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Following is the list of those who were awarded honorary degrees at the Tercentanary Exercises this morning...
...this is what I had discovered. My Psalm translation of the year 1670 had been dedicated to no one less than the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather, Harvard 1656, and of all things, it was dedicated to him in his capacity as "convertor to the Indians" and gave quite a list of names of those poor savages, "Who formerly heathen, now become useful preachers of the Gospel...
...rapid glance at the list of guests reveals 550 delegates from universities and learned societies here and abroad, the President of the United States, the Governor of Massachusetts, some 10,000 alumni, 2500 undergraduates, and members and former members of the Faculty and governing boards...
Harvard's graduates, returning for the Tercentenary celebrations this week make a list of prominent names that rivals that of the world's great professors gathered here...
Henry M. Rogers '62 heads the list. He is 98 years old and the oldest living graduate. Others include John V. Apthorp '65; Bishop William Lawrence '71; Judge Robert Grant '73, a well known writer; Dr. Charles F. Thwing '76, former president of Western Reserve University; James Byrne '77, former member of the Corporation; Lucius N. Littauer '78 who gave the money for the school of public administration; Owen Wister...