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HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING

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MASTER OF ARTS

Francis Wells Hunnewell: For twenty years the beloved Secretary, who amid the rapids has helped to make the boat run smoothly on her course.

Joseph Rochemont Hamlen: A true friend of the University, who has brought the Alma Mater and the Alumni closer together by telling her their thoughts, and showing to her sons their mother's face.

Philip Hale: Acute and learned critic, striving to promote the arts of music and improve the public taste.

Louis Edward Kirstein: A power for good in his city, ever ready for effort in the public weal.

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Harlow Shapley: An astronomer of renown, whose spirit, searching for the centre of the universe and the nature of the ultra-galactic nebulac, chafes at observing only from this paltry planet.

George David Birkhoff: First in our land among masters of mathematics, that great tool of science, greater still in the realm of pure imagination.

DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Most elequent of preachers in our day, whose voice that fills the crowded church is heard by listening multitudes in silent homes.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

Wilbur Lucius Cross: Professor, and Dean of the Graduate School of Yale University, who, following her motto, has rendered high service to his people as Governor of Connecticut.

Lewis Williams Douglas: Who in times of lessened public revenue, and increased expense, is engaged in saving the national credit by wise and just economy.

Alfred Emanuel Smith: A master of State administration, as shown by his record as Governor of New York; a statesman with the courage to proclaim unpopular opinions in a time of trouble.

Andre de Laboulaye: Eminent as diplomat, whose nation and ours have in critical times helped each other, and must ever retain that precious memory.

Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay: Every from the land of our first settlers, whence we have drawn our language, our laws and our traditions, we welcome you to our Society for what you are and for what you represent.

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