The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-29
At Harvard.

BOSTON, June 28-The usual ceremonies of
commencement took place at Harvard mi
versity to-day, the Governor attending with
some of his staff and an escort of Lancers.
Soon after ten seniors in full dress assembled
in front of Stoughton and the other candidates
in front of Hollis and after making tour OF
the yard the procession moved to Sanders
Theatre in Memorial Hall under the leader
ship OF the class marshal, w ID. Manning;
AT Sanders Theatre the audience assembled
listened to the following programme; Latin
grafton, "Salutatory to the alumni ana faculty
of the university" Franklin Arthur Dakln;
disquisition, Civilization in our Govern
ment," Harold Marsh Sewall; "Jane Austin
Copeland: "Swift and Stoiene," Francis Ed
yard Fuller; "Wagners Theory of The
OPERA" Frederic Russell Burton; dissertation
''The Pole of the Future" George Lowell
Mayberry; orations, "Jhe States and the
Railroads." Arthur Parker Hodgkins. candi-
date in law; ''The Theology of Wordsworth,
Theodore Chickering Williams, candidate in
theology. The exercises in the theatre closed
with the comforting of degrees as follows:
degree of bachelor of arts conferred on III;
master of the mechanic arts, /; bachelor OF
agriculture, l.; doctor of dental medicine, 3;
doctor of medicine, SO; bachelor of law, %,
(cum laude), 10; bachelor of theology, 5; mas
ter of arts, Z; doctor OF science, l. The hon
orary degrees were that of IL. d. ON Marcus
Supreme Court; William Crowninshield Endi-
colt, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court;
Hon. Charles O'Conor, New York, and DIR.
Henry Jacob Bigelow of this city, and that of
A. M. on Col. Henry Lee Higginson of Cam
bridge and Hon. .sHoratio Hale.
At meeting of the board of overseers, K.
lockwood Hoar presiding, William Augustus
Rogers, A. NJ, was reappointed assistant pro-
fessor of astronomy for five years from April
9, 1882. The following were elected and re-
&c.. H. ttaar lQC
Parker Lyman, professor of veterinary medi-
cine David Gordon Lyon, Ph. d., Hollis pro-
fessor of divinity; David Williams Cheever,
nj. d., professor of surgery. The time for the
annual meeting was fixed for the second
Wednesday in September. The following
votes were passed Voted, that after Novem
ber next no person not a college graduate
shall be admitted to the divinity school as
special student who shall not have passed a
satisfactory examination in some of the Greek
and Latin classics and the Greek OF the Cos
pes; voted, that after November next only
graduates of some college or persons who in
the judgment of the faculty of the school shall
be admitted to be candidates for the degree OF
''bachelor Of divinity"
The dinner of the alumni was held in Memo
rial Hall at 2 p. M Col. Henry Lee presided,
and among those present were Gov. Long and
staff, Lieut.-Gov. Weston, President Elliot,
Gen. Francis A Walker, John Quincy Adams,
Ex-State-Attorney General Phillips and Will
liam Thomas of Plymouth, who graduated in
1907, is 90 years old, and the Oldest living grad
uate of Harvard. There were addresses by
Col. Lee, President Elliot, Gov. Long, Gen.
Walker, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, Gen. Lucius
Fairchild, Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, and the
last minister to Spain. During dinner the
health of Gladstone and Minister Lowell were
drank with much enthusiasm. The dinner and
commencement were brought to close by sing
ing "Auld lang Syne."
The polls for election of overseers closed at
p. M, and the result was announced during the
alumni dinner, as follows For five years, DR..
Samuel A. Green, Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
William G. Russell, Leverett Saltonstall and
Moorield Story: for one year, Francis NOVEL;
and Solomon lincoln.
Notes.
Among the honorary degrees conf erred by
Yale were those of LII. d. upon Senior Don
Marcial Martinez, Chilian minister to Eng
land, Chancellor Theodore Runyon, New
Jersey, and Hon. W. w. Crapo.