New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-10
Honorary Degrees Will Be
Conferred on Seven
To-day.
CLASS MEMBERSHIP
IS COSMOPOLITAN
Last Will Read and Books Burned
at Battery Hill Exercises
Yesterday.

New York University. whose percentage
OF increase In students enrolment for the
year now ending has been the greatest OF
any university In the world. will end its
eighty-second year Of existence by the an
nual commencement exercises to-day.
Six hundred and forty-two degrees will
be conferred.
Heading the list for marked public SER
vice, the university will confer on Mayor
John Purroy Mitchell and Lindley Miller
Garrison. Secretary OF War, the doctorate
degrees in Learned Laws.
Mayor Mitchell is presented with the
honorary degree because of his devotion
TO public service. Secretary Garrison is
honored as a distinguished practitioner in
the courts OF the United States and be-
cause of his service to the country al
large. The other honorary degrees will be
conferred on David Leventritt, Doctor OF
Laws: Percy d. Wightman, Doctor OF
Divinity: Charles Schuchert. Doctor OF
Laws; Francis Hovey Stoddard, Doctor OF
Laws, and Frank Weitenkampf. Doctor OF
Letters.
This years class includes a Chinese, a
japanese, Syrian and a French woman
and West Virginia, Georgia and Askansas
are among the American states repre-
scented blind mantle Rev. 7. c. Nc
Clelland, former pastor of Memorial
Presbyterian Church. Brooklyn-will be
awarded the degree of Doctor Of Juris-
prudence.
Mayor Mitchell will make the address
this morning al 1890 before the graduates
of the colleges Of Arts and Of Applied
Sciences. In the afternoon will occur the
commencement exercises OF the univer-
sity Chancellor Brown will be the
speaker.
In the evening the annual alumni dinner
Of the School of Commerce. Accounts and
Finance will take place at the Broadway
Central Hotel. 1t is expected that several
thousand dollars will be raised toward
the millon-iollar alumni fund.
The annual class day exercises were
held yesterday afternoon on Battery Hill.
William o. Partisch gave the president
address; George w. Blake, the class his
tory: Howard Irving Young, the class
prophecy; Stephen G. Rich told the class
secrets: Charles L. Bristol made the class
grafton: John W. Draper read the class
poem, and J. Albert Fischer made the
presentations.
The best men OF the class were selected
as follows: w. Lynch and "Wop' Par
tisch, best athletes: Badly" Baker. best
football man; Lynch, best baseball man;
r. Van Clief, best track man; W. Par
tisch, best tennis player; NJ. Halperln.
best pianist; A. Fischer. best singer; w.
Draper, best poet; B. Becker. best
dancer; II. Young. best "fusser''; L. Bris-
toll. best student; T. Zayas. latest; II.
Young, handsomest; Bryans, homeliest.
and o. Hammond, crankiest and worst
tempered The average age Of the class
is one week less than twenty-three years.
After the exercises on Battery Hill the
class adjourned to Gould Hall, where
Frank II. Donshea read the last will and
testament and w. S. Stuhr gave the ivy
Grafton. At o'clock Charles Haughey
gave the cremation Grafton. All the old
books were gathered In pile and burned.
The ashes were then buried with much
ceremony.