The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-30
Donning Cap and Gown He Attends Commencement Exercises Today - Sec.
 of War Dickinson
 Also Present.
Honorary Degrees Confer red by Yale on Dozen Dis tinguished Candidates and Diplomas Handed Out to Over 800 Graduates in Academic and Shef. De- partments.
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Especial from United Press.) | New Haven, June 30.-With the con- ferring of the honorary degree to | twelve distinguished men, the award 1 ing of diplomas to S14 graduates and the annual Alumni dinner, the Yale commencement exercises came to a
 close today. President Taft, Senator
 Chauncey M. Depew, Secretary of War
 Dickinson, and numerous other men
 prominent in public life attended the exercises and the dinner. The pro- gram for the day started at 10 o'clock when the graduating class assembled on the campus attired in their caps and gowns. and marched to Woolsey Hall where the graduation exercises
 were held. The graduating class headed the procession, then came the members of the faculty and then the members of the corporation.
 President Taft and President Hadley of Yale brought in the rear. The route to the hall was mass of hu- ly gowned women and graduates who repeatedly cheered Mir Taft as he passed down between the two pictures que lines- When the prayer was read President Hadley conferred the honor ary degrees, prizes, and awarded the diplomas.
 The names of the distinguished men hOnored are as follows:
 Degree of Master of Arts-Dr. Joseph A. Blake, Professor of Surgery at Co., lumbia University, New York, dis tinguished specialist and member of many medical societies; Honorable John Marshall Holcomb, president of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hartford; Dr. John c. Eos ter, New Haven, Yale '69; Dr. Foster is one of the leading physicians in the State and a member of the State Tu- berc ulosis Commission; Professor Henry F. Krehbiel, musical critic, New York Tribune, N- Y-
 Degree of Doctor of Science-Honor- able Edward Morley, West Hartford, Conn.,, professor Of chemistry at West ern Reserce since 1896 and now Emeri- tus: Dr. William Thompson Sedgewick. graduate of Sheffield Scientific School class of 1877, and professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, Boston: Honorable Eliakim H. More, head of the department of math- ematics at the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of the class of 1883. Yale.
 Degree of Doctor of Divinity-Rev- theology at Harvard; Bishop William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts and chairman of the House of Bishops in America, graduate of Harvard.
 Doctor of LawS-Admira1 Charles S. SpeIry, U. S. N, graduate of Annap- oils. Washington, D. C.; Secretary of War Jacob M- Dickinson. Yale. grad uate, Chicago. H.; Honorable Wm. G. Sumner, professor of political and so- cial science, at Yale.
 The announcement was also made of the following prize awards: the Ben nett prize for the best essay discussing the Free Principles of Government" has been awarded to George E.. Copen- haver, B. A.. Bristol Tenn The Charles Washburn Clark prize for the best essay by a member of the senior or junior class has been awarded to John Gordon Poore of Willow Grove, Del. The Cobeden Club medal for ex- cellence in political economy has been awarded to Paul H. M. Converse, Rochester, N. Y.. class '09.
 There are no awards this year of the John Addison Porter prize or the James Gordon Bennett prize.
 Following the exercises the President went to the Hadley residence where he remained until 1 D. m., when he attended the Alumni dinner at Univer- sity Hall.