. McLAURIN, D.D., Detroit.IV. THE CONVOCATION ADDRESS"The Unity of the World."THE REVEREND AMORY H. BRADFORD, D.D., Pastor of the FirstCongregational Church, Montclair, New Jersey.V. MUSIC-AndanteVI. THE PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY STATEMENT ON THE CONDITIONOF THE UNIVERSITYVII. MUSIC-Scherzo GuilmantBacltVIII. THE AWARD OF HONORSThe Ferdinand Peck Pri;e (or excellence in Public Speaki'l1g £n tlu Junior Collegeswas awardedMISS MARILLA ZEROYDA PARKER.TIle Prize for excellence in Public Speaking in the Senior Colleges was awardedMR. HARRY FULLER ATWOOD.TIlt Joseph Leiter Prise for excellence in Debate in the Graduate and DivinitySchools was awardedMR. STEPHEN ALBERT ROBERTS.Honorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Junior Colleges is awarded thefollowing student:Lucie Hammond.JOSEPHINE BURNHAMFREDERICK BRAMHALL Northwest Division High School.- Englewood High School.Honorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Senior Colleges is awarded tlufollowing students:Max Batt,Zelma Estelle Clark, Adelaide Steele Baylor,Max Darwin Slimmer, Allen Tibbals Burns,Laura May Wright.A Scholarship for excellence in the Autumn Examinations for admission is awardedeach of the following students:IX. THE CONFERRING OF CERTIFICATES AND DEGREESTHE COLLEGESThe Junior College Certificate is conferred upon the follow£ng students:Eva Ellen Anderson,Ann Baldwin,Esther Bennett,Thomas Brogden Blackburn,Melvin Edward Coleman,Lawrence De Graff, Joseph Almond Dixon,Nott William Flint,Lucie Hammond,Cora Roche Howland,Helen Mabel Martin, Benjamin Bennett Melton,Marilla Zeroyda Parker,Elbridge Washburne Rice,Max Jonas Spiegel,George Balderston Vvatson:The Degree of Bachelor of Arts is conferred upon the following students:William Harvey Allen,Albert William Bolt,Allen Tibbals Burns,Zelma Estelle Clark, Marion Vernon Cosgrove,Ralph Janssen,Florence LaTourette,Linius Lehmann Strock, Robert Newton Tooker, jr.,Laura May Wright.The Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy is conferred upon the following students:Eva Ellen Anderson,Max Batt"Adelaide Steele Baylor, Etta Fulcomer Beach,Arthur Edward Beers,Esther Bennett, Alice Boomer,George Horace Gaston,Elbridge Washburne Rice.Jacob William Braam,Pauline LaTourette, Florence May Lyon,William Lloyd Mercer, Jessie Louisa Nelson,Max Darwin Slimmer.The Degree of Bachelor of ' Science is conferred upon the following students,'THE DIVINITY SCHOOLThe Degree of Bachelor of Divinity is conferred by the University upon thefollowing students:JERRY TINDER CRAWFORD Thesis: Th� Contributz"on of the Synoptic Gospels to DogmaticAnthropoloKY.HUGH HENRY HURLEYWILLIAM PLEASANTS OSGOOD Thesis: The Founder of British India.Thesis: The Nature and Grounds of Justification in the Epistleto the Romans.Thesis: The Social Condition of England in the Fourteenth Cen-ELMER TILSON STEVENStury.The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred by the University upon thefollowing student:WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Thesis: The Sources of Alexander Campbell's Theology.THE GRADUATE SCHOOLThe Degree of Master of Arts is conferred by the University upon the followingstudent:HENRY MAGEE ADKINSON Thesis: Conceptions of Property among North American IndiansThe Degree of Master of Science is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents:LOUELLA CHAPINEDGAR EZEKIEL DECOUHARRIET STONE Thesis: North America during the Devonian Period.Thesis: The Conform Representation by tlu Functionw = a Z2 - 2 b z + c, and the Inverse Function.Thesis: The Constitution of Uric Acids.The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents:PHILIP SCHUYLER ALLEN Thesis: Wilhelm .Mtiller and th� German Volkslied.CARL EVANS BOYDSAMUEL JACKSON HOLMESJESSIE LOUISE JONESCHARLES WILLIAM SEIDENADEL Thesis: The Development of Government in Illinois.Thesis: The Early Development of Planorbis trivolvis.Thesis: The Phonology of the Elis Saga.�hesis: Quid de musices uniuersa: eiusque aliquot partium sing-a­larum potestate HElO� aut rrAeO� et exjJrimendi etefliciendi veterum Gracorum scriptores, imprimis Platonee non Aristoteies iudicarint.X. THE BENEDICTIONThe Convocation Chaplain.XI. THE RECESSIONRecessional March.MARSHAL.NOTT WILLIAM FLINT.ASSISTANT MARSHALS.FRANKLIN HERMON GESELBRACHT, MARCUS PETER FRUTCHEY,CLARENCE BERT HERSCHBERGER, WILLOUGHBY GEORGE WALLING.The Exercises connected with the Dedication of the Yerkes Observatory of theUniversity will take place at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, October 18-2 I, 1897, and inChicago, October 22, 1897.