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:
John Hanson Thomas Main: President of Grinnell College, who has stamped his constructive thought upon a leading college of the Middle West.
Doctor of Laws:
Alfred North Whitehead: A philosopher, generous and kind, whose thought pierces deeper than others look.
Doctor of Laws:
George Fisher Baker: A great banker, whose labors have not clogged his sensibility, whose power has not dimmed his magnanimity, whose position has not impaired his simplicity.
Doctor of Laws:
Andrew William Mellon: Who with rare courage and sagacity has conducted on enduring principles the public finance of a vast and complex nation.
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