FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTHETWENTY-FIFTH CONVOCATIONUbe ButumnOCTOBER FIRSTA. D. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHTTHE STUDEBAKER MUSIC HALLCHICAGO, ILLINOISORDER OF EXERCISES" Some Essential Elements of the True Academic Spirit."THE REVEREND CHARLES CUTHBERT HALL, D.D., President of UnionTheological Seminary, New York.I. MUSIC - Overture TlzomasORCHESTRAII. THE CONVOCATION PROCESSIONProcessional March SousaThe 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 HENRY L. MOREHOUSE, D.D., New York.IV. THE CONVOCATION ADDRESSV. MUSIC-Serenade Mos:::kowskiVI. THE PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY STATEMENT ON THE CON­DITION OF THE UNIVERSITYVII. MUSIC-Selection SullivanVIII. THE AWARD OF HONORSThe Ferdinand Peck Prize for excellence in Public Speaking in tlte Junior CollEgesis awardedMA URICE MANDEVILLEThe University Prize for excellence in Public Speaking in the Senior Colleges 1Sdivided amollJ(ALLEN GREY HOYT,MICHAEL BILLM AN WELLS,JOSEPH EDWIN FREEMAN (special mention).MAXIMILIAN MORGENTHAU, JR. (special mention).The Joseph Leiter Prize for excellence in Debate in the Graduate and Divin£tySchools is awarded the representatives of the Graduate School:HUGH WILLIAM HUGHES,EUGENE MORROW VIOLETTE,MARTIN SINGER.And the specia! prize for the best debater is awarded WILLIAM WALLACE REED, ofthe Divinity School.A Scllolarsltz'p for excellence in the Autumn Examinations for Admission is awardedeach of the following students:ELLA ROBIN:30NNORMAN CHIVERS St. Joseph, Missouri, High SchoolBrooklyn, New York, Boys' High SchoolHonorable fifmtion for excellence in the work of tlte Junior Colleges is awarded thefollowing students:PAUL BLACKV1ELDER,WALTER HERMAN BUHLIG, ANNA McCALEB,BERTHA ADELIA PATTENGILL.Honorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Senior Colleges is awarded thefollowing students:Frank Puterbaugh Bachman,Lucy Hamilton Carson,Edward Frantz, Alice Haight,Ole If allingby, Jr.,Maximilian Morgenthau, [r., Frederick Edwin Reeve,Septimus Sisson,William Robert Tyndale.IX. THE CONFERRING OF CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES� aorni Everett,Anna McCaleb,Bertha Adelia PattengilJ,Leo Schoenbrun, Jr., Althea V. Stebbins,Clifton Oscar Taylor,John James Walsh,THE COLLEGESThe funior College Certificate is conferred upon tlte following students:TIle Degree of Bachelor of Arts is conferred upon the following students:Paul Blackwelder,Walter Herman Buhlig,Fanny Crawford Burling,John Barron Carrington,Frank Puterbaugh Bachman,Helen Rowe Colman,Edward Frantz, Alice Haight,Vv'illiam M. Henderson,Clara Delia Hulbert,Frederick Edwin Reeve, Catherine Torrance,WIlliam Robert Tyndale,Charles Weber.Lucy Hamilton Carson,Charles Newman Crewdson,The Degree of Bachelor of Pht'losophy is conferred upon tlze followt'llg students:Muriel A'nnette Massey,Clyde Buchan Walker.Joseph Edwin Freeman,Ole Hallingby, Jr.,Ella Martha Hayes,The Degree of Bachelor of Science is conferred upon the following students :Margaret Baker,Sarah Elizabeth Butler,Charles Preston Cary, Joseph Almond Dixon,Julius Henry Philip Gauss,Maximilian Morgenthau, [r., Septimus Sisson,Fred. Warren Smedley.THE DIVINITY SCHOOLThe Degree of Bachelor of Divinity is conferred by the University upon thefollowing students:JESSE CASSANDER RHODES Thesis: The Trend of the Church on the Doctrine of the RegenerateLife.Thesis: Fra Angelico: The St.John of Art.FRANKLYN COLE SHERMANThe Degree of Bachelor of Divinity conferred by the Baptist Theological Union isreenacted by the University of Chicago in the case of the following person:JOHN WESLEY CONLEYThe Degree of Master of Arts is conferred by the University upon the followingstudent:WILLIAM HARRIS Thesis: The Philosophy of Religious Reformation and Revival.THE GRADUATE SCHOOLThe Degree of Master of Science is conferred by the University upon the followingstudent:GILBERT AMES BLI�S /;(.., / . .1' Thesis: Geodesic Lines on the Anchor Ring.\The Degree o/,'Poctor of Pldlosophy is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents : � �J. 'ITHEODORE CHALON BURGESSFRANK BURNETT DAINStARTHUR TAPPAN WALKER··(A'".. ,.,....Y\.� . .st Lev)" rDIl W/OOl'...! - Q-y,X. THE BENEDICTIONThe Convocation Chaplain.Thesis: Epideictic Oratory.Thesis: On the Isourea Ethers and other Derivatives of Ureas,Thesis: The Sequence of Tenses in Latin .XI. THE RECESSIONRecessional March-" The Stars and Stripes Forever') SousaMARSHALWILLOUGHBY GEORGE WALLING.RALPH C. HAMILL, ASSISTANT MARSHALSWILLIAM FRANCE ANDERSON,WALTER JOSEPH SCHMAHL,CHARLES LINDSEY BURROUGHS.CHARLES VERNER DREW,THE CONVOCATION SERMON will be delivered in Kent Theater, Sunday, October2, 1898, at 4: 00 P.M. by the REVEREND CHARLES CUTHBERT HALL, D.D.