New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
New York u. Gives
Seven Honorary
Degrees To-day
French High Commissioner
Among Those to Receive
Award at Commencement:
8O5 Will Be Graduated

Six men and one woman well known
IN the world Of letters, education and
business will receive honorary degrees
ar the commencement exercises of New
York University to-day at University
Heights as part of the eighty-eighth
commencement.
j. M. NJ. Casenave. French High Com
missioner, now stationed in New York
City, and Charles Piez, pres dent OF
the Link Belt Company, of Chicago,
will receive the honorary degree of
Doctor of Commercial Science Others
10 be honored include Dr. William NJ.
Collier, president of George Washing
ton University, of Washington, D. c.;
William H. Nichols, president of the
General Chemical Company, OF New
York, and Supreme Court Justice War
ley Platzek, of New York, who will re-
celve the degree of Doctor Of Laws
The honorary degree Of Doctor Of
Divinity will be conferred or the Rev.
Frank Maxwell Townley, of St. Bar
tholomew's Church, Brooklyn.
Woman To Be Honored
Miss Margaret Pollock Sherwood. of
Wellesl ley College, Wellesley, Mass,
the only woman to be so honored. will
receive the degree of Doctor of Letters.
DR.. Collier has held various diplo-
matte positions under the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mr.. Nichols has been
active in New York University affairs
since his graduation from the College
of Arts in 1870 He is one of the
workers in the s6.45O00O endowment
fund campaign now being conducted
by the university, having contributed
$1,000 to the fund
The annual dinner in honor of those
to whom honorary degrees are being
awarded was gi~en by the council last
night at the Waldorf-Astoria. Some of
the guests were George Gordon Battle,
renee F. Abbott, DR. Maurice Francis
Egan. DR.. John H. Finley, Adolph Lew,
isohn, Judge Ernest Hall, George F.
Baker, George F. Baker jr, DR.. Charles
s. Benedict, DR.. William L. Lowe, the
Rev. Percy B. Wightman, the Rev Dr.
Nehemiah Boynton, Vincent Roberts.
the Rev DR.. Pereira Mendes Dr. Sidney
Mezes and Captain William Franklyn
Paris.
sos Students Graduated
Degrees viii be awarded to-day to
sos students Of the university. The
commencement day exercises viii be
held on the campus, west of the Hall
of Fame, at University Heights, at
80 a. m.
The candidates for the honorary de-
grees will be presented 70 Chancellor
Brown by DIR. George Alexander. presi-
dent of the university council. Fol
lowing the exercises there will De a
-
Brown on behalf of the council and
faculties al the home of the chancel or,
220l Loring Place, University Heights
Following are the prizes, medals and
hcnors awarded for 1920:
College of Engineers-William A.
Hoe jr. engineering prize to Harry Ep-
stein and Harry f. Pear, Sherborne
Vernon Damerel memorial prize to
Howard C Cam, William H lnman
fellowship TO Rudolph Macy and Duryea
fellowship to Gustave Wiedemen.
University and Bellevue Hospital
Medical lege-Valentine Mott silver
medal to Louis Goldstein. Valentine
Mott bronze medal to David Ide and
Glover C. Arnold surgical prize TO
David Ide.
Washington Square College-Alumnf
gold medal to Elizabeth Harrison and
jeremiah ". jerks prize IN govern
ment to Gustave Nadel, sophomore
School of Law-First prize (S75),
evening division, to Louis J. Merrell,
4. B.; second prize $50, evening divi-
sion. to Samuel Prchard, A. B.
School of Commerce, Accounts and
Finance-Class of 1913 prize in public
affairs to James D. Holman jr., Tau
Delta Phi gold medal to Willis B. Par
sons jr. and Delta Sigma Pi to David
Sobo.
College of Arts and Pure Science
| William Kendall Gillett medal TO Ed
win ]. Morgan.
Faculty gold medal to Michael j
Hughes and Ladies' Auxiliary prize to
J ohm J. Klein, first year.