THE

Conferring of Degrees

At The Close Of The Fifty-Third Academic Year

JUNE 11, 1929

IN THE LYRIC THEATRE

AT 4 P- M. MARSHALS

Professor William 0. Wetforth Chief Marshal

Aids

Professor G. H. Cabtledge Professor Florence E. Bamberger Dr. E. T. Abercrombie Professor A. M. Chesney Dr. G. H. Evans Professor W. W. Ford

Professor J. C. Smallwood Professor S. J. Hart

USHERS

William Purnell Hall, Jr. Chief Usher George Gump Maxwell Sauerwein George Kay Walter Scheidt Burrell Kilmer Fred Waring Edwin Lockard S. Carson Wasson Robert Lyons

MUSIC

The program is under the direction of Philip S. Morgan and will be presented by

the Johns Hopkins Orchestra, Bail Wirtz, Conductor. The orchestra was founded in

1919 by the Johns Hopkins Musical Association, organized for the promotion of good

music in the University and community, the officers of which are Philip S. Morgan, of

the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, President; Frederick H. Gottlieb, Vice-Presi-

dent; Professor Frank Morley, Secretary; Ferdinand C. Smith, Executive Secretary;

S. Page Nelson, Treasurer. Seventy-three symphony concerts have been given, and the

orchestra, which is composed chiefly of amateurs, has played on nineteen occasions for

public exercises of the University. — ——

ORDER OF EXERCISES

i Academic Procession War March from " Athalie " Mendelssohn

II Invocation The Reverend Charles E. McAllister Rector of St. Michaels and All Angels Church

in Address Dr. Frederick George Donnan Professor of General Chemistry, University College, London

IV Music Andante, Symphony Number Two Haydn

v CONEERRING OF DEGREES

Bachelors of Arts, presented by Dean Ames Bachelors of , presented by Dean Whitehead Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, presented by Dean Whitehead Bachelors of Science in Economics, presented by Professor Hollander Bachelors of Science, presented by Professor Buchner Recipients of Certificates in Public Health, presented by Professor Howell Masters of Arts, presented by Professor Miller Doctor of Engineering, presented by Dean Whitehead Doctors of Public Health, presented by Professor Howell Doctors of Science in Hygiene, presented by Professor Howell Doctors of Medicine, presented by Dean Weed Doctors of Philosophy, presented by Professor Miller Doctor of Laws, presented by Professor Patrick

VI Presentation of Commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps

vii Address The President of the University

viii Music " Stars and Stripes Forever " Sousa

IX Benediction CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

BACHELORS OF ARTS

John Hamilton Allen, of Connecticut Ferdinand Emil Kadan, of George Edwin Banks, Jr., of Maryland William Alfred Kegan, of Maryland William Bradford Banks, of Maryland Myron Lewis Kenler, of Maryland Thomas Barnett, of Harvey Louis Kesmodel, Jr., of Maryland Edward Thomas Beall, of Maryland Huber Frederick Klemme, of Maryland Francis Morris Benson, of Maryland Edward Bennett Kolb, of Maryland James Allport Berger, Jr., of Maryland John Bartlett Littlefield, of Pennsylvania Welcome Browning Betts, of New York Louis Grandin Llewelyn, of Maryland Nunzio Anthony Bicchieri, of Massachusetts Henry Benedict Makover, of Maryland Harry David Bilcovitch, of Pennsylvania William Rigby McDorman, of Maryland Kenneth Worthen Blakeslee, of Maryland Milton Herman Medenbach, of Maryland Joseph Bloom, of Maryland John Sanders Miller, Jr., of Virginia Charles Bernard Brack, of Maryland James Irving Moore, of Maryland Johan Peter Burfeind, of New Jersey Philip Wahmann Ness, of Maryland Edgar Thrall Campbell, of Maryland Deeley Krager Nice, of Maryland Howard Manning Caplan, of Maryland Robert Addison Nicolls, of Maryland Samuel Vannort Chapman, of Maryland Leonard Bathurst Nolley, of Maryland Joseph Colvin, of Maryland John Robinson Norris, of Maryland Paul Lee Cordish, of Maryland Philip Everngam Nuttle, of Maryland Solomon Danoff, of Maryland Alfred Abraham Orans, of New York Thomas McParlin Davis, of Maryland Kermit Edward Osserman, of New York Eldridge Foster Dowell, of Maryland Louis Posner, of Maryland Wilmer Henry Driver, of Maryland Milton Williams Powell, Jr., of Maryland James Kay Eagan, Jr., of Maryland Joseph Harman Purdy, of Maryland Israel Edward Eagle, of Maryland Herman Max Schiebel, of Pennsylvania Rafael Angel Fiol, of Harry 0. Schloss, Jr., of Maryland Joseph Freedman, of Connecticut Samuel Selsky, of Maryland Clyde McMillin Friz, of Maryland Donald Robert Sharretts, of Maryland Mark Edward Gann, of Maryland Michael Joseph Wieciech Soltls, of Maryland Irvtng Kunen Gordon, of Maryland Daniel Sondheimer, of the District of Columbia William Browne Hammoxd, of Maryland Richard Henry Todd, of Maryland Howard Garland Hershey, of New York James Valliant, of Maryland William Grafton Hersperger, of Maryland John Edward Waaser, Jr., of Pennsylvania Albert Joseph Himelfarb, of Maryland FIerbert Arnold Wilkinson, of Iowa Donald Hiss, of Maryland Richard Holbrook Wood, of the District of Columbia Richard Kendall Irons, of Delaware William Wright Wood, Jr., of Maryland Frank Reid Isaac, Jr., of Maryland Alexander Coulter Woods, Jr., of Maryland (74)

