Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-25
HARVARD COMMENCEMENT.
Many Alumni Return to Attend Their
Glass Receptions.

Many Alumni Return to Attend Their
Glass Receptions.
Cambridge Mass, June 24--Unlike
the previous days of the Harvard Com
mcnccment season, today, Commence
ment day was not favored with pleas
ant weather ard those exercises which
took place out of doors, We're con-
Quoted under a light fall of rain and
a dampness, which, nevertheless, fail
ed to take away any of the ardOr from
the occasion. Harvard graduates We're
present from all parts of the country
to attend their class reunions, revisit
the scenes of their Alma Mater and go
over again the ceremonies and eXer-
cSes by which they We're graduated.
AS usual, the greatest interest center
ed around the identity of the men to
receive honorary degrees at the hands
of President Eliot on behalf of the
college and as none of the recipients
were known beforehand, the announce
ment brought many surprises. Tie day
marked the close of the academic year
at the university and the members of
the graduating class We're given the
degree which their work had been con-
sidercd to merit.
Sanders theatre was the scene of the
morning exercises and it was here that
the degrees We're awarded and the
Commencement day exercises conduct
ed. The undergraduate parts in the
addresses of the day We're taken by
Dwight n. Robinson of Winchester in
Latin, Charles r. Joy of Boston, Henry
r. Shepperd of Cambridge and Harry
B. Platt of Brooklyn, N. Y, in Eng
fish, and Warren S. Archibauld of Bos-
ton spoke for the Divinity School.
The procession to Sanders theatre,
a feature of each years Commence
ment day exercises, was headed by
Marshals Prof w. H. Morgan and G..
?. Perrin, 'S3. the latter having his
place as representative of the class "t
% years standing. President Eliot WAS
followed by the fellows of the corpor" =
item who preceded a company of Ian
GERS, acting as q body guard for Gov.
Curtis Guild Jr. The sheriffs of Nor
folk and MiddleseX counties, the boar !
of overseers and the recipients of hon
orary degrees, those of this year 1lr!
and following them those who receive
the honor in former years and II
alumni OF the college of more than -
years standing composed the remain =
der of the procession.
The various graduating classes ha .
headquarters scattered throughout IL"
city and in the yard and open hous
was maintained during the entire day.
Various meetings connected with II .
university were held during the day.
,int
ed ~ directors of the association q
their annual gathering in the Fog ;
museum, and the Phi Beta Kappa. -
the Alpha of massachusetts. held its
annual business meeting in Harvar
hall, at which various amendments to
the constitution and bylaws of tn"
society were considered.
Five, college overseerS We're elected
bv the alumni during the day. Fer
these places were II candidates, among
whom were former Governor John d.
Long. president of the board, who
sought reelection. Others whose names
were on the official ballot We're Francis
]. Swayze of Newark, Y. j., Carleton
Sprague of Buffalo, N. Y, William
Rand. Jr.. Of New York, and Nathan
Matthew's OIL DDSIOIl
President Eliot conferred several
honorary degrees, characterZing the
recipients as fololws:
Masters of Arts-Charles Homer
Haskins, q student and teacher Of his
tory at Johns Hopkins University. the
University of Wisconsin and Harvard
University, a productive and distin-
guished scholar at each one, welcome
indeed to this society of scholars.
Benjamin Johnson Lang. musician
and composer. church organist at Is.
as teacher. organist and conductor. for
many years the servant and guide of
the best singing societies in Boston.
Doctor of Science-William Craw-
ford Gorgas. soldier, son of a Confed-
crate soldier; list lieutenant, captain,
major and colonel IN the Medical
Corps of the United States army;
chief sanitary officer Of the isthmian
canal zone: today the most successful
demonstration of the present efficacy
and future promise of preventive med
icine.
Doctors of Divinity-William Wal
lace Fem. dean of the Harvard Dvin-
iry School, a reverent and philosophic
in the humane restatement
Of systematic theology William Chan
ming Gannett, by inheritance and ma
ture a humanitarian preacher and
poet. whose invisible themes are ma
lures miracles; the thought Of God
and moral beauty.
Doctors of law-Henry Newton Shell
don, jurist, In youth lietenant in the
55th Mass. Volunteer Infantry; for %.
years a legal practitioner in Boston;
for IA years past learned and indie
pendent Massachusetts judge, now on
the supreme bench. Charles Richard
Van Hise, pref ambrian and metamor-
phic geologist; professor SUCCESSFULLY
of metellurgy. mineralogy and geology; \