Evening star., 1921-02-22
DEGREES
FOR -FOUR WOMEN
George Washington UnIver-
sity Also Honors Diplomats
and Others Prominent.

Four women will be Signally honoEed
This afternoon when special degrees
will be conferred upon them by George
Washington University at It's cei'eh-
NAL conyocatiun exercises, TO De he'o
il Central High School. beginning AT
= o'clock. They are Miss Mabel l.
Eoardman, Commissioner of the DIS
trict who Will received the honorary
degree of doctor of laws: Mrs Frances
Parkinson Reyes. novelist ana "'te VI
senator keves Of New Hampshire. and
Mrs f. II. Sothern. the Shakespearedii
actress who will receive the degree oi
doctor of letters. and Miss Fermeai j.
French OF Idaho University. upon
whom the degree OF master OF arts VIII
be. conferred The only woman no"
holding an honorary degree from the
university is Mrs. Larz Anderson.
An audience taxing the high schoof
auditorium to its capacity was ca
pected to be present for the exercises.
which will be presided over by Wlliiam
Miller Collier. president of the uniVer-
si.v. The principal addresses. IL - an
nounced. are to he delivered by Char'es
\. Richmond. president of Union COL
lese: William Bruce King. lawyer aho
member of the board of trustees, and
Senior Don Beltram Matthew, the
Chilean amba ssador. who is to be gwen
the honorary degree OF doctor OF laws
Others to Receive HonOrs.
Other honorary degrees were to be
conferred as follows:
Master of arts-Clifford N Berry
man. nrtoonist for The Evening
Star.
Doctor of divinity-Prof. Robert H.
Nichols of Auburn Theological Semi
nary.
Decor of humane letters-Charles
H. Belts of Lyons, y. Y. editor: >.
Richard Fuller of this city. lecturer;
George 3. Seymour Of New Haven.
Conn. lawyer and author. and Rep
Iesentative Alanson B. Houghton OF
New York, trustee Of Hobart and ST.
Stephens Colleges
Doctor OF science-Frederick V.
Coville. botanist of this city: Frank
Springer. paleontologist and arch
eoIcgiSt of New Mexico; Dr.. Charles
w. Richs rdson Of this city. physician
and medical writer. and Prof. How
ard Lincoln Hodgkins. mathematician
and physicist and dean of the De-
partment of Arts and Sciences at
!he university.
Ambassadors Get Degrees.
Doctor OF Laws-Jules J. Jusserand,
ambassador from France; Senor J.
Rolandi Ricci. newly appointed am
bassador from Italy; Charles A. Rich
mond. president of Union College:
Frederick C. Ferry. president of Ham
ilton College; Senator George II.
Moses of New Hampshire. Senator
Key Pittman of Nevada Col. Rob
ert y. Thompson. George Suther-
land, former senator from Utah and
former president of the American Bar
Association; Representative Luther
W. Mott of New York. delegate to the
centennial exercises from Harvard
University; Arthur G. Rounds of New
York city. lawyer. former professor
of law at the University of New
Rear Admiral Charles Wellman Parks
of this city and Representative Ber-
trand RI. Smell of New York
Honorx for Graduates.
Degrees in course were to be con-
ferred upon the following graduates:
Bachelor of arts-Donald George Cole
man. Thomas Francis Sarrell. Alys NJ
tioforth, Arthur Johnson Gronna, Louis
Irving Harrison, Daniel Luther Hal
derrnan, Everett Albert Hellmuth. Frank
Oscar Lundstrom, Albert Joseph Mo-
tern with distinction. James Byrnc
Ranck with distinction), Ralph S. Scott.
George Shsler, Sherwood r. Van Der
Waters and Jessie Mary Wolcott.
Bachelor of arts and teachers diploma
Margaret Jane Edic. Mary Oda
Thompson and Margaret Josepha Bash
ford
Doctor of medicine-Julian Mengo
Howe.
Bachelor OF laws-Raymond Bishop
Garfield. Joseph Clifford Curry, James
Morris Hammond. Cate Burdge Hurd.
Louis Mayors. Fred Nash Oliver. Mark
Joseph Ryan, William SALISBURY
| George Eugene Strong and Maurice NJ.
Duffy.
, Master of arts-Gcrhard Emmanuel
I.anski.
Master Of science-AIice Iva Whit
son.