President Lowell announced the award of the honorary degrees this morning with the following words:

Master of Arts:

Robert Ridgway: A mighty engineer who controls the transit of a huge metropolis, and has built tunnel and aqueduct under deep rivers.

Master of Arts:

William Clifford Heilman: Teacher and composer of music--a younger member of the group of men who have made our University eminent in that form of art.

Doctor of Divinity:

Logan Herbert Roots: Bishop of Hankow; true shepherd of a foreign flock, who has spent his lire in teaching to Chinese the significance of Christianity.

Doctor of Divinity:

Samuel Atkins Eliot: President of the American Unitarian Association. Able administrator and mitreless bishop of a body of independent churches.

Doctor of Laws:

James Jackson Storrow: Heir of high family traditions who, in peace and war, has been called in times of need into the breach for public service.

Doctor of Letters.

Paul Shorey: Famed in the world for his classical learning, and among his friends for the keenness of his wit, he is every inch a scholar.

Doctor of Letters.

Bliss Perry: A scholar in our own modern tongue, an author and a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious.