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HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING

Following is the list of honorary degrees awarded at the Harvard Commencement Exercises this morning, together with the remarks by President Lowell.

MASTER OF ARTS

Daniel Berkeley Updike: A master printer, whose art in workmanship makes reading a greater pleasure.

Charles Lanier Lawrance: Engineer: the inventor of a motor that has made flying more safe for man.

Robert Russa Moton: Worthy successor of a great educator of his race--a man whose courage and sagacity have triumphed over perils to his school.

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DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

Charles Whitney Gilkey: Professor of Preaching at the University of Chicago: an exemplar of his own teaching.

James Hardy Ropes: Whose masterpiece on the text of the Acts of the Apostles will ever stand as a model of what such a work should be.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

Ernest Barker: Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge: keen interpreter of political thought and thinkers from the Greeks to the present day.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Governor of New York: a statesman in whom is no guile.

Charles Francis Adams: Good at everything. Extraordinary manager of our finances, whom the heritage of public service has drawn to the charge of the country's navy.

Frank Billings Kellogg: Late Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State: ever eager in each office to abate recourse to war.

Serge Koussevitzky: Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who brings to us from Russia and Western Europe the treasures of good music.

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Henry Norris Russell: an astronomer, whose study of nature's handiwork on her grandest scale has won a well-deserved renown.

Rene Leriche: Professor of Surgery at the University of Strasbourg, who has shown how to operate with success on the delicate fibres of the sympathetic nervous system.

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