Record Class Graduates at 166th Commencement
A record graduating class joined the alumni ranks last June when President Hopkins conferred the Bachelor of Arts degree upon 473 men during the final exercises of Dartmouth's 166th Commencement program. Immediately after the conferring of the Bachelor degrees, rain necessitated the transfer of the exercises from the Bema to Webster Hall, where President Hopkins also awarded honorary degrees to nine prominent men, including three alumni and Governor H. Styles Bridges, ex-officio trustee of the College.
The honorary degree o£ Doctor of Science was conferred upon Charles H. Dolloff 'oo of Concord, N. H., superin- tendent of the New Hampshire State Hospital; that of Doctor of Divinity upon Gabriel Farrell '11 of Watertown, Mass., director, of Perkins Institution for the Blind; and that of Doctor of Pedagogy upon Harold O. Rugg 'OB of New York City, professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers College. Governor Bridges received the traditional degree of Master of Arts, while the Doctorate of Laws was conferred upon Isaiah Bowman, president-elect of Johns Hopkins University, and Horace D. Taft, headmaster of Taft School; the Doctorate of Letters upon Douglas S. Freeman, Virginia editor and author of the biography of Robert E. Lee which won the 1935 Pulitzer prize; the Doctorate of Humane Letters upon John P. Gavit of New York City, author and journalist; and the Doctorate of Science upon Carlos E. Chardon, chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico.
1930 SETS REUNION RECORD
Class reunions were marked by record numbers in most cases, and the general alumni attendance was the largest in Commencement history. The Class of 1930 set an all-time record with 160 men back, and during its reunion meetings established the Class of '30 Cup to be awarded annually to the class having the largest number of men back for reunion. The Class of '94 Cup for the highest percentage of alumni in attendance was won this year by the Class of 1900. The 35-year class had 57 men present out of a possible 84, for a winning average of 68 per cent. The fifty- year class, 1885, was a close second with 64 per cent of its members present.
At the annual Commencement meeting of the Board of Trustees, Edward S. French 'O6 of Boston was elected alumni trustee of the College for an initial term of five years. Carl F. Woods '04 of Boston was reelected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, and David J. Main '06 of Denver, Colo., was elected president of the General Alumni Association.
Heywood Knowlton '17 Admired by his students and held in affectionate regard by faculty associates and friends, his death by drowning, August 9, deprives the College community of a valuable member. (See Necrology.)
