The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-27
Gift to he n Memorial to Junius Spen-
Ger Morgan, Once Mer-
chant of Boston.
MANY DEGREES C0.lFERRED
Won HOLLEBEN
AMONG THOSE HONORED.
An Indianapolis Speaker-TwO Million
Dollars Raised by Yale-Gift of
$4,000 from Senator Hanna.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 26.-President
Eliot announced at the Harvard alumni
dinner tonight that John Pierpont Nor
gan had given more than one million dol
lars for the erection of three of the five
buildings planned for the Harvard Medical
School In Boston.
The gift is for the prosecution of zap
piled biological research" Some months
ago, President Eliot explained. Messrs.
Henry and Frank Higginson took tract of
twenty acres of land, paying s55o.O0O for it.
This the agent agreed to hold In trust for
the university until means should be found
to buy 1t from them, when they would sell
at cost price. 1t was supposed that the
carrying out of the plan would be mat
ter for the remote future. Nevertheless.
the medical faculty through committee
consisting of Drs. Henry p. Bowditch and
j. Collins Warren proceeded to draw up
plans and specifications for the buildings
which they would like to have and could
use next year if they had them. The esti-
mated cost was s2.QO0,000. Last Friday DR..
Collins received a cable from Mr.. Morgan.
in which he said:
Referring to our conversation and plans
submitted, am prepared to erect the CEN
memorial to Junius Spencer Morgan. a
tive of Massachusetts, and for many years
a merchant of Boston. You can announce
this"
President Eliot called attention to the
phrase plans submitted" which he said
included specifications and said that these
called for an outlay of more than $1,000 600.
The new Morgan buildings on Huntington
avenue in Boston will include a hospital.
Coincidentally it was noted that more than
$50 men took the NJ. D. this morning.
The commencement was rather quiet in
that the number of distinguished men pres
ent as guests were fewer than usual. The
double disappointment in the absence of
made Baron Won Holleben, the German am
bassador, the chief guest Of honor Other
wise the only prominent visitors from
other countries or States were Vice Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Hon Wayne MacVeagh,
who will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa ora
tion; John Bellows, of Gloucester, Eng
land. noted photographer: Judge James
Tindall Mitchell, of the Supreme Court,
and Jacobus Henricus Van Hoff de-
scribed by President Eliot in conferring a
degree as the greatest living physical
chemist. Senator Hoar presided at the
alumni dinner, and he and others made ex-
traordinary laudatory references to the
President and secretary of state.
The commencement exercises during the
day followed the usual programme The
president and fellows of the university,
me overseers ana the various faculties met
the recipients of the honorary degrees,
Governor Crane and his staff and other
invited guests, and all marched to San
ders's Theater, escorted by all the seniors
and gowns. The commencement speakers
were Lawrence Hayward. Marlborough,
Samuel Smith Drury. Bristol, r. L., and
Herbert c. Kahn Indianapolis. Following
the exercises in Sanderss Theater the va
rious classes held reunions. To-day's
commencement was noteworthy for the
comforting of degrees in course upon the
largest number of men who ever presented
themselves in the history of the college.
Honorary degrees were conferred as fol-
lows:
Masters of Art-Edward Livermore Bur
lingame, author and editor: John Bellows
essayist, photographer; Hugh Munsterberg
physiologist; Theobald Smith, pathologist:
Charles Gross historian. The three latter
are Havard professors.
Doctors OF Divinity-David Gordon Lyon,
Assyrian scholar: Alexander, Mckenzie.
geical branch of the First Church of Cam
bridge and secretary of the Harvard board
of overseers since 1875.
Doctors OF Laws-William Caleb Loring
judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts; Henry Pritchett president
OF the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology; Jacobus Henricus Van Hoff phys
torian; James Tyndale Mitchell OF the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania: Charles
Sprague Sargent, former attorney general
of the United States and minister to Italy
Theodore Won Holleben, ambassador of the
German empire.
Conspicuous and unusual honors were
conferred upon the German ambassador In
addition 10 the formal degree. In the pro-
cession TO Sanders's Theater his official
rank was determined as next 10 that of
the Governor. and he sat next that official
on the stage When the president
nounced the comforting of the degree the
audience cheered. compliment which was
not paid TO any other person.
AT a meeting OF the Harvard Alumni AS
socia ton this afternoon Hon. John ID. Long
was elected president.