HONORARY

The death of four recipients of honorary degrees is to be noted:

Rev. Samuel Ward Boardman (A.M. 1859), who died in Bloomfield, N. J., August 30, 1917, was a graduate of Middlebury in 1851, a Presbyterian clergyman of high standing, and sometime president of Maryville College in Tennessee. When he received his Dartmouth degree he was pastor of the Congregational church across the river in Norwich.

Rev. Edward Robie (D.D. 1876), a graduate of Bowdoin in 1840, has the unique distinction of a sixty-five years' pastorate at Greenland, N. H., which was concluded only by his death in the Boston City Hospital, September 20.

Robert Nelson Chamberlin (A.M.1905), who also died in Boston September 20, had been a justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire since 1903, and for the past eight months its chief justice.. He was the father of Lafayette R. Chamberlin '05.

William DeWitt Hyde (LL. D. 1909), who died in Brunswick, Me., June 29, belongs to Harvard by his academic training and to Bowdoin by his distinguished presidency of thirty-two years.