New-York tribune., 1922-06-22
Rain Prevents Many Of
Picturesque Commences
mcnt Features, Including
Procession i'm the Streets
+. u. Carvan Given vi. A.
Otto L. Barnard Reelected
Alumni Fellow; Taft a
Member of Corporation
Special Dispatch 10 The Trbuu,

ulty, alumni and recipients OF honor
ary degrees. Instead Of going through
the historic green and the central
streets Of the city. the marohcrs gath
cred just outside Woolscy Hall, where
the exercises were held. The noted
persons VINO were TO receive honorary
degrees marched in as quickly as they
could, partly sheltered by umbrellas
from the terrific downpour.
Older alumni pointed out that the
last heavy rain was in 1900, at the end
Of Arthur Twining Hadley's FIRST year
as president. To-day marked the close
Of james Rowland Angell's initial year
The story OF President Emeritus Had
ley and the late Timothy Dwight was
told over and over again. President
liadley was walking in the commence
mcrt procession in 1900 with President
Dwight. whom he was to succeed that
day. Hadley started to open his UNI
brclla 20 shield himself from the down
pour that was as heavy rs to-day's.
"Don't DO that yet" said Dwight
This is my rain. Your reign will not
begin until later
Award OF Honorary Degrees
prcsidcn, Angel this morning
marked the completion OF Yale's 22lst
year by confcrrIng $40 degrees, in
including fourteen honorary degrees.
which we've given as follows:
Masters Of Aris-FFaneis =. Garyan,
New York. b. A.. Yale. 1897. former
Alien Property Custodian; Lloyd War
ron. director OF the Beady Arts lnsti-
tutc Of Design in New York; Charles j..
Bennett. Hartford. Conn. State High
way Commissioner Fu Chun-ycn. W..
D.. Yale. 1909. principal Of the Medical
College OF Yaic-in- China; Adolph $.
Ochs. publisher Of "The New York
Times; Clifford ". Beers. New Haven.
ph. D.. Yale. 1897, who. after recover
ing from severe mental collapse. be-
came leader ~ the mental hygiene
movement. and Is author Of "A Mind
That Found ITSELF: Miss Mary A. Nut
ting. professor N Teachers College,
Columbia University. n leader in nurs-
ms education.
Doctors Of Science John C. Mer-
riam. president OF Carnegie Institution.
OF Washington: John J. Carty, Short
Hills, y. j., vicc-prcsidcnt American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. pioneer in
telephone development. and designer OF
wire system for American Army IN
France.
Doctors Of Divinity Willard L. Spcr-
~, II. A., Yale, 1903. professor Andover
Theological Seminary: Murray $. How
land. Il. A., Yale. 1897. pastor Lafayette
. a. 4.
action while serving with Y. VI. {. A.
in war
Doctor OF Lctters-Edwin A. Robin
son, New York. poet and playwright.
Doctors OF Laws-Sr Robert A. Fall
concr, X. c. VI. g.. president OF the
University Of Toronto; Russell II. Chit
tendcn. retiring director OF Sheffield
Scientific School, member Of Yale fac
u.ty since 1915.
251 Given II. 4. Degree
or the total o. J65 who received de-
grccs in courses 252 we're graduated
from Yale College with the degree OF
b A. and FIVE with the degree OF
Ph. Dsand scvcnty-one from the Shelf
field Scientific School with the degree
OF b. s. The smallueqs OF the gradu-
a;ing class in Sheffield Scientific School
was due TO the fact that the members
formed a voluntary sophomore class at
the time OF the extension Of the scien-
tifc school course 90 four years. The
others. who matriculated in 1918. were
graduated a year ago. In his remarks
after the alumni luncheon in the uni
versity dining nall this afternoon
President Angel announced the total
income through the Alumni Fund As
a..
4069l, and that the additions 20 the
university funds for the year just clos
ing amounted TO over $5.500,000. He
said:
"The principal gift has been the
Harkness fund Of S3,000,000 70 meet
the conditions. OF which S2,000.000 addi-
tional has been pledged or given for
general endowment by more than 200
graduates and other friends. Gifts and
! pledges for additional endowment OF
the School Of Medicine toward the total
OF 81 900 900 needed 10 procure the con-
Urgent pledge OF 100000 from the
General Education Board; total $780,
600; this including n pledge received
this morning, made anonymously OF
100000. The General Education Board
has extended the time for fulfilling the
conditions Of their appropriation from
June 80, 1922, to June 80, 1924. Other
gifts for the Medical School total
more than 100000.
Barnard Is Reelected
Gifts through the alumni fund TO
principal by reunion classes amounted
to Sl2s, $50, the gifts from non-reunion
classes for current use Amounting 10
Sl69 ,3G0.27."
Among the class reunion gifts 10 the
alumni fund that OF $4,000 from the
twenty-hve-year class OF '97 was con-
: spicuous. The retiring chairman OF
. the Yale Alumni Fund Association,
. Thatcher VI. Brown, New York, is q
T member Of this class. W. +. s. Girls
void, 90, New York. has been elected
chairman Of the Alumni Fund Associa-
tion, 10 succeed Mr. Brown, and Court
land 7. d. Barnes, '02, New York, has
been made vicc-chairman.
As the result Of the voting yesterday
for successors 20 Otto 7. Barnard, 76.
New York, whose term as Yale alumni
fellow expires this June. and 10 Thom-
as W. Farnam, 49, New Haven, who re-
Gently resigned from the corporation
10 become associate treasurer and
! comptroller Of the university, Mr.
Barnard was elected by vote Of more
than 5000 10 succeed himself, and Chief
Justice William Howard Taft received
2.25O Of the 5.l27 votes cast for the
six candidates for the three-year term
in the corporation. Mr.. Taft served as
a member OF the Yale corporation from
June, 1906, 70 June. 1918. when he re-
signed TO become a member OF the fac
ultv OF the Yale School OF Law.
Mr.. Barnard began his first term as
a Yale alumni fellow in June, 1910
and served as a member OF the corpo'
ration's prudential committee and other
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