Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-19
The Shredded Wheat Cracker

good work, worthy Of all the honors
that all the colleges and universities
Of America that he has served so
we'll can shower upon him. Honoris
Causa Doctor of Laws.
President Sills then stated that in
recognition OF the centennial year. of
the class Of 1926, the class of Haw-
thorne and Longfellow, the following
degrees were awarded:
Doctor Of Letters
David Gray, adopted son of Maine;
novelist, short skory writer and drama
tist; q graduate Of Harvard, who like
SO many other authors based his work
on journalistic training; story-writer
who forsook his pen during the World
War and served with such distinction
as to be awarded the Croix de Guerre
and Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur by
the French Government: gallant SOL
der and high minded writer. Honoris
causa Doctor Of Letters.
Doctor Of Letters
George Roy Elliott, for IL years
Henry Leland Chapman Professor of
English Literature at Bowdoin, on
whose shoulders the mantle Of his
beloved predecessor has been nobly
worn: a graceful writer Of criticism,
making his mark in that field in which
90 few Americans have distinguished
themselves; inspiring teacher of youth
of the ideals and spiritual forces
found in the best poetry and prose;
surrendered by this college with great
reluctance to sister institution, but
ere he goes adopted into the perma-
nent family of Bowdoin. Honoris
causa Doctor of Letters.
Doctor Of Letters
John Clair Minot Of the class Of
1896; literary editor Of the Boston
Herald, whose words mainly of wis
dom have more influence on the read
ing public of New England than those
of any other journalist; devoted alum
nus Of Bowdoin; loyal to his friends
and to his ideals from the first re-
action of his brain to the point Of his
pen. Honoris Causa Doctor Of Let
tiers.
Doctor Of Letters
Edwin Arlington Robinson, son of
Maine, brought up by the shores of
home and abroad as without living
peer in his own special field OF verse;
gladly welcomed by the oldest college
Of his native State into the goodly
company Of her poets and authors.
Honoris Causa Doctor Of Letters.
Doctor Of Letters
Edmond Estave, Professor of French
Literature in the University of Nancy,
and a special lecturer at the UNIVERSE
ty of Paris, who, coming to this
country as exchange professor at Har-,
ward, has given generously of his time
to interpret in other colleges also the
literary traditions of his country, and
who has recently told here in eloquent
and clear language of the position of
Longfellow in France; gladly well
coined by a college that bears the
name OF Frnch Hugunot as worthy
and charming representative of La
Belle France. Honoris NCausa Doctor
of Letters.
Master Of Arts
Charles Wilbert Snow of the class
Of 1907; Longfellow scholar; assistant
Professor Of English at Wesleyan
University; enthusiastic teacher of
go go 800, pTe' oI .ne aa.ne ooas.'
w m H. .".Uush ils i.s sa ne 10 nlan
.s MS wv rouay nep'esen'a a.
, ,tsS y, Inc ,yonr;e covso n1s.tn men ~ ~
AZ. Ao''' "'" A""''ei u
1Raster ~ Art. In Absent;a
Rosa Hawthorne Jatbron IMotbar
MARY A,nhonsal daugbter - Nathan
ieI Hawthorne. noetess ana ,yriter do
voting herself 70 n wonderful charity
IN New york state which she founded
and has carried nm effectively for
many vesrs. sanity daugbter ~ tha
puritan novelist Honoris Cause
Master of Arts.
Master of Arts
,,,u .,,. =, ,e.u.
MSS tn AVS 49,. A. on a, ,e,tom, tsos ans,