Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-30
Donned Robes Of a Corporation
Member and Walked III Pro-
cession of Officers.
He WALKED WITH DIR. HAD LEY
Exercises Held in Woo1sey Hall-pres.
ident Sat on the stage-Present
At Alumni Exercises.

New Haven. Con-, June 90 Com. I
Increment day at Yale university was
especially honored by the presence Of
the chief executive of the nation, will
liam Fl. TAFT. rs, who, following prece-
dent as. "a fellow, donRed the robes as
a. corporation member and " lked M
the proccssionwof$the several hundred
officers OF the university and the cantl;-
dates for degrees. IL "A 81 L VI,
The president arrived in this city All
d:Oo this morning and his special car
vas sidetracked in the railroad yards
50 hat he might sleep undistnrbed un-
III the hour of rising, which WAS short
~ after o'clock. Then he Was driven
10 the home of President Hadley.
FROM President Hadley's office tina
president of the United States and cha
president Z, OF the university walked to
the Woodbridge hail to attend the final
corpora ton meeting OF the year. Most
OF the business of the commencement
was transacted by thu corpora ton on;
AZ o'nday,a and today s sitting was a brief
one MI 4 IN &
Inc procession of officers, graduates,
candidates for degrees and invited
quests was formed under the elIns OF, !:
the college campus The mace was
carried by Prof. Gustav Schwab, tho
marshal of the day. lii the long lina
there We're 299 candidates for degrees &
besides the guests upon whom were to
be conferred the honorary degrees,
WALKED WITH HADLEY.
President Taft walked In lire with
President Hadley, followed by Caps.
Butt and Treasurer Lee Mcciung.
Among the guests were Charles p. ana
Henry w. Taft and United States
Senator Depew. There We're also in line
Secy. or War Diekin son. Rear Admiral
Charles H Perry. Bishop william
Wallace and others
In Woolsey hail, where the exercisAs
We're held, President Taft sal on the
stage with the corporation members
and the guests. The dean OF E,adlla.n
called the candidates for degrees anc,
these We're conferred BY President Had 81
ley. Then followed the presentation
of the candidates for the honorary de-
grees Among them We're the follow
ing:
Master Of Art Sd ohm Pierpnnt Cod 81
| rington Foster, Yale, prominent in the
campaign. against t.iberculosis and
members OF the Yale medical schcot
faculty.
Henry Edward Krehbiel writer ana
musical critic of the New York 1'ri-
bune.
Doctor Of scieneeEdwin William
Merely Williams. professor emeritus
of chemistry in Western Reserve unf-
versity -
& Eliakim Hastings Moore, Yale head
of the department of mathematics III
the University of Chica go.
Doctor of #Dipinity-Edward Caldwell
Moore, professor OF theology at Har-
ward
William Lawrence. Harvard. bishop
Of the Protestant Episcopal church.
Doctor of laws--Charles StIllman
Sperry, rear admiral, U. S. N. Jacob
icGavock Dickinson, secretary OF war.
William Graham Sumner, professor
of political and social science at Yale
and who retires this year.
When Antonio n. Lasalas of Taal,
received his master of arts Degree.
there was much applause. .5s Il
Prof. Hadles announced the con-
ferring of a degree upon President
Lowell of Harvard. 3s
z The Woolsey hall exercises ended,
the corporation and guests went to b
Woodbridge hall.
Later President Taft went in an au- &
8tomobile to the home of President
Hndley. Early in the afternoon he re-
turned to Memorial hall where the ex-
ercises OF the alumni were held.