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Monday, June 17, will be Phi Beta Kappa day instead of the day after Commencement. The annual business meeting of the Society will be held in the West Lecture Room of Harvard Hall at 10 o'clock. After this the society will march to Sanders Theatre to hear the announcements by President Lowell of the various academic distinctions and prizes for the year. The literary exercises will immediately follow the awarding of academic honors. M. Jusserand, French Ambassador to the United States, will be the orator of the day, and J. J. Chapman '84 will be the poet. The public...
...recognition of the force of his teaching power and the depth of his scholarship, Princeton University conferred yesterday on Professor George Herbert Palmer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. In presenting the degree to Professor Palmer, Dean West paid a glowing tribute to the scope of his accomplishments and the permanent influence of his work. Professor Palmer, he said, combines the qualities of a great teacher and a powerful thinker; is a literary artist of high distinction and "a philosopher of original sense with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth." Such a tribute to our esteemed professor arouses a sense...
...Princeton's commencement held yesterday, the degree of Doctor of Humanities was conferred upon George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in the University. In presenting the honorary degree to Professor Palmer Dean West of Princeton said...
...purpose of this foundation is to establish, at the oldest University of America, a monument to the West and to its importance both past, present and future in shaping the character and the destinies of this country. If the Foundation fulfils the conception of the founder and of the Commission, it will aid in collecting material which will in the future make possible adequate study of the fulfilment of the great faith of the East in the West from the early decades of the nineteenth century on; and it will be a place where all students of American History will...
...scope of the plan is large. It aims to collect all the material possible, books, pamphlets, newspapers, reports of societies or railroads or other business concerns, and manuscript material whether letters, old accounts or business reports. Such collections would not only exploit the development of the West, but also make it possible to trace out more exactly and comprehensively the many ways in which the East has participated in the building up of the West...