frfle 8nibetsit)1 of �fl.itagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'THETWENTY-THIRD CONVOCATIONUbe SummerJULY FIRSTA. D. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHTTHE GRADUATE QUADRANGLECHICAGO, ILLINOIS11,IIIII11(( ORDER OF EXERCISESI. MUSIC-Processional March-The Bride-ElectTHE PULLMAN MILITARY BAND. SousaII. 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,THE REVEREND ALONZO K. PARKER, D.D., Chicago.IV. THE CONVOCATION ADDRESSTHE HONORABLE WILLIAM L. WILSON, Lexington, Virginia, Presidentof Washington and Lee University.V, MUSIC-Selection-Excerpts from" Maritana "- WallaceVI. THE PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY STATEMENT ON THE CONDITIONOF THE UNIVERSITYVII. MUSIC-The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott KeyVIII. THE AWARD OF HONORSThe Ferdinand Peck Prize for excellence in Public Speaking in the Jun£or Collegesis awardedMR. VERNON SIRVILIAN PHILLIPS.The University Prize for excellence in Public Speaking tn the Senior, Colleges isawardedMR. EDWIN CAMPBELL WOOLLEY.The Joseph Leiter Prize for excellence in Debate in the Graduate and DivinitySchools is awarded the representatives of the Graduate School:MR. EDWIN MAXEY (special mention),MR. WILLIAM BUCK GUTHRIE,MR. JOHN FRANKLIN HAGEY.Honorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Junior Colleges is awarded thefollowing students:Lydia Brauns,Elizabeth Earnist Buchanan,Matilde Castro,Jennie Louise Coon,Charles Verner Drew,Harry Norman Gottlieb,Charles Duffield Wrenn Halsey, Ernest Edward Irons,Howard Pendleton Kirtley,Sarah Frances Lindsay,Ella Christina Lonn,Florence Leona Lyon,Ralph Curtiss Manning,Mary Chapman Moore, Harry Bauland Newman,Julia Lillian Peirce,Metta L. Persons,Lewis Carlton Pettitt,Howard Woodhead.Honorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Senior Colleg«: is awarded thefollowing students:Trevor Arnett,Edward Max Baker,Helen Adelaide Baldwin,Florence Fielding Ball,Laura Helen Bevans,Bertha Imogene Bishop,Charles Joseph Bushnell,Laura Gano,Franklin Hermon Geselbracht, Frederic Mayor Giles,Eva Bronson Graves,Juliet Harris,Clarence Bert Herschberger,Charles Leo Hunley,Charles Lederer,Nellie Blanche Lenington,Angeline Loesch,Fred Merrifield, Ralph Leroy Peck,Genevieve Pendleton,Evangeline Myrtle Pollard,William Levi Richer,David Moore Robinson,Daniel Martin Schoemaker,Arthur Whipple Smith,Franklin Egbert Vaughan,Edwin Campbell Woolley.A scholarship in the Senior Colleges for excellence in the work of the Junior Col-leges is awarded each of the following students: 'Lydia Brauns, German, Jennie Louise Coon, Mathematics,Roberta Irvine Brotherton, Chemistry, Charles Verner Drew, Ge010gy,Charles Warren Chase, History, Abraham Alcon Ettelson, English,John Joseph Clarkson, French" Ernest Edward Irons, Zoology, Alice Lachmund, Philosophy,Mary Chapman Moore, Greek,Julia Lillian Peirce, Latin,Marie Werkmeister, Physics.A scholarship in the Graduate Schools for excellence in the work of the Senior Col­leges is awarded each of the following students:Trevor Arnett, Political Economy,Helen Adelaide Baldwin, Latin,Max Batt, German,Charles Joseph Bushnell, Sociology, Demia Butler, English, David