Before a gathering of alumni, Faculty members, graduating students, and their families, which filled Sever Quadrangle for Harvard's 269th Commencement, President Lowell this morning conferred 2205 degrees, the largest number in the history of the University.

Undergraduates in the College receiving degrees numbered 693, of whom 254, or more than a third were awarded degrees with honors. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on 545 men 226 winning distinction, while that of Bachelor of Science was given to 148, of whom 28 received honors.

Summa Cum Laude

The highest scholastic distinction in the College, the degree of Summa cum Laude, was awarded to 12 Seniors, the same number as received it last year. The proportion of the class receiving their degrees cum Laude or Magna cum Laude, on the other hand, shows a substantial increase over that of a year ago, bearing out a tendency which has been noticeable during the last decade. The number of awards with distinction has steadily risen, more than keeping pace with the increase in the number of degrees awarded.

The names of the Seniors winning Summas are: Moses Abramovitz of Brooklyn, New York; John Barton Appelbaum of New York City; Garrett Birkhoff of Cambridge; Harold Leslie Bisbee of Milton; Jacob Canter of Newton; Frank Gilchrist of Bronxville, New York; Henry Adams Morss, Jr. of Boston; David Henry Popper of White Plains, New York; James Sloss of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. of Evansville, Indiana; James Wallerstein of White Plains, New York; William Barry Wood, Jr. of Milton; and Paul Maurice Zoll of Roxbury.

Graduate School

The Engineering School graduated 25 Bachelors of Science, of whom 12 won honors, seven Masters of Science, 43 Masters of Science in Engineering, and five Doctors of Science. In the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 218 men won Masters' degrees and 99 their Ph.D.'s.

The Law School graduated 433 Bachelors of Law (40 with honors), 15 Masters of Law, and 18 Doctors of the Science of Jurisprudence. The highest honor in the Law School, the Fay Diploma, went to Herbert Simon Marks, of Danville, Pennsylvania. The Business School graduated 392 men, 43 of them with distinction, and awarded two degrees of Doctor of Commercial Science. The Medical School graduated 136 doctors, 18 with honors. Other departments of the University awarded degrees in lesser numbers.