The New York herald., 1922-06-21
PRINCETON DEGREES
ARE GIVEN TO 449
175th Annual Commencement,
First One Outdoors, Held
in Mist.
LARGE GIFTS ANNOUNCED
w. j. Henderson, Musical
Critic Of New York Herald
Is Doctor Of Letters.

Special Dispatch to THE NEw ioRK HERALD.
PRINCETON, June 20.--Mist amounting
at times to drizzle dampened the
scholastic gowns but not the spirits of
the assembly which participated to-day
in Princeton University's 175th annual
commencement. For the first time the
exercises were held out OF doors instead
of In Alexander Hall.
Relatives and friends of the seniors
sat on high stands arranged in horse
shoe shape about the seniors chairs in
front of Nassau Hail.. The academic
procession marched in through the Fitz
Randolph gateway, the recipients or
honorary degrees taking seats on plat
form built over the steps of the nail ana
the faculty along the side.
President John Grier Hibben conferred
bachelors degrees in courses on S6S men.
and masters degrees on sixty-eight
members of the graduate school. Thir-
teen honorary degrees were granted.
Commissions in the Field Artillery Of
ficers Reserve Corps of the Cnlteu
States Army were presented to twenty
one seniors.
Near the close of the ceremony Dr.
Hibbea announced a Gift OF $4,000
from Percy Pyne I'd, 1902, of New
York for a scholarships an memory or
Capt. Hobart Armory Hare Baker
Princeton athlete of the class of 1914,
who lost his life in the war RE also
made known gift of 100000 from
James H. Lockhart of Pittsburgh for
scholarships in honor of his father, the
late Charles Lockhart. The president
said further that the class of 1901
had increased its pledge for tie Prince
ton endowment fund from sls1.O0O to
s250,000.
Honors for Princeton Alumni.
-Four of the men who received honor
ary degrees are Princeton alumni. The
highest honor, the degree Of doctor OF
laws. was awarded to DR.. Livingston
Farrand. 1888, president of Cornell
University, and Johannes Gennadius,
former Greek Minister to Great Britain.
Others getting honorary degrees were
Alya Agee, secretary OF the New
Jersey Board of Agriculture. NJ. $. ;
George Parmly Day, treasurer of Yale
University. A. NJ; Charles Zeller
KIauder. fellow of the American In,
stitute of Architects. NJ. F. A; Howard
Russell Butler of the class Of 1876,
painter. NJ F. A; Robert Freeman,
pastor of the Pasadena (Calo Pres
byterian Church. D. D.: Samuel Smith
Drury, headmaster of st. Pauls School,
Lift. D.: Arthur Gordon Webster,
professor of physics in Clark Univer-
sitv. sSe D.: Henry Crew of the class OF
1882. professor OF physics IN North
westerly University Sc. D.; William
James Henderson Of the class 0f lS'o'
musical critic of THE NEW YORK HERALD,
Lit D.: John Franklin jameson, d.
rector OF historical research and editor
of historical publications in Carnegie
restitution OF Washington. Lit. D.. and
John Campbell Merriam. director of the
Carnegie Institution of washington,
Sc. d.
Trsbute to "Herald" Man.
Recipients of honorary degrees were
presented by Dean Andrew f. West.
OF Mr.. Henderson. Doctor of Letters. he
said:
william James Henderson of the
class of 1875, musical critic to THE New
YoRK HERALD. From college days his
inextinguishable ardor for poetry. his.
tory. mathematics. music. fiction and
adventure foretold n wond efful career.
From his pen have flowed tales for the
young, tales of the sea. a clear book on
navigation used in the world war. es-
says and reviews, a novel and books of
poems, and many writings exploring tn
highways and byways of musical his
tory from the splendor of the modern
orchestra to the rerose and elegance of
earlier styles and back to the be-
ginning of the Christian era. His vast
knowledge, ilumined by intuition. and
quickened by freely rowing inquiry has
brought him preeminent power in tha
realm of musical art. He Is living