GRADUATING WITH HONOR

AVilliam Bradford Banks Huber Frederick Klemme Harry 0. Schloss, Jr. j

BACHELORS OF ENGINEERING

Charles Bates Barker, of Maryland Milton Morris Kellert, of Maryland Lunsford Emory Bennett, of Maryland Robert Luke Kelly, of Maryland William McLean Bingley, of Maryland Overton Harcourt Klinefelter, of Maryland John Lawrence Brockman, of Maryland Abraham Bernard Kriegel, of New York Boyd Shreve Brooks, of Maryland Stanley Melcher Lausch, of Maryland Richard Heyser Bussard, of Maryland Herbert Nelson Loizeaux, of Maryland James Albert Chalk, Jr., of Maryland William Woods McDowell, of Maryland George Pierce Daiger, of Maryland Charles Edmund McCaffray, of Maryland Julian Ashton Devereux, of Maryland Millard Arthur Nelson, of Maryland Harold William Diehl, of Maryland John Harold North, of Maryland John Pennington Eldridge, of Maryland Jack Crockett Northam, of Maryland Melvin William Embury, of Maryland William Edwin Plummer, of Maryland William Summers Farr, of Maryland Charles Russell Riley, of Maryland Adolph Fibel, of Maryland Lloyd Eugene Root, of Maryland Robert Jefferson George, of Maryland William Noble Rosser, of Maryland Joseph S. A. Giardina, of Maryland Charles Joseph Scherer, of Maryland Theodore Frederick Gleichmann, of Maryland. Raymond Agustus Snyder, of Maryland Eugene Willis Greenfeld, of Maryland George M. L. Sommerman, of Maryland Franz John Hartig, of Maryland Basil Duckett Storrs, of Maryland Marion McDonnal Iglehart, of Maryland Brainerd Douglas Wilson, of the District of Columbia Harold Egil Steem Jersin, of Maryland (41)

GRADUATING WITH HONOR

Robert Jefferson George Abraham Bernard Kriegel Franz John Hartig John Harold North George M. L. Sommerman

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY

William Tilghman Bishop, of Maryland Carroll Norman Rill, of Maryland Robert Elting Burnett, of Maryland Reuben Roseman, of Maryland Sylvan Barnett Falck, of Maryland William Ellsworth Russell, of Maryland Richard Leiter Johnston, of Maryland Carlton Eugene Smith, of Maryland Samuel Isaac Katzoff, of Maryland Edward Edgar Thompson, Jr., of Maryland Charles Titus Mentzer, Jr., of Maryland Woodward Leakin Welsh, of Maryland Q2) GRADUATING WITH HONOR

R chard Leiter Johnston Samuel Isaac Katzoff

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS

Casper Ezra Cline, Jr., of Maryland John Robert Myers, of Maryland Howard Ludlow Gilbert, Jr., of Maryland Charles Merrick Reeder, of Maryland George Roberts Hill, of Maryland Charles Augustus Rittler, of Maryland John Henry Horst, of Maryland William Hawk Thomson, of Maryland Samuel Morris Weintrob, of Maryland (9) — 6

