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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
22
Harvard’s 1000 plus graduates receive degrees in an outdoor ceremony at the Stadium marking the final day of commencement week. Alumni balls and class-based baseball games feature prominently with 1896 and 1910 squads and 1913 participants among the day’s entertainments.
Alumni at Harvard staged an informal celebration with peanuts and popcorn scraps thrown by classes from 1906 and 1901 as Yale rivalry cooled. A Yale Yale and John Harvard image drew cheers, while Harvard’s Stars and Stripes parade preceded a field snake dance. Holmes reelected president of the Harvard Law School Association. Brandeis named vice president. Thayer portrait presented. Roscoe Pound praised. law alumni luncheon attended by William Thomas and Pound. Divinity School alumni meeting followed in Cambridge with Rev. Peabody presiding and Rev. Wilbur as keynote.
Brookline Savings Bank warns depositors that verification of passbooks is underway and will continue until July 1, 1916. Per Section 48 Chapter 590 Acts of 1908, depositors are urged to present or mail their books to the bank for verification as soon as possible.
Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, president of Andover Theological Seminary, was named professor of the History of Religion and Biblical Literature at Amherst. He will begin in the fall of 1917. The donor of the new $250,000 college library was E. C. Converse of New York, memorializing his brother James B. Converse, class of 1867.
President Garfield announced at the Williams College alumni luncheon that the $2,000,000 endowment fund has reached $989,500. An unnamed alumnus pledged $25,000 toward the second mission.
Dartmouth College awarded honorary degrees to 10 individuals during the Hanover ceremonies led by retiring president Ernest Fox Nichols. Recipients included John Alexander Munroe, A Lincoln Filene, Andrew Wheatley Edson, Frederick Harlan Page, Byron E. Eldred, George Harvey, William Archibald Dun ning, Reuben Eugene Walker, and others as the class of 230 graduates proceeded.
Yale announces total gifts to the university for the year surpassing 1.7 million dollars. Alumni fund contributions top 26 thousand, income gifts exceed 46 thousand, pledges push the total fund to about 144,952. The class of 1876 gives 10 thousand and the class of 1886 adds 9,850 to lift their anniversary fund to 60 thousand. Otto T Barnard, class of 1876, is re elected alumni fellow for six years. Women graduates may be admitted to the School of Medicine and a university board of health will oversee student medical exams. New Sprague Memorial Hall and the Yale batteries armory will start construction in summer.
Tufts College marked its 60th commencement with the largest class in its history. From Tufts and Jackson Colleges 247 graduates were awarded degrees including 146 in medical and dental programs. Honors and withholds noted, plus class day events held at Ballou Hall and the college chapel.
The second Wagner Night of the season will be presented at the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening. The programme features selections from Wagner's works performed by the orchestra and guest soloists.
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