The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-19
HARVARD DEGREES
AWARDED TO 979
Hundreds Of Notable Graduates
in Procession to Sanders
Theatre.
GOVERNOR HEADS PARADE
Secretary Houston, Sir Charles
Fitzpatrick and Senior
NaOn HOnOred.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June is.--Many hum
public life gathered under the old elm
In front Of Massa chusetts Hall In the Har-
ward yard this morning to await the
coming OF Gov. Walsh and the start OF
the procession to Sanders Theatre, where
the commencement exercises were held.
Previous to the start Of the procession
J. p. Morgan, so. chatted with a group
OF men, among whom were Prof Frank
w. Taussig and Prof. Archibald c. Cool
idge. Others In tho gathering were Presi-
dent Lowell. Bishop Lawrence, Chief JUS
tice Rugs of the Supreme Court. Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman Howard
Elliott OF the New Haven railroad and
President Emeritus Charles w. Eliot Of
Harvard.
The procession was headed by the board
OF overseers Then came Gov. Walsh and
I.eut.-Gov Barry. followed by the deans
professors, officers from nearby colleges
Mayor Good OF Cambridge and the grad
yates who had been out OF the university
for more than twenty-five years In the or
der OF their classes. samuel Sewali Gree
ley OF the class OF - led these graduates.
sanders Theatre Crowded.
Sanders Theatre was crowded. The
number Of candidates for degrees was so
great this year that some Of the seniors
were forced to stand.
Nine hundred and slxty-nire men got
degrees from President Lowell in addition
TO ten honorary degree awards. The resu-
lar degrees considerably exceeded those
Of year ago. The men receiving the
degree of bachelor OF arts. ass, were AS
usual more numerous than the other
recipients. In the list. however, were
i72 taking the degree OF bachelor Of laws.
80 the degree of doctor Of medicine, 90
the degree OF doctor OF philosophy and
229 miscellaneous
Honorary degrees were conferred up
on the following men: LII. D.--Arthur
Prentice Rugg, Chief Justice OF the SUI
premc Court Of Massachusetts; David
Franklin Houston. Secretary Of Agricul-
ture and chancellor OF Washington Uni
versity; Romulo Sebastian Naon, Argen-
tine Minister and one OF the mediators IN
the Mexican situation. Sir Charles Fitz-
patrick, Chief Justice of Canada. ID. De-
Benjamin Wisner Bacon, professor at
Yale University. Sc. D.---Wallace Glenn
snt Sabine, dean OF graduate schools q!
applied science, Harvard. A. M.--Jerome
Davis Greene, formerly secretary 10 tne
Harvard Corporation; George Dickson
Markham. active for Harvard in the
West. Milton Joseph Rosenau, professor
at Harvard medical school: Charles Au-
gustus Stone. prominent as an engineer.
New jersey hoy an Orator.
The exercises were opened with The
playing of the Coronation March. This
was followed by the Latin grafton b.
Arthur Hussey clifford, ~. Pitman Ben
5amin Potter. ~. of Long Branch. n. j..
In delivering his speech upon The Under
graduates Lack Of Religion" attacked
Harvard provincallsm and called for q
broader vision among professors ant
chapel preachers.
With the audience. the honorary degre'
awarded to Prof. Sabine. proved TO be the
most popular and there was tremendous
handclapping when his name was an
nounced.
Few in the audience had ever heard
OF the degree of associate In arts. whi"f
was conferred upon one lone member n
the class Of 1914.
At the 1884 luncheon, which was helc
IN the Phillips Brooks House. there were
more than 100 members from that class
and their friends. besides a number o.
graduates from the classes previous Il
that II was the fiftieth anniversary TO
"a, and for that reason the foremoB
Upread OF the day.