Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-15
JERSEYMEN GET
HONOR DEGREES
AT PRINCETON
Edison and Lindabury Among
Noted Group, Including Her.
rick and GoethaIs.


w. Goethals, Thomas A. Edison, My
ron L. Herriek and Richard v
Lindabury were among the dis
tlngulshed men on whom honorary
degrees were conferred at the l6Sth
commencement of Princeton Uni
Verslty today. Diplomas were pre-
sented to 277 members of the senior
class, one of the largest ever gradu-
ated from Princeton. One hundred
and eleven were created bachelors OF
art, liz bachelors of letters, thirty
one bachelors of science, and twenty
three civil engineers.
President Hibben during the COM
mencement exercises announced a
gift of $l25,000 from Mrs. William
Church Osborne, New York, to found
the Dodge professorship of medieval
history; 100000 from an anl nymous
donor to found a professorship in
economies; $4,000 from members of
the board of trustees for current ex-
penses; $4,000 from Archibald D. Rus
sell for the observatory research
fund.
me degree of doctor of laws was
conferred on Colonel Goethals, Mr.
Herrick, Mr.. Lindabury, of the
New Jersey bar; Theodore N. Vail,
president of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company; Judge
James Alfred Pearce, of the Court OF
Appeals, of Maryland, and Rev.
Charles Alexander Richmond. OF
Union College
Mr.. Edison received the degree OF
doctor of science.
The degree of doctor of music was
conferred on Franz Kneisel, for
thirty years leader of the Kneisel
quartet; doctor of letters on John B.
- 4 H.
lumbia University ,and the degree of
master of arts was conferred on John
Halliday Denbigh, an honor graduate
of oxford University, and an author
ity on secondary education.
Seventy-two men from New Jersey
received degrees. OF these eight
are from Newark. The Newarkers
are Charles r. Hardin, Walter e.
Johnson, Stuart K. Atha, Russell w.
Holman, Herbert G. Lyttle, Bertwall
c. Read, Ripley Quinby and Paul d.
Adams.
Other Jerseymen who will received
degrees are: Oliver r. Brooks and
Thomas r. White, of Elizabeth; Rob-
eFt. c. Macks, of Jersey City; Will
lam c. Arnold and Charles P. Seid-
Ter, of Orange; Thomas G. Ould,
John A. Garvin, Thomas Potter and
Anastasis c. M. Azoy, of East Or
ange: Albert r. Meeker and William
n. Harries, of South Orange; NAL
COIN Humphreys, Leslie b. Cooper
and Theodore Emery, of Morristown;
James M. Dunn, Martin Van Dyke
and Robert Williams. jr., of Pater-
son; Herbert l.. Hills, William w. c.
Harter, Linton S. Marchall Edward
C. Stover, jr., August J. Mundt, Ru-
dolph G.. Roll, George r. Voorhees,
and Eugene s. Correll, of Trenton;
Robert G. Benson, of Passaic: WILL
lam M. Barr, of Metuchen; Gabriel A.
Phillips, of Hammonton; William 8.
Borden, of Groveville; Charles L.
Froelich, of West End; Reginald
Rowland, of Clinton; Lloyd o. Magai
of Woodcliffe- -Hudson; Theodore
Parsons, of Shrewsbury; Alexander
Montclair; Adolay G. Hausman. OF
Weehawken; Frank ID. Hendrickson,
of Ridgewood Joseph G.. Deacon, OF
Mt Holly; Harold Apgar, OF High
Bridge Ray A. Barnard, of Plains
horo; Robert Boyle. jr., of Totowa
borough; George M. Church, of Tena-
fly; Amos M. Kidder, of Highwood;
Langdon Il. Morris, of Long Branch;
Samuel C. Rosenberg, of North Ber-
gen; Edwin A. Macmillan, of Perrin
Vile; Combs o. Davis, of Hamilton
SQUARE; Samuel Cooley, of Fleming
ton; Charles P. Buckley, of Gran
ford. and Calvin P. Erdman, Dudley
C. Smith, Christopher Street, Archi-
bald d. Russell, jr., John A. Wood
and Jay j. Lyons, of Princeton.
Prnceton's spacious gymnasium
was filled with representatives of the
Younger sets of New York, Philadel-
phia and nearby towns at the annual
sophomore reception last night. The
room was beautifully decorated, the
color scheme being blue and white
The various upper class clubs had
separate boxes around the hall.
Among the guests were the Misses
Marion Cleveland, Esther Cleveland
Mary Chaplin, Charlotte Strong, Caro-
Hackstaff, Maize Bdnckerhoff, Doro-
thy Perkins, Grace Colgate, Kath'
crime Cleutt, Hazel Cross, Josephine
de Gasdorf. Misses Estler, Dorothy
Hollister, Priscilla Bartlett. Natalie
Bishop, Esther Auchincloss, Louise
Hoadiey, Joy williams and Farr, OF
New York; the Misses Marianne
Gowen, Margot Scull, Hope Beale
Drinker, Marion Savage, Katherine
Register, Grace Jennings, Katherine
Diamond and Arrean Miller, of Phila'
delphia.
The patronesses were Mines. Johr
Grier Hibben, George T. Emmons
Archibald Douglas Russell, Moses
Taylor Pyne, William Libbey Prince
ton; Pell, william Foster, New York
w. r. Magic, Princeton; N. P. BERN
Jamaica, n. Y; w. Fl. Donner, Bur
faIo: A. c. Oliphant, Trenton; @. w
Perkins, New York.