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE

Harry Bard, of Maryland Madeleine Edith Lorenz, of Maryland Mary Hodges Barker, of Maryland Catherine Ellen Lusby, of Maryland Anna Margaret Beehler, of Maryland Roberta Harker Malambre, of Maryland Virginia Raphael Bennett, of Maryland Mary Isabelle Miller, of Maryland Miriam Riggs Burch, of Maryland Lineta B. Caples Morris, of Virginia John Gordon Carroll, of Maryland Dora Frances Myers, of Maryland Lewis Edward Dufty, of Maryland Grace Reed, of Maryland Maude Augusta Fell, of Maryland Clara Linwood Roberts, of Maryland Ellen Stack Griffiths, of Maryland Thekla Dorothea Schmldt, of Maryland Elmer Ellsworth Hall, of Maryland Isadore Shavrick, of Maryland Anne Elizabeth Hartman, of Maryland John Bowen Sheppard, of Maryland Elizabeth Spring Hoffmeister, of Maryland Edna May Shimp, of Maryland George Ketler Houck, Jr., of Maryland Marie Estelle Wallace, of Maryland Myrtle Hax Kinsey, of Maryland Helen Elizabeth Wellener, of Maryland Bernice Legum, of Maryland Ida Amelia Wholey, of Maryland Mary Ellen Logan, of Maryland Irma Estelle Williams, of Maryland (32)

RECIPIENTS OF CERTIFICATES IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Vivia B. Appleton, of Hawaii, A.B. Cornell University Daniel Franklin Milam, of Florida, A. B. Vanderhilt

1901 ; M.D. Johns Hopkins University 1906 University 1916; M.D. University of Chicago 1924 Dumitru Alfred Cornelson, of Roumania, M.D. Univer- Chieta Mitsuhori, of Japan, M. D. Keio University 1925 sity of Bucharest 1927 Haruo Mizushima, of Japan, M.D. Tokyo Imperial Uni- Crabtree, of Tennessee, S.B. University James Anderson versity 1923 of Tennessee 1923; M.D. 1925 Miguel Munoz Ochoa, of Guatemala, M.D. University of Jan Antoni Danielski, of Poland, M.D. University of Guatemala 1921 Kharkov 1916 Pavlovitch, of Jugoslavia, M.D. University of Adrian Roger Foley, of Canada, M.D. Laval University Mladen Montpellier 1922 1922 Pernambuco, of Brazil, A.B. University Jean Gregoire, of Canada, A.B. Joliette College 1918; Mario de Almeida Faculty of Medicine, Rio Janeiro M.B. University of Montreal 1922; M.D. 1924 of Paris 1909; M.D. 1915 John Maxwell Hall, of Jamaica, M.R.C.S. England; Sofia 1908; L.R.C.P. London 1925 Peter Verbeff, of Bulgaria,, S.B. Gymnasium M.D. University of Kharkov 1914 Nicola Lajeff, of Bulgaria, M.D. University of Carolo Ferdinandea 1923 Frederick Jacob Wampler, of Virginia, A.B. Bridge-water College 1908, A.M. 1912; M.D. University of Chicago Lockhart McLean, of Canada, M.D.C.M. Dalhousie Allan 1913 University 1926 I-CHIN Yuan, of China, M.D. Peking Union Medical Col- Paris Emancipacion Menendez, of Paraguay, B.Sc. e Lett, lege 1927 National College of Asuncion 1923; Ph.G. National Uni- (19) versitv of Asuncion 1926 '

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MASTERS OF ARTS WITH TITLES OF ESSAYS

