The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09

but that OF modest home In the forest
wilderness. He was the first President to
be elected solely on a military reputation,
and he died too soon after taking Office
for the colleges to discover whether he pos
sessed qualities Of craftsmanship worthy
Of their recognition.
Millard Fillmore, owing to the poverty
of his family. had no early educational
advantages. Yet he was an Unsuitable
student, and long before his political eleva-
ton he had made himself one Of the most
eminent lawyers of New York State. He
was man who would probably have appre-
ciated collegiate honors more than most,
but he never received any.
Franklin Pierce was graduate Of Bow
dom College in the class Of "a. In 1853
Bowdoin gave him the LII. d. Dartmouth
also in 1860 thus honored him.
James Buchanan was graduated from
Dickinson College. Carlisle, Pa, in 1909.
doctorate was conferred upon him by
Dickinson in 1912 and by Rutgers College
in ls49.
Abraham Lincoln had but the scantiest
opportunities for education, and probably
never even saw the outside Of a college
his circumstances permit him to take up
the study of law.
Columbia honored him with Doctors
degree in 1851, and thereby entered the list
Of the schools 40 signalling Presidential
attainments. Princeton also gave Lincoln
the LII. d. In 1854
Andrew jackson probably had less book
learning than any other President He
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to tailor when 10 years old, and not until
after his marriage could he either write or
cipher, his wife teaching him those accom-
plishments. Columbia made him doctor
of laws in 1895.
Ulysses s. Grants early education was
merely that of the common schools OF
his day, but by a conjunction Of favoring
circumstances he was enabled to attend
the United States Military Academy at West
Point, from which he was graduated in
ls43. Union and Bowdoin colleges con-
ferred the Ill. D. upon him in 1855, and
Harvard bestowed the same degree In
1872
Rutherford Orchard Hayes was graduated
from Kenyon College in 1892 and from
Harvard law school in ls45. He received
the LII. D. from Kenyon in 1868 from
Harvard in 1877. from Yale in 1880 and from
Johns Hopkins in 1881
James Abram Garfield. in spite Of early
disadvantages OF the heaviest kind-the
struggles OF poverty and frontier, life and
the death of his father while he was a mere
child-managed to enter Williams College
in June. 1884. when he was %, in class
two years advanced He was graduated in
1855 Williams made him a doctor Of laws
in 1872. The University OF Pennsylvania
also honored him thus in 1881
Chester Alan Arthur was graduated
from Union College with high honors in
ls4s, at the age Of IS. He received doc
torare from Union in 1882, and from Prince
ton in 1884.
Grover Cleveland had to leave school
early because of the death Of his father.
He did not have a college training. Nor
did he receive any collegiate honors until
1897, when Princeton gave him an LID.
Benjamin Harrison was graduated from
Miami University oxford, Ohio) in 1882.
He received the LID. from Princeton in
1889.
William Mckinley matriculated at AL
legheny College, but had been there only
a short time when his studies were inter-
rupted by the outbreak of the civil war,
and he never completed his college course
After his election to the Presidency he
was the recipient of the LID. degree from
Yale and the University of Chicago in 1893,
from Smith College in 1909, from the Uni
versity Of California in 1901, and of d. Gil.
from Mount Holyoke in 1893.
Theodore Roosevelt was graduated from
Harvard in 1880. His honorary degrees re-
ceived to date are: LID, Columbia, 1893;
Yale, 1901; Hope College, 1901 Harvard,
1902; University of Chicago. 1903; North
western University. 1903; University Of
California, 1903 Clark University, 1905;
and Lid, Williams College, 1905.