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HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING

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Following is the list of honorary degrees awarded at the Harvard Commencement exercises this morning, together with the remarks by President Lowell.

MASTER OF ARTS

William Coolidge Lane: Librarian of Harvard for thirty years, to whom scholars are grateful for the accessibility of its vast collections.

Bronson Murray Cutting: Who has made his home in New Mexico and carried on in the press there a courageous political warfare.

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

George Richards Minot: A medical explorer, who has abolished a fatal malady, and opened a road for more recovery.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

Alfred Ernest Stearns: Foremost among headmasters of American endowed schools. Great principal of a great academy.

Herbert Putnam: Head of the Congressional Library, under whose hand it has become on of the chief ornaments of the nation.

George Wigglesworth: Sixth in an unbroken line of Harvard men, who in college were high scholars and in private station have devoted their lives to the public good. A rare spirit and a great gentleman.

David Linn Edsall: Dean of our Medical School; in the progress of medical education in America, the leader.

Ernest Martin Hopkins: President of Dartmouth College, under whose guidance it has grown in fame and been impressed by his own striking personality.

Harry Augustus Garfield: Scholar, public administrator in the strain of war, for a score of years the strong, vigorous and judicious President of Williams College.

Dwight Whitney Morrow: Who in our relations with Mexico has brought out of confusion clarity, out of suspicion confidence, out of friction peace.

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