Moore Robinson, Greek,Fred Harvey Calhoun, Geology, Arthur Whipple Smith, Mathematics,Frederic Mayor Giles, Philosophy, Edwin Campbell Woolley,Pol. Science.Clarence Bert Herschberger, Physics,IX. THE CONFERRING OF CERTIFICATES AND DEGREESThe Junior College Certificate is conferred upon the following students:Sarah Weber Addams,Lindley Willet Allen,Rebert' Cyrenius Beers,Otie Eleanor Betts,Greta Irvin Blanchard,Lydia Brauns,Elizabeth Earnist Buchanan,Horace Butterworth,Marian Harmon Calhoun,joseph White Campbell,Mary Elizabeth Casteel,Matilde Castro,Vashti Chandler,Margaret Marie Choate,Jennie Louise Coon,Charles Braden Davis,Charles Verner Drew,'J�:�B.B:BBBBBBB�CU­DDDFFFGG THE COLLEGESJulia Metcalfe Finney,Paul Jefferson F.ox,Harry Norman Gottlieb,Glenn Plumb Hall,Charles Duffield Wrenn Halsey,Lawrence Hamill,Arthur Sears Henning,Harriet Frances Hollis,Allen Grey Hoyt,Ernest Edward Irons,Sallie Elizabeth King,Heward Pendleton Kirtley,Mary Nickerson Lakin,Irwin Lester,Sarah Frances Lindsay,Elizabeth Hathaway Lingle, Ella Christina Lonn,Florence Leona Lyon,Ralph Curtiss Manning,James Fred Miller,Mary Chapman Moore,Harry Bauland Newman,Adolph Cremieux Norden,Nellie Regina O'Brien,Julia Lillian Peirce,Metta L. Persons,Louis Carlton Pettitt,Albert Simpson Russell,Benjamin Samuels,Walter Ioseph Schmahl,Paul Caldwell Wilson,Howard W.oodhead.The Degree of Bachelor of Arts ts conferred upon the following students:The Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy is conferred upon the following students:Harold Ernest Andersen,Trevor Arnett,Edward Max Baker,Helen Adelaide Baldwin,Gleason A. Dudley,Franklin Hermon Geselbracht,Hiram Gillespie,Georgia Laird Gowen,Fred Charles Hack,}.ohn Franklin Hagey,Swen Benjamin Andersen,Delia Austrian,Florence Fielding Ball,Helen Huntington Ball,Laura Helen Bevan!',Bertha Imogene Bishop,Charles Joseph Bushnell,Horace Butterworth,joseph White Campbell,Charlotte Briggs Capen,Ernest Hamilton Dillon,Julia Florida Dumke,Charles Albert Frederick, Mary Louise Hannan,Juliet Harris,Clarence Bert Herschberger,Charles Leo Hunley,Angeline Loesch,Moses Dwight McIntyre,Fred Merrifield,Guide Conti Sleeper Metcalf,Sarah Nicoll Osborne,N eletta Elida Pettet;Lillian R.osalia Goldsmith,Eva Bronson Graves,Susan Grace Harding,Frank Henry Harms,John Andrew' Howard,Mary Helen Humphrey,Hester Donaldson Jenkins,�i1liam Casper Kern,Charles Lederer,Nellie Blanch;1 Lenington,Mary Alves Long,Helen Mabel Martin,Harry Lavergne McGee, Evangeline Myrtle Pollard,David Moore Robinson,Henry Justin Smith,Clara Albina Tilton,Franklin Egbert Vaughan,'Hartwell William Webb,George Louis Loring White,Banks John Wildman,Edwin Campbell Woolley.Lina Moxley.Cecil Page,Ralph LeRoy Peck,Genevieve Pendleton,George Pfirshing,Alice Margaret Ransome,Mary Elizabeth Reddy,William Levi Richer,Laura Louisa Runyon,Mary Chase Swett,Ivan Calvin Waterbury,Charles Alexander Yeung.Arthur Whipple Smith,Edna Stanton,Reuben Giles Stowell.The Degree of Bachelor of Science is conferred upon the following students:During the college year I897-98 the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, orScience has been conferred by the University upon the following students:Fred