Henry Abraham Berg, of Maryland, A.B. Alt. St. Joseph's Frederic Hartwell Kellogg, of Pennsylvania, G.E. College 1912. History Colorado School of Mines 1927. Geology Activities Catholic Missionary in the Southern States The Titanium Ore Deposits : Their Geology, Miner- during the Reconstruction Period (1865-1878) alogy, and Economic Importance Evelyn Boatwright, of Virginia, A.B. Universitv Moore Blanche Lohmann, of the District of Columbia, A.B. of 1925. English Richmond George Washington University 1927. Political Economy Edmund Spenser's Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh: A Industrial Employment of Cardiacs in Baltimore Letter Prefatory to the Faerie Queene, Edited with Introduction and Notes Frances Doub North, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins Eleanor Josephine Borzilleri, of New York, A.B. Vassar University 1924. Education College 1926. Greek The Effect of Maturity upon the Learning of Begin- The Language of the Clouds of Aristophanes Typewriting by Girls Statia Brill, of New Jersey, A.B. Wellesley College 1926. Laurence Armstrong Petran, of Minnesota, A.B. Carle- Political Economy ton College 1923; B.Mus. 1923. Psychology A Study of a Group of Mentally Retarded Women The Influence of Word Order on Controlled Associa- under the Care of the Family Welfare Association tion Reaction Times Augusta Dellone, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins Uni- Kathleen Elizabeth Grogan Powers, of Maryland, A.B. versity 1922. Education Notre Dame College 1925. Education A Study of Adult Language Needs as Revealed by The Treatment of Adolescence by Certain Educational Parents' Letters to Schools Writers from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Bess Glenn, of South Carolina, A.B. Converse College Century 1926. English Accuracy in Shelley's Descriptions of Nature Isaac Willis Russell, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. English Elinor Root Goodnow, of Maryland, A.B. Vassar College Spenser's ' Tale 1913. Political Economy The Som-ces of Mother Hubberds The Modification of Adult Habits Nellie Marie Ruzicka, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher Col- Caroline Elise Grote, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins lege 1927. Political Economy University 1919. Education Unemployment in Family Case-Work in Baltimore, A Study of the Writing Vocabulary of Some Tenth 1926 Grade Girls Elizabeth Mathilde Schneider, of Ohio, A.B. Witten- Marion Louise Grubb, of Maryland. Romance Langu- berg College 1927. Zoology ages Observations Regarding Certain Characteristic Features Critical Edition of Pierre du Ryer's Lucrece A in the Development of the Placenta of the Rat Katharine Loretta Healy, of Maryland, S.B. Johns through Study of a Series of Timed Stages Hopkins University 1921. Education A.B. Johns Hopkins A Study of the Factors Involved in the Rating of Rene Maurice Stephan, of France, Pupils' Compositions University 1923. Romance Languages la Francaise du e Rebecca Agnew Holt, of Alabama. Bacteriology Le Paysan dans Litterature XVII A Study of Bacillus Coli as an Index of the Proper Siecle Pasteurization of Milk, with Special Reference to Mary Frances Sultzer, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins Swenarton's Fermentation Test and Standard University 1925. Education Grace Hooper, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher College 1923. What Gains (Experimentally Determined) Will Chil- Education dren Make in Reading when Specific Remedial Meas- A Study of the Vocabularies of High School ures are Applied Over a Limited Period (Two Textbooks Months) ? Arthur Howard Hughes, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- Mary Dora Weber, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher College kins University 1927. German. 1916. Physics " Tancred " Zur Textgeschichte von Goethes The Scattering of Light Theodore Roskam Jehne, of Virginia, S.B. Johns Hopkins Wright, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins Uni- University 1927. German Eleanor versity 1920. Romance Languages Wieland's Nachlass des Diogenes von Sinope The Female Attendant from Jodelle to Moliere Helen May Johnson, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. Education Jacob Yerushalmy, of Palestine, A.B. Johns Hopkins "What Effect Does the Use of the Library as a Co- University 1927. Mathematics ordinating Agency Have upon Pupils at the Canton On Pencils of Equianharmonic Cubics Platoon School (Experimentally Determined) William Gordon Zeeveld, of New York, A.B. Rochester Rosina Coblens Joseph, of Maryland, S.B. Johns Hopkins University 1924. English University 1924. Education Studies in the Theory of History in Elizabethan A Comparative Study of the Achievements in General Literature Science of Students in Academic, Commercial, and Technical Courses in Junior High School (30) :

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DOCTOR OF ENGINEERING WITH TITLE OF DISSERTATION

Clair Lee Lemmon, of Maryland, B.E. Johns Hopkins University 1926. Electrical Engineering Conductivity of Atmospheric Air (1)

DOCTORS OF PUBLIC HEALTH WITH TITLES OF ESSAYS

James Bailey Black, of Tennessee, M.D. Tulane Uni- Robert Henri Hazeman, of France, M.D. University of versity 1918; C.P.H. Johns Hopkins. University 1924 Paris 1924; Dip.Hyg. 1924

A Comparative Study of Susceptibility to Diphtheria On the Errors in the Estimation of Post Censal in the White and Negro Races Population

