�fJe 8nibersitl1 of ([bitagoFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTHETWENTy-SEVENTH CONVOCATIONUbe UUlinterJANUARY FOURTHA. D. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE..THE STUDEBAKER MUSIC HALLCHICAGO, ILLINOISORDER OF EXERCISES VIIII. MUSIC-Romanza DbMR. ALBERT F. MCCARRELL. LemareII. THE CONVOCATION PROCESSIONProcessional March MeyerbeerThe President of the University and the Convocation Orator.The President of the Board of Trustees and the University Chaplain.The Trustees of the University.The Official Guests of the University.The Members of the University Senate and the University Council.The Faculties.The Counselors of the Graduate and Divinity Schools and the Candidatesfor Higher Degrees.The Counselors of the Senior Colleges and the Candidates for theBachelor's Degree.The Counselors of the Junior Colleges and the Candidates for the JuniorCollege Certificate.IIII. THE PRAYERThe University Chaplain,THE REVEREND CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON, D.D.,IV. THE CONVOCATION ADDRESS"American Imperialism."THE HONOH.ABLE CARL SCHURZ, New York.V. MUSIC-Songs a'cappelle.a. Minneliedb. Eine Maiennacht (with tenor solo)MR. ADOLF EH.ST AND THE GEE MANIA MANNERCHOR. BunteAbtVI. THE PRESIDENT'S QUARTERLY STATEMENT ON THE CON­DITION OF THE UNIVERSITYVII. MUSIC-a. Morgengrussb. ]Vly Old Kentucky HomeTHE GERMANIA MANNERCHOR. Schubert-SchoenefcldFoster- Vander StuckenVIII. THE AWARD OF HONORS'mare The Ferdinand Peck Prize for excellence in Public Speaking in the JU1l£or Collegesis awardedROBERT SAMUEL :McCLURE.The University Prize for excellence in Public Speaking in the Senior Colleges tsawardedCHARLES FRANCIS YODER.trheerA Sclzolarslzip for excellence in the Winter Examinations for Admission is awardedeach of the followz"71g students:EMMA F. ADAMSSTEPHEN TRUMAN BOWEN, JR. Private Study, Dunkirk, N. Y.Hyde Park High SchoolHonorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Junior Colleges is awarded thefollozoing students,dates BERTHA BARNET,HARVEY MALCOLM MACQUISTON, EDA DIANAH OlIRENSTEIN,JOHN PAUL RITCHEY.Honorable Mention for excellence in the work of the Senior Colleges is awarded thefollowing students:HELEN KELCHNER DARROW,CHARLOTTE ROSE TELLER.. theuniorIX. THE CONFERRING OF CERTIFICATES AND DEGREESTHE COLLEGESThe Junior College Certificate is conferred upon the following students:Emory Cobb Andrews,Bertha Barnet,George Amos Beers,Grace Ellen Beers,Mary Elizabeth Casteel,Helen Van Etten Chase,Thomas Carlyle Clendening,Aaron Cohn,Charles Scribner Eaton,Newell Montague Fair,BunteAbt J ames Hannan, Jr.Lora Hieronymus,Ida Theresa HirschI,Edyth Merritt Kohlsaat,Lewis Lee Losey, Ir.,Catherine Blair Lynch,Harvey Malcolm IVfacQuiston,Paul Donald MacQuiston,Edith Leavitt Neal,Elliott Saltonstall N olton. Eda Dianah Ohrenstein,Mortimer Brainerd Parker,John Paul Ritchey,Parke Ross,Ralph Elliott Rugh,Renata May Shull,Mary Moody Smith,Herbert Samuel Walker,Vernie Emma Woodward.Helen Kelchner DarrowThe Degree of Bachelor of Arts is conferred upon the followz'rlg student::ON-Jacob Gish Hamaker,The Degree of Bachelor of Science ts conferred upon the following students:Rufus l\1a ynard ReedThe Degree of Bachelor of Plzilosoplty is conferred upon the following students:lefcld'Z/c/"'t'n Ward Augustus Cutler,Carleton Ellsworth Douglass,Josephine Frances Hazelton, David Guy Hurlburt,Paul Mandeville,Marilla Zeroyda Parker, George Hoyt Sawyer,Charlotte Rose Teller,Elizabeth 1vI arguerite Strauchon.THE DIVINITY SCHOOLThe Degree of Bachelor of Divinity is conferred by the University upon thefollowing students:JOHN GALLUP BRIGGS, JR. Thesis: Christ's Attitude Toward his own Death.PERRY SYLVESTER CALVIN Thesis: Wiclif and his Place in thl! Reform Movement.HENR Y WARD HOOVER Thesis: George Fox and tlze Early Quakers.JOHN FRANKLIN HUNTER Thesis: The Great Awakening under Edzoards and Whitefield.WILLIAM ROSS SCHOEMAKER Thesis: The Central Principle in Christ's Etltical Teaching.The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents:WARREN PALMER BEHANWILLIAM NELSON MEBANE Thesis: Social Work of the Church of Plymouth Colony, I6ao-I69I.Thesis: Assyrian Letters ..THE GRADUATE SCHOOLThe Degree of Master of Science is conferred by the University upon tlze followingstudent:FRANK WELBORN PICKEL Thesis: The Accessory Bladders of Testudinata.The Degree of Master of Philosophy is conferred by the Universit.JI upon the fol­lowing student:LUCIA HOLLIDAY RAY. Thesis: The Elements of Latin Influence in the Style of Bacon,Clarendon and Browne.The Degree of Doctor of Pkilosophy is conferred by the University upon the followingstudents:DANIEL PETER MAcMILLAN. WILLIAM RULLKOETTER Thesis: The jl/ega/ive Judgment.Thesis: Legat Protection of Women in Ancient Germanic Society .X. THE BENEDICTIONThe University Chaplain.XI. THE RECESSION - Processional March M acMasterslI1ARSHALWILLOUGHBY GEORGE WALLING.CHARLES VERNER DREW,RALPH C. HAMILL, ASSISTANT MARSHALSWILLIAM FRANCE ANDERSON,WALTER JOSEPH SCHMAHL,CHARLES LINDSEY BURROUGHS.THE CONVOCATION SERMON will be delivered in Kent Theater, Sunday, Jan­uary 8, 189:;, at 4: 00 P.M. by the REVEREND HERRICK JOHNSON, D.D., Professor ofHomiletics, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago. T