The sun., 1903-06-25
DAYoF MANY COMMENCEMENTS
HARVARD, YALE, WILLIAMS AND
OTHERS GIVE DEGREES.
I,24O Degrees Given by HarHard-Go'.
Hates Gets the Usual Honor rs Head
OF the COnimonw wealth--ialc Honors
Judge Gray for His Coal strike Work


over given in a single year before. A
steady rain fell all day, but did not inter-
fere with the programms. There was in
the throng of graduates men from all parts
of tn, country, and from all walks Of life.
The degrees awarded were distributed as
follows: Honorary degree, ILL., d., A. NJ.
S; degrees out of course, "a; regular
degrees, A. b., SIT. S. b., lol; A. NJ. 1885,
s. NJ, I; PHI. D., rs; S. D., 1; B. A. s., @; NJ D.,
ia; LII. b.. 1888; st. b., ..
The commencement procession this year
had to be restricted because Of the large
number of graduates who each year try
to gain admittance to Sanders Theatre.
This year only graduates of at least twenty
wears standing were admitted and still
the procession more than filled the theatre
On the platform Of the theatre President
Eliot sat in the centre. III the old president
chair, which has for generations done service
at Harvard Commencements. On ether
side of him sat the recipients of the honor
ary degrees, the members OF the corpora
ton and board Of overseers. The rest OF
the platform was filled by members OF the
various faculties in their variety of gowns,
which puzzle even the oldest graduates
who have seen them from year to year
Gov. Bates and Lieut.. Gov. Guild repre-
sented the Commonwealth of Massachu-
eetts and in the procession they came di-
rectly behind the president and fellows
Of Harvard College. The Governors staff
was next in line and then came the deans
Of the several faculties. Next in order
we're the professors Of the university and
the guests from other colleges and in the
rear the graduates of twenty years stand
ing. AT the head OF the procession was
the long line Of O3 men, in caps and gowns,
who received the regular degrees this
year.
The commencement parts delivered this
morning were: George Staley Stevenson,
Latin dissertation; Leslie p. Hill, Re
ligion in the Education Of the Negro; j. A.
Field, "The Honorable Unrenowned"
A. L. Richards, The Boy in Robert Louis
Stevenson" H. J. Dunbaugh, Legal Re-
sponsibility of Labor Unions" President
Eliot conferred the honorary LII. d.
degrees as follows: j. lverson Wes-
teneard, teacher Of English law;
Edwin Wilber Rice, Jr., engineer; Edwin
Farnsworth Atkins, planter and botanist,
Samuel Henshaw, zoologist; George Foster
Peabody, banker; Charlton Thomas Lewis.
Latin photographer and insurance expert
Heinrich Angst, organizer and first director
of the Swiss National Museum; Winthrop
Murray Crane, Ex-Governor of Massa-
chusetts; Adams Sherman Hill, linguist
and rhetorician; Nathaniel Southgate Shaer
naturalist and humanist; Edward Charles
Pickering, astronomical inventor and dis
coverer; William James. psychologist and
master Of style The award Of the honorary
LII. D. to four Harvard professors was
the signal for tremendous applause from
the Harvard graduates. with whom these
men are immensely popular. The award
also loudly cheered.
Ope Of the features Of the days was the
reunion OF the class Of '5S, of which Presi
dent Eliot is a member. This class enter
tanned all of the graduates before their
time. There were representatives present
al this reunion back as far as the class of
ment dinner was held in Memorial Hall,
where 200 Harvard men listened to the
address OF President Eliot, Of the recipients
Of honorary degrees and of Booker T.
Washington, who got an honorary degree
several years ago
An overflow meeting was held in the
Harvard Union for those who could not
get into Memorial Hall, and here were
1900 more graduates, Here the young
men held forth.
The feature Of the literary exercise at
Sander Theatre in tn, morning was the
oration by Leslie Pickney Hill, on "Re-
ligion in the Education of the Negro and
the Grafton by H; j: Dunbaugh on Legal
is negro and his plea for his race was most
impressive. Hill will go into the work
at Tuskeegee Institute with Booker T.
Washington, where, Bruce, the Harvard
colored orator of last year, is already
assisting in the uplifting Of his race.
Tho oIact ion ~ tho nav man, hars pf tho
Board OF Overseers resulted: Francis l..
Higginson, '83, Boston; George A. Gordon,
81, Boston; James >. storrow' IS, Boston;
Hoar of Concord Mass, was elected presi-
dent of the Association Of Alumni,
The Law School was NOT represented
in the Commencement exercises, because
Sandford H. Z. Freund. one of the young
men who has been studying at the Law
School, was not at Sanders Theatre TO re-
ceive his degree of Ill, B. His brilliant
work while taking the academic course at
Harvard and in the Law School has attracted
the attention Of two universities in both
Of which Mr.. Freund has had places given
to him.
II is unusual for a student to be absent
from the Sanders Theatre exercises, but
1t is also out of the ordinary for one who
has a Commencement part assigned to him
happened in the case Of Mr.. Freund, for,
in his ardor to begin the work for which
he has been training himself, he took a
hurried departure for Chicago on last
Tuesday to give course of lectures in
bankruptcy at the summer term of the
Chicago University Law School, where
Prof. Beale. formerly of the Harvard Law
School, is Dean. In addition TO this place,
Mr. Freund is under engagement to give a
course of lectures on "The Conflict of Laws "
at Boston University Law School when the
new term begins this fall, besides being an
assistant in English for second year at
Harvard.
It has been long time since 80 many
honors have fallen to young man just
leaving college, but in the case of Mr..
Freund eminent professors agree that he
deserves them all. He is New York boy,
and when he mentioned preparing for COL
lege his relatives rather discouraged the
idea, However, he went to Andover Acad-
emy where he won many honors as a
student. Entering Harvard, he completed
the academic course in three years. receiving z
fifteen AS and graduated summd cum luude
by two counts, with highest final honors
in history, He was the first Phi Beta Kappa
man from the class Of 1901, and was re-
cording secretary Of the society. At Com
lnencement he had part in the exercises.
Upon entering the Law School, Mr. Freund
became one Of the editors of the Lou Re
lieu, and during the present year has been
an assistant in English q. Last June,
after studying law only two wears Mr.