, . , . ., India, College, Bangalore _. „ , ,rn „ - ,, . , C. V. Natarajan, of S.B. Central University of Munich . Irmgard Dresel, of Maryland, M.D. . 192Q MB B s Medical College> Madras 1925 aP>H . 1920 Johns Hopkins University 1928 Studies on Bacteriophage Cataphoresis Experiments on Various Viruses Vivian Arthur VanVolkenburgh, of Michigan, S.B. University of Michigan 1916; M.D. 1918 A Study of the Respiratory Diseases Prevailing in a Group of Families Residing in Baltimore, Maryland, from October 1928 to March 1929 (5)

DOCTORS OF SCIENCE IN HYGIENE WITH TITLES OF DISSERTATIONS

Claude Hejian Barlow, of China, M.D. Northwestern Gilbert Fred Otto, of Michigan, A.B. Kalamazoo College University 1906; Dip. London School of Tropical Medi- 1926; S.M. Kansas State Agricultural College 1927. cine 1914. Helminthology Helminthology The Life Cycle of the Human Intestinal Fluke Fascio- Studies on the Factors Influencing the Epidemiology lopsis Buski (Lankester) f Ascariasis in the

fe ,, ...... 1925. Helminthology . ,. , University StudiesQ on the StabilityQ of Ancvlostoma, BrazuiensiD .r..of Cat Hookworms Dogs and Cats in Producing Lesions of Creeping Experimental Studies on the Dog and Eruption Ancvlostoma Caninum and A. Brazihensi

Lloyd Ancil Spindler, of Kansas, S.B. Kansas Agri-

cultural College 1926 ; S.M. 1927. Helminthology Field and Laboratory Studies on the Factors Influ- encing the Dissemination of Certain Human Parasitic

Worms , - -. (5) ;

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DOCTORS OF MEDICINE

Theodore Judson Abernethy, of the District of Columbia, Ralph Gorman Hills, of the District of Columbia, S.B. S.B. Denison University 1925 1925 Conrad Berens Acton, of New Jersey, S.B. Haverford Howard Atkinson Howe, of New York, A.B. Yale Uni- College 1925 versity 1925 Mary Adams, of New York, A.B. Bryn Mawr College Phillips Johnson, of Pennsylvania, S.B. Haverford Col- 1923 lege 1925 Andrew John Edward Akelaitis, of Maryland, A.B. Milton Benjamin Kirsh, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- Johns Hopkins University 1925 kins University 1925 Arnold Archibald Albright, of Oklahoma, A.B. Uni- Hedwig Koenig, of New York, A.B. Barnard College 1918 versity of Oklahoma 1926; S.B. 1927 AM- Columbia University 1920 Robert Henry Aldrich, of Louisiana, S.B. Princeton Uni- Frederick Evert KrEDEL, f Pennsylvania, S.B. Univer- versity 1925 dty of pittsDurgn 1924 M.S. 1927 ; Anna^Skinkle Allen, of York, A.B. Reed College New . Chi Liang Kwei, of china> A . B . Wellesley College 1925 Maurice Lenarsky, of New York, S.B. New York Univer- Elmer Sigfrid Anderson, of Pennsylvania, S.B. Allegheny Slty iy^° College 1925 Jo ERM L of Oklahoma, A.B. University of James Gzvings Arnold, Jr., of Maryland, A.B. University ™ ° Oklahoma? ^1925; S.B.Q°i 1927 of North Carolina 1925 Raymond David Lublin, of Connecticut, S.B. Yale Uni- Evan Mansfield Barton, of Illinois, A.B. Williams Col- 1925 lege 1924 versity Samuel Morrison, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hopkins Uni- Frank Hartsuff Bethell, of New York, A.B. Prince- ton University 1925 versity 192° Walter Kendall Myers, of Pennsylvania, S.B. Princeton James Van Allen Bickford, Jr., of Virginia, S.B. Vir- 1925 ginia Military Institute 1924 University Noel, of Virginia, S.B. John Earle Bordley, of Maryland, Ph.D. Yale University William Walker Hampden- 2925 Sidney College 1925 George Brewer, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hopkins Uni- Max Oglesbee Oates, of West Virginia, A.B. Johns Hop- versity 1925 kms University 1924 Howard Gerald Bruenn, of New York, A.B. Columbia Robert Lee Oliver, of Georgia, A.B. Vanderbilt Univer- University 1925 sity 1923 Royall Mann Calder, of Texas, A.B. University of Texas Kenneth Angle Owen, of New York, A.B. Williams Col- 1925 lege 1925 Emil Bogomir Cekada, of Washington, S.B. Universitv of Richard Townley Paton, of New Jersey, S.B. Princeton University 1925 Washington 1923 : Sc.D. in Hygiene Johns Hopkins Uni- versity 1926 Maunsel Bennett Pearce, of Louisiana, A.B. Louisiana Earle MacArthur Chapman, of Michigan, S.B. Michigan College 1922 State College 1925 Wilmot Frank Pierce, of Wisconsin, S.B. Beloit College ™-5 Harriet Josephine Cossmann, of New York, A.B. Mt. Holyoke College 1925 Norman Anthony Pokorny, of Wisconsin, A.B. Mar- uette University 1925 Erle Bulla Craven, Jr., of North Carolina, A.B. Duke

