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3. Oration,
4. Oration,
Edward Reber Heilig, Reading.
5. Music, “ II Trovatore ” (selection),
6. Oration,
The Triumph of Democracy.
John Edmund Scliueler, Baltimore, Md.
The European Encumbrance
William Mitchell Whitten, Slippery Rock
.8, Music, “ Polish National Dance,"
9. Valedictory Oration: Ennin Forest Hill, Hugliesville.
10. Music, 11 Da Traviata ” (selection) Donizetti
11. Commencement Address: His Excellency, Daniel H. Hastings, Gover-
7. Oration,
nor of the Commonwealth,
12. Conferring Degrees and Awarding Prizes
13. Music, 11 The Tar and the Tartar," ItzcL
Honor Men, Class of '97, First honors: Thomas Baumgardner, Ermili
Forest Hill, Charles Walter Lawrence, Robert Musgrave McKinley, Joseph
Warren Miller, Jr. Second honors: John McCullough Dom, John Tonner
Harris, Edward Heintzleman Myers, William Holmes Teas, William Mitchell
Whitten.
Junior reception to the Senior Class, 8 o'clock p. m. to 12:30.
The advanced degree of M. S. was conferred on M. S. McDow
ell; C. E. on P. B. Breneman, E. W. Bush, and E. P. Butts; E.
E. on R. E. Kelker and L. A. Reed; M. E. on W. B. Jackson;
B. S. on G. G. Groff and J. H. Yocum.
A certificate in the short course in Mining was granted Thomas
W. Parry
Wednesday afternoon State defeated W. U. P. in an excellent
game of ball by the score of ix to 6. The Junior Assembly
Wednesday night was a brilliant affair, and with it closed the
exercises of Commencement.
The “ Exequies of Sophomore Days ” were conducted by the
Class of ’99 with great solemnity on Tuesday evening. The
members of the class, in representative costumes, formed for
parade at the band hall, whence they inarched through town to a
platform erected on the campus in front of the Main Building,
where the first part of the programme was enacted. The opening
scene was laid in Hades, where “ His Sooty Majesty ” announced
that this was the annual gathering of the “ Devil’s Conibine.”
He then inquired of his " Courageous Captain of Cremation ” if
any victims awaited their pleasure. Summoning ‘ ‘ Death,’ ’ they
were informed that two had just arrived from “ State,” namely
Commencement Notes.
John Tonner Harris, Bellefonte
Americanism.
Our Hero,
Schanvcnka