The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-20
YALE HONORARY
 DEGREES GIVEN TO 1T NOTED MEN
Large Percentage of Students. Acquiring Degrees Now
 In u. s. Service.

New York, June 2G-Degrees to the number of 720 were confirmed by Yale university at it's 217th comm encement= exercises in Woolsey hall today. Many of the candidates for degrees in course were on furlough from the, P1atts- burgh camps, otI.> rs came from the Newport training station; from the Brooklyn navy yard and from other training camps. Fully one-third of those who received the degrees of bachelor of arts and bachelor of phil osophy have entered various branches of government service.
 There was an international touch to the conferring of the IT honorary de- grees, for among the recipients were Andre Tardieux, high commissioner of the French republic in the United States, Sir Ernest Ruth erford, a physi- cist of distinction at the University of Manchester, who is cooperating with the French scientific mission, and the Rev. John Kelman of Edinburgh, Scotland, who is with the British mis- Sion.
 The program did not depart from it's form of long standing except that the Polish national anthem, which it was said "breathes the spirit of in dependence of the Polish people" was played as a prelude in special honor of Ignace Jan Paderewski, who re- ceived a degree, and in honor of M Tardieu and as a mark of respect for his country the Marseillaise was play ed immediately after he received his degree.
 The som breness of the commence ment procession as it wound through the college 5campuses and the Central green to the bands playing of, On ward Christian Soldiers" was reliev-' ed by the khaki of the scores of men in service.
 The degrees in course were divided as follows: Bachelors of art, 3O3; of philosophy 221; of music, 6; of laws, 37; of fine arts, 6; of divinity 2S, of civil law 1; Masters of arts IS; of science g; of mechanical engineer ing 6: engi14 4eers< of mines 4; metallur- gical engineer 1; masters of forestry 15; of doctor of civil law 1; of doctors of medicine 10; of doctors of philos-4 phy 37; of honorary IT.
 The honorary degrees were confer red on the following
 Master of arts-Robert Melville Danford, U. S. A., commandant Of the Yale batteries; William Temple Hornaday, director of the New York geological park; Pierre Jay of the federal reserve bank, New York; Frederick Noah Pease, chief chemist of the Pennsylvania railroad; Martin Antoine Ryerson, president of the board of trustees Of the University of Chicago; Frederick Collin Walcott, New York city,; Julian Alden Weir, president of Nathaniel academy; Ar thur Whiting, musician and composer.
 Doctor of science = Theobald= Smith, director of the department of animal research of the Rockefeller institute; Sir Ernest Rutherford, Uni versity of Manchester, Eng, in this country to cooperate with the French scientific mission.
 Doctor of Divinity-Shirley Jack son Case, professor at the Univer- sity of Chicago; John Kelman, pas tor of Free St. Georges church in Edinburgh, at present on a mission from the British government.
 Doctor of music-Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and com poser.
 Doctor of 1aws-LeBaron Russell Briggs, president of Radcliffe col lege; John Proctor Clarke, presiding justice of the appellate division of the New York supreme court; Myron Timothy Herrick, formerly ambassa- dor to France; Andre Tardieu, edl- tor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, now high commissioner of the French republic in the United States.