New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-28
COLLEGE YEARS ENDED.
CLOSING DAYS AT MANY IN
.STTTUTTONS.
YALE AND HARVARD HOLD COMMENCE
MENTS-DEGREE CONFERRED ON
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.
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Cambridge Mass, June 27.-Harvard Univer-
sity celebrated her 264th commencement to-day
by bestowing $50 degrees of which 10 were
honorary, SO out of course and 943 in regular
The distribution Of the honorary degrees was,
as usual, the most interesting feature of the
mornings exercises in Sanders Theatre The LII.
d. degrees were conferred by President Eliot
upon Justice Knowlton. Of the Massachusetts
Supreme Court; L. r. Briggs. dean Of Harvard
College: Sir Julian Pauncefote, w. H. WEIGH,
professor Of pathology in Johns Hopkins Uni
verslty. and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of
the University of California
D. DIS were conferred upon H. B. Frissell,
principal Of the Hampton Institute; Leighton
Park, OF Emmanuel Church. Boston, and Gyorgy
Boros, dean of the Theological College at Koloz-
suaar. Hungary To General Hazard Stevens
and H H Hanna. prominent in the gold stand
ard movement, were presented honorary NJ A
The most popular degree with the audience
and with the Harvard men assembled was that
given 10 Dean Briggs, who received prolonged
applause and cheers when the announcement
was made Sir Julian Pauncefote also loud
IL applauded when he arose to bow his acknowl-
edgment Of the honor conferred upon him.
Upon the arrival of President Eliot, Governor
Crane and the invited guests at Sanders The
of Jamaica Plain. the first scholar of the senior
class spoke in Latin upon the visit of the Gu
bans to Harvard. Dissertations were delivered
bv r. g. Forbes of Brooklyn, n. Y. on The
Pilgrim as He Was and by Murray Season
good of Cincinnati, Commencement, Past
and Present" H. l. Seaver, of Boston, deliv-
cred an Grafton on Hawthorne and the Ro-
nance of the Present" and DR.. W. c. Hersey, of
Lincoln an essay on James Howell, Journal
ist Before His Time"
The members of the senior class who took de-
grees summa cum laude were W. 3. Cutting, Of
New-York: D. F Drake, of Boston; F. G. Bauer.
Of Jamaica Plain; H. H Fox. of Jamaica Plain;
c. B. Hersey. Of Lincoln; H. A. Yeomans, of
Seattle: W c Heilman of Boston, and H. L.
Seaver Of Boston. Fifty-1ve men received de-
erees magma cum laude and seventy-seven cum
laude.
At 1 O'Clock the business meeting Of the
ISOLATION Of alumni held in Harvard Hall
Meanwhile. the various classes were holding re-
unions in the different rooms around the yard.
At 2 o'clock the alumni reached Memorial Hall
for the annual dinner. at which President Eliot
the Fellows of the Corporation. Governor Crane
and his military staff, the Sheriffs of Middiesex
and Suffolk counties. the Board Of Overseers
and the candidates for honorary degrees were
guests.
Augustus Hemenway. rs. acted as chief mar
shall
4 new feature OF this years commencement
was a series of boat races between Fights from
the classes between 1890 and 1896.
The election for the Board Of Overseers re-
suited follows:
Samuel Hill 70 Of Minneapolis; George F.
Hoar 40 Of Worcester; Bishop William Law
renee, II, Of Cambridge, and Edward w. Hoop
er, 80 of Boston.
The struggle for fifth place resulted in
a tie between Arthur Lincoln '63, Of Hing
ham, and Charles H. Russell, II, of
New-York. The overseers will settle the ques-
ton at their meeting in September
The alumni association at its meeting pre-
yious to the dinner elected Senator Hoar as
president John D. Long, 81; Theodore Roose-
welt, 80. and Henry Cabot Lodge H. were
among the ce-presidents.
A project 10 secure a finer home for President
Eliot TO be called Eliot House, was referred
to the Executive Committee