The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-18
Nearly 800
 Graduates At
 Yale Today
Degrees Conferred Up- on Many Noted
 Men
Chief Justice Prentice, President Hibben of Princeton and Sec.
 Houston Are Doctors of Law.

New Haven, June 1s-To nearly 800 young men of Yale, the doors of the University swung outward today, and the broad, busy world lay beyond. Each bore his degree from the alma mater as he stepped over the threshold or Woolsey Hall and joined the ranks of the alumni. The final exercises the commencement program were held this forenoon, being preceded by the long procession of the corpora tion fellows, the faculties and the candidates for degrees, all in cap and gown. The column was formed in Vanderbilt court and marched through New Haven green while the chimes Soldiers"
 There we're conferred by President Hadley, 275 degrees of bachelor of arts, 279 bachelor of philosophy, 48 masters of art, 47 bachelor of laws, 39 doctor of philosophy, 30 bachelors of divinity, while other degrees brought the total to 767 with IS honorary de- grees conferred in addition.
 The candidates for the honorary de- erees were presented by Prof. Wool sey. They were as follows:
 Masters of arts-Daniel Chester French, sculptor, Dartmouth grad uate and resident of Boston; Harvey Gushing, Yale, '91, professor in the Harvard medical school; Howard Mansfield, Yale ri, lawyer, of New K, Museum of F,ne Arts; George Dudley Seymour, of New Haven, a leader In the movement to beautify this city.
 Doctors of Science-Arthur Amos Moves, professor at Massachusetts h. stitute of Technology, Boston; Samuel Paleontology at the University of Chi cago.
 Doctors of Divinity-Arthur J. Brown, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; Boyd Vim cent, Yale ,67, Bishop of Southern New York and presiding Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal church; Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Yale '59, of Hart ford, until his resignation recently se- nior Fellow of Yale Corporation ana intimate friend of the late Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain9.
 Doctors of Letters-Alfred Noyes' CT England, the poet
 Doctors of Laws-Samuel Oscar Preh- tice. Yale '73,- chief justice of Connee. +ic,1+. John Crier Hibben, president or Princeton University; David Franhlin Houston secretary of agriculture
 In presenting Dr. 1"icr0ii' eor Woolsey said:
 tsRorn in Southington; graduated at Yale inS185e: a student at Union ana Andover; a. chaplain in the Civil war; nastor of one church in Hartford TOT 47 years; a leading citizen; an accom- T0lIEhed bald facts of Dr. Twichelrs life. But to us here Joe Twichell has stood for infinitely more. He has given affec- tionate sympathy to our young men, Intelligent help in, our athletics; the example of a stainless life.
 ''But now abideth faith, hope, love- these three; but the greatest of these is love-"
 In presenting Judge Prentice. the professor said:
 Born in Connecticut and trained at Yale. Judge Prentice's whole life has been given to the law. practitioner, corpora ton counsel for Hartford, judge of the superior court, judge or the supreme court of errors of this state and now chief justice; these are steps in his career. His college prom ise has been realized. And as citizen of Hartford, president of it's public and WatkinEon Libraries he is equally conspicuous. But above all this we who know him esteem and admire Oscar Prentice, the man.