Richard Tillaed Shackelford, of Maryland, A.B. Prince- Dorothy Vermilya Whipple, of the District of Columbia A.B. University of Wisconsin 1923; A.M. 1926 Clarence Simpson Thomas, of Alabama, A.B. Howard College 1924 Hyman Winters, of Connecticut, S.B. Yale University Heber Olney Tucker, of North Carolina, A.B. Duke Uni- versity 1925 Richard John Wise, of Pennsylvania, S.B. Gettysburg Robert Otey Yancey Warren, of Maryland, A.B. Dart- College 1923; M.S. 1924 mouth College 1925 Irving Jacob Wolman, of Massachusetts, A.B. Amherst Henry Martin Weyrauch, Jr., of New York, A.B. Union College 1925 College 1925 (66)

WINNERS OF THE WILLIAM H. HOWELL AWARD

William W. Noel Francis F. Schwentker

DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY WITH TITLES OF DISSERTATIONS

Paul Acquarone, of Maryland, S.B. Pennsylvania State Maurice Chazin, of New York, S.B. New York University College 1924. Botany 1925; A.M. 1926. Romance Languages Studies in the Musaceae. II. The Anatomy of the French Culture as Reflected in the Atlantic Monthly, Root, and Its Bearing on the Relationships of the 1857-1900 Genera Leonard Bertrand Clark, of Canada, A.B. University of Robert Bowling Barnes, of Alabama, A.B. Birmingham Manitoba 1923; A.M. Johns Hopkins University 1926. Southern College 1925. Physics Zoology Spectroscopic Investigations in the Infra -Red. Reactions to Light in the Beetle, Dineutes Assimilis Aube Edward Willard Berry, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1923. Geology Lancaster Eugene Dabney, of Texas, A.B. University ot Lepidocyclina from the Verdun Formation of North- Texas 1922; A.M. 1924. Romance Languages western Peru Claude Billard, a Minor French Dramatist of the Early Seventeenth Century Edward Charles Billheimer, of Pennsylvania, S.B. Get- tysburg College 1926. Chemistry Lynn Hugh Dawsey, of Mississippi, S.B. Alabama Poly- The Decomposition of Mercaptans in Alkali Solutions technic Institute 1926. Chemistry The Absorption Spectrum and Photochemical Dissocia- Jefferson Davis Blackwell, of Maryland, S.B. University tion of Hydrogen Peroxide of Missouri 1914; A.M. Columbia University 3923. Education Robert Freeman Deese, Jr., of Georgia, S.B. Emorv The Organization and Supervision of Vocational Edu- University 1924; S.M. 1925. Chemistry cation in Maryland County High Schools The Heat Capacities of Some Aliphatic Bromides Howard Lewis Briggs, of New Jersey, A.B. Johns Hop- George Lawrence Dorough, of Delaware, S.B. Emorv kins University 1924. History University 1925; S. M. 1926. Chemistry Public Opinion in the United States on (he Holv Some Isomeric Octanols Alliance 1815-1826 Albert Benjamin Ford Duncan, of Tennessee, S.B. in Johannes Hadeln Bruun, of Nonvay, Dipl.Ing. Nor- Chem. University of Virginia 1924. Chemistry wegian Institute of Technology 1923 The Decomposition of Thallic Oxide The Isolation of Some of the Chemical Constituents Linus Marvin Ellis, of Georgia, S.B. Emorv University Petroleum of 1925; S.M. 1926. Chemistry Alice Virginia Cameron, of Maryland, A.M. Johns Hop- The Preparation and Properties of Certain Higher kins University 1928. Romance Languages Aliphatic Mercaptans Influence of Ariosto's Epic and Lyric Poetry on The Lloyd Wellington Fisher, of Pennsylvania, A.B. Lehigh Ronsard and His Group University 1921 ; S.M. Pennsylvania State College 1923. Chung Fu Chang, of China, A.B. University of Michigan Geology 1925; A.M. Harvard University 1927. Political Science Chromite, Its Paragenesis, Mineral, and Chemical Com- The Anglo-Japanese Alliance position — 11