Harvey Hall Calhoun,Louiesa Carpenter DeCew,N ott William Flint,Laura Gano,Frederic Mayor Giles,William Harvey Allen,Eva Allen Anderson,Harold Ernest Anderson,Swen Benjamin Anderson,Elizabeth Apps, -- Trevor Arnett,Harry Fuller Atwood,Delia Austrian,Harold Lucius Axtell, -Edward Max Baker,/ Helen Adelaide Baldwin, .._Florence Fielding Ball,Helen Huntington Ball,Frederick Robertson Barnes,Max Batt,Adelaide Steele Baylor,Etta Fulcomer Beach,Arthur Edward Beers,Esther Bennett,Laura Helen Bevans,Bertha Imogene Bishop,­Albert William Bolt,Alice Boomer,Jacob William Braam,Albert Egbert Broene, -Rowena Buell,Allen Tibbals Burns, _Charles Joseph Bushnell, _Demia Butler,Horace Butterworth,Fred Harvey Hall Calhoun,Joseph White Campbell,Charlotte Briggs Capen,Sarah Ellen Capps,Zelma Estelle Clark,Irene Ingalls Cleaves,Marion Vernon Cosgrove,Harry Irus Coy,Louiesa Carpenter DeCew,Lawrence DeGraff,Ernest Hamilton Dillon,Gleason Alfred Dudley,Julia Florinda Dumke,Frederick Wilson Eastman,Jesse Lee Felger,Knight French Flanders,Nott William Flint,Charles Albert Frederick,Marcus Peter Frutchey, Robert Elliott Graves,Herschel Vincent Hibbard,Nels J ohan Lennes,Moses Milton Portis,Daniel Martin Schoemaker,Laura Gano,Ida Mason Gardner,George Horace Gaston,Blanche Gatzert, -Franklin Hermon Geselbracht,Frederic Mayor Giles,Hiram Gillespie,Lillian Rosalia Goldsmith,Georgia Laird Gowen,Eva Bronson Graves,Robert Elliott Graves,Fred Charles Hack,John Franklin Hagey,Mary Louise Hannan,Susan Grace Harding,Frank Henry Harms,Juliet Harris,Clarence Bert Herschberger,Hirschel Vincent Hibbard,Luther Boone Hill,Lulu May Hough, -John Andrew Howard,Mary Helen Humphrey,Charles Leo Hunley,Josephine Lilian Hutchings, _Isaac Barney Hyman,Ralph Janssen, \Hestor Donaldson Jenkins,John Harris Kelley,�William Casper Kern,Florence LaTourette,Pauline LaTourette,Charles Lederer,Nellie Blanche Lenington,Nels [ohan Lennes,Angeline Loesch,Mary Alves Long,Florence May Lyon,George MacDougal,Helen Mabel Martin,Harry Lavergne McGee,Moses Dwight McIntyre,John Preston Mentzer,William Lloyd Mercer;Fred Merrifield,Guido ,Conti Sleeper Metcalf,Lina Moxley,Jessie Louisa Nelson,Russell Burton Opitz, Sarah Nicoll Osborne,Catharine Dix Paddock,Cecil Page,Ralph LeRoy Peck,Alice Peirce,Genevieve Pendleton,Ward Beecher Pershing,Neletta Elida Pettet,George Pfirshing,Arthur Thaddeus Pienkowsky,Grace Gibson Pinkerton, �Margaret Piper,Evangeline Myrtle Pollard,'Moses Milton Portis,Alice Margaret Ransome,John Jacob Rapp,Mary Elizabeth Reddy,Elbridge Washburne Rice,Inez Dwight Rice,William Levi Richer, _David Moore Robinson,Laura Louisa Runyon,Daniel Martin Schoemaker,Mary Lydia Sherman,Max Darwin Slimmer,Arthur Whipple Smith,Henry Justin Smith,Carlton Hosmer Snashall,Edna Stanton,Charles Francis Stocking,Reuben Giles Stowell,Linius Lehman Strock,Mary Chase Swett,Clara Albina Tilton,Robert Newton Tooker,Franklin Egbert Vaughan,Anna Louise Warwick,Ivan Calvin Waterbury,Hartwell William Webb,Oliver Elwin Wells, -..George Louis Loring White,Banks John Wildman,Alice Winston, .,-Mary Frances Winter,Edwin Campbell Woolley,Laura May Wright, _Charles Alexander Young.The Degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science