President Lowell announced the honorary degrees awarded at Commencement this morning with the following words:

MASTER OF ARTS

William Henry Potter: More than thirty years a teacher in the Dental School. In 1914 he joined the first American hospital in France, and later served in our army with marked distinction.

Edward Murray Bassett: The great authority on zoning, who in a modern Babel has set a limit on the height of buildings.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

Joseph Henry Beale: Outstanding member of a great line of teachers who have expounded the heritage of th Common Law.

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, deeply revered for his learning and character throughout the length and breadth of the land.

Tasker Howard Bliss: A general who has held the high posts of Chief of Staff and member of the Supreme War Council: a warrior who in peace seeks the means to prevent war.

Alanson Bigelow Houghton: American Ambassador to Germany and to England, a skillful pilot in the difficult channels of diplomacy after war.

Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Professor of Foreign Law and Procedure at the University of Hamburg: a juris-consult eminent by his writings, powerful by the weight of his opinions on public and international affairs.

Sir Josiah Charles Stamp: A statistician, by whom rare services to his own government and to the Reparations Commission have been rendered through sage advice and a tireless pen.

James Bryne: Wise counsellor and ardent friend of the University, whose resignation from its Corporation every Harvard man laments.

Henry Pickering Walcott: Physician, protector of the people's health; for a generation the trusted adviser of the presidents of this University, and the greatest public servant the Commonwealth has ever known.

Peter Giles: Eminent philologist; honored Master of Emmanuel College, the oak that grew from Mildmay's acorn, whence Harvard sprang, and in turn a forest of colleges in our land.

DOCTOR OF LETTERS

Michel Charles Diehl: Leading authority on Byzantine history and art, in whose pages bygone empires come to life once more.

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

George Edmund de Schweinitz: Foremost of American oculists; beneficent restorer to the blind of the priceless power of sight.