Hugh Bryson Glass, of Alabama, S.B. Washington and Warken Bryan Mack, of Pennsylvania, Ph.B. Lafayette Lee University 1926. Chemistry College 1915; B.Se. Pennsylvania State College 1921; Some Isomeric Octanols S.M. Massachusetts Agricultural College 1924. Plant Physiology Arthur Ernest Gordon, Jr., of Maryland, A.B. Dart- The Relation of the Partial Pressure of Oxygen to mouth College 1923. Latin Respiration and Growth in Germinating Wheat Local Cults in Latium George Bascomb Malone, of Georgia, S.B. Emory Uni- Harry Joseph Green, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hopkins versity 1926. Chemistry University 1926; LL.B. University of Maryland 1927. Some Isomeric Octanols Political Science A Study of the Legislature of the State of Maryland, George Edward Manger, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- with Especial Reference to the Session of 1927 kins University 1923. Geology Some Pleistocene Mollusks of San Quintin Bay and Elizabeth Juanita Greer, of Georgia, A.B. Agnes Scott Other Localities from Lower California College 1926. Chemistry Studies in Intensive Drying Aaron Margalith, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hopkins University 1926. Political Science Lena James Hawks, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher College The International Mandates 1900 ; A.M. Vanderbilt University 1908. Education Klare Stephen Markley, of the District of Columbia, Certain Relationships between Scholarship in High S.B. in Chemical Engineering George Washington Uni- School and in College versity 1924; M.S. in Chemistry 1925. Chemistry Julia Elizabeth Heil Heinlein, of Maryland, S.B. Johns The Effect of a Change in Solvent upon the Reaction Hopkins University 1925; A.M. 1928. Psychology of Thiocarbanilide and Chloracetic Acid and Con- Preferential Manipulation in Children densation of the Products Formed with Aromatic Aldehydes Alton Ross Hodgkins, of the District of Columbia, A.B. Bates College 1911; A.M. American University 1926. Frederic Thurman Martin, of Pennsylvania, Ch.E. Lehigh Political Economy University 1925. Chemistry Campomanes: A Representative Spanish Economist Studies on the Porous Disc Method of Measuring of the Time of Adam Smith Osmotic Pressure. Part I Percy Leonidas Howard, of Alabama, A.B. Birmingham Charles Milton, of New York, A.B. University of Iowa Southern College 1923; A.M. University of Chicago 1921. Geology 1926. English Nepheline Syenites and Related Rocks of the Franklin Whitman's Evangel of Democracy Furnace Quadrangle of New Jersey Percy Leroy Johnson, of Maine, S.B. University of Maine Alfred King Mitchell, of Virginia, A.B. Johns Hop- 1923; S.M. Syracuse University 1925. Zoology kins University 1925; A.M. 1927. Mathematics Is Binary Fission the Only Method of Reproduction in The Derivation of Tensors from Tensor Functions Amoeba Proteus? William Kelso Morrill, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- Carrie May Kurrelmeyer, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher kins University 1925; A.M. 1927. Mathematics College 1924. Latin A Problem of Ambience The Economy of Actors in Plautus George Emmanuel Mylonas, of Greece, A.B. International Oscar Doane Lambert, of West Virginia, A.B. West Vir- College, Smyrna, 1919; Ph.D. University of Athens ginia University 1916; A.M. University of Chicago 1921. 1927. Archaeology History The Neolithic Settlement at Olynthus The Presidential Election of 1844. Robert Donald Ohrenschall, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Dorothy Lampen, of Montana, A.B. Carleton College 1926. Hopkins University 1924. Geology Political Economy The Phosphate Deposits of Middle Tennessee Economic and Social Aspects of Federal Reclamation Alpha Loretta Owens, of Kansas, A.B. University of Vernal Earl Light, of Pennsylvania, A.B. Lebanon Vallev Kansas 1901; A.M. 1903. Romance Languages College 1916; S.M. 1926. Zoology The Life of the Child as Studied Primarily in the Photoreceptors in Mya arenaria L. with Special Ref- French Drama before 1550 Their Distribution, Structure and Function erence to Richard Alexander Parker, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Olga Pauline Longi, of France, A.M. University of Min- Hopkins University 1921. Romance Languages nesota 1925. Romance Languages Claude de l'Estoille, Poet and Dramatist, 1597-1652, Le Sentiment de la Patrie dans l'Oeuvre de Chateau- with a Critical Edition of his La Belle Esclave, briand et de son Groupe Litteraire Tragi-Comedie —