conferred by the OldUniversity of Chicago is reenacted in the case of the following persons:WILLIAM MARSHALL EGE,CORNELIUS WILLIAM GREGORY.THE DIVINITY SCHOOLThe Degree of Bachelor of Divinity is conferred by the University upon thefollowing students:GEORGE ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,CLARENCE EDWARD CLOUGH,FRANK GRAVES CRESSEY,FRANKLIN DAVENPORT ELMER,CHARLOTTE COMSTOCK GRAY,JOSEPH JENKINS,EMIL MARTIN MARTINSON,ROBERT VAN MEIGS,WILLIAM OESCHGER,ORLO JOSIAH PRICE,JAMES JOSIAH REEVE,SAMUEL ROWLAND ROBINSON,EMANUEL SCHMIDT,JOHN ROTHWELL SLATER,RICHARD MINER VAUGHAN,FRANK WILLIAM WOODS, Thesis: The Modern Aspects of Church Union.Thesis: The Purpose ofJems' Miracles.Thesis: The Kingdom of God in the Teaching oj Jesus.Thesis: The Teaching ·of fesus in the Synoptic Gospels regardingHis Death.Thesis: Michaelangelo and His Place in the Reformatory Move­ment.Thesis: The Genuine and the Spurious in the Great Awakening.Thesis: The Element of Mysticism in New England TheologicalThought.Thesis: Whitefield as a Revivalist.Thesis: The Life and Work of Barton W. Stone.Thesis: The Ethics oj the New Life, according to the Fourt/:Gospel.Thesis: The Mission of Christ, according to John's Gospel.Thesis: The Philosophy of the New England Witclzcrajt Delusion-C�.I"Thesis: Exodus Ib-I8, 2I.Thesis: The Inspiration of the Old Testament.Thesis: Dante's C01'!ception of Punishment.Thesis: Paul's Conception of the Ne'lfJ Life.The Degree of Bachelor of Divinity conferred by the Baptist Theological Union isreenacted by the Un'iversity of Chicago in the case of the following persons:ASA HOWARD BALLARD,ORSON PORTER BESTOR,GEORGE FITCH McKIBBEN,HUGH DAVID MORWOOD.The Certificate of the Dano-Norwegian Theological Seminary ts conferred by theUniversity upon the following students:HANS JAKOB JAKOBSEN,OLUF SKOTHEIM.FGG The Certificate of the Swedish Theological Seminary is conferred by the Universityupon the following students:JORAN ERIK KLINGBERG,NELS ERIK VALERIUS,OSCAR CARL WIDE EN.Joseph Jenkins,Emil Martin Martinson,Edwin Welton Mecum,Robert Van Meigs,William Oeschger,William Pleasants Osgood,David Phillips,Orlo Josiah Price,James Josiah Reeve, Samuel Rowland Robinson,Emanuel Schmidt,John Rothwell Slater,Elmer Tilson Stevens,Wallace St. John,Richard Miner Vaughan,Frank William Woods.ERNEST ALANSON BALCH,WILLIAM L. BRAY,OTIS WILLIAM CALDWELL,FULTON JOHNSON COFFIN,OTTO KNUTE OLOF FOLIN,ETHEL GLOVER HATFIELD,FRED BURTON RENNEY HELLEMS,ANNIE LPCY INSKEEP,EDWIN SHELDON JOHONNOT, JR.,HA YDN EVAN JONES,HERBERT NEWBY McCOY,WILLIAM DAYTON MERRELL,ARTHUR KENYON ROGERS,During the college year I897-98 the degree of Bachelor of Divinity has been con­ferred by the University upon the following students:THE GRADUATE SCHOOLFrederick William Bateson,George Alexander Campbell,Carl Delos Case,Clarence Edward Clough,Jerry Tinder Crawford,Frank Graves Cressey,Franklin Davenport Elmer,Charlotte Comstock Gray,Hugh Henry Hurley,The Degree of Master of Arts is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents:WILLIAM CLINTON ALDEN,LOLABEL HOUSE,.... FLORENCE LA TOURETTE,DORA WELLS, Thesis: Pleistocene Formations of Chicago and its Environs.Thesis: