University Gives 2148 Degrees Today, Smith Among Those on Honorary List

Bringing to a simultaneous close Harvard's 297th year and his own regime of nearly a quarter century, President Lowell this morning conferred 2148 degrees on graduates of all departments of the University. The graduating students and their guests, together with a gathering of visiting notables, alumni, undergraduates, and faculty members, filled Sever Quadrangle to overflowing for the Commencement exercises.

The total of 2148 degrees is 57 less than the number last year, reflecting the slight inroads of the depression. Of these, 680 went to undergraduates in the College, 550 receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts (229 with honors), and 130 that of Bachelor of Science (38 with honors). Thus more than one-third of those graduating in the College received honors.

Nineteen Summas

The highest-distinction in the College, that of winning the A.B. or S.B. degree summa cum laude was awarded to 19 men. This figure represents an increase of seven over the number awarded for the last two years.

Among the invited guests, in addition to the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, and the recipients of honorary degrees, were Governor Joseph B. Ely, Lieutenant-Governor Gaspar G. Bacon '08, Mayor R. M. Russel '16, of Cambridge, and Acting Mayor Joseph McGrath, of Boston. Others present included the Hon. Robert Luce '82, representative in Congress from the ninth district; Judge J. M. Morton, Jr. '91, of the United States First Circuit Court, and president of the Harvard Alumni Association; and Judge W. C. Wait '82, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Foreign Guests Present

Both the United States Army and Navy were represented by high officers from the Boston area. Alson present were J. C. J. Flamand. French Consul in Boston, and G. B. Beak, the British Consul. M. Flamand was accompanied by the ranking officers of the French cruiser, "d'Entrecasteaux," which is now in Boston. Captain V. J. Maitre and Executive Officer A. M. Bellof.

For the first time in 33 years, J. R. Fairbairn, sheriff of Middlesex County, was not present to open the Commencement exercises. Sheriff Fairbairn, now 82 years old, had become a traditional figure at Harvard Commencements.

Graduate School Degrees

In the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 189 men won the degree of Master of Arts, 107 that of Doctor Philosophy. The Engineering School graduated 31 Bachelors of Sciences (14 with honors), fire Masters of Science. 40 Masters of Science in Engineering, and seven Doctors of Science.

The Law School graduated 416 Bachelors of Law (35 with honors), 10 Masters of Law, and 16 Doctors of the Science of Jurisprudence. The Business School graduated 395 men, 44 of them with distinction, and awarded two degrees of Doctor of Commercial Science. The Medical School graduated 131 doctors (14 with honors). Other departments of the University awarded degrees in lesser numbers.

Summa Cum Laude

Those receiving the degree of A.B., summa cum laude, are as follows: Melvin Leon Anshen, of Boston; Ralph Philip Boas, Jr., of Norton; John Coert Campbell, of Bronxiville, New York; Sidney Cohen, of Lynn; Albert Charles England, Jr., of Pittsfield; Henry Caraway Hatfield, of Evanston, Illinois; Richard Inglis, Jr., of South Euclid, Ohio; Henry Touchman Levin of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Robert Caffrey Liddon Jr., of Corinth, Mississippi; Knight Warner McMahan, of Flora, Illinos; Isadore Paisner, of Brookline, Peter Shuebruk, of Cohasset; Robert Chester Smith, Jr., of Detroit, Michigan; Andrew Joseph Torrielli, of Watertown; Bort Arthur Winter, of East Cleveland, Ohio.

Degrees of S.B. summa cum laude were awarded to Harold Eugene Dow, John Brigham Howard, Birdsey Renshaw, and Angus Ellis Taylor.

The highest honor in the Law School, the Fay Diploma, went to Charles Rudolph Kaufman, of Chicago, Illinois.

Magna Cum Laude

The following members of the class of 1933 received the degree of A.B. magnacum laude:

Richard Hiller Amberg, Robert Hicks Bates, Henry Hamilton Bissell, Richard Adolph Bloomfield, Benjamin Cushing Bowker, Morton Clark Bradley, Jr., Leon Brooks, Winston Mansfield Burdett, Warren Leonard Claff, Samuel Louis Cohen, Louis Cooperstein, Samuel Duker, Maurice Francis English, John Lincoln Finan, Franklin Gay Folger, Oliver Garceau, Charles Clarke Glavin, Edwin Paul Gordon, Henry Greenberg, John Dickson Hersey, Winfield Adelbert Huppuch, Elliott Samuel Hurwaitt, James Francis Kane, Jr., Alfred Kidder, 2d, Harlan Michael Levin, James Marcellus Lichliter, Edmund Lieberman, Robert Baddow Lisle, John Hamilton McCallum, William Alexander McGivney.

Henry, Plumer McIlhenny, Arnold George Malkan, David Leonard Marks, Roland Maycock, Morton Alexander Mergentheim, Albert Merriman, Jr., Ames Samuel Pierce, Francis Powell, Jr., Albert Pratt, Robert Hugh Prew, William Carroll Quigley, Edwin Carter Rae, Earle Stanley Randall, Alfred Hertz Rosenthal, Jacob Elliott Rubinow, William Henry Schofield, Theodore Winston Sharp, Edward Pease Shaw, Ralph Edmund Shikes, Abraham Solomon Silin, William Sowden Sims, Jr., Charles Sumner Spalding, Francis Van Vanice, Leo Waitzkin, George Beard Walker, Arthur William Well, Jr., David Maxwell Well, Seymour Joseph Wener, Charles Wiley Williams.

A special degree of A.B. magna cum laude and with "highest honors" instead of with the usual "high honors" was awarded to Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Jr., and to Richard Poate Stebbins. Earl Newton Stilson received a magna as of the class of 1931, and Abraham Lincoln Gordon a summa as of the class of 1934.

S.B. Magnas

Nine magnas were awarded to recipients of the S.B. degree in the College, one of them signifying highest honors and going to Walter Solomon Salant. The others (high honors) were awarded to Alfred Harvey Daniels, Harry Gesmer, Edward Poole Hollis, Richard Lord Riley, Martin Robert Rogers, Alexander Graham Sanderson, Jr., Frederick Carl Schulde, Jr., and Carl Keenan Seyfort