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Wellington Amos Parlin, of Maryland, A.B. Simpson Clyde Allen Spicer, of Virginia, A.B. University of Rich- College 1920; S.M. University of Iowa 1921. Physics mond 1923; A.M. Johns Hopkins University 1927. The Effect of Temperature on the Absorption Bands Mathematics of Fused Quartz in the Infra-Red P-Curves of Cremona Transformations Helen Adeline Pratt, of Massachusetts, A.B. Radcliffe Ludwig Adolph Staib, Jr., of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- College 1919. Chemistry kins University 1926. Chemistry I. The Effect of Electrolytes on the Gelation of Silicic The Surface Decomposition of Nitrogen Pentoxide Acid Sols George Frederick Adelbert Stutz, Jr., of Pennsylvania, II. The Preparation of Pure Sols of Silicic Acid Ch.E. Lehigh University 1922; A.M. Johns Hopkins Charlotte Rice, of Ohio, A.B. Ohio Wesleyan University University 1924. Physics 1926. Psychology A Study of the Scattering of Light by Dielectrics of The Orientation of Plane Figures as a Factor in their Small Particle Size Perception by Young Children Helen H. Tanzer, of New York, A.B. Columbia Univer- Edward Franklin Richards, of Maryland, A.B. Johns sity 1903. Archaeology University Hopkins 1924. Geology The Common People of Pompeii: A Study of the Cretaceous Pelecypods, Gastropods, and Echinoids of Graffiti the Ellsworth Expedition to Northern Peru Theodore Theodorsen, of Maryland, Dipl.Ing. Technical University of Gregory Schramm, of New Jersey, A.B. St. Vincent Col- 1922. Physics lege 1922; A.M. Catholic University of America 1926; On the Propagation of Large Disturbances in a Gas A.M. Columbia University 1927. Psychology Benjamin Platt Thomas, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- Direction of Children's Emotional Movements kins University 1924. History Lawrence Henry Schultz, of California, A.B. University Diplomatic Relations Between The United States and of Southern California 1922; A.M. Columbia Universitv the Russian Empire 1815-1867 1923. Chemistry Frederick Carver Wagner, of Pennsylvania, A.B. Dickin- Studies on the Porous Disc Method of Measuring son College 1921; S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Osmotic Pressure nology 1924. Chemistry

Louise Cleret Seibert, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher Col- A Comparative Study of Some Aliphatic Sulfonic Acids lege 1920. Education A Series of Experiments on the Learning of French Paul Knorr Walp, of Virginia, A.B. University of Vir- Vocabulary ginia 1925; A.M. 1926. Political Science The Respective Venila Lovina Shores, of Vermont, A.B. Bates College Functions of the Council and the As- sembly of 1914; A.M. Smith College 1918. History the League of Nations The Presidential Election of 1836 Edward Hann Watson, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- kins University 1925. Geology Kenneth Hood Slagle, of Maryland, S.B. in Chem. Johns The Pegmatites of Maryland with Hopkins University 1926. Chemistry Discussion of Asso- ciated Phenomena Decomposition of Aliphatic Ketones in the Gas Phase Theodore Marshall Whitfield, of Richard Harbert Smith, of the District of Columbia, S.B. Virginia, A.B. Uni- versity of Richmond 1926. History Moores Hill College 1915; S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1918; A.M. Johns Hopkins University Slavery Agitation in Virginia 1829-1832 1928. Physics Robert Henry Wienefeld, of Maryland, A.B. Johns Hop- Aerodynamic Theory and Test of Strut Forms kins University 1925. History Part II Franco-German Relations Dorothy Speer, of Maryland, A.B. Goucher College 1923. Carl Edwin Willoughby, of Maryland, S.B. iii Chemistry Education Johns Hopkins University 1925. Chemistry Evaluation of Composition An Experimental Seven Further Studies in the Preparation of Osmotic Pres- Scales sure Cells (68) DOCTOR OF LAWS

Frederick George Donnan, of England, Professor of General Chemistry, University College, London (1)