An Introductory Study of the Twelfth Amendment.Thesis: Metaphors and Similes in Vidor Hugo's" Les Miserables.'Thesis: The Republic of Guilford.The Degree of Master of Philosophy is conferred by the University upon the follow­ing student:ELIZABETH SARAH JONES. Thesis: Atticism in Roman Literature.The Degree of Master of Science is conferred by the Universitystudents:CECIL V. BACHELL1�:,HENRIETTA ISMAN GOODRICH, upon the followingThesis: The Action of Lilrht upon Bacteria.Thesis: Laboratory Methods in House Sanitation, together with anOutline of Class-Room Instruction.The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents:HELEN McGAFFEY SEARLES,AMY ELIZA TANNER,ESTHER BOISE VAN DEMAN,WILLIAM DOUWES ZOETHOUT, Thesis: Recent Phases of Reciprocity in the United States.Thesis: The Xerophytic Flora of the Texan Plains.Thesis: Morphology of Lemna, with Ecological Notes.Thesis.: The Third Commandment.Thesis:Thesis: The Interior Department.Thesis: Lex de Imperio Vespasiani.Thesis: Local Government in California to I879.Thesis: Thickness of the Black Spot in Lif/uid Films.Thesis: Selected Assyrian Letters.Thesis: On the Hydroddorides of Carbophenylimide Derivatives.Thesis: Contribution to the Life History of Silphium.Thesis: The Doctrine of Psychophyst'cal Parallelism from a Meta-physical Point of View.Thesis: A Lexicographical Study of the Greek Inscriptions.Thesis: Imagery, witlt Special Reference to Association of Ideas.Thesis: The Cult of Vesta Publica, and the Vestal Virgins.Thesis: The Physiological Effects of High Temperatures andLack of Oxygen upon Lower Organisms.During the College year I897-98 the Degree of Master of Arts, Philosophy, or Sciencehas been conferred by the University upon the following students:Henry Magee Atkinson,William Clinton Alden,Cecil V. Bachellt!,Nellie Elizabeth Bancroft,Louella Chapin, Edgar Ezekiel DeCou.June Etta Downey,Florence La Tourette,Henrietta Isman Goodrich,Lolabel House, Elizabeth Sarah Jones,Thomas Ovid Mabry,Rose Mary MacNeal,Harriet Stone,Dora Wells.During the college year I897-98 the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy has bunconferred by the University upon the following students:Philip Schuyler Allen,Philip Castor Baird,Ernest Alanson Balch,Carl Evans B�d,William L. Bray,Otis William Caldwell,Lisi Cecilia Cipriani,Fulton Johnson Coffin,Henry Chandler Cowles,Herbert Joseph Davenport,James Walter Fertig,Otto Knute Olof Folin, Ethel Glover Hatfield,Edgar Johnson Goodspeed,Eleanor Prescott Hammond,Fred Burton Renney Hellems,Samuel Jackson Holmes,Ira Woods Howerth,Annie Lucy Inskeep,Edwin Sheldon johorinot, Jr-,Haydn Evan Jones,Jessie Louise Jones,Herbert Newby McCoy,William Dayton Merrell, Addison Webster Moore,Arthur Kenyon Rogers,Cora Louise Scofield,Helen McGaffey Searles,Charles William Seidenadel,Herbert Ellsworth Slaught,Amy Eliza Tanner,Esther Boise Van Deman,Henry Parker Willis,William Douwes Zoethout.XII. THE RECESSIONRecessional March, The Stars and Stripes ForeverXI. THE BENEDICTIONThe Convocation Chaplain.SousaMARSHALWILLOUGHBY GEORGE WALLING.ASSISTANT MARSHALS.WILLIAM FRANCE ANDERSON, CHARLES VERNER DREW,CHARLES LINDSEY BURROUGHS, RALPH C. HAMILL,WALTER JOSEPH SCHMAHL.