New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-27
HARVARD UAIVERSIrY.
GRADUATING EXERCIsEs-CLtss HONOEs-HOEOG-
AIRY DEGREEs-ALUMNI MEETING AND DINNER.
TBT TELEGRAPH TO the rRIBUNEl

GRADUATING ExERcIsEs-CLtss noNoEs-HoEoR-
AIRY DEGREEs-ALUaiT MEETING AND DINNER.
TBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNE.l
CASBRIDGF, Mass, June 26.-ln that month
when II ever perfect days" Harvard College has
seldom known better day FOR her annual festival han
this A blue sky with great whito Clouds
mid but braOng temperature, light breeze
but no dust: these have made II all that
the Cambridge poet, absent now IN distant Spain.
could have wished had no been mere Sanders Theatre AZ
10 o'clock this morning already bright with youth
and flowers, when President Eliot entered II with Earl
DuleTn the Governor General Of Canada, on his arm,
and was followed by ocary OF the university the
graduating class and Governor Rice with Judge Clifford
at his side. There nine graduates who took part
In the exercises, their subjects and names being as fol-
lows:
Dissection IN Latin. Clinton william Lucas.
Thesis. Barney sachs Goethe ~ Man OF Science"
Dsquisiton, Eugene Tyler Chamberlain Progress IN
Dissection. George Miller Pnney, "victor Emanuel
C" oraon Samuel shepherd Tho chinese in America"
Grafton Paul shoreY " Tcnnyson's Epic"
Franklin Bartlett. History Of the Struggle FOR Land
In ireland IN the Sixteenth Century
William ETastus Cushing, Law, "Bentham as Law
Fredefick Meakin, Theology Some aspects Of Utilt
taranbm"
Mr.. Bartlett. Mr. Cushing and Mr. Meakn were can
didates for advanced derees The Grafton on Victor
Emanuel and Plus TX. evoked much applause and de-
served IT, That on Teunyson's Epic was ch"eTed rs
q
OF thought rather than Of delivery. Mr. shoroy also re-
ceived honors in hree departments, In ancient Lam
guages in history and IN philosophy Tue
competc list OF honor men Ia as follows:
Ancient Languages, q. II. Brown, J. b. Hunt,
c. H. EteFRs, highest honor Paul shorey chemistry,
H. g. Burdet; highest honor, w. H. bennett; physics
highest honor. Henry Goidmark; IN history p r. Chan
ing and Paul shorey: IN philosophy. J.. r. Chamberlain,
Irving Etung and A. II. Roger; highest honor. A. D.
Heaern b. y. Johnson Paul sA0rey; In natural history
b. Sachs
The number OF graduates in arts ard science IL 40.
with s7 in the department Of Law. medicine dental sur
CRY aud theology The degree Of A. NJ was conferred
upon ~ thatofs D. upon 3 and that Of Phi. u. upon
The degree Of LID. given 90 Earl Dufcrin, the
same degree having been conferred upon him this year
at his own university as oxford, and Judge Nathan Cf
ford william G.. Russell and Thomas Chase wefe also
made Doctors OF Laws.
The Alumni held their annual meeting IN Harvard
Hall to-day at o'clock, sben the final report Of the
Building Committee OF Memorial Hall was presented
and the committee was discharged with our bcnedic
tion" as the motion was made 10 read. The work ou
this spendid structure begun Ia 1870 and although
it occupied on Comineneepept Day two yealis ago.
&c not fully completed m All IT'S warts ui,lI hF Ist
year credit has been accorded to tho Bnnolng
Committee for It's work. The cost estimated By an
architect at 100000 and by alumni at S6OOOOO Out
N has been Ouy 100000.
AZ tie alumni dinner very large number were
present conspicuous them being the poet Long
fellow, Mr. Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward
winthrop Fart DuGerin snd Governor Rlct
Bpeeehes were made by Eat uner ~ nT wGS
able TO secure the greatest happiness 70 the
greatest number Of human Deiags ana o hopS Ss
wI1tpTop exhibited the programme which was used
Hrne1ccment Day I'm is2s and spoke Of the visit Of
John Quincy Adams, who az that uine was fftslaeht
Of the United stairs There Others who spoke and
we're lie illusions 20 the days they had passed at
Harvard. 10 the men who had giyen Der ren9%n,
me Vale nine by score OF TO p and few days ago
defeated them up IN hew-faVeh harVau uen are
Ib ever mai they viii win the Eew-London
Friday Many students are on tonigh'ior he"'Lonuon
tomorrow many others VIII 60
TIE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.
Attbe animal meeting OF the alumni Of the Cartridge
Theological School Tuesday, President Eliot In the
course OF few remarks said that tho mind OF the cor
porauon had considerably changed since twenty years
ago when IL proposed that the divinity school should be
.enarated from the university. No such notions would
now be entertained no university would be complete
without a theological department. lie fIaher declared
sf tbe oriDoipe OF uuseclaianism Is the underlying
fnaoSati5n of inc entire Harvard system. There Is
potbIng1 be said {" as n Unitarian, Of which l am
thst liberty rs costly and OF the items
OF cost Is that young men go OUT 81 our
a compact and strong UNCONVENTIONAL organisation can
give But cHnnos nave at the same tme: inc adyha
Iuges liberty aud those OF desp0tism Az TINS meet
ing the following officers were elected The Rev msssrs
j. H. Morrison DID, OF Milton PresdePP t@ ~ " s
bridge secretary; Rufus i. StebDlna, d. d. hIst
preacher Joseph May, second PREACHER
THE NEUROLOGY LIST.
There are IOl names IN the neurology list for tho year
nost 81 OF them being graduates from the regular collie
tae department. and Is being that had not been
previously reported the most Of them having died before
tbe beginning OF the present century, and eight
NJ them more than 100 years ago. In the eleven
classes between 1912 and 1885, for period OF thirteen
onbs there was not single death reported and there
we're $40 men living whose average age " about hly-
two years. william Freeman, OF CheIfyNlle, Me- aso
a 1tastyythree both OF the Class OF 1904, remain.
80 Iast wear, the Oldest living graduates ana
.re hi no class since that which has not now IT'S
living representative. Among those who have aied ~
H. nast wear are the following: Dr. Martyr fane OF
NeV.YpYork CITY; Sidney Brooks, OF Boston, Allen
". Dodge, Hamiltqnj George Putnam k3HdG slayy
Wartcn Boston; George I. Bgelow, Boston, CbLlslO-
,nr n Weld ROxbury; Richard s. Young, san FRAN
cisco Ioring LathrOp, kew-Iorki Edward H. ClarAei
n 49,. - Milllnm EYarts, New-YOrk city.