New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-29
COMMENCEMENT AT HARVARD.
GRADUATING EXEECIsEs-PROFEsSOR ELECTED
HONORARY DEGREES-ALUMNI MEETING
iBY IELEGkAPH 10 The TRlBCNEl

iBT TELgJkAFH 10 TIE TRlBCNE.l
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 2S.-Tae closing
college life Of the class Of - Of Fair lar
vsrd" were enacted today under the peasantest cir
cumstances possible. The weather delightful. and
no hing occurred the harmony of the occasion.
The Governor and staff, accordance with the
honored custom, escorted from the House
the college By the National Lancers. Soon after 0
o'clock seniors full dress, beaded by the Cadet
Band and accompanied by Governor Long and invited
guests marched 10 Sanders THEATRE where the follow
ing exercises occurred:
Satisfactory Franklin Arthur Dskfn.
Capitalization IL our Government Harold Marsh
5ewsl.
Jane Austin and Charlotte Bronte Charles
5wIft ana stefne Francis Edward Fuller.
wagner. Theory " TIE Opera "-Flederlck Russell
Burton.
HOdghIls. candidate IN law
" The 1heulDgy II Wordsworth Theodore CHECKER
ing williams, candidate IL theology
The degree Of Bachelor Of conferred III
graduates Bachelor Of scep cum ldude), L Master
Of Mechanic Arts, Bacnelrr Of Agriculture. Doctor
of DeutA Medic 10 Doctor OF Medicine &C Bachelor
u II vs. % cum Ialdel. 10 Bachelor Of Theology,
) Master Of Arts, T. ana Doctor Of science. l.
stated meeting Of the Board II Oyerseers held
Memorial Han. the Hon. l.. lockwood Hoar presid-
~ al Itch william Augustus Rogers a NJ, reap
pon ed assistant professor Of astronomy for five years
The following were elected aud referred severa,
committees Charles Parker Lyman, professor Of vster
u.ry medcine David Gordon Lyon Ph.D., Hollis pro
fr-s1r Of ID, Unity and David Williams Cheeyer ID. D.
prof --snr Of surgery.
TIE Board OF yerseers voted &c confer s1 honorary
degrees: Th.tl OF LID Marcus Morton. CHE JUS
tee ~ the Massachusetts supreme Court; william
trwplushied Eudicolt. Aasociste Justice of the su
prerne Cour tue Uon. Charles OCOnOc, Of NewYOrk;
and Dr Henry Jacob Bigel0w and that " A. N.
COiuue Henry Lee Higynson, OF Cambridge, and the
Hon. HorAtiO Hill
IL vas voted tuat after November next person no;
a college graduate shall be admitted 10 the Divinity
school special student who 'nal not haze passed
satisfactory examination IL ot TIE Greek az Latin
clas-ic aud n the Greek Of lie Gospels that after No
semOer only graduates Of college, persons
WIZ III tn judgment OF Tie ldcuty ot tbs school sLIl
have received equivalent educ alton, snail be All
ni.ed candidates TOR the degree Oi Bachelor "
At IL o'clock tie polls were opened Massachusetts
Han for the election Of seven OYtiseers five for The
term " SIX years 20 supply iht &c OF Or class men
goes VI Office at the close OF the day and TWO Tor one
year each, 10 I'LL vacancies caused by resgn auOl The
result OF the election was announced at TIE alumni I'm
per as follows For live years-sauuel A. Green Mayor
BOstOL 9O6 Charles Francls Adams, ir, 49, VIII
Russell 40; LevcreU saltonstaI, 414 MOur-
nelI Sturey, 4U6. FOR year-Francls ~ eed 35l;
solomon Lincoln, esq, 2Os
TIE annual meeting Of the Alumni was held to-day,
Henry Lee iI.g1usOn, esq. presiding Amos Lawrence,
tor the class subscription committee reported the tOtal
received 10 be Sl34 10 50, PAID 10 thr college
alI 900; balance pn interest no 50. fund Ia
for the general purposes Of the college The fO owing
officers were elected the rnsuILg year President
George HOar, Worcester vce-presidents william u.
Russell and Phil ps Brooks Boston; Joseph II. ChOate,
%aU-York. Frauci, l. Child Cambridge. Mauuink +
Force Cincinnati; Henry J. Bigelow, Boston; william
G. EudlcOt, salem Nathaniel H. MOrrl5on baltimore
Horace II. Furnces Philadelphia aud Horace Davis, san
Lyman, Boston; Charles Elcott Norton, Cambridge;
Francis NJ. Weed, New-fork; william Brandt stOrr,
Cambridge and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr., Boston.
treasurer LOtArop lhOrnd ke, Cambridge Secretary
Arthur Lincoln, bingham
The alumni dluner was served at p. m, and nearly
i've nun.red were present. speeches we're made by
Colonel Henry Lee President EnOt, Governor Long,
General Walker, Professor Alexander Agsssz Estes
Howe. General LnciGs FalrcHiid, of WISCONSIN, and
Others.