The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-25
COmn1enCenontS Bring Honors
 To Men Of Note
Dartmouth Gives Doctor of Laws Degree to Inventor BeII--van
 Sickle Gets M. A.

Hanover. N. H.. June 25-Dartmouth College celebrated it's 144th comm mence- ment today, by graduating a class of POS men with bachelor degrees. The honorary degrees were conferred as follows:
 Doctor of: Laws-A1exander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; Frank S. Streetter, "A, lawyer, Concord, N. H., and Jesse, Johnson, '63, of Brook lyn,. author and former. justice of the New York supreme court
 Doctor of Scfence-Walter Sydney Adams, '98, acting director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. | Doctor of Divinity-PhiIip Wendell CranneIl, '82. president of the Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary, and Walter Taylor Sumner, '98, dean of the cathedral of SS Peter and Paul, Chicago.
 '82, governor Of New Hampshire; Ed ward D. Mead, Of Boston, secretary of the world peace foundation; Henry H. Metca1f,s of Concord, N H., Journalist and secretary of the New Hampshire state board of trade; Stephen s. Jew cit, lawyer and banker, of Laconnia. N. H.; General Edmund Hayes of Buffalo, N. F., non-grad1ate member of the class of 1873, civil engineer and Franklin Warren Hobbs, of Boston, textile manufactures
 nua1 commencement exercises at Trim ity college, today. honorary degrees were conferred upon the following:
 Master of ATts-Benedict D. Flynn, of Hartford, an actuary3 Rev. Carl Rei1and, rector of St. Georges Episco- pal churc4l, New York.
 Doctor of Letters1John Fl. Lyon. head master of shattucket School Far ibau1t, Minn; Rev. Clarence B. Wood man. of Berkeley, Cal.
 Doctor of scfence-Loufs W. Downs, an electrical engineer Of Providence, R. I.
 Doctor of LIaws-Hon. Samuel Pren- tice. chief justice of the Connecticut supreme court of errors.
 w1i1iamstown, Mass, June %w11- Hams College gradua ted class of 117 young men with the degree of bache- Tor of arts at the. annual commence ment. today. Eight honorary degrees were conferred as follows:
 Doctor of Laws-Charles B. Wheel CT, '7S, of Buffalo, N. Y.: judge Of the New York supreme court and General Morris Schaff, member of the Massa- chusetts State Gas & Electric Light Commission.
 Doctor of D1v1n1ty-Rev. Francis ". PeloubeI, '53. of Auburndale, Mass, au- thor of Sunday School ntera ture and Right Rev. William F. Weeks, rS1, Bishop coadjutor of Vermont.
 Doctor of William Ros- COG Thayer. of Boston. author and his torfan and Frank Jewett Mather, IT,. 'se professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University.
 Master of Arte-James H. Van Sickle '77, superintendent Of schools in Springfield, Mass. ,and Albert Rafhbone, 'SS. lawyer of New York.
 At the alumni luncheon which fol- President Harry A. Garfield announced the college would attempt to obtain an endowment fund of two million dollars. Half of t1ae~hrst million ap- peared to be in sight, he said. The general education board of New York, fered $100,O00 when the college raised $500. .0Oo;r Mrs Russell Sage had con tributed $50O00, and $200 OQ0 more had been promised cond1tionally. To this, President Garfield said, $15,000 might be added from an estate over which litigation recently ended.
 The need for one million dollars, said Garfield was immediate and that sum would hardly do more than make up the annual deficit and 8 second million must be had to do justice by the teach ing force in the future. The college,
  ings that had been presented although the faculty had been kept on a, diet of low wages.
 Amherst, Mass, June 25-Amherst College graduated a class of 99 young men at the 92nd comm menoement, to- day, P of the candidates receiving the degree of arts and 27 the degree of bachelor of science.
 At the alumni dinner Vfce-President Alexander Meikleiohn spoke and sec- retary of Commerce Redheld also made an address.
 Among the honorary degrees was one to District Attorney Whitman, of New York, bachelor of law.
 Burlington, Vt, June 25-Degrees in course were conferred upon 5S grad uates of the academic department at University of Vermont commencement today. The degree of doctor of med fcfne was bestowed on 37 graduates of the medical school.
 James H. Van Sickle to whom Will Hams has given the honorary degree of Master of Arts is the man who recently inspected the Bridgeport pub lie school system