Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-29
DartmOuih's 142nd with Degrees
For Many Prominent Men.
Degrees Granted 81 Seniors at
goth Commencement atAmherSt.
Trinity Has SO Graduates al Exer.
clses--The Parts and Prizes.

Cambridge Mass, June 23.-Gifts to
the amount of $l.200.000 received by
Harvard University during the past
year were announced by President
Lowell 10 the 1000 or more Harvard
men gathered for the Alumni meeting
in the quadrangle behind SeaYer han
late today
Almost simultaneously, William c.
Boyden Of Chicago handed to President
Lowell check for 100000 as the gift
Of the class of 1856 to the university
The meeting was presided over by
Major Henry l.. HiEginson. class of 50,
and for the first time women We're ad-
mitted. some 200 being present.
Governor Foss divulged a plan by
which he hopes the state will set aside
a sum annually for the creation Of
large number of scholarships to be
awarded by competitive examination
to young men and women OF Massa-
chusetts, the recipients of such sChol-
arships To choose the institution III the
state which he will attend" This plan
he intended as a middle course between
universities supported entirely by the
state, and others aided by state grants.
Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes,
speaking for the class of 81, the Civ
il War class" gave it as his opinion
that the route to joy and duty is to
put out all ones strength to a great
end He stated that 81 of his class of
81 entered the service of their country
IN the Civil War.
George Won l.. Meyer. '19, secretary of
the navy, on whom was conferred the
honorary degree of Ii. D.. stated he
wished the college might encourage stu
dents to go into public life. and to that
end point out courses that would aid
them in such work.
In spite of gray skies and threatening
showers, Harvard College yard was alive
today with Seniors in cap and gown.
faculty members in their parti- colored
Doctors hoods, and alumni of varying
ages who had returned to Cambridge to
participate in the exercises connected
with the 275th annual Commencement OF
Americas most venerable educational in
sttution. While changes We're made this
year in some of the details of the Com
mencement observance, in the main the
event conformed to the traditional digni-
fled ceremonial. The changes in detail.
of which there were two, consisted of an
omission and an innovation. For the first
time in IS years the governor of the COM
monwealth of Massachusetts attended the
exercises unaccompanied by his body
guard of scarlet-coated, Uhlan-capped.
spear bearing mounted troop of National
Lancers. whose principal military func-
ton for three-quarters of century has
been to escort the governor from the
State House on Beacon Hill to Massachu-
setts han in the Harvard yard. The in
novation was the out-of-door exercises of
the Harvard Alumni Association, which
for years has been held in Memorial hall
on the afternoon of commencement day.
On account of the limited seating capaci-
ty of the hall. which necessitated the
barring out of most OF the younger alum
nj, it was arranged this year to hold the
afternoon event in the quadrangle behind
Sever hall. where large wooden stands
had been erected TO accommodate the
great crowd.
The Commencement exercises began
at 1915 A. NJ. in sanders theater. Fiji
teen minutes before that time, the long
procession headed by A. Lawrence
Lowell and the fellows of the college,
and composed of the oVerSeers. fac
ulty members. invited guests, alumni
and candidates for degrees formed in
front of Massachusetts hall. the oldest
building in the yard. and marched to
Sanders theater owing to the great
number OF the alumni who have come
back for commencement, only those of
more than % years standing We're per
mitted to enter Sanders theater for the
Commencement exercises.
At the conclusion of the dissorta-
tons, President Lowell left his ele-
waited seat under the canopy of the
stage of the theater and seating him
self in the ancient chair in which
| Harvard presidents have conferred de-
grees Tor two centuries, awarded the
| degrees TO the candidates who have
completed the prescribed courses in
| the different departments of the uni
| versity and then conferred the honor
airy degrees.
Secretary of the Navy George Won
| l.. Never, '19. of Hamilton, Mass,
| heads the list of five new oVerseers of
| Harvard elected today to serve for
six years. The others chosen are
| United states Senator Henry Cabot
Lodpe II, Of Nahant. Mass. Jerome
d. Green SO of New York; William c.
| Boyden, SO of Chicago. and Lawrence
| f Seaton "a, of New York
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