PRINCE HENRY RECEIVED.

Yesterday the University entertained the nation's royal guest, Prince Henry of Prussia, and conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The great enthusiasm with which the students welcomed the Prince, the impressive ceremony in Sanders Theatre of conferring the degree upon him and the hearty greeting given him at the Union filled an eventful afternoon.

At 1 o'clock the Prince entered his carriage at the Hotel Somerset, accompanied by Major Henry L. Higginson, the Honorable Francis C. Lowell and Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, and the procession led by a battalion of state cavalry started for Cambridge. After a short stop at the Cambridge City Hall where Mayor McNamee welcomed the Prince to Cambridge, the party proceeded to Memorial Hall, arriving there at 1.40, only ten minutes behind the scheduled time. At the entrance of the Hall the Prince was met by President Eliot, the Fellows and Overseers.

AT SANDERS THEATRE.

After a short greeting the Prince was escorted into Sanders Theatre. At his entrance the audience arose and remained standing and applauding until he had bowed and taken his seat on the platform at the right of President Eliot. On the platform were seated the members of the Faculties, the invited guests and the Prince's suite. After the escorting party had taken their assigned seats, the President read the address of welcome in which he formally conferred upon the Prince the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

President Eliot said, in conferring the degree of LL.D. upon the Prince that twice in the history of the University has a special academic session been held to do honor to the President of the United States; but never before had this democratic University been called together to do honor to a foreign prince. "Weighty reasons have determined such unprecedented action on the part of this society of scholars.

"These reasons are:--The Puritan origin of the University makes us hold in grateful remembrance the heroes of Protestantism--Luther, Erasmus, and their kindred spirits--and the German Princes who upheld that cause through long years of cruel warfare. The Puritan Government of Massachusetts followed anxiously the vicissitudes of the Thirty Years' War and was in the habit of ordering public thanksgiving for good news from Germany.

"As University men we feel the immense obligation which America owes the universities of Germany. Our men of letters and science know well the unparalleled contributions Germany has made to pure knowledge and to science in the new arts and industries.

"Our whole people believe in the unification of Germany. We believe in a great union of federated states, bound together by a common language, by common currency, courts of justice, and unrestricted mutual trade. Such is the venerable American Union; such the young German Empire.

"We gladly welcome here today a worthy representative of German greatness, worthy in station, profession and character. We see in him, however, something more than the representative of a superb nationality and an imperial ruler. Universities have long memories. Forty years ago the American Union was in deadly peril, and thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson of that illustrious woman is sitting with us here.

"Now, therefore, in exercise of the authority given me by the President and Fellows, and the Board of Overseers, and in the favoring presence of the friends here assembled, I create honorary Doctor of Laws Albert William Henry, Prince of Prussia, and Vice-Admiral, and in the name of this society of scholars I declare that he is entitled to the rights and privileges pertaining to this degree and that his name is to be forever borne on its roll of honorary members."

The President during his speech remained sitting, but arose when he conferred the degree. The Prince then also arose and remained standing until the President had finished. After this ceremony the Prince, President Eliot and the royal suite marched slowly from the Hall.

IN THE YARD.

Prince Henry and the President entered the first carriage and, followed by the other members of the party, were driven to University Hall, entering the Yard by the Johnston Gate. A large number of students gathered in front of Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, gave the Prince a loud cheer as he entered the Yard. In University Hall a luncheon was served in honor of the Prince by the President and Fellows. There were present at the luncheon, besides the Prince and his suite, the members of the Faculties and about twenty-five invited guests.

AT THE UNION.

After the Academical reception in Sanders Theatre, the men who had tickets to the Union gathered in the Living Room and sang and cheered under the leadership of O. G. Frantz '02. Two platforms had been erected at the west end of the Living Room, and over one of them were hung German and American flags. The floor of the living room and the windows and doors leading to it from the hall were crowded when the Prince and his party arrived very shortly after 3 o'clock.

Prince Henry, President Eliot, Admiral Evans, Dr. von Holleben, Governor Crane and the members of Prince Henry's suite were conducted to the platform at the northwest corner of the Living Room, to the left of the John Harvard fire-place; Major Higginson, O. G. Frantz '02, R. C. Bolling 3L., R. M. Green '02, R. Derby '03, B. Wendell '02, J. Burgess '04 and R. W. Leatherbee '05 occupied the platform at the right of the fireplace.

