Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-06
B|)NOR[D BY HARVARD.
The Degree Of Doctor OF Laws
Conferred Upon Prince
Henry Today.
President Elliott of the Univer'
sity Makes Address and
Confers Honors.
Visit of Henry to Boston Full OF
Pleasant and Notable
Incidents.

Boston. March 6.-Prince Henry OF
prussia's first view Of Boston was OF
snow-clad city upon which there snone
= sun from a clear sky. Hundreds OF
Norkrnen were busy at daylight clear
ing the streets thru which the prince
and party were to pass and by O'Clock
the route was in excellent condition,
she thorouehfares had been roped off
and details of police were at their sta
tions. The bad storm of yesterday had
Unmarried the decorations, but it did not
take long today to repair the damage,
and nearly the entire route thru the
city was brilliant with color before the
prince arrived. German flags of red,
white and black predominated in many
places over the red, white and blue.
Long before the special train was due
the crowds began to assemble In the
neighborhood of the great South sta
ton and one tended along the streets
assigned for passage of the procession.
The first battalion Of cavalary had
drawn UP in the station ready for es-
cort duty. A dozen open carriages were
in waiting to convey the prince and
party to the Hotel Somerset. Near the
carriages battalion of the Massachu-
setts naval brigade was drawn up,
ready to assume duty as guard of hon
or as the prince and the cavalry escort
approached. The royal special arrived
at 9:35, promptly on schedule time.
Mayor Collins and President Doyle, of
the board of aldermen, a1l President
Dolan, of the common council, were
received by Rear Admiral Evans a.
soon as the train stopped. The officials
were escorted into the car and intro
duced to the prince. Col. Bingham led
the way into the big station, where the
cavalry were lined up at attention.
Then followed Rear Admiral Evans.
Prince Henry, Assistant Secretary of
State Hill and Mayor Collins. Other
members Of the party brought up the
rear. The crowds which had come In
on the local trains and which filled the
waiting rooms cheered RS they caught
sight OF the party coming from the
train. The prince raised his hat In ac-
acknowledgement of the greeting. The
special train had not been delayed by
the floods and washouts In northern
New York. nor by the heavy snow
etorm which it encountered during the
night. The prince retired shortly be-
fore midnight and cid not arise until
after s o'clock. Large crowds assem-
bled at Springfield, South birmingham.
Worcester and other cities and towns
to give welcome to the prince. Altho
short halts were made at some of the
places the prince did not make his ap-
rearance, much to the disappointment
CT the people. as he was sound asleep
and getting much needed rest from the
fatigue of his long journey.
At the Somerset House Governor
Crane and President Elliott, of Harvard
University, called on the prince. Later
the prince went to the state house
where he was received by the governor,
the lieutenant governor, heads OF naval
forces and state departments. Governor
Crane conducted the prince to the hall
of the house of representatives where
the legislature was in joint session. The
visitors We're received with applause.
The prince merely bowed in acknowl-
edgement. Without further fornality
the party left the state house, proceed
ing to the public library. where the
prince paid his respects to Mayor Col
Inns and members of the city govern
ment. He also met thirty Ave veterans
OF German wars. Returning to the ho-
tel, the prince received Judge Lowell,
and Henry d. Higginson, representing
the corporation of Harvard University,
and at 1 started with them for Cam
bridge.
Upon arriving at Harvard they were
received by President Eliot and mem
bers Of the corporation of the univer-
sity hall. The visitors We're conducted
to Sanders Theater, where the honor
ary degree of doctor of laws was con-
ferred upon the prince by Eliot. In
his address President Eliot said:
"This occasion is unique. Twice in
the history of the university has a
special academic session been held to
Go honor to the president of the United
States. making a progress thru the
country but never before has this
democratic university been called to-
getfer on purpose to do honor to
foreign prince. Weighty reasons must
have determined such unprecedented
action on the part Of this society OF
scholars. These are the reasons: Our
students Of history know the Teutonic
sources, in the dim past, of many IN
stitutions and public customs which
have been transmitted thru England to
this New England. The puritan origin
o. the university must hold in grateful
remembrance the heroes of protestan-
ism, Luther, Melancthon, Erasmus and
their kindren spirits, and the German
princes who upheld that precious cause
thru long years of confused alarms and
cruel warfare. The Puritan government
of Massachusetts, has followed anxiously
the vicissitudes of the thirty-year war
and was in habit ordering public
thanksgiving to God for Good news
from Germany In watching the social
and chronological phenomena of our own
times we have seen that the largest
contribution which a European people
made in the nineteenth century to pop
ulation of the United States came from
Germany and that German quota was