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.