New-York tribune., 1910-06-23
WOMAN GETS YALE HONOR
Miss Jane Addams First to Re-
ceive Honorary Degree.
TAFT IN THE EEL GRASS"
Hadley Evokes Cheers for the
President-Rannard Wins
Corporation Contest.
lBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]


| New Haven, June 22-Yale closed hel
2oeth year to-day with brilliant commence
raent ceremonies, in which a3s degrees "
all were awarded
The parade which ushered in the com
n,enoerert exercises was impressive, Pro
fessor Henderson leading with the heavy
mace. the universitys signal of authority
| followed by President Hadley and ex-Pres
dent Dwight
! Eale's award Of honorary degrees wa.
distinguished by the inclusion in the lis
Of woman, Jane Adams, the social set
| tlernent worker, for the first tine in tbs
| history Of the university
| James jerome Hill, the railroad presi
dent, was another notable recipient Of
yale honorary degree to-day. In the exer
ctses in Woolsey Hall, where the stately
procession made its way. the applause thar
greeted the candidates for degrees upor
their introduction to President Hedley b
/ Professor Bernadotte Perrin, orator Of the
day, rang loudest and heartiest for this pail
from the West.
! The degree TO President Hill, however
bore nothing OF novelty, following closely
upon the awards at recent commence
rnents 10 Charles Sanger Mellen and Johr
P1erpont Morgan II seems to be Hxee
policy OF President Hadley to honor an
rually witt z degree raiIroai prsstden
who has rendered patriotic service in na
tional life
rious Anea. Quoted
| Miss Adams received the degree Of Mas
ter Of Arts. In presenting her Professo,
Perrin referred to Hull House as ''the mos
extensive and important social settlement
in the United States and continued:
| "She has had a prophetic vision Of what
might be done and militant courage, united
with high order of administrative, socia
| and political capacity, in doing and settins
things done, She has initiated local and
| national activities far more beneficial than
those OF ancient Carthage and to our won
dertng eyes, as TO those of pious Eneas, IS
dux fenlina facti.''
Mr. Hill received the degree Of Doctor OF
Laws. In presenting him Professor Per
rim said:
Our great Northwest produced Mr. Hill
and he has retaliated by producing a new
Northwest He entered the transportstio ton
business as a clerk in 1896 The wear 1859
saw him in the business on his own ac-
count and the year 1893 found hin, presi-
dent Of the Great Northern system of
transportation His power is practically
without bounds-but he cannot raise the
freight rates on his own railroad lines
He IS the last of q generation of wilder
ness conquerors. He believes in education
Of the widest and most thorough sort and
his gifts TO this cause have been great
and continuous, But the greatest things in
all his greatness are his belief in the spirit
ual significance Of man and his longing for
the perpetuation Of American institutions
at their highest and best
Others Honored with Deorees,
were as follows:
Master Of Arts-Truman Handy New
berry, Yale, Ph. B., '65, Secretary Of the
Navy in President Roosevet's Cabinet
Kenyon. Cox, we'll known artist and art
critic, and Dr. William Bradley Coley,
Yale. B. A, 81, specialist in malignant
diseases.
Doctor OF Divinity-Me1ancthon William
Jacobus, acting president of the Hartford
Theological Seminary.
Doctors of Science-Thomas Burr Os-
borne, chemist at the Connecticut Agri-
cultural Institute, and Simon Flexner, di-
rector of the Rockefeller Institute for Med
ical Research.
Doctor of Letters-John Burroughs, nat
uralist and author.
Doctors of Laws-Charles Doolittle Wal
colt, secretary of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, and Walter Francis Frear, Yale. B.
A. '95, chief justice and present Governor
of Hawaii
1t was announced at the alumni dinner
that Otto T. Barnard. rs, of New York
City, had won the -cornered contest to
succeed Judge Henry Z. Rowland, 81, in
the Yale Corporation.
The voting, which was held Yesterday,
called forth the largest poll in the history
of Yale. OF 1900 eligible alumni 1858
voted.