Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-16
Madison, June 10.


Such a gathering OF distinguished
educators and leaders in the progress
and affairs of the world was never be-
fore assembled on a platform in the
state of Wisconsin, as was present at
the university jubilee commencement
exercises yesterday morning. Presi
dents of great American universities
a member of the cabinet of Presidents
Mckinley and Roosevelt, besides
titled personages from Germany and
foremost personages from France and
the Dominion of Canada were gath.
cred there and the highest honor the
university has power to confer was
given them in the degree of doctor, of
laws. 1t is especially pleasant to the
city of Madison that two of the forty
recipients of the high distinction
were residents of this place-Associ
ate Justice j. B. Winslow and R. G.
Thwaites. The complete list of those
in honoring whom the university did
homer to itself is as follows:
Honors for Distinguished Men.
The university honored itself il
honoring 40 of the greatest educators
and public men of distinction in this
country, Canada and Europe, the lis
being as follows:
Henry Carter Adams, professor o.
political economy and finance, Univer
s:ty of Michigan.
Jane Adams, head resident of HUI
House, Chicago.
James Burrill Angel, president Of
the University of Michigan
Henry Prentiss Armsby, director oil
the Pennsylvania agricultural expert
ment station.
Joseph Henry Beale. Jr., Bussey pro
fessor of law, Harvard university.
Alexander Campbell Botkin, chair
man of the commission to revise and
codify the criminal laws of the United
States. -.
George Lincoln Burr, professor Of
medieval history and librarian of the
President White library, Cornell uni
versity.
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, head
professor of geology and director o.
the Walker museum, University of Chi
cago.
John Dewey, professor of philosophy
University of Chicago.
William ellison Farlow, professor Of
cryptogamic botany, Harvard univer
sity.
John Huston Finlay, president of the
University of the City OF New York.
Kuns Francke, professor of German
literature and curator of the GermaniC
museum. Harvard university.
Grove Karl Gilbert. geologist, United
States geological survey.
Daniel Colt Gilman, president of the
Carnegie Institute.
William Rainey Harper, president o.
the University of Chicago.
George Hempl. professor OF English
philology and general linguistics, Uni
versity of Michigan.
William Edwards Huntington, presi
dent of Boston university.
Richard Henry Jesse, president o.
the University of Missouri.
Theodore Lewald, president of the
imperial physico-technical institute o.
Berlin and director of the government
institute for the investigation OF earth
ouakes. commissioner general of Ger
3 man exhibit of the Louisiana purchase
exposition.
Count Friedrich Wilhelm gu Linn
burg-Stirum. commissioner general fol
the German educational exhibit at the
Louisiana purchase exposition.
Franklin Paine Mall, professor o
anatomy. Johns Hopkins university.
Edward Laurence Mark, Hersey pro
lessor OF anatomy. Harvard university
Eliakim Hastings Moore, head pro
lessor of mathematics, University o
Chicago
Alfred Noble. consulting enginee
and past president of the American
institute Of civil engineers.
Cyrus Northrop, president OF th'
University of Minnesota
George Henry Moves, former presi
dent Of the beard of regents Of tn
University of wisconsin.