Class of 1889

On February 20, at the founders' week convocation exercises, marking the fortyeighth anniversary of Rollins College, honorary degrees were conferred upon six American men and women, three of each sex.

Charles Hazen certainly was in good company that day.

In proposing Dr. Hazen for the degree of Doctor of Literature, Dean Campbell said:

"Charles Downer Hazen is a product ofDartmouth College and Johns HopkinsUniversity in the United States and theUniversities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Parisin Europe. He first taught history in SmithCollege, but since 1916 has held the chairof professor of history at Columbia University, where he has made a name forhimself as one of the great authorities onmodern European history in general andFrench history in particular.

"He has given courses of lectures at JohnsHopkins. He served one year as professorat the University of Strasbourg. He is amember of many learned societies. He hasreceived honorary degrees from HobartCollege and Dartmouth College. He hasbeen decorated with the Legion of Honorby the Republic of France. He has writtenin his chosen field volumes too numerousto mention, which are everywhere regardedas standard. He is, in fine, a gentleman anda scholar."

President Holt in reply said:

"Charles Downer Hazen, professor, author, lecturer, editor, historian, for theeminence you have attained as an interpreter of history and for the honor youhave thereby brought to American scholarship and letters, for the services youhave rendered to our great sister Republicof France, and for the example you haveset to the members of your profession ofwhat a university professor should do andbe, Rollins College confers upon you thedegree of Doctor of Literature and admitsyou to all its rights and privileges."

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