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Following is the list of honorary degrees awarded at the Harvard Commencement Exercises this morning, together with the remarks by President Lowell.
MASTER OF ARTS
Daniel Berkeley Updike: A master printer, whose art in workmanship makes reading a greater pleasure.
Charles Lanier Lawrance: Engineer: the inventor of a motor that has made flying more safe for man.
Robert Russa Moton: Worthy successor of a great educator of his race--a man whose courage and sagacity have triumphed over perils to his school.
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY
Charles Whitney Gilkey: Professor of Preaching at the University of Chicago: an exemplar of his own teaching.
James Hardy Ropes: Whose masterpiece on the text of the Acts of the Apostles will ever stand as a model of what such a work should be.
DOCTOR OF LAWS
Ernest Barker: Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge: keen interpreter of political thought and thinkers from the Greeks to the present day.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Governor of New York: a statesman in whom is no guile.
Charles Francis Adams: Good at everything. Extraordinary manager of our finances, whom the heritage of public service has drawn to the charge of the country's navy.
Frank Billings Kellogg: Late Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State: ever eager in each office to abate recourse to war.
Serge Koussevitzky: Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who brings to us from Russia and Western Europe the treasures of good music.
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
Henry Norris Russell: an astronomer, whose study of nature's handiwork on her grandest scale has won a well-deserved renown.
Rene Leriche: Professor of Surgery at the University of Strasbourg, who has shown how to operate with success on the delicate fibres of the sympathetic nervous system.
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