Doctor of Science:

Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Director of the Observatory of Groningen; astronomer and organizer of scientific work; fit representative of a strong race, already glorious in arms, in art, in learning, and in adventure;

Doctor of Letters:

Eduard Meyer, classical historian, unsurpassed by living man; doubly welcome here, as delegate from the University of Berlin, and as our fellow-teacher and comrade for the coming year;

Doctor of Laws:

Otto Gierke, delegate from the University of Berlin; soldier, historian jurist; who as a youth won the iron cross at the stage of Mezieres, and as a man has compelled the admiration of all scholars by his unmatched knowledge of legal and political thought since the Middle Ages;

Doctor of Laws:

William Peterson, Principal and Vice Chancellor of McGill University, whose firm hand has led it with unflagging zeal in calamity and in success; representative of the progressive vigor of Canadian education;

Doctor of Letters:

Thomas Walker, educator; Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the University of the Cape of Good Hope; not there remote, for, although eight thousand miles away, he has tilled daily the same fields in which his colleagues here have toiled;

Doctor of Science:

William Abbott Herdman; delegate from the University of Liverpool; a great authority on marine biology, who has dredged the floor of the ocean, and learned the secrets of the oyster and the pearl;

Doctor of Letters:

Edward Parmelee Morris, a delegate from Yale, our next of kin among American universities; a leader in her academic counsels; a master of early Latin, and of the significance of the Roman tongue; a classical scholar, learned and original;

Doctor of Science: