The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-23
YALE DEGREE FOR A WOMAN
JANE adams rue FIRST TO
BE 50 HONORED.
James ,. Hnl Alao Becomes a DNetog and
Gets Cordial ReceptiSa when IIe Tells
lfls Views % Observation-Disclosures
Tart Detained FFOm Commencement


tart Detained From Commencement
NEw HAvFN. June y -Commencsmsn
day AZ YAlo was hotter than any day thi
summer. and that Ia going aOme.
Yale men Of the 80, 20 and 70 claasa
who we're In tho commencement dAl
procession and those % younger collsg,
generations sseltersd In that imposing
march from the campus 10 WoOlssy Hall
who're the commencement day eIsrciae,
we're held.
For the FIRST tlmo in tho history Of th'
university matter % two centuries Of
more. that commencement prOoeaaioE
contained a woman. Miss Jane Adams oI
Chicago. who received the honorary do
gree 81 master Of arts.
The parade started AZ 10 o'clock. Ths
long line % alumni, headed by the alumni
advisory hoard Of tho university. marched
along Chapel street 10 the old Oresn
which they crossed IN the front Of CSntrs
Church. A the Thousands Of alumni
began N Mo out % tho campus 10 the
strains % Onward Christian Soldiers
tho bell IN Centre Church where for e00
years the Yale commencement exercises
have been held. began IN toll. and ceased
only whom thu last person In line had
passed the church
Prof. Bernadotte Perrin. professor Of
Greek literature. presented .he cAndi-
dates for honorary degrees giving a brief
sketch % each candidate - he stood up
In receive the degree When Miss Addams
was presented she was received by the
audience with applause. II pleased her
very much and after the applause had
been prolonged she turned around n the
great Yale audience and boW ed Then
there Was more cheering James J. Hill
was the last one 10 be- presented. and he
was heartily applauded
These degrees " ere conferred:
Masters Of Arts Truman Handy New
berry. Yale. Ph b.. 1856; Kenyon Cox.
William Bradley Cooley. Yale. y. A. 1854:
Jane Addams. head of Hull House
Chicago
Doctor Of Divinity -Helnothsn Williams
Jacobus acting president Of tho Hart
ford Theological seminar
Doctors of Science Thomas Osborne.
Recently elected 10 the National Academy
Of Science and chemist % the Connecticut
Agricultural Experiment Station: Simon
| FleEnar. director Il the Rocl,efellsr In
stitute for Medical Research
Doctor Of Letters John Burroughs.
naturalist and author
Doctors II Law Charles fIoolit1ls Wal
cott. secretary Of tho Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition: Walter Francs Frear. Yale. B A..
isSi Chisf Justice and presont Governor
| - llAN All James J"-nlnN Iiill. public
/ spirited citiyen and railroad authority
/ Prlr. Perrin gave a sketch IT earh can
dihate concerning Miss Adams. the first
woman u E"t jegre' from Vale. he
said.
/ lovely rOuntry h0ns In Illinois do
otei rompanionship with q Quaker father
- Senatorial prominence whom Linz oln
s.idrrssat on questions 81 oonsrirnf . as HE
: Dear double dil Adams four wears
underrra iuate lifs AZ Rockford College
the Mount Wolyoke Seminary n the West
ana half a dozen years ot study and travel
in tho Old world drought Miss Adams In
Is,p 70 the mlrlment % an early resolve
% study medic inc and live Nth tho poor
lu hat ear IN company with nor friend Miss
starr IN. tnaugurated the ~orial settle
meu' - Hull House in Chi,ayo with lnspiTa-
ton drawn IRON the Engusn Toynhee uaii
After trcntv years Hull Houss is the most
extensive ant important 'al settlement
In tho nitN states w other ono institu.
ton PERHAPS has hal more ihruear- m
,hnpin- and INSPIRING M" present move
ment toward 20 val r-r0nzt riIction in tnis
country
Behind this vital institution stands the
vital personality of Miss Adams She has
hal prophetr vision ~ whai might No
lone and militant courage united VITA a
high order II administrative 30 ial aud
rolitical oaparity In doing and getting II
done
Of James Jerome Hill. H. d. he sad
our grcat Northwest produred Mr. Hnl
and he has retalIatsi By prOtuUing a naN
Northwest leaving his fathers farm
n the province 81 Ontario az tho age Of
De- with the education whiyh country
academy hai given him be entered the
transportation business IN ~ Pant a.
-Ierk In 1850 The year issa saw him IN
tho business on his oEn account and the
Northern system % transportation largely
his own creation via hands ouistretched
10 welcome tho commerce Of China ana
Japan His power 10 practically without
bounds. hut he cannot raiss the freight
rates on his own railroad lines
He has always be-n an original inveSti-
gator. and We know him nov a. a man 81
lnhnite Information Every item Of his
colossal success rests upon a series Of facts
asceFtalned BY him before they had been
noted by Others and upon the future re-
lations which he saw In those facts N hu-
man needs and national ETOwth. His
lfelons study has been man. his needs.
their possible satisiacti ton and the relations
% surh needs and such SatisfartiOns 70
national development Ne IL the last
Of the generation 81 wilderness cOnquerors,
The men who interpreted the Constitution.
liked our foreign relations. framed the
Monroe Doctrine and blAzed all the greater
trails which determined the nations iu-
turs may count him Of their company.
he believes In education Of the widest
and most thorough sort and his gifts 20
this cause have been great and continuous.
He 10 himself q great educator, - the new
farming 81 tho Northwest testifes. lie
believes that no society can prosper In
which intellectual training IL not based
upon moral and religious culture lie is =
national economist on broad ethical and
religious lines But tho greatest things
In all his greatness are his belief In the
spiritual signlnoancs Ot man and his long
ing for the Derpetuation Of American In
stitutiOns AZ their highest and beet.
The alumni dinner In University Hall
this afternoon was another great gathering
md the glndup Of commencement. II