The New York herald., 1922-06-22
YALE PRESENTS IA
HONORARY DEGREES
Rain Mars Program and Pro-
cessiOn Has to Be
Abandoned.
YEARS GIFTS S5,5O0,OOO
Taft Is Elected a Fellow of
Yale-56O in Graduating
Glass.
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Special Dispatch to THE New YosK HEaALD.
NEW HAVEN, June 2l.--Thirteen men
and one woman received honorary de-
grees from. Yale University at the 22lst
commencement exercises, neld IN WOOL
sey Hall to-oay. The woman was Prof.
Mary Adelaide Nutting of Columbia
University.
Gifts to the university alumni fund
amounting to more than $500. 600 were
appointment Of John c. Blossom OF
Cleveland. Ohio, to be director OF ath-
letics. succeeding DIR. A. H. Sharp. was
announced Prof. Mendell will continue
to act as chairman Of the athletic board
of control. The announcement brought
great applause from the alumni.
A. count of the votes polled for the
election OF Fellows of the Corporation
to-day showed that Chief Justice Will
lam Howard Taft had been elected. hav-
ing 2.52O votes to the 1867 for Alfred
. Lawrence Aiken, his closest contender
Otto T. Barnard was elected by vote
OF moro than 5000 to succeed himself
The honorary degrees were awarded
as follows: Master OF arts Francis
Patrick Garvan, former Alien Property
Custodian and dean OF the 0Frdham
Law School; Lloyd Warren. 6srector or
the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, New
York; Charles Joseph Bennett, State
Highways Commissioner Of Connecticut;
Fu Chun Yen. principal Of the Medical
College Of Yale in China Adolph 5.
Ochs. publisher Of the New York Times:
Clifford w. Beers, New York, author OF
IA Mind That Found ITSELF; Mary Ale
laide Nutting. professor in Teachers
College, Columbia University.
Doctor of Science--John G. Merriam
professor In the University Of California
and president Of the Carnegie Institute
In washington: John Joseph Carly.
vice-presdent Of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company.
Doctor Of Divinity--Willard l.. Sperry
Congregational minister Of the Central
Church Of Boston: Murray 8. Rowland.
pastor Of Lafayette Church. Buffalo,
N. Y.
Doctor Of Letters-Edwin A. Robinson.
poet and playwright.
Doctor of Laws--Sir Robert Alexan-
der Falconer, president of the University
of Toronto Russell II. Chitt.nden, re-
tiring director OF the Sheffield Scientific
School.
No honorary degree was conferred on
President Harding in absentta. as was
expected after the announcement that
he would be unable TO come to New
Haven.
Phelps Introduces Candidates.
The candidates for honorary degrees
were presented TO President James r.
Angel and tho fellows OF the corpora
tion at the commencement exercises by
Prof william Lyon Phelps, who likewise
announced the particular achievements
of the candidates for which Yale to-day
saw fit to honor them.
In addition to fourteen honorary de-
grees Yale distributed 565 degrees as
follows: 246 Bachelors of Arts, four
Bachelors OF Arts honora causa, five
Bachelors of Philosophy. sevonty-three
Bachelors Of Science, five Bachelors of
Fine Arts, eight Bachelors OF Music,
fifty-four Bachelors OF Laws, forty-two
Bachelors of Divinity. twenty-five Mas
ters of Arts fourteen Masters Of Science.
one Civil Engineer, one Mechanical En-
gineer, eighteen Masters Of Forestry. five
Certificates OF Public Health. twenty
three Doctors OF Medicine. two Doctors