The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-01
TAFT WALKS WITH ALUMNI President Visits His
 Alma Mater. COMMENCEMENT AT YALE Many Degrees Are Conferred by
 the University. Presiaent Lowell, Of Harvard. and aecretary Dickinson Among
 These Hsnsrea-Chief Ex-
 se.tivs Scores His Party.

New Haven. Conn. June so.-Com-
 mencement day at Yale twas especial
 iy honored by the presence of the
 Chief Executive of the Nation. William
 Howard Taft. '7s. who following pre-
 cedent as . fellow. donned the robes as . corporation member and walked in the procession of the seysfal hum
 dred officers of the univerpsty and the
 candidates for degrees.
 The President arrivSd at 3:o5 this morning and his spegfkl car was side
 tracked in the raiIf6sd yards so that
 he might sleep u Disturbed until tn"
 Then he was driven to the home of President Hadlsy. accompanied by Captain A. W. Butt, his military aide.
 The President came unostentatiously. and 1t was his desire that his visit be accepted as . matter of course
 without any change in the prescribed arrangements for the commencement exercises.
 From President Hadiey's ofice. where
 he went later. the President of the
 United States and the president of the university walked to Woodbridge Hall to attend the final corporation meet ing of the year. Most of the business of the commencement period was transacted by the corporation on Mon day and today's sitting was brief one. The procession of onicers. graduates. candidates for degrees and invited guests was formed under the eims on the college campus. The mace was
 carried by Professor Gustave schwab.
 the marshal of the day. In the long
 line there were 2ss candidates for de- grees, besides the guests upon whom
 were to be conferred the honorary de-
 grees.
 Preaentation Of Degrees. During the presentation of diplomas to the candidates there was applause | when we'll known men mounted the platform but the most pro-
 Antonio N. Las Alas. of TaaL Philip
 pine Isiands. received his master Of ] arts degree.
 President HadIey announced the con
 fsrring of . degree upon President 1 Lowell, of Harvard. saying that the newly chosen head of sister univer-
 sity was a great scholar. a great man
 and one with whom the American uni-
 versailles could work in the cause of
 higher education.
 The Wooisey Hall exercises ended the corporation and guests went to
 Woodbridge Hall. Later President
 Taft went fin an automobile to the
 home of President Hadley.
 In the early afternoon both returned to the Memorial Hall. where the annu-
 al banquet of the alumni was held. President Taft walked in line with
 President Hadley. followed by Captain Butt and Treasurer Lee McCiung
 Among the guests were Charles F. Taft VI -lA S-IA Senator Chauncey M. Depew, Secretary
 of War Dickinson. Rear Admiral
 Charles s. Sperry. Bishop William
 Lawrence. Prof. William Graham Sum- ner and others were in line. President Taft sat on the stage in Woolsey Hall with the corporation members and the guests. The dean of each department presented candidates for degrees which were conferred by
 President Hadiey. Then followed the
 presentation of tho candidates for the
 honorary degrees. among whom were: Master Of Arts-John ,Pierpont Cod Lrington Foster. Yale. prominent in the campaign against tuberculosis and a
 member of the Yale medical school | faculty: Henry Edward Krehbiel. editor and musical critic. New York Tribune Doctor of Science--Edwin William Morley williams. professor Emeritus of chemistry at Western Reserve Uni versity; Eliakim Hastings Moore. Yale. l head of the department of mathematics
 at the University of Chicago. Doctor of Divinity-Edward Caldwell
 Moore. professor Of theology at Har- yard.
 William Lawrence, Harvard, Bishop
 of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Doctor of Laws-Charles Stiilman Sperry, rear admiral. United States Navy; Jacob McCavock Dickinson, Sec
 retary of War; William Graham Sum- ner, professor of political and social
 science at Yale and who retires this year.
 Announcement was made today that the Yale University treasurer had re-
 ceived another fnstallment of $25.00o
 from the Blount beauest in England.
 leaving only about $5.000 to be paid
 for a final settlement. The treasurer
 has also received from the estate of
 Dr. F. W. Pierce s6.o00 and from the
 estate of Arthur Stedman. son of the
 late Edmund s. Stedman. of New York.
 $20o0. these last legacies being un-
 conditional.