The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-27
GIVES OVER A MILLION
JOHN PIERFONT MORGAN WILL
PAY FOR HARVARD MEDICAL
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
FORMAL STATEMENT IS MADE
AT ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT LAY
EXERCISES AT THE UNIVER-
SITY YESTERDAY
LIST OF HONORARY DEGREES

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 26-Presi-
dent Eliot announced at the Harvard
alumni dinner tonight that John Fier-
pont Morgan had given more than $1,000
coo for the erection of three of the nve
buildings planned for the Harvard medi-
cal school in Boston. The gift IS for the
prosecution of applied biological re-
search"
Some months ago, President Eliot ex-
plains, MessIs. Henry and Frank Hig-
ginson took a tract Of twenty acres Of
land, paying $550,00O for. it. This they
agreed to hold in trust for the univor-
slty until means should be found to buy
1t from them, when they would sell It
at cost price. 1t was supposed that the
carrying out of the plan would be a
matter for the remote future. Never
theless the medical faculty, through u
committee consisting of Drs Henry p.
Bowditch and j. Collins Warren. pro-
ceeded to draw up plans and specifca-
tlons for the buildings which they would
Ike to have and could use next year
II they had them. The estimated cost
was 2,0OOOOO. Last Friday DR.. Warren
received a cable from Mr. Morgan IN
which he said:
MORGAN OFFERS TO PAY.
referring to our conversation ana
plans submitted, I am prepared to erect
the central buildings and two side pa
Yllons as memorial to Junius Spencer
Morgan, native of Massachusetts, and
Tor 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
SlUOO,OO0 The new Morgan buildings on
Huntington avenue In Boston viii In
clude a hospital
Colncldentally in was noted that more
than l5O men took the NJ. D. this morning.
The commencement was rather quiet in
that the number of distinguished men
present as guests were fewer than usual.
Inc double disappointment in the absence
or President Mckinley and Secretary
Hay mode Baron Won Holleben, the ger
man ambassador, the chief guest of
honor otherwise the only prominent
VISITORS from other countries or states
were Vice President Roosevelt Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh, who will deliver the
Pm Beta Kappa grafton; John Bellows,
OF Gloucester, England, noted Iexicogra-
pher; Judge James TyndaIe Mitchell,
OF the supreme court, and ia
cobus Henrlcus Van Hoff de-
scribed by President Eliot In confer
ring degree as the greatest living ply
sical chemist. Senator Hoar presided az
the alumni dinner, and he and others
made extraordinarily laudatory refer
ences to the president and secretary OF
state.
HARVARD COMMENCEMENT.
Commencement exercises at Harvard
university today followed the usual order.
President and fellows of the UNIVERSITY.
oVerseers and the various faculties met
Ihe various recipients Of the honorary
degrees, Gov. Crane and his STAFF ana
other guests and all the alumni and
marched to Sanders theater. escorted
py all the seniors and other candidates
Tor degrees in the caps and gowns. The
commencement speakers were: Law
renee Hayward, Marlborough, Mass:
Sanford II. E. Freund, New York; sam
ueI Smith Drury, Bristol, r. l., and Her
pert c. Kahn, indianapolis. Following
the exercises at Sanders the various
classes held reunions. Polls for the cleo
uon OF five oVerseers were opened from
~ a. m. until D. m
zoe Of the most interesting of todav's
events was the dedication of the gates
OF New Fence, surrounding the college
ground, by the classes which presented
the memorials to the university To-
days commencement was noteworthy for
the comforting Of degrees in course upon
the largest number Of men who have
ever presented themselves in the his
tory Of the college.
The honorary degrees were conferred as
follows:
Master of Arts-Fdward I,fvermore
Burlingame, author and editor; John Bel
low, authority on Roman antiuuities in
fTlSaln, essay1st photographer; Hugo
Munsterberg, psychologist; TheObaId
smith, patholOgist; Charles Gross his
torian The three latter are Harvard
professors.
Doctors OF Dlvlnity-David Gordon
Lyon; Assyrian scholar; Alexander Nc
kenzie, pastor for thirty-four years Of
the Evangelical branch Of the First
Church of Cambridge and secretary Of
the Harvard board OF overseers since 1875.
doctors Of Law-William Caleb I.Oring
Judge of the supreme judicial court Of
massachusetts; Henry Smith Prichett
president of the Massachusetts Institute
or Technology; JacObus Henricus Van
Hon, great physical chemist; James
tord Rhodes, historian; James Tyndale
Mltcheu, Of the supreme court Of Penn
syIYania; Charles Sprague Sergent. first
director OF the Arnold ArbOretum Bos-
ton; Wayne MacVeagh former attorney
general Of the United States and minister
to Italy; Theodore Won Hollenben am
bassador OF the German government
Conspicuous and unusual hOnors wera
conferred upon the German ambassador
besides the formal degree. In the process
sion to Sanders theater, his Official rank
was determined as next to that of the
governor, and he sat next that official
on the stage. When President Eliot an
nounced the comforting Of the degree the
audience cheered, a compliment which
was not paid to any other person.
At a meeting OF the Harvard Alumni
association this afternoon Hon. John D.
Long was elected president.