Doctor of Science:

Arthur Amos Noyes, chemist of renown; a leader of research in physical chemistry. As Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and recently its head, our neighbor, our fellow-laborer and our friend;

Doctor of Laws:

Edmund Janes James, President of the University of Illinois, under whose inspiring touch it has risen to the front rank among American universities;

Doctor of Letters:

Henry Morris Stephens delegate from the University of California; brilliant historian in many fields; careless of fame, but spending himself without stint to teach others a love of history;

Doctor of Laws:

Jacob Gould Schurman, philosopher, educator and colonial administrator; President of Cornell University, a pioneer among colleges, founded on new principles that have borne abundant fruit;

Doctor of Science:

Edward Bradford Titchener, a delegate from Cornell; thorough and exact in methods of work in a new and rich field, his researches in experimental psychology have enlarged the bounds of human knowledge;

Doctor of Laws:

Ira Remsen, President of Johns Hopkins University; eminent for his researches in chemistry; a public-spirited citizen; and worthy to lead the university that first taught our country the higher training of scholars;

Doctor of Laws:

Henry Pratt Judson, a scholar in law and in political science; President of the University of Chicago, which escaped the pains and perils of youth, and was born, fully equipped, into the fellowship of great universities;

Doctor of Science:

Elihu Thomson, prolific in research and invention; a magician who by the witcheraft of science has subdued electricity to the service of man.