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COMMENCEMENT DAY.

Programme for the Day. - Sketches of the Speakers.

John C. Rowe, of South Bethlehem, N. Y., will treat the subject, "Should the Municipal Franchise be Placed on a Property Basis?" He prepared for college at Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, N. Y., where he was class orator at graduation. He is 22 years old. Rowe has been an active member of the Harvard Union; he was the alternate for Harvard in the Princeton debate held this spring.

Townsend Walsh, of Albany, N. Y., will speak of "The Irishman in Recent Fiction." He is 21 years of age and went to school at the Albany Academy, Albany. He has been an editor of the Advocate all through his college course. Most of his stories in that paper have been Irish dialect stories.

Robert Walcott, of Cambridge, has as his subject, "The Present Tendency toward City Parks." He is 20 years old and prepared at the Browne and Nichols School. Walcott has been a member of the '95 Signet, the Hasty Pudding Club, and has done considerable literary work during his course. He has also taken English VI.

Max Benshimol, of Roxbury, will deliver the Latin Salutatory. He is 21 years old and a graduate of the Cambridge Latin School. He was distinguished with Second Year Honors in the classics in his sophomore year and is now a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Edward Francis McClennan, of Wrentham, will have the Law School Part. His subject is "Bounty Legislation." He is one of the youngest members of the class graduating from the Law School, and one of the most promising, although he is not a college graduate.

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Carlos Carson Rowlinson, of Eureka, Ill., will deliver the Divinity School Part, taking as his subject, "The place of Christ in Modern Thought." Rowlinson is 30 years old. He graduated from Eureka College, Ill., in 1891. When he was in college he paid a good deal of attention to speaking, and in his senior year he was the winner of an oratorical contest.

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