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

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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 —

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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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COI.LEGE PRIZES White Essay Prise Fred Grundy Budlong, ....... First Prize, $20 While Rhetorical Prise Chesleigh Horton Briscoe, ....... First Prize, $30 Committee, Rev. R. M. Duff, D.D., Waterloo, N. Y.; Rev. William B. Clarke, Seneca Falls, N. Y.; Frank H. Hall, Geneva, N. Y. Cobb English Literature Prises Edward Wheeler Hall, ..... James Albert Massey, ...... . . First Prize, $20 . . Second Prize, $10 Thompson English Prises Foster Partridge Boswell, ..... Henry D. Warren, ....... Fred Grundy Budlong, ...... Senior and Junior Prize, $50 Sophomore Prize, $30 Freshman Prize, $20 Sutherland Prizes Foster Partridge Boswell, ..... Edward Irvine Jordan, ...... Committee, Dr. Joseph A. Leighton, Professor of Philosophy. Foster Partridge Boswell, ..... Committee, Prof. W. P. Durfee. Philosophy Prize, $20 Honorable Mention . Mathematic Prize, $20 Freshman Declamation Prises William Carl Compton, ....... First Prize, $10 Edward Guy Nellis, ........ Second Prize, $5 Committee, Dr. A. L. Sweet, Geneva, N. Y.; Assistant Principal, Frank F. Dunham, Waterloo, N. Y.; Rev. Wm. W. Weller, Geneva, N. Y. Bachman Prise Harry Sylvester Simmons, ..... . First Prize, $30 Sutherland Prize George Farrand Taylor, Ralph Claude Willard, Walter Emerson Jones, ...... Committee, Prof. J. H. McDaniels. Divided . Honorable Mention Clarence A. Seward Prise Scholarship, $200, Robert Benjamin Waugh, Phelps, N. Y. — 29 —