The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-24

yet a private citizen we offered you
the degree of LID. Since in His
Providence, it has pleased God to give
Theodore Roosevelt another title, we
give him on that account a double por-
ton of welcome.
HE is a Harvard man by nurture
but we are proud to think that is his
democratic spirit, his broad national
sympathies and above all his clean
ness and purity and truth he will be
glad to be an adopted son of Yale"
The country's President advanced,
bowed profoundly and tried to speak
Again the theatre went mad and 1t
was fully a minute before he was al
lowed to proceed.
He said: President Hadley: 1 have
never yet worked at a task worth
doing that / did not find myself work.
ing shoulder to shoulder with some
son of Yale. have never yet been In
a struggle for righteousness and de-
cency that there was not men of Yale
to aid me and give me strength and
courage
"As we walked this morning we
passed by a gateway which was raised
to the memory of a young lad who was
hurt to death beside me as he and
great many others like US marched
as dlliol lliO uH { Il Olli lhN AAet7'
and with those memories quick in my
mind, 1 thank you from my heart for
the honor you have done me and l.
thank you douJly for you planned to
do me that honor while l was still
private citizen"
The hymn america" was sung and
the audience dispersed. Following is a
list of the honorary degrees conferred:
LII. D.
John Harvard Biles, professor of ma
val architecture in Glasgow Univer-
sity.
John Shaw Billings, director of the
New York Public Library.
Charles William Dabney, president
of the University of Tennessee.
David White Findlay, professor of
the practice of medicine in Aberdeen
University.
Hollis Burke Frissell, principal of
Hampton Institute.
Jacques Hadamard, adjunct profess
sor in the faculty of science at the
University of Paris.
Samuel Pierpont Langley, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution.
Albert Abraham Nicholson, professor
of physics in the University of Chic
ago.
William Osler, professor of medicine
in Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Henry Smith Pritehett, president of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Ira Remsen, president of Johns Hop
kins University.
Ogden Nicholas Rood, professor of
physics in Columbia University.
Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of an
atomy in the University of Berlin.
Franklin Carter for many years
president of Williams College.
Horace Howard Fuorness, editor of
the Variorum edition of Shakespeare
works.
Basil Lanneaw Gildersleeve, profess
sor of Greek in Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity.
William Watson Goodwin, professor
of Greek literature in Harvard Uni
versity.
Caspar Rene Gregory professor of
New Testament exegesis in the Uni
versity of Leipsic.
William Raynee Harper, president of
the University of Chicago.
Charles Lustis Harrison, provost of
the University of Pennsylvania.
John Hay, secretary of state
John Ireland, archbishop of st, Paul.
John LaFarge, president of the So
ciety of-American. Artists.
Charles Eliot Norton, president of
the history of art, emeritus, in Har
ward University.
Francis Landey Patton, president of
Princeton University.
James Ford Rhodes author of the
history of the United States.
Knut Henning Gezelius Won Scheele.
bishop of Gottland and member of
the Swedish parliament.
Benjamin. 1de Wheeler. president of
the University of California.
James Burrill Angel, president of the
University of Michigan.
James Coolidge Carter for many
years president of the New York Bar
Association
Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassador
of the United States at. the Court of
st. James.
Melville Weston Fuller, chief justice
of the United States
Kazuo Hatoyama, professor of law
in the University of Toxic.
Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of, Har-
ward University.
William Peterson, principal of Nc
Gill University.
Seth Low, for many years president
of Columbia University.
Fedor Fedorovic Martens, professor
of international law, Emeritus, in the
University of st. Petersburg.
John Bassett Moore Hamilton Fish,
lumbia University
Richard Olney, former secretary of
State
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune.
William Thomas Sampson, rear ad-
miral of the United States navy.
Jacob Gould Schurman, president of
Cornell University.
James Bradley Thayer, professor of
lou in Harvard University
James Williams, fellow and bursar
of Lincoln College, Oxford.
Marquis Hiroboumi Ito, formerly
prime minister of Japan
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the
United States.
LIT D.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, for many
years editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
George Washington Gable, author of
"Old Creole Days" and other Southern
stories.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, author
of the Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn" Innocence Abroad" and other
stories.
Richard Watson Glider. editor of the
Century Magazine.
William Dean Howells, for many
years editor of the Atlantic Monthly,
author of 1.-THE Rise of Silas Lapham"
and other works.
Brander Matthews, professor of lit
erature in Columbia University.
Thomas Nelson Page. author of RED
Rock" Chronicles of Reconstruction
and other Southern stories.
Woodrow Wilson, professor of Juris-
prudence and politics in Princeton Uni
versity.
Alexander Vets Griswold Allen, pro-