Same commencement program as media:1671 (valedictorian Harlow Shapley, graduate Walter C. Lanyon) — very likely the identical underlying event as that sibling candidate, but since neither is yet an on-site event id I cannot mark it a true duplicate per the given list; flagging for downstream merge w

Derived from dated newspaper clipping(s): media:1671; media:1678; media:1685. Curated 2026-08-17 against the existing event set; not independently re-verified against a primary source.

The readable text behind this event (node:4282, media:1678) gives the graduating class in full — four people. 'Members of the graduating class were: Harlow Shapley, Latin scientific course; Zina Gothard; Harriet Luella Grunday; Walter Clemow Lanyon, English course.' Shapley delivered the valedictory, 'Romanticism in English Literature'. The graduating exercises were held at the Main Street Presbyterian church. The programme: invocation by Dr. F. Kemper; piano, 'The Two Larks' (Leschetizky), Miss Edith Jay; the valedictory; piano, 'The Fairy Tale' (Raff), Miss Leila Roessler; the address 'The Preservation of Personal Equipoise' by Hon. Henry L. Bright; piano, 'Cachoucha Caprice', Miss Regina Well; presentation of diplomas and prizes; announcements; benediction. The commencement address was on 'Higher Education', and on the education of conscience; the following evening brought a contest and the president's reception. The class day programme was given in May, the day lost to OCR damage. The report also describes the institute itself: under Presbyterian management and influence, in the heart of a thickly populated district, offering a four-year preparatory course and a two-year college course, with a benefactor of Carthage having offered to erect a boarding hall to be called the 'Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Hall', the fund for it then standing at about one quarter of what was needed.