The New York herald., 1922-06-23
HARVARD GIFTS
TOTAL &,926,OOO
Commencement Exercises Held
i'm Sever, Breaking
Tradition.
UNDERWOOD GETS LII. D.
Says Bonus Might Endanger
Republic in Days to Come
II, ,401 Graduates.
UNDERWOOD GETS LII. D.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 22.-Harvard
University to-day conferred 1,t01 regu-
lar degrees and thirteen honorary ones
at it's two hundred and eighty-sixth
commencement. The exercises were held
outdoors in Sever quadrangle for the
first time instead of In Saunders Theater
as in past years. The honorary degrees
were conferred as follows:
Doctor of Laws-Oscar Wilder Under
wood, United States Senator from Ala
bama John Weston Allen of Boston,
George Millburn of New York, lawyer :,
Frederick. Jesup Stimson of Boston,
lawyer, author and first American Am
bassador to Argentina; DR.. Walter
Belknap James Of New York. physician /;
William Proctor Gould Harding, gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Board /;
Charles Richard Crane Of New York,
philanthropist.
Doctor of Letters-Judge Robert
Grant. '73. of Boston, author and former
president of the Harvard board Of over
seers.
Doctor of Divinity-The Rev. Henry
Sloane Coffin of New York.
Master of Arts-John Alden Carpen-
ter, '97, Of Chicago, composer: Charles
Howard Strong, 81. of New York, law
yer: Ellis Lofing Dresel, 'S7, Of Boston.
recently the American representative at
Berlin; william Phillips, 90. of Wash
ington. d. c.. Under Secretary of State.
In comforting the degree on Senator
Underwood President Lowell said: Sen
ator of the United States, statesman
of no common mold, who has seen the
duty that our country owes both to itself
and to the world of which It forms
part, and, undismayed by faction, has
upheld boldly what ne sees as rioht.'
Regarding DR.. Coffin he said "a
preacher of the Gospel, who in his
words has all the ferver of the prophet
illumined by the light Of common day."
Upon giving the degree to Attorney
AIillburn President Lowell said Leader
of the New York Bar. worthy heir Of
the high traditions of an honorable pro-
fession that in England and America
has long fortified the pursuit of liberty
and law"
Negro Is Speaker.
At these exercises commencement
parts we're given by Benjamin r. Jones,
'22. of Atlanta, Ca. and on the same
platform with him spoke Mordecai w.
johnson Of Charleston. Va. a negro, a
member of the divinity school. who
negro"
The afternoon exercises of the alumni
association was also held in the Sever
Quadrangle On account Of hail
storm they were adjourned to Sever
Hall, where only few remained to
hear the rest of the program. At the
meeting President Lowell announced
that the university during the last year
had received gifts amounting to $4,-
A Of T., ,tri,
from the Rockefeller Foundation for
the school OF public health. One hun
dred thousand dollars additional was
announced as the gift of the class Of
1897. N
Senator Underwood. in his speech. re-
ferred to class legislation and to the
labor and bonus questions. when you
have a farmers organization that in
sists on legislation in their interest re-
gardless of how 1t may affect the in
terest OF the commonwealth as a whole,
you are entering the danger zone" he
said. When you have legislation de-
manded by the representatives of labor
purely in the interest of labor regard
less of its effect on the commonwealth
as a. whole you are already in the
danger zone. 1t is needless for me to
say. and l am not criticizing those rep
resentatives. those who play for selfish
left Of them to see who is being trampled
upon. but one of the fundamental poll
cies of this republic is the sovereignty
of the State in reference to certain local
matters.
Regarding the bonus Senator Under
wood said: Those men who fought for
democracy and liberty must not forget
that the fate Of the republic still rests
in their hands. The boys who won
thair aptirs q Cbo Tbiorrx, anA IN
the Marne must save the life of our
republic, not destroy it, although we
may say that they are not to receive
their reward in money. higher re-
ward is due them than money. The
real issue is their Government We
loaned to our allies ten billions Of dol
lars. and marshalled the credit for the
winning OF this great war. Now the
republic Is indebted twenty-four billions
of dollars. straining our resources
already to-day. and we are asked to
add to that six or seven billions Of
dollars more to pay a soldiers bonus
to the men who came home we'll and
without injury.
Il believe If those men themselves
could only see the passin.- of soldiers
bonus may in the days to come en-
danger the life OF the republic they
would Join with US who stand in WASH
ington opposed to this system.
Judge Grant. fifty years out of college.
showed his appreciation of the honorary
degree by speaking in verse, some Of
which follows:
You have dubbed me Lift D.; one would
scarcely suppose
That thistle down verse with such dignity
goes. "
Lay the blame then on Boyden with shrewd-
ness sublime,
TO escape from my prose he ordained me to
rime. 80 :"
Though the dog days are near won't BAY
at the moon "'
But will temper my lay to the last week, of
June.
One word fits this season. our fairest OF
scenes.
The word is commencement, with all that n
means "
Fifty years but a jot on the treadmill Of
Yet the changes they've brought us should
parayze rime.
Man has harnessed the air since we took our
A. BIS, '
Made vassal Of sound a domain under
seas.
Turned the horse that we knew as symbol
Out, to grass with the tortoise as almost one
breed. '
From the vasrant mosquito, deemed harm.
less till then,
Won the secret OF safety for millions of