Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-06-28

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Washington, D. C. June 1S-Dr.
Mordecai w. Johnson, president Of
Howard University, in awarding
honorary degrees at commence
ment exercises paid the follow
tribute:
LUCY LANEY Far seeing
idea-and spirit mother of the
children of the people; pure
hearted teacher; founder and Wig
orous sustainer of the education
al community ;evoker of faith and
ambitious; inspirer of conscientious
and unremitting discipline all
things renouncing, all work ODE
diently doing, eloquently begging
in behalf of your holy cause;
humble, simple, interchangeable, in
domitable woman creative by
virtue of the authority vested IN
me by the Board of Trustees OF
Howard University, I do now con-
fer upon you the degree of Mas
ter of Arts.
EDWARD RANDOLPH CAR
TER-Old fashioned humanistic
scholar; lifelong burner of the
midnight oil, studiously and low
ingly bordering the ancient scrip
lures; deep reverencer of the in
dividual human life; habitual and
cheerful servant of the needy; able
exegetical and philosophical
preacher; quiet, rugged, coura-
geous thinker and eliciter OF
thought about human conduct and
the spiritual possibilities of men:
inspirer of new aspiration and
habit born of thought; true be-
getter and sustainer of the con-
munit of the spirit; trusted
right hand of the all-human Faith
err, shepherd of the people in body.
mind and soul-by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the
Board of Trustees of Howard
University, do now confer upon
you the degree of Doctor of Di-
vinity.
SON-Master and distinguished
teacher of the piano; poetic in
terpreter of music, choir leader
and organist; high priest in the
community of art; making one the
people through the creation and
recreation of sharable joy in
beautiful sound-by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the
B Ga d of Trustees of Howard
University, / do now confer upon |
you the decree of Doctor of Mu-
sic.
William Edward Burghardt Du-
Bois-Pioneer in the scientific
study of social questions: defner
of the desirable detectives of or
ganized human life, through the
lens of a disciplined Imagination;
the intelligent appraiser of the
means by which the ends of right
eousness may be advanced; in
spirer of prophetic cooperation in
protest at the focal points of So
cial irritability; masterful user
of language and literary form to
convey the passion of your hun
ger and thirst after righteous
ness; agent of the creative word
tender, flaming, provocative, song
singing; prophet-enduring the
cross for the joy that is set be-
fore you-by virtue of the author
ity vested in me by the Board of
Trustees of Howard University, |
do now confer upon you the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws.
ROBERT RUSSIA NOTION
Able administrator of education,
productive of competence and
character through the uncommon
ly beautiful doing of common
things; organizer and sustainer of !
cooperation in business, social well
fare and interracial relations; sa-
gacious and trustable leader of |
men in the thick of difficult sit
uations; obedient and dutiful doer
of the work which today demands;
interpreter of the peoples desire
for further progress, with the
understanding of love; fearless in
terposer of your own life, repre-
sentatively suffering for the peo-
pie at the point where social ad-
vance is halted = Man of affairs,
in whose humble, cross-bearing,
cheerful heart are the highways
of righteousness-by virtue of au-
thority vested in me by the Board
of Trustees of Howard Univer-
sity, l do now confer upon you
the degree of Doctor of Laws.