CLIMAX AND CONCLUSION

Intermittent showers of rainstorm proportions continued through Monday night and early Tuesday morning, and as the time for the "big show" of the Commencement season approached there was some apprehension, but once more fortuitously the gods smiled and there was no rain when the procession formed. In the thirty years that Professor Bolser has been a marshal for this affair, he says that, although it has sometimes rained immediately before and immediately afterward, it has never rained so as to interfere with the Commencement procession.

The procession, led by Dean Laycock as chief marshal, was headed by the President of the College and the governor of the state, the trustees and the nine men who were to receive honorary degrees. This vanguard of the procession formed at Parkhurst Hall. It was joined by the faculty as it passed McNutt Hall (formerly Tuck Hall) and by the alumni at the senior fence. Thence the procession crossed the campus, and passed between the long file of seniors in a double line from the doors of Webster Hall extending more than half way across the campus.

The second largest class ever graduated, numbering 433, received their degrees of Bachelor of Arts at the exercises. In number it closely approached the record class of 439 in 1929.

The Commencement speakers and their subjects were: John Marshall O'Connor, of Salem, Massachusetts, "Altarsof Tomorrow"; John Butlin Martin Jr., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, "The Freedom of Doubt"; Earle Leo Morawski, of Attleboro, Massachusetts, "The Relationship between Science and Civilization"; and Edward Spencer Miller, of Springfield, Vermont, "The College Graduate and Public Leadership."

Five advanced degrees were presented, and degrees of Civil Engineering were presented to the thirteen graduates of the Thayer School.

The exercises and Dartmouth's 162nd year were concluded with the bestowing of the honorary degrees upon the nine distinguished men whom it pleased Dartmouth to honor. The characterizations used by President Hopkins in awarding the degrees are printed in full elsewhere in this issue. The recipients were as follows:

Doctor of Science Lawrason Brown, Physician, Saranac Lake, New York William Patten, Professor of Zoology in Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Doctor of Letters Kan-Ichi Asakawa, Associate Professor of the History of Japanese Civilization in Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Claude Moore Fuess, Professor of English in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts Evarts Boutell Greene, President of American Historical Association, New York, New York

Doctor of Laws Fred Tarbell Field, Justice of Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Boston. James Lukens McConaughy, President of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Dwight Whitney Morrow, United States Senator from New Jersey, Englewood, New Jersey George Rublee, Lawyer, Cornish, New Hampshire

WILLIAM W. GRANT of Denver, Elected Alumni Trustee