New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-27
AMHERST HONORS LODGE
Senator Receives Degree Oh
Doctor of Laws. (.
OTHER commandments
Williams, Dartmouth and Colby
Add Many Names to
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Amherst, Mass. June oa-Henry Cabot
Lodge, United States Senator, and Bishop
Thomas Frederick Davies OF the Episco-
pal Diocese of Western Massachusetts,,
were among those honored by Amherst COL
lege at the s1st annual commencement ex-
ercises to-day. The degree Of Doctor OF
Laws was conferred on the Senator and
that Of Doctor Of Divinity on Bishop
Davies.
Edward c. Robbins, OF St Louis, O menu
Der Of the class Of SO, who left college two
years before graduating TO enter the Con.
federate army, received the degree Of
Bachelor Of Arts Men who went from
their colleges to serve in the Union army
have occasionally received their degrees,
but it is said that never before has New
England college granted a degree to one
who entered the Southern army.
Degrees in course were conferred By
President George Harris on ninety-njne
candidates. The commencement speakers
included Howard Dodd Simpson, Of Brook
Ign.
The list OF honorary degrees follows:
Master Of science--Edmund AdamscnI
Thompson, OF Amherst.
Doctor OF Dvinity-The Rev. Frank Jud.
son Goodwin, Of Washington; Bishop
Thomas Frederick Davies Springfield.
Doctor of Laws-Frances Richmond Al.
len. architect, Boston; Senator henry
Cabot Lodge.
williamstown, Mass, June S.-Associats
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes OF the
United States Supreme Court received the
honorary degree of Doctor OF Laws at the
1lsth commencement Of Williams Collezs
to-day. The Same degree was conferred
on President-elect Alexander Meiklejohn &C
Amherst College and Major Henry Lee
Higginson, the Boston banker and founder
Of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Other
recipients of honorary degrees we're as fol-,
lows:
Doctor Of DNnity-William Henry Sans
ders, missionary in West Central Africa;
Henry Thomas Perry, missionary In Tur"
key.
and poet. 80
Master OF Arts-willlam ]. Boies ~.
writer on banking and finance and on thel
staff Of The New York Evening POST
Edgar Wiley Ames, teacher or history
The commencement exercises opened with
an address Of presentation Of Grace Hall.
the new college building, by Alfred Clark
Chaplin, and an address OF acceptance on,
behalf Of the president and trustees by
Hamilton Wright Msbie.
Hanover n. H. June "a class Of 1ss,
was graduated at the 1880 commencement
of Dartmouth College to-day. Honorary
degrees were awarded by President Erness
Fox Nichols as follows:
Master Of science-Professor Joseph
Moody Willard, Pennsylvania State COL,
lege.
Master OF Arts-Arthur Chase. rector OF
Trinity Church, Ware, Mass; Frederick
Augustus Vogt principal of the Central
High School, Buffalo; Charles Summer
Ward, financial secretary Of the interns.
tional committee OF the Young Men =
Christian Association. New York.
Doctor of Divinity-Wfliam ELLSWORTH
Strong, editorial secretary OF the American
Board OF Commissioners for Foreign MIS-
sions. Boston. ,,
Doctor of Scence-Lewts Boss, director
OF Dudley Observatory, Albany.
Doctor OF Letters-Alfred Ernest Stea rms
principal of Phillips Academy AndoVer'
Doctor Of Laws-Melvin o. Adams, presi'
dent OF the Boston. Revere Beach & Lynn
Railroad.
Governor Bass and staff attended the ex-
erclses.