HONORARY

Dr. Irving Allison Watson, secretary and executive officer of the New Hampshire State Board of Health since its organization in 1881, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1885, died at his home in Concord, N. H., April 3.

Dr. Watson was born in Salisbury, N. H., September 6, 1849, his parents being Porter B. and Luvia E. (Ladd) Watson. He attended Newbury (Vt.) Seminary, and then studied medicine, attending lectures at Dartmouth and the University of Vermont, and graduating as M.D. from the latter in 1871. He practiced at Groveton, N. H., from 1871 to 1881, the date of his removal to Concord.

In 1915 the College conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Rudolph Blankenburg then mayor of Philadelphia, who, elected as a reformer, gave that city four years of clean rule as an oasis in its desert of corrupt history. Mayor Blankenburg, who was born near Hanover, Germany, in February, 1843, died April 12, at his home in Germantown.