President Lowell announced the award of the honorary degreees this morning with the following words.
By virtue of authority conferred upon me by the two Governing Boards I now create
Master of Arts:
Charles Francis Dorr Belden: A Librarian who has ably directed the Boston Public Library both for the advancement of learning and the benefit of the people.
Master of Arts:
Frederick Sumner Mead: By bringing order into her expenditure he has rendered a great and enduring service to the University.
Doctor of Laws:
Joseph Lee: A citizen ever laboring for the welfare of the public and the joyful growth of children.
Doctor of Laws:
George Gray Sears: A physician who has done a memorable public work in promoting the mutual helpfulness of medical school and hospital.
Doctor of Science:
William Lambert Richardson: Fourteen years Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, his work in the Lying-in Hospital made an epoch in the practice of Obstetrics.
Doctor of Laws:
Thomas Nelson Perkins: Modest and wise in helping to shape the destiny of the University for twenty years, and since then in lessening the obstacles to European peace.
Doctor of Laws:
Read more in News
COADY IS LOST FOR HOLY CROSS BATTLE