Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-19
Yale Confers
 Degrees on 78O
OF THE NUMBER ARE
 HONORARY.
PORTRAIT PRESENTED
President Hadley Announces Request to University-Harrisburs Newspa-
 per Publisher elected to Succeed Taft

New Haven. Conn, June 1s.-To nearly eight hundred young men of Yale the doors of the university swung outward today and the broad. busy world lay beyond. Each bore his de- gree from the alma mater as he step- ped over the threshold of Woolsey hall and Joined the ranks of the alumni The final exercises on the commence ment programme were held this fore- noon, being preceded by the long pro- faculties and the candidates for de- grees, all in cap and gown. The col- umn was formed in Vanderbilt court and marched through New Haven green while the chimes of Trinity played Onward, Christian Soldiers
 Conferring of Degrees.
 There were conferred by President Hadley PTS degrees of bachelor of arts 279 bachelor of philosophy, 43 master of philosophy. 30 doctor of divinity, while other degrees brought the total to 767, with 13 honorary ones conferred in addition
 The candidates for the honorary de- grees were presented by Professor Woolsey They were as follows:
 Honorary Degrees.
 Masters of Artg-Daniel Chester French, sculptor. and resident of Bos- ton; Harvey Cushing, Yale 's1. profess sor in the Harvard Medical school: Howard Mansfield, Yale Fl, lawyer, of New York, and trustee of the Metro polftan Museum of Fine Arts; George Dudley Seymour of New Haven. a leader in fhe movement to beautify this city.
 Doctors of Science-Arthur Amos Moves. professor at Massachusetts In- Stitute of Technology, Boston; Samuel Wendell Williston. professor of pale ontology at the University of Chicago.
 Judge Prentice an IL. D.
 Doctors of Divinity-Artlnur Judson Brown, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; Boyd Vim cent, Yale '67. bishop of southern Ohio and presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church; Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Yale '59, of Hartford, until his resignation recently senior fellow of Yale corporation and intimate friend of the late Samuel l.. Clemens (Mark Twain).
 Doctors of Letters-Alfred Moves of England, the poet.
 Doctors of Laws-Samuel Oscar Prentice, Yale '73, chief justice of Con- necticut; John Grier Hibben. president of Princeton university; David Frank lin Houston, secretary of agriculture.
 Presentations Announced.
 Announcement was made by Presi- dent Hadley that the university has received by bequest from Mrs. Sarah s. Robbins a portrait of her father, Moses Stuart. Yale college 1799 paint ed by Thomas Buchanan Reed. The collection of $50 Greek and Etruscan vases purchased by Mrs. Louise Stod- dard of New Haven and given by her to the university has just arrived in New Haven. It is to be placed in the presidents room in Memorial hall when proper cases have been provided.
 Newspaperman Succeeds Taft
 Vance Criswell Mccormick, who succeeds former President w H. Taft in the Yale corporation, is an ex- mayor of Harrisburg, Pa, and former Yale football captain. He was born at Harrisburg June 19, 1872, and was graduated from Sheffield Scientific school in 1893 and given the honorary degree of master of arts by Yale in 1907. In college he was president of his class and also a class deacon be- sides being in his senior year captain of the eleven He is owner of the Harrisburg Patriot. MT. Mccormick is unmarried.