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HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING

MASTER OF ARTS

Edward Reynolds: After long labor as a surgeon, he has had the energy and insight to reorganize our Museum of Anthropology.

DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

Frank Hugh Foster: A theological teacher, who, like our founders, has dreaded to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.

Charles Edwards Park: He has gathered in himself the traditions of the New England ministry, and refined them by his lucent thought and sensibility.

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DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Lawrence Joseph Henderson: A prolific thinker who by chemistry, mathematics and philosophy has revealed the mechanism whereby blood makes possible the higher forms of life.

Robert Andrews Millikan: Eminent physicist, who with tireless zeal has studied the constitution of matter and the nature of interstellar space.

DOCTOR OF LETTERS

John Livingston Lowes: The beloved scholar, who, among many researches, traced in an oblivious sea the wake of the Ancient Mariner.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

John Dewey: Most renowned of living American philosophers, we rejoice to add our sprig of laurel to his crown.

Samuel Seabury: Where others failed this knight is found to fight the dragon assailing the fair city of New York.

Ogden Livingston Mills: A public officer, with the courage to accept in a time of distress the vast responsibility for national finance.

Richard Bedford Bennett: Premier of Canada. Chosen leader of a people that has proudly taken its place among the nations of the earth.

Louis Ferry: Head Master of Exeter, who is raising an old and great academy to a still higher plane.

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