Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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Commencement PreacHers and Orators, 1901 Sermon Before the Brotherhood of St. Andrew and the Hobart Chapter of the Church Students’ Missionary Association. The Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Francis, D.D., Bishop of Indiana. Baccalaureate Sermon The Rev. Murray Bartlett, St. Paul’s Church, Rochester, N. Y. Memorial Oration on Bishop Coxe The Rev. William Clark, LL.D., Trinity College, Toronto. Phi Beta Kappa Oration Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D., Philadelphia, “ Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine.” Graduating Orations Frank Bennett Clary, Moravia, N. Y., Latin Salutatory Oration. William Angus Braithwaite, Yonkers, N. Y., ” Boss Rule in American Politics.” Donald MacLaren Kirby, “ Thackeray’s Point of View.” Guy Thayer Hilliard, “Benjamin Harrison, Citizen.” — 27 —

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B.L. Honorable Mention in Chemistry, Harry L. King, Geneva. Honorable Mention in German, William Breeden, Jr., Sante Fe, N. M. B.L. Frederick Hugh Hammond, Geneva. Keating Lewis Simons, Eutawville, S. C. HONORARY DEGREES A.M. Henry Lansing Wardwell, ’73, New York. William Edward Gibbs, ’85, Fanwood, N. J. The Rev. James Townsend Russell, ’93, Brooklyn, N. Y. L.II.D. Talcott Williams, LL.D., Editor of the Philadelphia Press. S. T.D. The Rev. Smith DeLancey Townsend, ’8o, All Angels Church, New York. The Rev. William W. Bellinger, Grace Church, Utica, N. Y. S. T.D. ad eundem The Rt. Rev. Joseph Marshall Francis, D.D., Bishop of Indiana. LL.D. William H. Watson, M.D., Utica, N. Y., Regent of the University of the Stateof New York. — 26 —

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Honors and Prizes, 1901 PHI BETA KAPPA ELECTIONS Guy Thayer Hilliard. John Garth Coleman. Foster Partridge Boswell. HONORS Guy Thayer Hilliard, ........ Greek and Latin John Garth Coleman, ...... English, German and French Foster Partridge Boswell, ..... Mathematics, Philosophy and English HONORABLE MENTION Harry L. King, . «... . . Chemistry Donald MacLaren Kirby, . . English William Angus Braithvvaite, . . . Greek Frank Bennett Clary, • • • • • Greek and Latin Chesleigh Horton Briscoe, 1 • • • • . French and German William Breeden, Jr., « • « • • . . German John Henry Heady, . • « t • . . English James Albert Massey, • • • • • . . English Edward Irvine Jordan, FRESHMAN PRIZE EXHIBITION Philosophy' In the Library Lecture Hall on Monday June [7, 1901, the following prize declamations were delivered : 1. The General’s Client, ...... . . Adapted Byron Matthews Nester, Geneva. 2. The Death of Garfield, ....... . . Blaine Warren Miller Covill, Rochester. 3. A Plea for Enthusiasm, ...... Anonymous Henry Curtis Whedon, Geneva. 4. The Murder of Lovejo ...... Phillips Roland Weyburn Scliuman, Geneva. 5. Enmity toward Great Britain, ..... . . Choate George Farrand Taylor, Detroit, Mich. 6. The Doom of Claudius and Cynthia, ..... . Thompson William Carl Compton, Lockport. 7. Dangerous Legislation, ...... . ■ McDowell James Whitney Wilson, Geneva. 8. Truth and Victory, ....... . Scoville Edward Guy Nellis, Geneva. 9. Napoleon's Ambition and Schellev's Doubt, . . DeShon Janies Garfield Kettle, Murray. William Carl Compton, ....... . First Prize. Edward Guy Nellis, ....... Second Prize. — 28 —