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ton. By way of caveat, let me add
 that we Republicans have troubles of our own."
 The President had busy and inter- esting day a the honor guest of the
 Yale commencement exercises. In cap procession of graduates. fellows and faculty. to the commencement cere-
 monies. He attended meeting of the Yale Corporation. spoke st midday
 dinner of the Alumni. presided over .
 meeting held for the purpose of ar-
 ranging . memorial for Yale men who died on both sides in the civil war,
 stood for nearly two hours with Pres
 ident Hadley at the commencement re- ception, and rushed tonight from q meeting of Skull and Bones to board his private car. which was attached to the night train for Washington. The President will reach the Capital at s:45 A m. tomorrow.
 The Skull and Bones is a secret 90. ciety founded by the Presidents fa- ther when he was . student at Yals. All the Tafta have belonged to 1t and its proceedings are shrouded with all the adoiescent mystery which charao~ terixeS the college fraternities. The President passed into the mystic shrine of Skull and Bones all alone tonight. Not even Captain Butt, his military aide. who, in his brilliant dress uni-
 form. lent . touch of color to the aca- demic procession. was allowed to pass the portals. and all of the secret serv- Ice guards had to keep watch outside. Today's commencement was notable in many ways. President Hadley an-
 nounced the receipt during the past year of gifts to the University amount
 ing to S1.oo0.oo0. Of this sum. e160.0o0
 came from the General Educational
 Board, the allotment having been con-
 ditioned upon the receipt of SS60.000
 from other sources. One gift of t10o.-
 900 and three of S50.00o each, were an-
 nounced as anonymous.
 President Hadley. Secretary Dickin- son. Dr. Timothy Dwight. former Pres
 ident of Yale, and Bishop Lawrence of
 Massachusetts, were the speakers at
 the Alumni dinner in addition to Pres
 ident Taft.
 Commencement at Harvard. Cambridge. Mass, June so.-wfth
 and with the< first president emeritus
 in attendance. commencement today
 was a notable occasion. The usual
 weather prevailed. which was sunny
 skies and gentle. cooling breezes.
 The president and fellows. overseers. faculty and other ofiicers of the uni- versity: the candidates for honorary and course degrees and the large num- Der of distinguished guests formed in prockssion In the college yard and marched to Sanders Theatre. where the exercises were held. The invited guests included many distinguished public of- fcials, military and naval officers and heads of educational institutions. In the theatre the commencement orations were delivered by tine stu
 dents The comforting of the degrees followed. Candidates for degrees in course numbered $50.
 The honorary degrees conferred in- cluded the following:
 Master of Arts. wilfred Thomason | Grenfell Labrador.- explorer and mis-
 Doctor of Science. se.uauei Franklin | Emmons of the United States Geoiosi- cal survey. Doctor of Literature. Eugene Kuhne-
 mann, Professor of the University of Berlin, Berlin. Germany, and ex.
 change professor at Harv.rd,
 wm Eliot. former president of Har- | ward.
 Doctor of Laws, Chas. wm. Eliot. 1 former Harvard President.
 In bestowfng on Dr. Eliot the de-
 gree of Doctor of Medicine. President l Lowell said:
 Tt has not been our custom to con- honoris causa: but an exception Is nt. | ting in the case of one who. in the opinion of professors of medicine. has accomplished more for the progress of | medical education in this country than any other livinS man. Charles Will liam Eliot. Not in its buildings. but also in the construction and research within its walls he found our medical
 school brick and left 1t marble" In connection with the degree of Doctor of Laws. President Lowell de- signated hts predecessor as teacher. administrators. orator. prophet; forty
 years the leader and guide of Harvard and in the single minded elevation of
 his character a model to her sons: the father of the present American univer- sity, the brother of all teachers and the friend of every lover of his coun-