Yesterday the University entertained the nation's royal guest, Prince Henry of Prussia, and conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The great enthusiasm with which the students welcomed the Prince, the impressive ceremony in Sanders Theatre of conferring the degree upon him and the hearty greeting given him at the Union filled an eventful afternoon.

At 1 o'clock the Prince entered his carriage at the Hotel Somerset, accompanied by Major Henry L. Higginson, the Honorable Francis C. Lowell and Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, and the procession led by a battalion of state cavalry started for Cambridge. After a short stop at the Cambridge City Hall where Mayor McNamee welcomed the Prince to Cambridge, the party proceeded to Memorial Hall, arriving there at 1.40, only ten minutes behind the scheduled time. At the entrance of the Hall the Prince was met by President Eliot, the Fellows and Overseers.

AT SANDERS THEATRE.

After a short greeting the Prince was escorted into Sanders Theatre. At his entrance the audience arose and remained standing and applauding until he had bowed and taken his seat on the platform at the right of President Eliot. On the platform were seated the members of the Faculties, the invited guests and the Prince's suite. After the escorting party had taken their assigned seats, the President read the address of welcome in which he formally conferred upon the Prince the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

President Eliot said, in conferring the degree of LL.D. upon the Prince that twice in the history of the University has a special academic session been held to do honor to the President of the United States; but never before had this democratic University been called together to do honor to a foreign prince. "Weighty reasons have determined such unprecedented action on the part of this society of scholars.

"These reasons are:--The Puritan origin of the University makes us hold in grateful remembrance the heroes of Protestantism--Luther, Erasmus, and their kindred spirits--and the German Princes who upheld that cause through long years of cruel warfare. The Puritan Government of Massachusetts followed anxiously the vicissitudes of the Thirty Years' War and was in the habit of ordering public thanksgiving for good news from Germany.

"As University men we feel the immense obligation which America owes the universities of Germany. Our men of letters and science know well the unparalleled contributions Germany has made to pure knowledge and to science in the new arts and industries.

"Our whole people believe in the unification of Germany. We believe in a great union of federated states, bound together by a common language, by common currency, courts of justice, and unrestricted mutual trade. Such is the venerable American Union; such the young German Empire.

"We gladly welcome here today a worthy representative of German greatness, worthy in station, profession and character. We see in him, however, something more than the representative of a superb nationality and an imperial ruler. Universities have long memories. Forty years ago the American Union was in deadly peril, and thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson of that illustrious woman is sitting with us here.

"Now, therefore, in exercise of the authority given me by the President and Fellows, and the Board of Overseers, and in the favoring presence of the friends here assembled, I create honorary Doctor of Laws Albert William Henry, Prince of Prussia, and Vice-Admiral, and in the name of this society of scholars I declare that he is entitled to the rights and privileges pertaining to this degree and that his name is to be forever borne on its roll of honorary members."

The President during his speech remained sitting, but arose when he conferred the degree. The Prince then also arose and remained standing until the President had finished. After this ceremony the Prince, President Eliot and the royal suite marched slowly from the Hall.

IN THE YARD.

Prince Henry and the President entered the first carriage and, followed by the other members of the party, were driven to University Hall, entering the Yard by the Johnston Gate. A large number of students gathered in front of Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, gave the Prince a loud cheer as he entered the Yard. In University Hall a luncheon was served in honor of the Prince by the President and Fellows. There were present at the luncheon, besides the Prince and his suite, the members of the Faculties and about twenty-five invited guests.

AT THE UNION.

After the Academical reception in Sanders Theatre, the men who had tickets to the Union gathered in the Living Room and sang and cheered under the leadership of O. G. Frantz '02. Two platforms had been erected at the west end of the Living Room, and over one of them were hung German and American flags. The floor of the living room and the windows and doors leading to it from the hall were crowded when the Prince and his party arrived very shortly after 3 o'clock.