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Rh that the graduates of the School could always find positions in his shops. Addresses in similar vein were made by D. M. Anderson, president of the Bricklayers' Protective Association, and George Watson, ex-president of the Master Builders' Exchange. At the third commencement, 1896, the addresses were given by three members of the graduating class, Louis H. Coxe, Lyndon H. Wheeler, and Harry Barton. The attendance was very large in 1897, at the graduation of the fourth class. Mr. Brooks presided, and Mr. Wanamaker made an address in which he said, in urging upon the students to be worthy of their election, that Isaiah Williamson, if he knew, would never be satisfied to have a thousand dollars of his money spent upon a ten-cent boy, which seems to have been wrought into the fundamental work of the School. Among the many distinguished guests present was Jacob Tome, who had recently given more than a million of dollars to establish a similar school at Port Deposit, Maryland. At the fifth commencement (1898), Hampton L. Carson was the speaker of the occasion. The next year, the sixth commencement, 1899, Isaac H.