DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS GIVEN CARDINAL

Cardinal Mercier, Belgium's hero primate, was given the degree of Doctor of Laws, by the University at an impressive academic ceremony held in his honor at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. This was the second time within twenty-four hours that such an honor had been conferred.

The meeting, was to have been preceeded by a formal procession from the Yard but a downpour of rain prevented. As a result, the student body formed in Memorial Hall and marched directly to their seats in Sanders Theatre. The President,, the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, and the members of the Faculties, formed in the main hallway, where they received the noted guest and his party shortly after 4 o'clock.

After a prayer by Professor Moore, which opened the ceremony, and singing by the University Choir, President Lowell bestowed the degree on the Cardinal with these words:

"Victories of a Saintly Order."

"We are met to do honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of his school, had spread into all lands, when he was called away from his cherished studies to be an archbishop and a cardinal. A dozen years later his country was overwhelmed by a war conducted with a barbarity armed by all the resources of civilization. In that time of gloom his voice was to his flock a consolation, his face was a benediction. Four and a half long years he sustained the courage of his people; while his protests, which rang through out the world, were for the oppressors a rebuke and a defiance which they did not venture to suppress.

"Therefore by virtue of authority delegated to me by the two Government Boards I now confer on him the degree of Doctor of Laws.

"A Great Rock in a Weary Land."

"Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Primate of Belgium, a man who, in the desolation of his country, stood as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

"And in the name of this Society of Scholars I declare that he is entitled to the rights and privileges pertaining to his degree, and that his name is to be borne forever on its roll of honorary members."

Addresses Student Body.

After receiving the parchment, Cardinal Meroier spoke to the student body. He urged the undergraduates not to "develop one faculty alone," but to work for the formation of a "moral personality to serve the social order. When you have finished this work," said the Cardinal, "and have learned that all converges toward a single end,--that is, God;--then you will have realized moral unity and personality, which is the most beautiful thing in the world."

After the Cardinal had finished speaking the Choir sang the Belgian National Hymn in honor of the guests. This was followed by the benediction