New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-25
LAST DAY AT FAIR HARVARD
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY-sIX STU
....- DENTS GRADUATED.
SENATOR LODGE CHEERED AS HE RISES AT THE
ALUMNI pINNER-"wRITE THOSE WORDS
IN GOLD" SAYS BISHOP LAWRENCE

ALUMNI pINNER-"wRITE THOSE WORDS
IN GOLD" SAYS BISHOP LAWRENCE
GENERAL. MILES HONORED.
Cambridge, Mass. June 2A-To-day was COM
mencement day at Harvard. when the great UNI
verslty formally launched forth upon the sea OF lie
its hundreds OF graduates armed with the degrees
of the various departments.
The programme this year contained no new feat-
ures. The rule against punches has forever smut
out that old-tme auxiliary Of the festNites ana
the literary exercises and awarding OF u'p'o'Has
were hello with the same dgnifed and Impressive
formality which has characterized hundreds OIL O'''
Harvard commencement days
The literary exercises were held al lo:So O'clock
IN Sanders Theatre At $50 the seniors ana cdh.i-
da,ss fo, other degrees assembled N 'front.' OF fios
Hail AT the same time the overseers anu coipo'"
ton with the president and faculties Oh az u'r
n.nts. met at Massachusetts, Hall ior the ui'e'
nonored custom of welcoming the Chief MaslStr".e
OF the Commonwealth ana the S'' -
and Middlesex counties 80. L.,
Acting Governor Wolcott and stan came out III
carriages escorted By the Lancers who insrenea
hack TO Boston soon as the Governor ""N ~
welcomed by the university onnc'd's- 49,,
Then. with the Germana Band IN front anu .ne
aararaduates guests and officers and graduates
- ,ha university in order behind, the process'o"
marched TO Sanders Theatre ~ ~
Tha exsrc,ses here were on the same plan as III
-,rs,.,ous wears. The commencement speakers a""
their subjects were as foiiows' ~ 1Y,rr,.
Tin Grafton and salutatory, George HeniN
<,sasa. a;souisition Arthur Cheney Tram mas
1Iar,.ara College Tradtons?" disquisiton' William
A,rsuorth Barker THE First commencement
dissertation John Gorham Palfrey ne Ne' Nv,
AGAINST the Classics; Grafton Ravfnon ""0
Donald Alden of the Graduate schoo' f",o'. ,
and Life: grafton, Philip Henry savage oi "o
Croaua,a School 1.-TWO American Autnors ora
zion Henry McCabe Bowling, of the Law school,
ethics Of the Law. -
FoIlow,ne these came the presentation OF degrees
ny President Eliot. addressing the caicioa'eS Al
Latin. The degrees in course having oee'' u''po9
of the president announced the names OF those upon
whom had been conferred honorary degrees by vote
of the Overseers earlier in the morning.
The following honorary degrees were conferreu
H. D-General Nelson A. Miles L. S. A; Judge
Mason Webb Maine Supreme Bench; PROFESSOR
William Robert Ware. architect; Alexander Gran"lh
BSN, inventor; Professor Wliiiaih "'iso" i ''
botanist Of Harvard.
D. D-M Z. Bishop John Hey Vincent OF Nan
vas: the Rev. Wesley Otheman Holway' the senior
chaplain of the L. S. Navy; the Rev. Minoi D. say
age (now of New-lork).
A. M-John W. Muir. explorer; Wilberforce
Eames historian: Booker T. Washington Ccolored)'
principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute (this IL the first and only honorary degree
ever conferred by Harvard on a colored mani;
Gordon Mckay. esq, inventor; Thomas Baiey
This ended the days exercises The. graduates
scattered to their cassrooms to meet ola chunS d.
At 10 O'clock the Alumni Association. met for
business, and at 23o the commencement dinner was
The list Of those obtaining degrees briefly sum-
married is as follows: --,-.. Or, ,o..
year twenty nine bachelors of science two baches
veterinary medicine twenty-five doctors of DENTS.
airy, eighty-fve doctors of medicine thirty-ve OF
sixteen doctors OF medicine, who have taken tho
three years course; l bachelors of law seventeen
al +ba
iaude: ten bachelors of divinity nineiyeight mas
tiers Of arts eighteen doctors Of paosopny
a certificate OF work done, -.,. o.,.,o, ,on
excelling in certain specified branches of study,
varying from Greek to chemistry ,-,-. ,oa
Highest honors signify that the recipient mas
done almost perfect work in his special branch
Honors signify little less perfect degree or attain.
ment. Seventeen received highest honors in special
classes Of the degree OF A. b., with distnctlon:
six men for general excellence. one for highest
honors in special branches and ON two Tor Doth
The second degree. with distinctIon.-InagGna cum
laude-was given 10 hrytnrce an h ree e
of the class had 10 be content with pam uhsar-
nished degree. ..,.
Five hundred alumni and their guests partook OF
tire annual Commencement dinner In Memorial
Hall. Cambridge. this afternoon There were many
1llustrious IN attendance including General
Nelson A. Miles the Rev Minot j. Savage. SEN
s,or Lodge Booker IT. wSssmg9n o G0y Se mi
Association. and President Eliot, all of whom
after-dnner
They were almost all enthusiastically received, but
sa ns hs APPLAUSE Which Oh Broke ou when had
finished, was vocifsroua and long continued tn, The
Pre sdS y Wetmore welcomed the alumni and
smoke of the Harvard spirit. He spoke OF the
growth Of Harvard in recent years and said tia,
not BY politicians. but by students of political sci
After the singing of Fair Harvard" Presiden,
Eliot was introduced and spoke briefly: He said
ys1,1 they u aas S s @ at 's
Of the governing body 70 The effect that hereafter
unless mn es he has an academic degree The other
Of h the JSnp Make ,Sa
BENDS more accessible 70 the students
s %0s9 tai Sn
relations Of the state to Harvard ,s,,,,, tho
uoiyerty FOR the honor that had been conferred
upon him. and speaking OF Harvards part In the
c'Tt, Rev. NJ j. Savage said he fe:t 1T honor
70 Be s 1S' sy e he 70 his
Then ne spoke Of religion as the most i,inportan,
Coming when the number Of those who gave them
Spiritual work nsx, TSaS srs and SsSon
Iawrsnce in calling for three &c tines three cheers
% SENATE SENATOR rnSfs
St. Louis and was glad to have the approval Of
h's se tSsn spoke Of the growth Of Harvard and
added an earnest word on behalf OF college ath-
Hooker T. Washington. the next speaker most
xrrn1iy greeted. He dwet the relations Of the
sreat nstitutions of learning 10 the colored peope
md said Harvard would help them. not by coming
down TO their level but by drawing them to hers
Nothn9 could the progress OF the negro.
.sNSc member OF our race can be harmed without
harrning ihe proudest and blucst blood in Massa-
cHs.rSsfs No crime can be committed in Missis-
sinrt Sr5fhost its being feh in Massachusetts"
Professor William G. Farow was the last speaker.
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wEsLEYAN's SIXTY FIFTH COMMENCEMENT.
N,ad,etown. Conn.,. June "A (speciaD.-The sixty
afth annual commencement exercises of Wesleyan
University were held this morning in the Methodist
Eufscopa; Church Of this city. The programme con-
s,saed Of ten oratons In competition for the Rich
prixe interspersed with music by Pope's orchestra,