President Lowell will be unable to receive the honorary degree of LL.D. which the University of Edinburgh has offered him since he will not be able to go to Edinburgh this summer to receive it.

Among the many degrees how held by President Lowell are the degrees of LL.D. from several American universities, and Ph.D. from Frederich Willrelm University, Berlin, Strasbourg, McGill, Cambridge, and Victoria University of Manchester.

He has also received a D.Litt. from Oxford and Doctor of Political Science at Leiden and the University of Paris.