New-York tribune., 1906-06-28
HARVARD GRADUATES. 917.
Degree for Secretary Hitchcock
Mr.. Bonaparte Alumni Head.

Cambridge. Mass. June 27.-Accompaned by all
the pomp and ceremony characteristic of similar
previous occasions. the 270th commencement exer-
cises were held at Harvard University to-day. This
year is the twenty-hfth anniversary of the gradu-
alton of Curtis Guild, jr., Governor OF Massachu-
setts 1t is the custom for the Governor of the
Commonwealth to attend the annual commence
ments at Harvard. but this year his attendance was
more in the nature OF a personal pleasure than
official duty The recipients of degrees to-day
numbered sl7 not including the honorary degrees
degrees out OF course.
On the arrival of Governor Guild at Sanders The
atre President Charles W. Eliot and the who
were to receive honorary degrees. including Ethan
A. Hitchcock Secretary Of the Interior. took their
places the platform The customary formal ex-
ercises then took place. the orations being dev-
cred by the following members of the senior
classes OF the colleges and three of the allied
schools:
Grafton in Latin. Otis johnson Todd. OF Blooming
Valley. Penn; oraton in English. Arthur Evans
Wood. OF Dorchester. Mass; Grafton for the grad
uate school, Gilbert Thomas Stephenson. Of Pen
dleton. y g: oTstlon for the medical school, Rob
ert Montrevilie Green. of Boston; oraton for the
law school. Alan Fox. of Detroit.
President Eliot brought the exercises 20 clos.
by comforting a number Of honorary degrees. Some
of the recipients of these degrees were follows
LII D.-Edward Henry strobel. professor OF In
q a b at Teson tGos a
George Herbert Palmer professor of ethics at Har-
Yale: EfRsn Alien Htchcock secretary of the In
terror: Friedrich Altoff director Of the Prnssian sian
fessors. between German and American universi-
D. D-Arthur Cushrnan McGifert. professor Of
church history at Union Theological Seminary
New York.
At the alumni meeting. held ct the Fogg Art Mu-
scum Charles J. Bonaparte IL Secretary OF the
Navy. was elected president. 1t was voted TO
amend the constitution so as to make eligible FOR
membership in the association men who have re-
ceived degrees from the law. scientific and gradu-
ate schools of the university.
Joseph II. Choate, the retiring president was un-
able 20 be present, and Secretary Bonaparte pre-
sided.
At the commencement dinner held this afternoon
! in Memorial Hall. Ethan a Hitchcock. Secretary
OF the Interior. was speaker He said, in part:
II is proba bly, asserted and claimed for our coun-
Try that It is tbe but Ehe IT is stocay ally true that
It is the home Of the physically brave II Is a quSs b.
land Of the free. and too little the land of the
Tarios directions m license as taken the place OF
liberty and corruption has riot at the expense
II is the smooth and machine ridden legislator.
whose conscience has been cauterizsd by BY the p ap
Responsibility for wrongdoing must rest II is the
o%ernr vote qt sISe f6e pssae amendmen or appeal Of
legislation. that encourages or prohibits injurious
upon the Statute books IN spite of my aP
amended or repealed because of the unmistakable
opportunity and nducement they ofer the pension
Whose business il has been and st is rob the
government Of the public domain
After referring TO the land frauds Secretary
Hitchcock said
In prosecuting the investigation, the department
has met with many delays and distinct opposition
Without the Invaluable and ever ready assistance
of our colleagues of the Department of Justice. and
above all else without the inspiration. example and
support. at all times and under all circumstances
90 mat famous son of Harvard-the President OF
the United States-but little progress would have
been made.
President Eliot and Governor Curtis Guild. jr.
spoke briefly.
President Eliot in his speech announced that a
boulevard 100 feet wide. TO run from the Fenway
in Boston a point in Longwood avenue directly
onnosjte the new Harvard Medical School, had been
made possible by the anonymous gift Of $4,000 for
tbfs pt.rfose. and by the cooperation OF Mayor
F'ifzgeraid of Boston, thus making a magnificent
approach to the beautiful new buildings
iTste IN the day II announced that the fol-
lowing had been elected members OF the board of
overseers 10 serve for six years: George B. Shat
tt.ck 'G3 Boston; James T. Mitchell '5s. Philadel-
mia: simon Newcomb IS. Washington; Amory A.
fawrence 20 Boston. and Fred p. Fish, 70. Brook