HONORARY

In 1881 the College conferred the honorary degree of Master of Arts upon Edwin Munroe Bacon, the managing editor of the Boston Advertiser. After a long and distinguished career in journalism, Mr. Bacon died at his home in Boston February 24.

He was the son of Rev. Henry and Eliza Ann (Munroe) Bacon, and was born in Providence, R. I., October 20, 1844. He fitted for college, but instead of entering went into newspaper work at the age of nineteen as a reporter on the Boston Advertiser. After several years' experience here, he became editor of the Illustrated Chicago News, a short-lived enterprise. From 1868 to 1872 he was connected with the New York Times; in 1872-3 he was again connected with the Advertiser, and from 1873 to 1878 editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe. He was then managing editor of the Advertiser from 1878 to 1884, and its editor-in-chief, 1884-6. In January, 1886, he left the Advertiser on account of a change of ownership and policy, and in May became editor-in-chief of the Boston Post. In 1891 the control of that paper was sold, and since that date Mr. Bacon has been engaged in general journalistic and newspaper work, including the editorship of Time and the Hour from 1897 to 1900, and the writing of a weekly Boston letter to the Springfield Republican for. many years. A large number of books are the product of Mr. Bacon's later years, mainly historical works relating to Boston and New England.

October 24, 1867, he was married to Gusta E., daughter of Ira and Hannah Hill of Somerville, Mass., who survives him, with a daughter.

Charles Jeptha Hill Woodbury, upon whom the honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred in 1908, died March 20 at his home in Lynn, Mass.

He was born in Lynn, May 4, 1851, and was the son of J. Porter and Mary Adams (Hill) Woodbury. He prepared for college at Lynn High School, and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the class of 1873, but did not complete the course. He took up the work of an engineer, and from 1878 to 1894 was engineer for the Factory Mutual Insurance Company, and made an exhaustive study of methods of diminishing the fire hazards of factories. From 1894 to 1908 he was assistant engineer for the American Bell Telephone Company, since which time he had been in private practice as a consulting engineer, having become one of the most widely known engineers in the country. Since 1894 he had been secretary and treasurer of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. In 1883 he was awarded the Alsacian medal of the Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse, the only medal of this society ever awarded this side of the Atlantic; in 1885 the John Scott medal of the city of Philadelphia for meritorious electrical invention; and in 1910 the annual medal of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. He was a member of many engineering and scientific organizations, and a copious writer on historical, engineering, and economic subjects.

November 26, 1878, he was married to Maria H. Brown of Lynn, who survives him, with three daughters.