New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-25
Per'sE1iis1s!?, and Lame
Receive Harvard
Honorary Degree
General and Ex-Secretary Of
interior Only Men To Be
Made Doctors of Laws:
28 Diplomas 20 war Dead

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 24-~Har-
ward University to-day brought within
It's fellowship General Pershi-g and
iranklin X Lane, former Secretary o.
the Interior, on each Of whom Pre- ST.
dent a. Lawrence Lowell conferred the
honorary degree of doctor Of laws.
They We're the only men to be SO hon
ored by Harvard this year.
Of the commander Of America
forces overseas the Harvard prs
ident said he had in France
"organi2ed troops and supplies on a
scale no American general had ever
known; boldly hurled an untried army
against the most formidable Of foes,
behind defenses they had thought I'M
pregnable. and broke through all their
lines 10 Sedan"
Mr. Lane was described as "a Secre-
tary Of the Interior to whom posterity
WI! be grateful Tor conservation and
reclamation.
Other honorary degrees awarded ~
cluded, Sc. D., Dr. Hermann NJ. Biggs,
OF New York. p4tholc gis,.
Pleads for Larger Liberty"
Governor Coolidge, who spoke, said
the mission Of the Commonwealth of
massachusetts, had been to lead the
world into larger liberty This mis-
sion had been launched on the May
flower, he continued, and had resulted
not in an independent government, but
n the establishment Of a Constitu-
tion that provided for liberty under the
law, and it provided for it by remis-
sion on the part of individuals of some
Of their smaller ideas and their smaller
freedom.
II think it is a lesson that we may
apply 10 some of the questions Of the
present day. the Governor said. 1.-THE
general answer to these questions is
the suggestion of Legislation. have
great and abiding confidence in the
law, but have signed and approved
too many acts of the Legislature to
feel confident that they always bring
the results they have promised to
bring.
We can rely on that same motive
that developed our government and our
governing institutions to develop our
industrial and commercial institutions.
We need to teach our people to think
nationall."
Commencement Follows Tradition
The commencement exercises, in
which i,096 men received degrees in
course. followed traditional form, the
Sheriff Of Middlesex County, bearing
his mace OF Office, again calling the
meeting 10 order. Governor Coolidge,
iko all the Goverrors Of the state be-
fore him, was present with his military
escort.
Of She 81. degrees awarded in Narv-
ard College, $50 took into account var
service to comoleto tho academic re
qulrcmcnts and twenty light we're
awarded posthumousiy so men who
died in lie military or raval service.
President Lowell this afternoon an
nounced gifts to Harvard during the
year totaling So 1892 SIS.
The election of the following az
members OF the board Of oversees was
announced:
William Roscot Thayer, 81, Cam
bridge; Louis A. rockingham, 20,
lza9ton; Barrett Wendell, n, Boston !;
N. Penrose Hallcwell, 'o7, Milton, and
Edwin S. Gay, honorary, IS, New York
City.
The Harvard Alumni Association
alected as directors DR.. Richard Derby
0a, New York Nathaniel f. Aver, 700
Boston. and William T. Reid j., '0i
Brookline.