After the Prince and other guests had entered, the Glee Club and students, led by Frantz, sang the first verse of "Fair Harvard." R. Derby '03 welcomed the Prince in the name of the undergraduate audience and presented to him as "the most beloved of all Harvard graduates," Major Higginson.

Major Higginson extended to Prince Henry, as a holder of a Harvard degree and a Harvard man, the freedom of the Union. He welcomed the Prince as a representative of the Hohenzollerns, whose name in history has been illustrious in peace and war; as a brother of the emperor, "who is walking resolutely in the footsteps of his fathers;" as a grandson and son of the founders of the German Empire, and as admiral of the German navy. Major Higginson spoke of the debt America owes to Germany for her great figures in literature, for her great musicians, for her industrial achievements, and chiefest of all for the rich and many sided manhood of the German race. He spoke of the educational debt America owes to Germany for the work of American students in German universities, the debt the nation owes to those German immigrants who form so considerable a part of its population, and the military debt to Germany for the services of Baron von Steuben in the Revolutionary war. Major Higginson closed by tendering to Prince Henry the greetings of all present, and then led a Harvard cheer for Emperor William.

R. Derby introduced to the Prince R. C. Bolling 3L. Bolling assured the Prince of the personal welcome of Harvard men as members of the University to which the Prince himself, by his degree of Doctor of Laws, belongs. The organization and spirit of Harvard are unlike those of German universities, or of Oxford and Cambridge. Harvard is neither an aggregation of colleges or of technical schools, but one College as the centre and controlling spirit of the graduate departments of the University. The Harvard spirit is like that of the fighting corps of the German universities, and its enemies in its fight are shams and insincerity and untruth.

R. M. Green, introduced by Derby, read a poem, and then Prince Henry, greeted by hearty applause, rose to speak. He said he had found at Harvard all he had expected or heard of, except the "Harvard indifference." In its stead he had found seriousness, strenuousness, and high idealism--the same qualities which he had already found at Washington in that Harvard graduate who is an honor to his University and to America. The Prince called for three times three for President Roosevelt, and the cheer was given enthusiastically. Frantz then led the singing of "Our Director," and a cheer for Prince Henry. The Glee Club sang "Die Wacht am Rhein," and Prince Henry then read a cablegram which he had just received from the Emperor William. In substance it ran as follows: "Heartiest thanks for your message. I congratulate you on your successful trip, and wish you much happiness on receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard University, the highest mark of distinction that America can confer. May my gift of the casts of German art prove to the professors and students of Harvard University a pledge of co-operation and an incentive to future work."

Major Higginson led a Harvard cheer for Emperor William and then Prince Henry and his suite and the invited guests were escorted from the Union.

ROBINSON HALL AND GYMNASIUM.

After the reception in the Union the Prince, accompanied by President Eliot and Major Higginson, went on foot to Robinson Hall. Here the Prince was shown the drawings of the students and the large plaster casts which have been recently placed in the building. The Prince was then taken over to the Hemenway Gymnasium where he was met by Dr. Sargent, who took him through the building. The Prince took particular interest in the work being done by the track team and crew candidates.

THE GERMANIC MUSEUM.

Prince Henry and President Eliot were then driven to Professor Munsterberg's house where they were received by Professor and Mrs. Munsterberg and Mr. Henry W. Putnam '69, chairman of the board of directors of the Germanic Museum.

Mr. Putnam made the address of welcome, to which the Prince responded. The Prince told of Emperor William's great interest in the Germanic Museum, and delivered to President Eliot a large portfolio of photographs of the monuments of which the Emperor is having casts made for the Museum. He said the work is in its early stages and that the casts would be presented in about four months.

President Eliot in response asked the Prince to carry to the Emperor the sincere thanks of the University for his splendid gift which will be of the highest value in teaching the history and development of the German people.

The Prince accompanied by his retinue left Cambridge about 5.30 for Boston, where he attended a dinner last night at the Hotel Somerset