The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-27
HONORARY DEGREES;
 THEIR PRESENTATION Many Notable Men Honored by Yale Commencement
 Exercises. FELICITOUS SPEECHES BYPROFESsOR PERRIN Announcements Awaited With Great Interest and Greeted With Great
 Satisfaction

lpOiI lliG DIGSGllldllOll OL llOllO1d srees to distinguished men and the | more so as the list of those to receive | -hese honors had been carefully guard l sd and kept secret from all but a few l the announcements therefore being l awaited with the closest attention. Prof. Bernadotte Perrins presenta ton of the candidates to the president 1 were extremely felcitous, adding to the general satisfaction and creating frequent applause. The presentation speeches are in full as follows:
 HENRY PICKERING WALCOTT.
 After graduation from Harvard in 1858, and medical studies in this country and in Europe, Dr. Walcott practiced his profession at Cambridge from 1867 to 1881, Since then, besides eminent services to his alma mater as overseer of the college, fel- low of the university and acting pres ident, he has been most absorbed in promoting, sustaining and directing without !semblance of material reward, a large group of state and national en- terprises for the promotion of the pub lie health, In particular, as chairman of the Massachusetts board of health he has brought the beneficent work of that commission to an effectiveness which extorts national and even Flu ropean admiration. Health" says President Eliot, in an address on Sat isfactions That Endure" Health is in itself and for itself great felicity. Sickness and premature death are great drains on the economic prosper ity of any community; they are also terrible drains on private happiness" Even though, then, in the mercy of God, blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted;" thrice bless ed are they that cause undue sorrow and mourning to flee away.
 FREDERICK NEWTON HUDSON.
 A Georgian by birth, graduated at Yale in 1866 with the valedictory and from the St. Louis Law school in 1871, Mir. Judson has become a leader of the bar of the southwest and a writer of authority on economic and legal subjects. The high character of his citizenship is shown by two presiden- eles of the board of education of St. l Louis, and by his courageously sinking | in patriotism and advo- eating from the platform the cause of | sound money as against the Argen- tine Last, but not least, he is chair nan of the Yale Alumni advisory board, body which no czar or prlvy | council threatens with dissolution be- cause it is firmly resolved to be more han a mere duma.
 HERBERT PUTNAM.
 Graduated from Harvard in 1883, l Mr. Putnam passed through alternat- nging periods of library administra-
 ion and legal practice to the headship of the Boston public library in 1895. There he became a high authority in Ill matters of library administration, md thence he was called, in 199, to | administer the library of congress at Through him this library
 rom a neglected adjunct of the con sress, has become in large sense the national university. From this central point of vantage, he has infused the ibraries of the western world with a spirit of quick devotion to the public
 and the cause of sound earning, By common consent now the | orimate of American librarians, he | combines a reverent appreciation of | -he wisdom accessible to all. And wis lom, we are told, is better than ru- pies; and all the things that may be lesired are not to be compared to it."
 PHILANDER CHASE KNOX.
 This United States senator from was graduated in 1872 from Mt Union college, one of those small Ohio colleges which have a knack of turning out large men. Ad- nitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1875 l le became it's acknowledged leader. | He is one of those corporation law | Sers" who, like Verdant Green, the | 'Oxful Freshman" can be prov tl- l .le." His splendid career as attorney 1 of the United States Is chiefly of significance to us in the fact that | ne found existing statute law amply l sufficient for the correction of gigantic 1 wrong. 'The union of capital with abor in production" as Goldwin Smith | nas just said, "is as necessary as the | union of oxygen with hydrogen in the of water. This fact will, l In time, prevail; and the best mode of the composition of the two | clements harmoniously and with jus tice to both will probably be found" In the necessary struggles to secure | his harmonious composition, many are now looking to Senator Knox as their champion. He appeals to them neither l IS radical nor as 'reactionary," but as safely and soundly actionary.
 WILLIAM ADAMS BROWN.
 Professor Brown is thrice already | graduate of Yale, having received from her the degree of Bachelor of Arts in l 1888, and that of Doctor of Philosophy 1 In 1901. Since 1898 he has been profess 1 sor of systematic theology in Union seminary He has shown | m his writing an eminent skill in in l terpreting the great truths of Chris 1 tianity in the light of the knowledge and the needs of the present age, to- gether with warm appreciation of 1 the work of the past, of the essential ! continuity of Christian thought, and he abiding unity of Christian experi- ence. Every scribe which is in- structed unto the kingdom of heaven IS like unto man that is an house. holder, which bringeth forth out of his l treasures things new and old"
 WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACKENZIE.