A Senior and two graduate students will deliver the traditional Commencement parts at final-day ceremonies in the Yard a week from today, David W. Bailey '21, Secretary to the Corporation, announced yesterday. The speakers will be James B. Peabody '45, S. Douglass Cater '46 1G, and Robert V. Hansberger 2GB.
Peabody, a resident of Eliot House and Princeton who is graduating with honors in the field of History and Literature, will give the Latin Salutatory. This annual address in the ancient tongue consists of a greeting to the President, the governing boards of the University, the Faculties, and guests, with a customary reference to the "puellae pulcherrimae" in the audience.
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"A challenge to Free Men" is the subject of Cater's address. A native of Montgomery, Alabama and a resident of Adams House, Cater received his bachelor's degree with honors in general studies in February, and is presently a student at the School of Public Administration. He represented the College at the international students conference at Prague last summer, and also at the national convention at Chicago in December.
Hansberger, who lives in Dorson, Minnesota, was graduated in 1942 from the University of Minnesota, and is a high-ranking member of the graduating class of the School of Business Administration. He will speak on "Education and Our Democracy."
The three men were selected by the committee on Commencement parts, headed by Mason Hammond '20, associate professor of Greek and Latin and History.
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