St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-30
COLLEGIANS LET OUT.
Yale. Harvard and Amherst Com
menCement Days Pass Off
Pleasantly.
Prosperity Abides in the Affairs
of the Great American
Schools.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, June 29.-The
graduation exercises Of the academic
department of Yale took place this
morning. Honorary degrees were con-
ferred on the following: NJ. A., Hon.
John P. Elkins; d. D., Rev. Samuel A.
Martin, ''77," professor of pastoral the
ology and sacred rhetoric in Lincoln
university, Oxford, Pa. The following
were elected trustees: James Galley,
10, % manager Carnegie furnaces, Brad
dock, Pa; Robert Snowdgrass, "57, y
Harrisburg, Pa; Rev. Davis A. Walter
Jr., 30" state superintendent OF public
instruction. Bloomsbury, Pa.
The following honorary degrees were
conferred: D. D., Rev. Prof. Charles
NJ. Iiler, '55, of Cornell university ;
Ii. D., Prof. Theodore w. Dwight, late
of Columbia College law school. who
died this morning; Sir Donald A. Smith.
chancellor of McGill university, Mon
treal; NJ. A., Joseph Jefferson, Try0n;
III. Edwards, Harrisburg. Pa; Rev.
Edward s. Hume. Bombay, Ind.
After the graduating exercises there
was the usual alumni dinner. Judge
Henry E. Howland, of New York, was
elected member of the Yale corpora
! ton to fill the vacancy left by the res
ignation of William Walter Phelps.
This has been the most prosperous year
of the university. The endowment fund
has been Increased to S2.000,000. with
the promise of another million, availa-
BILE in a few years.
The winner of the De Forrest medal
for the prize speaking, held this morn
ing, was announced this evening as j.
ID. HutchinS. of Los Angeles. Cal.
BOsToN, June 90. = Commencement
day at Harvard, was fair, breezy and
cool. The time-honored Observances of
the day were carried out. President
Elliot presented diplomas as follows.
Bachelor arts, 271; bachelor science, g.;
bachelor agricultural science, L; doctor
veterinary medicine, 6; doctor dental
medicine, IA; doctor medicine, s.; doc
tor medicine and master of arts, 9:
bachelor laws, 46; bachelor laws and
master of arts, g; bachelor laws. 81;
bachelor laws and master of arts, g.;
bachelor theology. 5; bachelor theology
and master of arts, 8; master of arts, II !;
doctor of science, L: doctor of phySiOl-
ogy and master of arts, ).
After the exercises were concluded
the alumni and guests marched to Me
mortal hall, where the annual dinner of
the association was held. 1t was a no
table gathering, some 700 being present,
representing nearly every class from
1922 to 1892.
At previous business meeting of the
association the following officers were
elected: President. Horace Davis, San
Francisco; vice president, Charles
E. Norton. Cambridge; Robert L.
Lincoln, Chicago; Henry S. Huydeko-
per, Philadelphia; Edmund Wetmore,
New York; Charles j. Bonaparte. Balti-
more; James B. Thayer, Cambridge;
o. W. Holmes Jr., Boston; Marshall I.
Snow, st. Louis; Samuel A. Green,
Boston, Charles Francis Adams. Quincy.
The balloting for overSeerS of the col
lege, which had been in progress during
the day by the Australian system. re-
suited in the election of the six gentle
men named below: Henry Lee, '36,
Brookline; Stephen NJ. Weld, 80. Ded-
ham; James G. Carter, so, New York;
Arthur L. Lyman. '53, Waltham, George
E. Adams, go. Chicago; Mooffield Story,
'66. Brooklne.
AMHERST, Mass, June 29.-The grad
uating exercises began today at AM
herst college. The degree of arts was
conferred upon Seventy-fve and that of
bachelor of science upon fifty-fye grad
yates. The following honorary degrees
were conferred: NJ. A, Rev. G. S. New
hall, ''69." Brownwood, Tex Prof. G.
F. W. Hubbard, 10" Danville, KY;
G. NJ. Hyde, ''Ss." Minneapolis; Clyde
w. Notawa, ''SS." Chicago; J. K. Kel-
locb, Fort Wayne, Ind, took the Hyde
prize of 500 for senior orator. This
prize was doubled by friend of the
college.