HONORARY DEGREES

Those about to receive honorary degrees were presented by Professor C. F. Richardson and Professor E. J. Bartlett. Upon their presentations, in turn, Professor J. K. Lord as Acting President conferred the degrees in the following words:

Henry Brewer Quinby, graduate of Bowdoin College, man of affairs, counsellor and leader in questions of public policy, Governor of this Commonwealth, and its firm and judicious pilot in time of stress, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Horace Fletcher, commercial adventurer in many lands, observer and expounder of the laws of health, exemplifying in person the advantage of the regimen to which you effectively persuade others, for your zealous service in the common welfare, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Nathan Whitman Littlefield, student as well as practitioner of law, gifted in public speech, subordinating personal interests to the public weal, upon you, as one who has carried the high ideal of his college life into his later career, I confer the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

Lucius Harrison Thayer, upon you who carry into the work of the pulpit the impulse and the restraint of scholarship, who extend that work to the social and moral uplifting of the community where you live and to the enlarging and and direction of the religious interests of the state and nation, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Thomas Benjamin Doohttle, whose life-long devotion to the applications of science and whose constructive and inventive ability shown in devising new methods and new implements, have made possible the development of that indispensable instrument of modern life and modern business, the telephone, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

Joseph Arend Deßoer, upon you who illustrate the truth that man is "master of his fate," that scholarship may be made effective when applied in business, as in your development of actuarial science, that great business ability and success are just sources of political influence and that such influence may be devoted to high moral and social ends, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

Arthur Fairbanks, student in many fields, productive scholar, efficient administrator as well as scholar, adding strength in counsel by insight and judgment, and now intent upon making a great Museum of Fine Arts an instrument of wide usefulness in the education of the people as well as a source of pleasure to the few, upon you, a foremost representative of the scholarship of the College, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

Daniel Crosby Greene, for forty years a leader in the movement to establish the Christian religion in Japan, where you have rounded out your work as a missionary by adding to it the interests of a statesman, called in counsel by those who were seeking to lead a nation from mediaeval to modern greatness, and having aided with constructive statesmanship in cementing the bonds between Japan and other peoples, upon you, in recognition of your services in matters of world-wide interest, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

George Herbert Palmer, whom men call philosopher, teacher, and friend, because while you transmit and interpret the inspiration of ancient life to the present, you expound in simple but illuminating words the essentials of philosophy and religion, adding to public speech the personal counsel that reaches the heart, upon you, in no vain repetition of academic honors already bestowed upon you, but in recognition of your continuing and increasing service to your generation, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.