Honorary Degrees Conferred

The honorary degrees conferred by the University at Commencement, with the descriptive sentences of President Eliot, were as follows:

Masters of Arts.

Howard Adams Carson, "Engineer of the metropolitan sewerage system and of the Boston rapid transit tunnels, successful pioneering works of high local value and wide influence in other communities".

Henry Herbert Edes, "New England antiquarian and annalist, accurate reproducer of a reverenced past".

Arthur Edwin Kennelly, "Born in Bombay, brought up in England, submarine cable telegraph operator at 16, professor of electrical engineering since 1902, made through today's act a full member of this society of scholars".

Doctors of Divinity.

Arthur Cushman McGiffert, "Professor of church history in Union Theological Seminary, a thorough scholar who draws from the history of the Christian church lessons of liberty and good will".

James Bartlett Gregg '66 and David Utter '71t, "Contemporaneous veterans in the Christian ministry, one Congregationalist, the other Unitarian, both devoted laborers at outposts of the church, who have stood stoutly for freedom of thought, personal righteousness, and public justice".

Doctors of Laws.

Edward Henry Strobel '77, "Professor of international law in this University, for nine years in the diplomatic service of the United States, and since 1903 general adviser to the government of Siam, an honorable and difficult post of great responsibility and usefulness, then first entrusted to an American".

George Foot Moore, "Professor in this University of the history of religion, scholar, preacher, teacher, and author, and in every function an exact, erudite, wise, and fertile thinker".

George Herbert Palmer '64, "For 36 years a Harvard teacher of ethics, whose example has illustrated his teaching; a master of accurate and elegant style in both prose and verse, enobled by intimate companionship with finest spirits".

Thomas Day Seymour, "Professor of Greek in Yale University; critic, teacher, editor of Greek texts and of aids in Greek studies; worthy representative of the scholarship of Yale".

Ethan Allen Hitchcock, "Merchant, president of industrial corporations, ambassador to Russia, and since 1899 Secretary of the Interior; an upright, influential man of business, and a fearless and patriotic public servant".

Friedrich Althoff, "Absent through illness, but expressly represented today by Professor Struve, director of the Prussian universities; modest, austere, untiring, sagacious, resolute, the most potent personage in German higher education; the promoter of the exchange of professors between German and American universities".